I'm a native speaker married to a Japanese woman and our daughter started learning English in school recently. I was helping her with pronunciation one night and my wife had been doing it with us. I was clearly sounding out the words to them. Then I got a call from a family member later that night and my wife couldn't understand almost anything I was saying. She actually asked me if I was trying to obfuscate what I was saying for her sake by speaking in some kind of way that only natives could understand, because she couldn't see how the same words I was just working with them on could be so incomprehensible on the phone. And I had similar difficulty when learning Japanese. Native speakers of all languages, but especially English, slur their words and pronounce them incorrectly. Don't think of yourself as being wrong, think of it as trying to adjust to understand all the people that are saying it wrong.
It was marginally mentioned but what i found hugely effective in my case was to listen to the select few materials (TED talks in my case) multiple times! Like 5 Ted talks on repeat, once a day for a week, then another 5 or so, each repetition i understood more and more and expressions stuck in my memory, highly recommend
Your diction and pronunciation is so good, I can listen to you on 1.75x speed and still get every word (like most people would speak within their inner circle). Not everyone can do this and these tips are very useful.
I teach French in London, I will now ask my students to listen to this video, because what applies to English listening comprehension is exactly the same in French (any foreign language you're learning in fact) ... good methodology, thanks a lot 💙 ...
I am a Native English Speaker and I find your lessons very useful to refresh myself on the rules of English. It is amazing how we speak daily and mostly follow the rules but actually forget the rules. Thank you for your great lessons.
I gotta to say, that I catch you one hundred percent, Because you speak so soft and Clear. I got lot of things from you and you are my teacher and I respect you as my teacher. Respect from Afghanistan.
First one was to slow it down and made it to be quiet for me the second one is for me to be quiet and listen to you cuz you're a lady full of wisdom and knowledge
Hi Emma, I'm from Mauritius(Bilingual English and French) and I'm currently residing in Dublin, Ireland. I just appreciate the whole explanation/advise you gave in this video, and is helping me alot to understand Irish people
I'm not a native English speaker but because you said to increase the video speed in order to increase the difficulty, i put the speed to 1.75 times for the remaining time. Thanks for your tips.
Today I found your channel. I'm so happy to be with you. You're one of the best teachers who I have ever watched! I could understand 99% of your speech. You gave me more motivation for my self-development! Thank you so much!
One trick I did to improve my listening skills in Spanish was to bingewatch series on Spanish television, with the aid of subtitles for deaf people, of course you allso need to train listening without any aid, but with subtitles I could handle watching for hours, and the sheer volume of material has Improved my comprehension of spoken language an awfull lot, now I can just watch television, youtube video's etc and I have expanded my world.
I am a native English speaker, well educated and not very young. I am an armchair linguist who has watched way too many RUclips videos about languages. I enjoy the subject.(Langfocus is a great channel. I am so pleased Paul has finally done a video on Vietnamese, my second language of choice.) Anyway, I watched your video to get some tips that can be used by _any_ language learner. Great job!
Hi Emma! You hit the point: listening and also understanding common people's English is the most difficult thing for us foreigners. If English people would speak so clearly as you speak, there would be no difficulties at all. I understand you at 100% and always wonder where you learned such a perfectly spoken English. It can't be Australian! What you suggest is to listen words in a connected way, in their context and not struggling for immediatley trying to understand each word. Thank you Emma!
The difficulties you are mentioning are incredibly accurate... Thank you for your tips, I see the huge extent of the help they would provide :) You are an awesome teacher !
Hi ! I am Mr. Tin Than Aung , from Yangon in Myanmar . Thank you so much for watching your interesting video , making me better at English , so I eagerly hope you can get something good from me at any time when we meet anywhere , especially in Myanmar.
I understand ninety percent but, you are a professional. Ordinary native is much harder to understand. Wow with all respect. It's just a compliment. You're very very very beautiful !!!. I started watching it first without subtitles and I've improved a lot now, one thing I didn't do was write down the words. Now writing down the words and seeing examples with them is helping a lot too.
i could understand all that you were talking about. It is because you were speaking not to fast , you were using hand gestures and face expressions . I enjoyed listening to your lesson. And yes, i`ll try to listen at " slow down" lessons , for the beginning . Thank you so much.
