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  • Hi. James from engVid.

  • Do you ever notice how you don't always understand what English people are saying?

  • It's like the words are kind of together?

  • Well, I'm going to tell you a secret: You're right.

  • It's called relaxed sple...

  • Spleech?

  • Speech, or blended speech.

  • See, I put spleech together?

  • And it just makes sense.

  • And I'm going to get to that in a second, and I'm going to give you a visual so you

  • can understand where we're going.

  • Notice E is relaxed, he's not really trying hard.

  • When you're speaking your natural language you don't want to try hard all the time.

  • Right?

  • So I actually use another one: "wanna", which I'm not going to talk about today.

  • But we're going to get there.

  • Right?

  • We're going to get to the board and take a look at what I want to teach you.

  • It's how to sound like a native speaker, but also how to understand a native speaker.

  • Okay?

  • Because we do this blending or relaxed speech quite regularly.

  • All right?

  • So it's actually almost more normal...

  • A more normal part of our language.

  • So what is relaxed speech?

  • Well, relaxed speech happens when a native speaker...

  • Speakers-sorry-change sounds or drop letters or syllables when they are speaking fast for

  • things they say a lot.

  • I'll give you an example.

  • Nobody wants to say: "Do you want to go to the movie tonight?"

  • So we say: "Do you wanna go to the movie?"

  • For you, you're like: "What happened?"

  • Well, we dropped the "t"-okay?-and we combined "want" and "to".

  • We even change the "o" to an "a" to make it easier, so: "You wanna go?"

  • For you, you're thinking: "Youwannago", that's a new English word: "youwannago".

  • And it's like: No, it's not.

  • It's "wanna" as in "want to go".

  • Another one is: "See ya".

  • In "see ya" we change and we drop the ending here, we put: "See", and "you" becomes "ya":

  • "See ya later".

  • No one says: "See you later."

  • It sounds weird when I even say it to myself.

  • "See you later.

  • Bye."

  • But: "See ya later" rolls off the mouth.

  • It's because both of these things we say at least 10, 20, 30 times a day, so we change

  • it, we make it relaxed to make it comfortable like E. Okay?

  • Problem for you is you go to school or you're reading a book and it says: "Do you want to",

  • "Did you ever", no one speaks like that but you, so today we're going to change that.

  • Okay?

  • So I'm going to teach you, as I said, how to understand it when it's said to you, but

  • also how to get it out.

  • Warning: Please use the books first or, you know, listen to...

  • We have other videos on pronunciation, use those first.

  • You have to master the base sounds first.

  • You have to be able to say: "Do you want to", because what you don't understand is when

  • I say: "Do you want", when I change it to: "Do you wanna", I almost say that "t", so

  • I have to have practice saying the proper sound before I can drop it.

  • Got it?

  • It's like you got to practice a lot before you can play well.

  • Okay.

  • So, once you've got that down and you start using this, people will go: "Hey, man, where

  • are you from?

  • Because I hear some accent but I really can't tell.

  • Do you want to tell me?"

  • And I say...

  • I did it again.

  • "Do you want to tell me?"

  • You're like: "Woo, no.

  • It's my secret, engVid."

  • Okay, anyway, so today what I want to work on specifically is "do" and "did".

  • Okay?

  • Because there are a few things we say, and there are what I call sound patterns for the

  • relaxed speech that you can learn to identify what people are saying to you.

  • Okay?

  • So I'm going to come over here and I want you to take a look.

  • "Do" or "Did", and here's the relaxed version of it.

  • When we're done this we're going to have a little practice session because with pronunciation

  • it's important you actually practice it, not you take the lesson, you go: "Thanks, James,

  • you taught me and now I know."

  • You actually have to go through it.

  • So the first one we want to do is this one: "Do you want to", easy enough.

  • Right?

  • "Do you want to go to dinner?

  • Do you want to have a friend over?

  • Do you want to have pizza?"

  • When we actually say it, what happens is there are two cases here.

  • In the first case: "do" or "d" changes to a "ja", "ja" sound.

  • And it comes: "Jawanna", so this is gone, the "d" is gone, we changed it to a "j".

  • And remember what we talked about with "wanna"?

  • The t's gone so it becomes: "Jawanna".

  • Now, sometimes we go a step even further, we're so lazy we don't even say the "ja",

  • we just say: "Yawanna", and we go to this: "Yawanna do something?

