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  • Hello, hello.

  • Welcome to today's live English lesson, here on the Speak English with Vanessa YouTube

  • channel.

  • I'm Vanessa, thanks so much for taking time out of your busy day to study English with

  • me.

  • Today I have a special advanced listening lesson for you.

  • You're gonna be learning, first of all, how you can understand fast native English.

  • I know a lot of you can understand me, maybe you've been watching my English lessons for

  • a long time, or maybe you just joined me.

  • Have you ever thought why can I understand Vanessa, but I can't understand news reporters,

  • or TV broadcasters, or TV shows and movies?

  • Well here I'm speaking with you.

  • We're not having a quick conversation chit-chat back and forth.

  • The style of speaking is different.

  • Well I want to help you be able to understand that, because that is the key to having great

  • friendships and communications in English is understanding what other people are saying.

  • Today I'm gonna help you understand, first of all, how to understand native English speakers,

  • especially when they are speaking quickly.

  • Second of all, we're gonna do it, we're gonna practice this technique together.

  • Finally, I'm gonna help you continue to study like this because today's lesson is just maybe

  • twenty, maybe thirty minutes ... it's good, but you need to continue, so I'll help you

  • learn at the end of this lesson how you can continue to study with this style, and improve

  • your speaking so that you can understand and speak like a native speaker.

  • Thank you so much for everyone whose joining me live today.

  • I see we have friends from Brazil, Dominican Republic, Kurdistan, Syria, Mexico, Myanmar.

  • Thank you so much for joining me live.

  • Let's talk about our first point.

  • How in the world can you understand fast native speakers?

  • Maybe you've heard some tips like you should listen to English.

  • Listen, listen, listen as much as you can.

  • Well what happens if you just watch a TV show in English 50 times?

  • Will you eventually understand it?

  • Maybe, but if you understand only 10%, after you watch it 50 times will you understand

  • 100%?

  • It seems like it's not the most effective method to me.

  • If you watch TV shows that you feel overwhelmed by because it's just too fast, and there's

  • too much going on, we need to take it back a little bit, we need to scale down, we need

  • to step back and shorten the material.

  • Something that I often recommend to my students is if you feel overwhelmed by a big chunk

  • of material, take a small piece of it.

  • We call these bite sized chunks.

  • Bite sized chunks means small, easily accessible pieces, and study that small piece.

  • When you analyze a small clip from a real conversation, you're getting the chance to

  • see really how native speakers talk, but in a more accessible piece of information.

  • Just maybe one minute, maybe even thirty seconds of material.

  • That's what we're gonna do today.

  • We're gonna take a look at a short clip, it's only thirty seconds, you're gonna study it,

  • you're gonna listen to it, and I hope that you'll be able to understand it by the end

  • of this lesson.

  • So I want you to get a pen and a paper, because I want you to study today.

  • This is an active lesson.

  • Make sure you are preparing, and not just watching me.

  • Make sure you are actively participating.

  • We are gonna be analyzing a short conversation for idioms, phrasal verbs, sentence structure,

  • pronunciation.

  • There's a lot of natural linking that happens, a lot of reductions that happen, and maybe

  • some expressions that you've never heard before.

  • We're gonna quickly study those together.

  • The four steps we're gonna follow today are, first of all, we're gonna listen to a fast

  • English conversation clip like I mentioned.

  • Thirty seconds, twenty seconds, maybe up to a minute.

  • Then we're gonna listen to a slow version of that clip.

  • This version is not a natural speed, this clip is much slower because I want you to

  • understand every single word.

  • When you listen to that slow clip you will probably realize oh, that's what they were

  • saying, now I understand.

  • Hopefully you'll have a light bulb moment.

  • This expression, a light bulb moment, means that you suddenly realize something, you suddenly

  • understand.

  • Oh, I can understand what the fast version is saying.

  • When we slow it down you'll realize okay I understand this word, and this word, and this

  • word, and then we'll go back to the fast version and I hope that you'll be able to pick it

  • up, because while you're listening to that fast and slow version, the third step is to

  • write down everything that you hear.

  • Because it's a short clip we're not talking about a full movie, we're talking about just

  • a short clip, you'll have the chance to write down word for word what you hear.

  • Then we'll listen to it again, and I want you to check your writing with the original

  • transcript.