Because Teacher is speaking with a clear-cut accent, I reckon that's why, I endeavour to listen to audios/videos with British RP (Received Pronunciation) accent of my choice/hobby, try the same caddeey, nasiib wacan!!
You did a great job i also want to do the same. If YOU Don't Mind can you give me some tips about understanding native English speakers. Even i cant practice English or afford English class.
Who is the one can listen to you and do not understand. you explained everything clearly God bless you thank you
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Thanks teacher for sharing this amazing video. I've listened it in 1.25 speed and I understood almost 100%. About your questions, the first one is to raise the speed of the video and connect speech is a phonetic thing. When natives talk, they just put the sound of words together and make it difficult to understand for us no native speakers.
@@mmmEnglish_Emma. Hello dear,I greatly appreciate your time and effort in teaching us to know better English. Personally I learn much from you, you're a great teacher ever seen. Keep it up, may Almighty God bless you. Ben from Rwanda 🙏
I'm so thankful to you for your advices, Emma! They're invaluable for everyone who wants to master their English. Time and again (when I have time) I watch your vids and enjoy them greatly. And - yes, I know what a connected speech is :) I listened this video at a apeed rate 1.5. Everything is clear for you're a teacher, your English is brilliant, and you're talking to you listener ( to me in my csae). Speech perception can be sometimes more difficult when it is not aimed at you. Anyway, following the thread of the speech you'll never be lost.
I'm not sure if you'll read this, but advice is considered a noncount noun, so it cannot be plural "advices". Just advice or pieces of advice is the way to go. Just like cups of coffee, bags of sand, bottles of water, etc.
Modifying the speed of the video is such a great idea 👏👏👏👏 Something else that I tell some of my students is to target the "English" they need. If a student knows they are going to visit Scotland, or maybe they are moving to Australia for work, then they need to focus their efforts on listening to things in that particular accent. Being able to perfectly understand the Queen will be useless in a Scottish supermarket 😉
Hello, I am learning English on my own, and watching your videos that are excellent, I do not know if I am going to learn English or magic, because I melt when you see you, you can not believe so much beauty and sympathy but I kept trying ... between grammar and the native pronunciation there is an abyss, Ok greetings from Argentina!
I'm a native English speaker but I have a huge love of language and have studied a few different ones. Each time I make a friend/language exchange partner, I have difficulty trying to express myself and actively listen and understand what they're saying. Obviously this is natural for a language someone is unfamiliar with, but this lesson was a huge help! I'm going to apply what I've learned from this video in my future conversations, thank you so much!
I have a question for u . I am not American, but one day I texted my friend in a normal way like not using any abrrevations. But he said why dont u write with abb. it sounds like u r livin in a cave. I said i dont wanna use. Cuz i think not all americans use those. It depends on persons choice. I thought if i dont use abb. it means u r not good at english ? cuz it sounds nonsense. it does not mean u have no idea about english
Hello Emma . This is Amjad from Yemen 🇾🇪.your lessons on RUclips are always useful without doubt . We really appreciate what you do for us ...Thank you so much ( شكرا جزيلا )🙏🌹😇👍
I've learned English 6 mouths and I almost didn't listen native speakers, but when I watched your video I got almost 80 perсent. I will try to understand native speakers with serial "F.R.I.E.N.D.S.". Your videos are very useful. Keep recording them. All the best
This is true for me too. I am a native English speaker and I live in America. I live in an area that is right between Philadelphia and New York City, so there is a huge mixture of accents and dialects! Don't get worried, it can even be hard for natives some times!
Hi Emma. So good having you around, I love your videos and the way you explain and make things clear for us non-native speakers ;). My answer to your question (if I remember well) about what can we do to increase the difficulty of audio is to listen to it without subtitles and speed it up in the configuration part. (Know what? I've just found the trick of slowing down and speeding up audios today, in your video!!!! ) … I'm so happy!!!! Thanks so much !!! :D
When I visited UK in 1990-es native speakers though that if I spoke quickly enough it meant that I understood quickly too but I couldn’t and cannot till now understand as quickly as I speak. Listening is the most difficult thing. Thank you for this video.
In Portuguese "éeee" (it is like "uhhh"), "então" (so), "tipo" ("like"), "tipo assim" ("like" , like this) are the most common Portuguese filler words in Brazil.