  • Yawanna go to the movies?"

  • Instead of: "Jawanna go to the movies?"

  • So, "wanna" is an important part, but listen for "ja" or "ya", "ya", "ja" or "ya", same

  • meaning though.

  • "Jawanna go to the movies?

  • Yawanna go to the movies?"

  • Blended speech.

  • Cool?

  • All right, that's the first one.

  • Next one, have you ever seen this lesson before?

  • "I don't know.

  • I dunno."

  • I'm not Jamaican, in case you're going: "It's Jamaican" or another language group.

  • "Don't know" becomes "Dunno".

  • "t" is dropped.

  • Now, before you guys go: "And you dropped the 'k'!

  • You dropped the 'k'".

  • I don't drop the "k".

  • The "k", as you can see here, is not voiced.

  • We never say: "k-now", "Do you k-now what I'm talking about?"

  • It's silent.

  • So when I'm writing it I'm just showing it here that it sounds...

  • "Know" and "no" sound the exact same.

  • They drop the "t", push it together and it's: "I dunno."

  • So: -"Do you know where John is?"

  • -"I dunno."

  • -"Is Mr. E drinking again?"

  • -"I dunno."

  • Right?

  • So: "dunno".

  • So, "dunno" is actually a word or two words.

  • Okay?

  • And you can see here: "Do not know" becomes: "Don't know" to "Dunno".

  • "Did you eat yet?"

  • Why did you write that one?

  • If you're not from planet Earth, understand, you're correct.

  • Why would I write that?

  • If you're from planet Earth, everybody's mother asks you at least once a day: "Did you eat

  • yet?

  • Did you eat yet?

  • Have you eaten yet?

  • Did you eat yet?"

  • All right?

  • Well, half the time because it's three meals a day minimum that we have, and maybe you're

  • standing with your friend, he's going to go: "J'eat yet?

  • J'eat yet?"

  • J'eat?

  • What is "j'eat"?

  • It's like a type of food?

  • No.

  • It's...

  • Remember up here I told you how the "j", the "d" changes to a "j", notice that there's

  • a pattern here: "d" changes to a "j".

  • Ooo.

  • Someone says: "Hey.

  • Hey, man.

  • J'eat yet?

  • J'eat yet?"

  • Sometimes it's even "jet".

  • I had a hard time.

  • Okay, look, I got to be honest, sometimes when you're doing a lesson you learn stuff

  • that you didn't know that you said.

  • "J'eat yet?"

  • It's like: "What?

  • That sounds crazy."

  • But people say it really fast: "D'eat yet?"

  • When you say: "J'eat yet?

  • Jet?"

  • I can't even say it.

  • Okay?

  • Sometimes it sounds like a "j" sound.

  • It'll sound like a "j" sound to you.

  • Okay?

  • "J'eat yet", "jet".

  • "J'eat yet" is more common.

  • Sometimes it sounds like that, but I'm not even going to do it.

  • I'm embarrassing myself, okay?

  • And I speak quickly.

  • Okay?

  • But every once in a while that will come out instead of even "yet", it just gets blended

  • so much it disappears.

  • Okay?

  • The next one we have is: "Did you have", all right?

  • So then you got: "j'ev".

  • All right?

  • And sometimes...

  • Okay, before I forget, this is an odd one because I tried to do present and past, but

  • this one can be sometimes both: "Do you have" and "Did you have".

  • I'll give you an example.

  • "Did you have a good time at the party last night?

  • Did you have a good time?"

  • Right?

  • "J'ev", "j'ev".

  • Remember the "d" changes to a "j", and the "have" just becomes "ev".

  • All right?

  • So that "have" just disappears and becomes the "v" sound.

  • So: "Did ya have?", "e" replaces that, saying: "J'ev a good time last night?"

  • That's: "Did you have a good time?"

  • But be careful with this one because it also might be present tense, so context is very

  • important.

  • For instance: "J'ev a dollar I can have?"

  • I'm serious.

  • I want a dollar.

  • You can send it to engVid, James ESL.

  • Can you do that?

  • "J'ev a dollar you can send me?"

  • Okay?

  • Notice that it's present tense.

  • "Do you have?"

  • All right?

  • So this one can be both past or present.

  • Listen carefully to what they said.

  • Example again: "J'ev a good time at the party last night?"