  • This way you can see which words you missed, which words were more difficult for you.

  • Maybe there's a specific sound, or a specific type of linking that's difficult for you.

  • When you study it and analyze these small clips hopefully you will have a light bulb

  • moment and say aha!

  • I never realized that this sounds was difficult for me, but now I know.

  • So you can specifically study that sound and practice it yourself again and again.

  • This is just helping you to become master of your own English learning so that you can

  • take charge and improve.

  • So we'll check your writing, and then we'll take a lot at some clips.

  • If you enjoy this style of learning that we're about to do, right now there is the 30 Day

  • English Listening Challenge that uses this technique every day for 30 days.

  • You can study five to ten minutes every day for 30 days.

  • Last year we did this twice.

  • There was the listening challenge pack one, listening challenge pack two, now the listening

  • challenge pack three is available.

  • This will be available until the end of the year, December 31st.

  • If you're watching this after December 31st, you can check out the link in the description

  • to see when the next listening challenge will be open.

  • But I hope this technique will help you in the new year as your New Year's resolution

  • to improve your English.

  • Okay, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna share my screen with you.

  • I'm going to show you the worksheet.

  • This is what I want your paper to look like.

  • So here we are, I'm going to quickly share this worksheet with you ... because we're

  • in a live lesson sometimes it takes a moment to switch between things.

  • Are you ready?

  • Alright, let's take a look at this worksheet.

  • Here we have day 30 English listening challenge three.

  • This is the day 21 lesson, this is pretty typical for all of the days.

  • You'll see on the worksheet, this is what I want you to write down; Vanessa, Bruce,

  • Vanessa, Bruce- Bruce is the person I'm talking with, Vanessa, Bruce.

  • Or you can write V, B, V, B, V, B. You'll hear us have a conversation back and forth,

  • and I want you to write that down.

  • Let's zoom in really quick so you can take a look at that.

  • I know some of you are studying on your phone, so it's a little bit difficult to see the

  • small script.

  • This is a quick summary of what you're gonna hear.

  • In this conversation Bruce explains that it's difficult to get a job at the hospital.

  • Can you hear his accent from Chicago?

  • Bruce is from Chicago so you'll be exposed to a slightly different accent than mine.

  • I want you to write down on your paper Vanessa, Bruce, I believe it's three different times.

  • Vanessa, Bruce, Vanessa, Bruce, Vanessa, Bruce.

  • Then you'll hear us have a conversation.

  • Try to write down exactly what you hear.

  • Okay we're back, so I'm gonna let you listen to this conversation in the fast version three

  • times.

  • Are you ready?

  • I want you to take a deep breath.

  • It might seem a little bit fast, or maybe it won't seem fast.

  • If you feel like you can understand everything I challenge you to write down exactly what

  • you hear, because I've found that students who took the 30 day listening challenge course

  • in the past, they felt like oh I can understand this okay but when they tried to write down

  • everything they were surprised that there were quite a few words that they missed.

  • Maybe these are small words, but these words are essential for really speaking naturally,

  • and using correct grammar.

  • Challenge yourself to write down exactly what you hear.

  • I'm gonna switch over my microphone so that you only hear Bruce.

  • You'll only just see my face, but you won't see Bruce, you'll just hear it.

  • So you're gonna be testing your ears to see if you can hear him accurately.

  • Alright we're gonna listen to Bruce, and we're gonna listen to him three times.

  • Are you ready?

  • Alright, let's listen to him.

  • V: How did you decide to work at the hospital?

  • B: I'd been applying at the hospital for, like, three years.

  • V: Really?

  • B: Super hard to get into.

  • Yeah.

  • V: Does, like, everyone want to work at the hospital?

  • B: Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area.

  • V: How did you decide to work at the hospital?

  • B: I'd been applying at the hospital for, like, three years.

  • V: Really?

  • B: Super hard to get into.

  • Yeah.

  • V: Does, like, everyone want to work at the hospital?

  • B: Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area.

  • V: How did you decide to work at the hospital?

  • B: I'd been applying at the hospital for, like, three years.

  • V: Really?

  • B: Super hard to get into.

  • Yeah.

  • V: Does, like, everyone want to work at the hospital?

  • B: Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area.

  • Alright, that was the fast version three different times.

  • You already knew that Bruce worked at the hospital.