I love your classes, you are a dream teacher. You are not only good in expressing your class in a clear, easy-understanding, interesting way, but as well as attach the class with a rich countenance which is a huge help for the understanding.
Hi Emma! I love your videos! They help me a lot! To me, the different accents is a big hurdle. I'm struggling to improve my English and jump from B2 to C1 but I don't know more what I can do... I've been twice in a Canada but my level is the same... I took IELTS, TOEFL and I've just taken an online test and all show me that I'm still in the same level of English: B2. Also, I'm almost 1 year stuck at the same level.. why it's so hard improve English after a while? I mean, when I was in A2 was easy to see my English getting better, but once I reached the intermediate level, I barely can see my English improving
Hi Evelize, I understand you very well, I went through the same problem as you. As beginners, we evolve very quickly, but once we reach the advanced level, there is a stagnation. The best way to evolve at this level is to live in an English-speaking country, at least for a year or two, not always easy to do, but it helps a lot!
Nobody speaks clearly in real life, and movies are no exception. You need to learn the spoken English as well. To give you an example: I'm going to = I'm gonna = I'mma...
Congratulations !!! Your english is absolutely clear . And you have the nicest way to speak it . And believe it or not, I had already considered the possibility of a slower audio . Best regards .
You are a genius. Actually before I see your video I was just revieweing another video of a piano lesson from a native english speaker and I slow down in order to review the chors of the song and voalá I could distinguish not only the words that he was using but the way to pronounce every word also. 👏
Wow Emma, I really love your lessons. And this one was particularly useful. I absolutely love the tips! You are one of the best English teachers out there. So thanks a ton!😊❤
What may I say.....? Emma ,You are my "The Best schoolmaster ever " From your lessons ,I like practically everything and your "body language is pure poetry
To increase difficulty, you mention use movies with different accents, topics, movies with background noises. TBH, perhaps 95% of you video I understand with no problems, and to improve listening I always disable subtitles. When I do not understand a dialog, I back but with subtitles, and turn off again. Great video, thanks a lot!
I’ve lived in the us for pretty much almost two years. My native language is Spanish, so first when I arrived in the us, it was hard for me to understand people even though I went through a intensive course to learn English. Anyways my wife only speaks German and English so that was very convenient because the only common language we have is English. Long story short my take away about this past year is that all you need to do is doing some extra effort so far I still have somewhat of a hard time understanding some natives but also don’t be afraid to ask them to repeat what they said, they know based on your accent that this is not your main language and that at least you are try to excel yourself instead of excluding yourself from the rest because of you are afraid of making a mistake. I do make mistakes and sometimes I even ask my wife if she notices any improvements in my English and she always says you are better than the average hahahahaha and just to wrap this up I want throw in a little advise that has helped me so far understating accents and it’s to actually just to relax and to speak to everyone(if you are a learner and you live in an English speaking country) even if you don’t understand every single word, try focusing on the important one in order to have a fluent conversation, every new skill or learning a language takes time. And people can say it’s easy to learn English but in reality everybody is different and some people can take more time than others so don’t be hard with yourself like me and just practice everyday at least 30min and you’ll see results in no time.
yes, good advice! as a native southamerican Spanish speaker I learned English in my last year in high school and since then I have been reading, writing and thinking in English... but when I went to the UK, Ireland and Australia I had to reinvent myself during about 2 weeks in order to communicate properly... nowadays as I have to use Spanish, German, Italian, English and Portuguese on a daily basis things get sometimes kinda mixed up, so I have to think for a while and ask myself "was this Italian? or did I use the Portuguese word?" or "how do I write this again? was it behaviour or behavior?" and stuff like that... your observations about connected speech are very useful
Good advises. Need to try. I've been learning the language thoroughly for two years from the time I moved to California. My native is Russian. I watched your video actively listening and understood 100% of what you said (without subtitles). The same thing with podcasts, TV news, or sitcoms - I have no problem with understanding them as well. But when I watch full-length movies or try to speak with people in real life - I understand almost nothing.
Emma! I can't tell you how much I love your lessons you have done so hard work only for us so we can bring improvement in English and u know that this is my fav subject thank you so much ❤️ Emma no matter how much I give thanks to u its always less
Hi Emma! Thanks for your video. My english listening level has improved because I am taking classes and listening Spotify podcasts. First, I played 0.5x mode, now 0.75x-1x according speaker. My goal is to have job interviews surely without fears. I feel that it´ll be possible in near future.