  • That is past tense.

  • "J'ev a dollar?"

  • Present tense.

  • Cool?

  • And I'm serious about the money, you can send it to me at engVid.

  • Okay?

  • Anyway, moving on.

  • Next one: "Did you ever", this is one of those games, what we play when we were little kids,

  • like: "Did you ever have a teddy bear?

  • Did you ever go to the restaurant in Nepal?

  • Did you ever...?"

  • And it becomes: "J'ever".

  • I'll give you an example if you think crazy.

  • "J'ever call that guy I told you about?

  • J'ever call that guy I told you about?"

  • Now, sometimes it'll be: "didja", "didja".

  • "Didja ever call that guy? Didja ever call that guy?"

  • That's one version, and another version is: "J'ever".

  • "J'ever think about that time we went to the mall at Christmas?", "J'ever", "Did you ever".

  • Right?

  • So: "J'ever".

  • So: "J'ever read a book on Moby Dick?

  • Did you ever?"

  • Cool?

  • All right, so we've got: "Do you want to", "Don't know", "Did you eat yet"-common, trust

  • me-"Did you have", and: "Did you ever".

  • Cool?

  • And remember this is the one you have to be careful on for context.

  • "Did you have" or "Do you have" can sound the same, can be used as context.

  • Listen to time marks, like: "last night", "yesterday", "a week ago".

  • Right?

  • So: Did you have any time last week to read my proposal?

  • Right?

  • Did you have any time to read my proposal from last week?

  • Past tense.

  • J'ev any time right now?

  • Right now is now, not past.

  • Right?

  • So context is important.

  • Cool?

  • All right, so I've gone over these ones and I hope your head's not spinning too much.

  • Okay?

  • Just given you one, two, three, four, five common things you may hear with that kind

  • of sound pattern.

  • It's called relaxed speech, but I like to think of it as a sound pattern.

  • If you learn the pattern it's easy to recognize when people use it, it's also easier for you

  • to say.

  • Now, if you think you're good at that, I hope you are because we're going to do a little,

  • quick drill.

  • You ready?

  • Because practice makes...

  • [Snaps]

  • Perfect.

  • Hey, you're back, good.

  • Let's go to the board.

  • We have a little practice to do, and this way...

  • Before I get there, let's just go over the notes I have here.

  • Okay?

  • It's to help you understand why we're doing this.

  • Okay?

  • Or how to get better at it.

  • A good way to learn relaxed speech is to watch shows or movies with subtitles.

  • Now, you have to understand something, I've done many videos where I tell people don't

  • watch with subtitles, it's not the best way to learn to listen.

  • I'm not going against that.

  • This isn't listening, this is speaking and this is different.

  • What I want you to start noticing...

  • Or here we go: Notice a difference between what is said and what is written, and that's

  • what...

  • You'll see it.

  • You'll see seven words on the screen, but the guy said 10, you're like: "I don't get

  • it", and that's because we have that relaxed speech going on.

  • Okay?

  • So someone has actually said something, and then they cut it off to say this or they've

  • changed it.

  • Okay?

  • So that's why we want to do it.

  • And then I said here: Also watch and practice your own relaxed speech.

  • So, what do I mean?

  • You're going to watch the actors speaking, you're going to see the subtitles, notice

  • the difference, look for the sound pattern that's repeated or that you can grasp.

  • All right?

  • In this case I'm teaching you "do" and "did", okay, so you're going to be working on that.

  • Practice your own.

  • So when you hear the actor doing it, try to catch him and say, like: "Didja", "didja",

  • "j'ev", "j'ev", "j'ev a good time?"

  • Right?

  • Try and do that.

  • Okay?

  • You'll notice that after time you'll naturally come out.

  • And I can promise you because I've done this a lot, I've had students who are...

  • Who try the relaxed speech and when they say it they almost have zero accent because the

  • relaxed speech causes you to condense the language, you don't have time to have accent.

  • So it's a cool tip.

  • It'll help one...

  • Two things.

  • Number one, your understanding when native speakers speak; number two, your ability to

  • speak to native speakers like them.

  • And that will cause them to want to speak to you more, and that's the whole point of

  • this.

  • Right?

  • So, we talked about that, so let's do the practice because perfect practice doesn't

  • happen without the practice.

  • Okay, so here's the story.

  • You'll notice there's a space, but the answers are here because I want you to say it.