  • He's talking about how difficult it is to get into the hospital.

  • Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna listen to the slow version three times.

  • This is not Bruce's voice, this is my voice with my husband Dan's voice.

  • So hopefully this is a voice you might be familiar with, or a voice that might be easier

  • for you to understand.

  • The purpose of this slow version is for you to catch each of the little words and then

  • we'll go back to the fast version.

  • So take your notebook, take your pen, and try to write down everything that you hear.

  • You can try to write it down in the comments.

  • You can try to write it down in your notebook.

  • This is a good test exercise.

  • Alright, let's listen to the slow version three times.

  • Are you ready?

  • Alright, just a moment I've gotta switch over my microphone.

  • Okay.

  • Let's get started.

  • V: How did you decide to work at the hospital?

  • B: I'd been applying at the hospital for, like, three years.

  • V: Really?

  • B: Super hard to get into.

  • Yeah.

  • V: Does, like, everyone want to work at the hospital?

  • B: Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area.

  • V: How did you decide to work at the hospital?

  • B: I'd been applying at the hospital for, like, three years.

  • V: Really?

  • B: Super hard to get into.

  • Yeah.

  • V: Does, like, everyone want to work at the hospital?

  • B: Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area.

  • V: How did you decide to work at the hospital?

  • B: I'd been applying at the hospital for, like, three years.

  • V: Really?

  • B: Super hard to get into.

  • Yeah.

  • V: Does, like, everyone want to work at the hospital?

  • B: Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area.

  • Alright, how did you do?

  • Was it easier to understand that slow version?

  • Probably.

  • I wanna ask you a quick question.

  • How many years had Bruce been trying to apply to work at the hospital?

  • Did you hear that number that he said?

  • And what was the specific phrase that he used about the hospital?

  • It is one of the largest ... what did he say there?

  • Did you catch every word he said?

  • What I'd like to do now, if you would like to finish writing down what he said go ahead.

  • I'd like to show you the transcript so you can see word for word everything that he said.

  • Hopefully it will help you to pick out the words that were the most difficult for you.

  • Alright let's go on to the transcript.

  • I'm gonna share my screen with you one more time.

  • Alright, here you can see the transcript.

  • We're gonna zoom in.

  • Day 21, Hospital.

  • You can see Vanessa, Bruce, Vanessa, Bruce, Vanessa, Bruce.

  • This probably looks familiar from the worksheet I showed you a moment ago, and maybe you wrote

  • that in your notebook.

  • We have word for word what we said.

  • I said, "How did you decide to work at the hospital?"

  • Notice the pronunciation of this word hospital.

  • In American English this T changes to a D. I want you to say that correctly, hospital.

  • Hospital.

  • Repeat with me, hospital.

  • Then Bruce said, "I'd been applying at the hospital for three years."

  • A lot of you got that number correct, three years, but I'm curious.

  • How many of you got this correct?

  • I'd.

  • I'd.

  • What does that D stand for?

  • That D stands for had, I had been applying at the hospital for three years.

  • Here he is using that past perfect tense, I had been applying, and the reason why he

  • uses the past perfect is because in the past it was a continual action.

  • It happened a lot in the past, but now something has changed.

  • He is not applying anymore, and I can understand that he's not applying anymore because he

  • used I had been applying.

  • That means that he either stopped applying or he got a job there.

  • Then I continued and said, "Really?"

  • I'm surprised because three years is a long time to apply for a job.

  • He said, "Super hard to get into."

  • Did you get this phrasal verb?

  • We'll talk about that in just a moment.

  • "Super hard to get into, yeah."

  • Then I say, "Does everyone want to work at the hospital?"

  • I'm trying to find a reason why, why did it take three years?

  • And he said, "Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area."

  • Here we have that wonderful phrase, employers in the area.

  • In the area.

  • Did you get all of this?

  • Maybe there were a couple of words that were difficult for you to get.

  • Maybe the phrasal verb, maybe the specific verb up here.

  • Let's go on to the bottom of this page where we talk about these three red vocabulary expressions.

  • Every day in the 30 Day English Listening Challenge there are three different expressions

  • because its useful to understand the words, but you need to know what they mean as well.

  • So let's go on to the bottom of this page and check out I had been applying, we just

  • talked about this.

  • Why he uses the past perfect tense, and then there's the lovely phrasal verb, get into.