So, for the first question.. I can increase the difficulty of audio increasing the speed of the video. For the second question: Connected speach is the skill that allows you to associate words with their sounds. I've listened the video one time so I don't know if is perfectly correct. But thank you for your patience! You are a very good teacher!
I recenlty moved to Germany ( back in Oz now) and I really wish that I had watched this video while I was struggling with learning German. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
@@sonikamalik6698 no no its absolutely fine. Best of luck for ur exams. By the way what r your studies??? To be very honest, my exam is also just round the corner. I am preparing for that.
You are one of the most beautiful teachers i have ever seen in my whole life. I just come here to watch your videos and i have been doing it for 3 yeas. Your videos makes me happy and i also can gather bunch of knowledge from you.
Great videos. I am a native speaker of English, but I have also learnt other languages and everything you teach applies to learning a second language. Now we have you tube I watch news broadcasts in the foreign language I have learnt and see how much of them I can follow. The toughest part in any language is variations across regions, speed of the persons speech slang, and then types of language in poetry and songs. Never give up.
I was born and raised bilingual, growing up in Italy with an american mother one thing I realized early on is the way I use my mouth, lips, throat when speaking in English, I feel like I'm using the front of my mouth and not moving my mouth as much. words like with, that, are very difficult for people learning english. but again it's about rethinking the way your mouth pronounces words in italian, I feel like sound is coming from deeper in my mouth and throat. I also use my mouth and lips a lot more. my voice actually sounds different when I'm speaking english or italian my father spoke english well, but with an italian accent. instead of this or that, he would say something that sounded like tzis and tzat since it was easier my best advice is, to really understand physically what goes into speaking a particular language. the closer we can get our brain to let the words flow and not try to translate them the faster one can learn a language a big exception is Scottish or Gaelic, god only knows what they're saying haha! have fun
Excellent! You are the first teacher on RUclips, who asks questions at the end of the video. It's just like methodic used to be in a good schoolbooks. It may seem obvious but it's very rarely used by RUclips instructors.
I am not sure what do you mean with "Native American". American Indian or in general people who grew up in the US? I have been in the US for 30 years, and sometimes I don't understand what Americans say. They speak very fast, especially women.
Answer 1: speed up a little the pace of the video ;) Answer 2: it is the way words link together. Cool tricks, I like them a lot! By the way, it's awesome the way you speak!! It's really nice to hear you talking about anything :)
I'm a native speaker married to a Japanese woman and our daughter started learning English in school recently. I was helping her with pronunciation one night and my wife had been doing it with us. I was clearly sounding out the words to them. Then I got a call from a family member later that night and my wife couldn't understand almost anything I was saying. She actually asked me if I was trying to obfuscate what I was saying for her sake by speaking in some kind of way that only natives could understand, because she couldn't see how the same words I was just working with them on could be so incomprehensible on the phone. And I had similar difficulty when learning Japanese. Native speakers of all languages, but especially English, slur their words and pronounce them incorrectly. Don't think of yourself as being wrong, think of it as trying to adjust to understand all the people that are saying it wrong.
This is golden.
Appreciate your comment mate..! ✌️
I understood everything,because every single word was spoken with perfection.I could be native speaker very soon if everyone could speak so clearly.
It was marginally mentioned but what i found hugely effective in my case was to listen to the select few materials (TED talks in my case) multiple times! Like 5 Ted talks on repeat, once a day for a week, then another 5 or so, each repetition i understood more and more and expressions stuck in my memory, highly recommend
I agree with you, TEX talks is a great source for listenings!
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Agreed. That also works with movies you've watched before.
what is TED ?
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Your diction and pronunciation is so good, I can listen to you on 1.75x speed and still get every word (like most people would speak within their inner circle). Not everyone can do this and these tips are very useful.
I teach French in London, I will now ask my students to listen to this video, because what applies to English listening comprehension is exactly the same in French (any foreign language you're learning in fact) ... good methodology, thanks a lot 💙 ...
As a fellow English teacher, this is a HUGELY practical and important lesson! Thank you for this!
I am a Native English Speaker and I find your lessons very useful to refresh myself on the rules of English. It is amazing how we speak daily and mostly follow the rules but actually forget the rules. Thank you for your great lessons.
yeah, I'm learning English and some day I want to speak without remember the rules
I like all of your videos. The way how you teach us is awsome. Congrats from Brazil.