  • I'm not going to write it for you, I want you to say it.

  • So we can go through it first regular speech.

  • -"Hey E, do you want to go to the movies?"

  • -"I don't know.

  • What's playing?"

  • -"An action flick".

  • "Flick" means movie, okay?

  • So when someone says it's a chick flick, action flick...

  • No one says drama flick for some reason, I don't know why, maybe because they're so damn

  • serious.

  • Right?

  • So...

  • And they don't say comedy flick either.

  • They say it's a comedy.

  • Interesting.

  • Drama and comedy.

  • So an action flick, so an action movie.

  • Okay?

  • "I think".

  • And then he said: -"Did you eat yet?

  • I'm starving!"

  • -"No, let's get some burgers."

  • -"Did you ever go to the new place on Yonge Street?"

  • -"Yes, it's great.

  • Did you have the double burger there?"

  • That's normal speech.

  • Nobody talks like that, so if you talk like that we'll know you watched the video and

  • you missed the whole point of the video.

  • Let's go to what you should say, so we're going to place the: "Did you want to" with

  • these ones.

  • Okay?

  • So, let's do the first one.

  • -"Hey E, jawanna go to the movies?

  • Jawanna go to the movies?"

  • Or, because we have the second one here: "Hey E, yawanna go to the movies?"

  • See how it rolls a little bit better, a little faster?

  • Okay?

  • Because we say this regularly.

  • Now, E's response: "I dunno.

  • I dunno."

  • Right?

  • -"I dunno.

  • What's playing?"

  • -"An action flick, I think."

  • Okay, and now we go: "Did you"...

  • Okay, I didn't put everything here because I didn't...

  • It's just short, but: "Didja eat yet?

  • Didja?"

  • So we got the "didja" here, we're doing that one.

  • -"Didja eat yet?

  • I'm starving!"

  • Or the second one can say is: "J'eat yet?

  • J'eat yet?

  • I'm starving."

  • You can say either one.

  • See that?

  • So careful, listen sometimes: "Didja" or the "J'eat yet".

  • Okay?

  • Same response here, so then we go down here: "No, let's get some burgers."

  • Then we have here, remember we said this one, now we're going to say this one: "Didja ever",

  • okay?

  • "Didja ever go to the new place on Yonge Street?

  • Didja ever go to the new place?"

  • Or more commonly: "J'ever go to the new place?

  • J'ever go to the new place on Yonge Street?"

  • Okay?

  • So I'm getting rid...

  • So we're going from here, I'm giving you a second stage to practice, and then purely

  • relaxed speech.

  • Okay?

  • And finally: "Yes, it's great.

  • J'ev", see?

  • There's "j'ev", "do you have".

  • "J'ev a double burger there?

  • J'ev the double burger?"

  • Okay?

  • Now, to end this out...

  • I got no more room on the board.

  • I'm going to say they said, imaginary: "Yeah, let's go and have a burger."

  • Okay?

  • And why am I saying that?

  • Because that's the end of the story and this is the end of the lesson.

  • Okay?

  • So we practiced, and I want you to practice "jawanna", "yawanna", "dunno", "didja".

  • And that's a starting step, remember we have steps.

  • You can go from: "Did you eat yet?" to: "Didja eat?"

  • Okay?

  • And then finally: "J'eat yet?

  • J'eat yet?"

  • And the same one we have down here as well, you can go to an intermediary or middle step:

  • "Didja ever?"

  • And then to: "J'ever".

  • Okay?

  • And finally: "J'ev".

  • "J'ev a good time?"

  • All right?

  • And remember we can do that for "do" or "did".

  • Okay?

  • Anyway, that's my story, I hope you enjoyed it.

  • I'm kinda hungry.

  • Those burgers are making me hungry.

  • And my plane is about to arrive to take me out here to Fantasy Island and I'll have a

  • fantasy burger.

  • E's already gone.

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  • And always, thank you for visiting.

  • Don't forget to visit the other teachers on the site, they're equally good.

  • Okay?

  • And is that it?

  • I think that's almost it except for one small thing: If this video has been helpful to you,

  • and I hope it has, because if you're listening to me talk right now, clearly you're getting

  • something out of it - invite a friend, share with a friend. Okay?

  • Sharing is caring.

  • Anyway, that's my story. You have a good one.

Hi. James from engVid.

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