  • This mean you're accepted.

  • I'm trying to get into Harvard.

  • I'm trying to get into the school of my dreams.

  • I'm trying to get into the hospital because I want to work there.

  • I couldn't get into my apartment because I forgot my key.

  • You can see we're entering here you're accepted.

  • What about that final part, in the area?

  • This is a pretty common daily expression.

  • Instead of saying the hospital is one of the largest employers in my city, or in Asheville,

  • which is the city where I live, he said in the area.

  • This is quite a general expression to just mean this city or region, it's not very specific,

  • it's a general expression.

  • So I hope that these three expressions help you to gain a deeper understanding of what

  • he said.

  • This specific transcript here is quite useful for that.

  • Alright, before we go on to the final step which is re-listening to that fast version,

  • I want to know- how did you do?

  • When you look at this transcript, what words were difficult for you?

  • Let me know in the comments.

  • Now we're gonna listen to the fast version again three times, and we're gonna look at

  • the transcript at the same time.

  • So that you can see which words maybe were difficult for you.

  • You can see exactly as he's speaking.

  • This is the technique I recommend using in the 30 days English listening challenge.

  • Test yourself first, listen to the fast, then the slow, then write it down and then go back

  • and listen to that fast version again.

  • See, oh I can understand more, I can really see what he's saying.

  • Alright, let's listen to that fast version.

  • I'm gonna show you the transcript and you'll be able to see every single word as he's speaking.

  • Let me share my screen one more time as we listen to this audio.

  • I'm going to open the audio for you ... this original audio.

  • Alright.

  • Okay, I'm gonna switch over ... my screen so you can see that as well.

  • Alright, let's listen.

  • V: How did you decide to work at the hospital?

  • B: I'd been applying at the hospital for, like, three years.

  • V: Really?

  • B: Super hard to get into.

  • Yeah.

  • V: Does, like, everyone want to work at the hospital?

  • B: Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area.

  • V: How did you decide to work at the hospital?

  • B: I'd been applying at the hospital for, like, three years.

  • V: Really?

  • B: Super hard to get into.

  • Yeah.

  • V: Does, like, everyone want to work at the hospital?

  • B: Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area.

  • V: How did you decide to work at the hospital?

  • B: I'd been applying at the hospital for, like, three years.

  • V: Really?

  • B: Super hard to get into.

  • Yeah.

  • V: Does, like, everyone want to work at the hospital?

  • B: Yeah, it's one of the largest employers in the area.

  • Oh, sorry about that.

  • I didn't turn my microphone over.

  • I want to know how did you do?

  • I hope that this will be able to test your listening skills, but also launch you into

  • the real world because these listening skills are great for having natural conversations,

  • having a business meeting, traveling to New York when you want to go to the US.

  • But when you have those conversations you can't say, hey stop I need to look at the

  • transcript, because there's not a transcript when you're having a real conversation.

  • So I hope this practice time will launch you into understanding better in those real situations,

  • especially if you study this every single day for 30 days in the 30 Day English Listening

  • Challenge.

  • You'll really be able to improve those skills.

  • What I'd like to tell you now, is we've already talked about how to understand, analyzing

  • those small clips, we've practiced this together with Bruce's clip about the hospital, and

  • now finally how can you continue this?

  • Well I have some good news, today December 21st, 2018 until December 31st, 2018, until

  • the end of the year, the 30 Day Listening Challenge pack three is available.

  • So you can really practice listening every single day and test your listening skills,

  • but it's only gonna take five to ten minutes.

  • I know it's difficult to do something every single day, so I wanted to make these lessons

  • accessible, bite sized chunks, ones that you can say oh I woke up a little bit early today

  • before breakfast, my family's not awake yet, I'm gonna study it.

  • Or, oh I need to go to bed, but I'm gonna study this lesson real quick.

  • These lessons are real fast, five to ten minutes.

  • You saw the audio clip is not very long, so you can study it again and again in five to

  • ten minutes.

  • Your listening will improve every day.

  • So what I'd like to share with you is on my screen, I'm gonna share the inside, sneak

  • preview into the course so that you can see really what each day inside the course is

  • gonna look like.

  • Okay, I'm gonna share my screen again.

  • Okay, this is inside the 30 Day English Listening Challenge pack 3.