Brasil!
I gotta to say, that I catch you one hundred percent, Because you speak so soft and Clear. I got lot of things from you and you are my teacher and I respect you as my teacher.
Respect from Afghanistan.
First one was to slow it down and made it to be quiet for me the second one is for me to be quiet and listen to you cuz you're a lady full of wisdom and knowledge
I am from Thailand. I am fond of your speaking and your instructions.
Hi Emma,
I'm from Mauritius(Bilingual English and French) and I'm currently residing in Dublin, Ireland.
I just appreciate the whole explanation/advise you gave in this video, and is helping me alot to understand Irish people
hello can i ask you
I'm listening to you with 1.5 speed and I got almost everything on the video. Thank goodness😀
Nice work!
@@mmmEnglish_Emma Thank so much Emma, you're the most humble teacher RUclipsr I've ever seen😁✨
Having you as my English teacher while hitting puberty would have improved my grades tremendously :).
I'm not a native English speaker but because you said to increase the video speed in order to increase the difficulty, i put the speed to 1.75 times for the remaining time. Thanks for your tips.
EMMA, you are a teacher-pearl! Your lesson is excellent! Thank you!
The best english teacher in the world!!!! Thanks a lot for your classes.🙏😘
And the most beautiful
Today I found your channel. I'm so happy to be with you. You're one of the best teachers who I have ever watched! I could understand 99% of your speech. You gave me more motivation for my self-development! Thank you so much!
From Russia with love ♥
I'm so thrilled to hear that May, and I hope my lessons will continue motivating you and help you achieve your English goals 😘
can i ask you
One trick I did to improve my listening skills in Spanish was to bingewatch series on Spanish television, with the aid of subtitles for deaf people, of course you allso need to train listening without any aid, but with subtitles I could handle watching for hours, and the sheer volume of material has Improved my comprehension of spoken language an awfull lot, now I can just watch television, youtube video's etc and I have expanded my world.
I am a native English speaker, well educated and not very young. I am an armchair linguist who has watched way too many RUclips videos about languages. I enjoy the subject.(Langfocus is a great channel. I am so pleased Paul has finally done a video on Vietnamese, my second language of choice.)
Anyway, I watched your video to get some tips that can be used by _any_ language learner. Great job!
Hi Emma! You hit the point: listening and also understanding common people's English is the most difficult thing for us foreigners. If English people would speak so clearly as you speak, there would be no difficulties at all. I understand you at 100% and always wonder where you learned such a perfectly spoken English. It can't be Australian! What you suggest is to listen words in a connected way, in their context and not struggling for immediatley trying to understand each word. Thank you Emma!
The difficulties you are mentioning are incredibly accurate... Thank you for your tips, I see the huge extent of the help they would provide :) You are an awesome teacher !
Hi ! I am Mr. Tin Than Aung , from Yangon in Myanmar . Thank you so much for watching your interesting video , making me better at English , so I eagerly hope you can get something good from me at any time when we meet anywhere , especially in Myanmar.
Can i ask you what is the present condition of muslims in your country???
I understand ninety percent but, you are a professional. Ordinary native is much harder to understand.
Wow with all respect. It's just a compliment. You're very very very beautiful !!!.
I started watching it first without subtitles and I've improved a lot now, one thing I didn't do was write down the words. Now writing down the words and seeing examples with them is helping a lot too.
i could understand all that you were talking about. It is because you were speaking not to fast , you were using hand gestures and face expressions . I enjoyed listening to your lesson. And yes, i`ll try to listen at " slow down" lessons , for the beginning . Thank you so much.
When you speak. I understand 💯%. But I usually don’t understand native speakers 🤨
Because Teacher is speaking with a clear-cut accent, I reckon that's why, I endeavour to listen to audios/videos with British RP (Received Pronunciation) accent of my choice/hobby, try the same caddeey, nasiib wacan!!
SAME
Same
Unfortunately, I have the same problem
Quruxleey Abdi Me too.
I improved my listening just by watching RUclips videos that I like. I began to understand more and more without even noticing.
You did a great job i also want to do the same. If YOU Don't Mind can you give me some tips about understanding native English speakers. Even i cant practice English or afford English class.
Yeah, it comes naturally.
Thanks mam for this lesson.. This is very helpful for us.. You speaks very clear and with perfect sound and perfect speed.. God bless you
Who is the one can listen to you and do not understand. you explained everything clearly God bless you thank you
Thanks teacher for sharing this amazing video. I've listened it in 1.25 speed and I understood almost 100%. About your questions, the first one is to raise the speed of the video and connect speech is a phonetic thing. When natives talk, they just put the sound of words together and make it difficult to understand for us no native speakers.
Thanks Emma! I'm from Brazil and I'm always looking for great lessons on RUclips. The content about connected speech has helped me a lot!
Great, Leandro!! So glad to be part of your English learning journey 😍
@@mmmEnglish_Emma. Hello dear,I greatly appreciate your time and effort in teaching us to know better English. Personally I learn much from you, you're a great teacher ever seen. Keep it up, may Almighty God bless you. Ben from Rwanda 🙏
I'm so thankful to you for your advices, Emma! They're invaluable for everyone who wants to master their English. Time and again (when I have time) I watch your vids and enjoy them greatly. And - yes, I know what a connected speech is :) I listened this video at a apeed rate 1.5. Everything is clear for you're a teacher, your English is brilliant, and you're talking to you listener ( to me in my csae). Speech perception can be sometimes more difficult when it is not aimed at you. Anyway, following the thread of the speech you'll never be lost.
I'm not sure if you'll read this, but advice is considered a noncount noun, so it cannot be plural "advices". Just advice or pieces of advice is the way to go. Just like cups of coffee, bags of sand, bottles of water, etc.
Modifying the speed of the video is such a great idea 👏👏👏👏 Something else that I tell some of my students is to target the "English" they need. If a student knows they are going to visit Scotland, or maybe they are moving to Australia for work, then they need to focus their efforts on listening to things in that particular accent. Being able to perfectly understand the Queen will be useless in a Scottish supermarket 😉
Absolutely!! I couldn’t agree more!!
Hello, I am learning English on my own, and watching your videos that are excellent, I do not know if I am going to learn English or magic, because I melt when you see you, you can not believe so much beauty and sympathy but I kept trying ... between grammar and the native pronunciation there is an abyss, Ok greetings from Argentina!
I'm a native English speaker but I have a huge love of language and have studied a few different ones. Each time I make a friend/language exchange partner, I have difficulty trying to express myself and actively listen and understand what they're saying. Obviously this is natural for a language someone is unfamiliar with, but this lesson was a huge help! I'm going to apply what I've learned from this video in my future conversations, thank you so much!
I have a question for u . I am not American, but one day I texted my friend in a normal way like not using any abrrevations. But he said why dont u write with abb. it sounds like u r livin in a cave. I said i dont wanna use. Cuz i think not all americans use those. It depends on persons choice. I thought if i dont use abb. it means u r not good at english ? cuz it sounds nonsense. it does not mean u have no idea about english
Thanks Emmma. Wonderful as always. Thanks a lot.
Hello Emma . This is Amjad from Yemen 🇾🇪.your lessons on RUclips are always useful without doubt . We really appreciate what you do for us ...Thank you so much ( شكرا جزيلا )🙏🌹😇👍
Thank you so much, Amjad!
@@mmmEnglish_Emma 😇😊
@@amjadalabbasi6822 hi my dear
@@learntolead2039 Hello brother...🌹
@@amjadalabbasi6822 hi! how r u bro💞💞
My Teacher Emma Thanks for helping.😍
I've learned English 6 mouths and I almost didn't listen native speakers, but when I watched your video I got almost 80 perсent. I will try to understand native speakers with serial "F.R.I.E.N.D.S.". Your videos are very useful. Keep recording them. All the best
Friends is a great show! Thanks for your kind words - I'm honoured to be part of your English learning journey 😍
I love both being a non-native speaker and having an auditory processing disorder, 1000000/10 would recommend
Thank you Emma! Just learnt how to slow down the speed thingy - among other things.
For the first time I heard a native English speaker saying "some accents are hard to understand even to me", this calm me a lot!
This is true for me too. I am a native English speaker and I live in America. I live in an area that is right between Philadelphia and New York City, so there is a huge mixture of accents and dialects! Don't get worried, it can even be hard for natives some times!