  • It is zero percent complete at the moment because the course hasn't started yet.

  • You can see here all of these days.

  • Day one, day two, day three, all the way down here, day 21 is hospital, that's what we studied,

  • and there are 30 days all the way down.

  • Let's click to the start here, because if you join today you'll immediately gain access

  • to the day zero material.

  • Let's open here.

  • Here you're gonna find the course guide.

  • This is how to use the material.

  • When you're not studying in a classroom you need some guidance as to how to use the material

  • because there's not a teacher present in your house telling you do this, now do this, now

  • do this.

  • So this guide is my recommended study guide about how to follow the lessons.

  • Really this is exactly what we did today.

  • You're listening to the original clip, you're listening to the slow version, you're writing

  • it down, you're comparing it to the transcript.

  • Great, this is gonna take you step by step.

  • The next thing you'll find on this page is a calendar.

  • Each time in the listening challenge I've made this calendar so that each day when you

  • finish you can check, check, check.

  • You can check off each day, and a lot of students who've completed the challenge said that this

  • was a small motivation to help them see how many days they finished.

  • Oh wow, I finished 15 days already, I can keep going.

  • Or it was just a motivation to say oh I didn't check off the next day, I need to continue.

  • So I hope that this calendar will just motivate you a little bit because when you complete

  • it you can send me an email and get a certificate of completion.

  • This is an unofficial certificate, but it's my way to thank you for your hard work, and

  • also for finishing all of this.

  • Hopefully it will help you to see that you have certainly improved.

  • Let's go over to the page.

  • If you click the link in the description of this YouTube video you'll go to this page.

  • This page is where you can join the 30 Day English Listening Challenge.

  • Here you can see there's ten days, ten hours, 32 minutes, 26, 25, 24 seconds, 23 seconds

  • to join the pack three version of the Listening Challenge.

  • You can check out some more information about it, including some other sample lessons, some

  • sample information, so that you can go over that again, and a bunch of frequently asked

  • questions.

  • How can you download them?

  • Yes you can download every lesson.

  • What's the price?

  • The price is $30 if you join before the end of the new year.

  • Just one one-time payment, one price, $30 if you join before the new year it's $30.

  • The next time that the course opens it's gonna be more expensive, so this is the special

  • early bird entrance into the pack three because it's new.

  • The first lesson will begin on January 1st, so on January 1st you'll begin the day one

  • lesson, then day two on January 2nd, day three on January 3rd, and so on.

  • If you have any questions about this material, I'll be answering them through email, in the

  • YouTube comments, and also next week I'll be doing a quick live lesson again, maybe

  • about ten or fifteen minutes answering any of your questions about how to use this material,

  • and also how you can participate.

  • Because every day during the month of January you can ask me questions.

  • The comment section below each lesson is quite active.

  • I respond to almost every single question, every single comment, so that I can share

  • it with you and give you some feedback.

  • That's one of the benefits of having a teacher is having some feedback.

  • To let you know quickly, the material in the listening challenge, even though it is only

  • for 30 days, you'll have access to it forever.

  • So if you want to go back, maybe for you day seven is challenging.

  • Well you can go back at the end of the course and study day seven 50 times, because you'll

  • have access to this course for as long as it's available.

  • You'll be able to go back and study it again, and again, and again, and that's something

  • that's useful for the calendar.

  • You can circle days that are most difficult for you, because all of these are natural

  • conversations with different native speakers, do you'll be exposed to different styles of

  • speaking, different speeds, different accents.

  • These are all American English, but there's a lot of different accents within the US,

  • so you'll be able to study those.

  • Maybe one is more difficult than another, so you'll circle that one on the calendar,

  • and go back, and study it later.

  • If you would like to join me, click the link in the description or at the end of this video.

  • I hope that you'll be able to improve your English over the next 30 days.

  • This is the key to studying English really consistently, every single day.

  • Thank you so much for joining me today for this live lesson.

  • I hope that you learned a lot with the sample we did in the middle of this lesson with Bruce.

  • I hope you improved your English, and feel free to continue with me in the 30 Day English

  • Listening Challenge pack three that's open right now, only for $30, one-time payment.

  • You get basically 30 lessons, one dollar per lesson, every day in the month of January.

  • Thanks so much, and I'll see you again the next time.

  • Bye.

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