@@juliannamcdonald238 😁👍
Hi Emma. So good having you around, I love your videos and the way you explain and make things clear for us non-native speakers ;). My answer to your question (if I remember well) about what can we do to increase the difficulty of audio is to listen to it without subtitles and speed it up in the configuration part. (Know what? I've just found the trick of slowing down and speeding up audios today, in your video!!!! ) … I'm so happy!!!! Thanks so much !!! :D
Yay! That's awesome Celeste! (and great answers 😍)
I hope some of the tips I shared will help you improve your listening skills!
Learned. Now time to apply. Thank you.
When I visited UK in 1990-es native speakers though that if I spoke quickly enough it meant that I understood quickly too but I couldn’t and cannot till now understand as quickly as I speak. Listening is the most difficult thing. Thank you for this video.
In Portuguese "éeee" (it is like "uhhh"), "então" (so), "tipo" ("like"), "tipo assim" ("like" , like this) are the most common Portuguese filler words in Brazil.
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Hello from Kazakhstan! 👋 уou explain very well, thank you, Emma 🤗
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I love your classes, you are a dream teacher. You are not only good in expressing your class in a clear, easy-understanding, interesting way, but as well as attach the class with a rich countenance which is a huge help for the understanding.
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Ten points on the advise about slowing down the playing speed on the video!! That's awesome!!
I’m from Thailand.And now I’m practicing English language with you T.Emma!😁
Hi, from Argentina. I love your videos. You are the most clearly teacher and the tips that you give us are trustly awesome
Hi Emma! I love your videos! They help me a lot! To me, the different accents is a big hurdle. I'm struggling to improve my English and jump from B2 to C1 but I don't know more what I can do... I've been twice in a Canada but my level is the same... I took IELTS, TOEFL and I've just taken an online test and all show me that I'm still in the same level of English: B2. Also, I'm almost 1 year stuck at the same level.. why it's so hard improve English after a while? I mean, when I was in A2 was easy to see my English getting better, but once I reached the intermediate level, I barely can see my English improving
Hi Evelize, I understand you very well, I went through the same problem as you.
As beginners, we evolve very quickly, but once we reach the advanced level, there is a stagnation.
The best way to evolve at this level is to live in an English-speaking country, at least for a year or two, not always easy to do, but it helps a lot!
I understand your speech 98%
but I can’t understand when I watch movies.I find it so difficult to understand although I know most of vocabularies.
Me too 🤷🏻♂️.
same... i have to put the english sub to the movie
me too its so difficult to know what they say at the same time
Same. ..
Nobody speaks clearly in real life, and movies are no exception. You need to learn the spoken English as well. To give you an example: I'm going to = I'm gonna = I'mma...
Congratulations !!! Your english is absolutely clear . And you have the nicest way to speak it . And believe it or not, I had already considered the possibility of a slower audio . Best regards .
You are a genius. Actually before I see your video I was just revieweing another video of a piano lesson from a native english speaker and I slow down in order to review the chors of the song and voalá I could distinguish not only the words that he was using but the way to pronounce every word also. 👏
Thank you so much Emma.. you have a very interesting ideas
@sarsoura michaelmercii beaucoup.. je suis encore débutant en anglais 😅
Hello dear teachear from Buenos Aires Argentina. Thanks for your lesson. 😘
Hi Nice to meet you
Wow Emma, I really love your lessons. And this one was particularly useful. I absolutely love the tips! You are one of the best English teachers out there. So thanks a ton!😊❤
What may I say.....?
Emma ,You are my "The Best schoolmaster ever "
From your lessons ,I like practically everything and your "body language is pure poetry
Emma, you are the best english teacher all over the universe
To increase difficulty, you mention use movies with different accents, topics, movies with background noises.
TBH, perhaps 95% of you video I understand with no problems, and to improve listening I always disable subtitles. When I do not understand a dialog, I back but with subtitles, and turn off again.
Great video, thanks a lot!
Your fan from algéria🌺🌻🌾thank's for all this👏👍
We say Algeria
This is really helpful.. Thank you so much, online teacher 😄
I’ve lived in the us for pretty much almost two years. My native language is Spanish, so first when I arrived in the us, it was hard for me to understand people even though I went through a intensive course to learn English. Anyways my wife only speaks German and English so that was very convenient because the only common language we have is English. Long story short my take away about this past year is that all you need to do is doing some extra effort so far I still have somewhat of a hard time understanding some natives but also don’t be afraid to ask them to repeat what they said, they know based on your accent that this is not your main language and that at least you are try to excel yourself instead of excluding yourself from the rest because of you are afraid of making a mistake. I do make mistakes and sometimes I even ask my wife if she notices any improvements in my English and she always says you are better than the average hahahahaha and just to wrap this up I want throw in a little advise that has helped me so far understating accents and it’s to actually just to relax and to speak to everyone(if you are a learner and you live in an English speaking country) even if you don’t understand every single word, try focusing on the important one in order to have a fluent conversation, every new skill or learning a language takes time. And people can say it’s easy to learn English but in reality everybody is different and some people can take more time than others so don’t be hard with yourself like me and just practice everyday at least 30min and you’ll see results in no time.
Thank you for your message
yes, good advice! as a native southamerican Spanish speaker I learned English in my last year in high school and since then I have been reading, writing and thinking in English... but when I went to the UK, Ireland and Australia I had to reinvent myself during about 2 weeks in order to communicate properly... nowadays as I have to use Spanish, German, Italian, English and Portuguese on a daily basis things get sometimes kinda mixed up, so I have to think for a while and ask myself "was this Italian? or did I use the Portuguese word?" or "how do I write this again? was it behaviour or behavior?" and stuff like that... your observations about connected speech are very useful
You speak a lot of languages. Congratulations!
Good advises. Need to try. I've been learning the language thoroughly for two years from the time I moved to California. My native is Russian. I watched your video actively listening and understood 100% of what you said (without subtitles). The same thing with podcasts, TV news, or sitcoms - I have no problem with understanding them as well. But when I watch full-length movies or try to speak with people in real life - I understand almost nothing.
Hi Emma.
Another class with good suggestions for improving english learning.
Hi teacher Emma..this lesson very great to me thanks emma
Emma! I can't tell you how much I love your lessons you have done so hard work only for us so we can bring improvement in English and u know that this is my fav subject thank you so much ❤️ Emma no matter how much I give thanks to u its always less
Hi Emma! Thanks for your video. My english listening level has improved because I am taking classes and listening Spotify podcasts. First, I played 0.5x mode, now 0.75x-1x according speaker.
My goal is to have job interviews surely without fears. I feel that it´ll be possible in near future.
If all native English speakers speak like you in this video, that would make it much easier for us.
Hi, thanks for the tips! I'm from Brazil.
Manoel is a great English ..well done .where did u learn ? Cheers
Very helpful thank you Dear Emma👏👏🇦🇺❤️
You are a nice teacher...
So, for the first question.. I can increase the difficulty of audio increasing the speed of the video. For the second question: Connected speach is the skill that allows you to associate words with their sounds. I've listened the video one time so I don't know if is perfectly correct. But thank you for your patience! You are a very good teacher!
I recenlty moved to Germany ( back in Oz now) and I really wish that I had watched this video while I was struggling with learning German.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I am your regular students love and respect from India and thanks for this
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@@sonikamalik6698 no no its absolutely fine. Best of luck for ur exams.
By the way what r your studies???
To be very honest, my exam is also just round the corner. I am preparing for that.
this is awesome my teacher, thank you so much. from Yemen
Hello from Argentina!
You are beautiful, great teacher!
You are one of the most beautiful teachers i have ever seen in my whole life. I just come here to watch your videos and i have been doing it for 3 yeas. Your videos makes me happy and i also can gather bunch of knowledge from you.
thanku very much for giving a csclient tip of video speed
1. I will change the settings of speed of my video into a slower one. We may understand if the native speaker we listening to is talking slowly.
I like when She says "Awsome" 😁
Hi Emma, thanks for new lesson and valuable guidance as always, it is prerequisite to develop listening skills 🙏👩🎓 :)
Thanks for speaking slowly teacher Emma , It is very considerate of you .
Amazingly stunning dear Emma from mmm English
With love from kashmir.
thank you!! this is so usefull 😊
well I think you look slightly like the Duchess of Cambridge 😍
Yes but our teacher more beautiful than here
Great Teaching! Many Thanks! An American filler: "...you know..."
U R Nice.
Great videos. I am a native speaker of English, but I have also learnt other languages and everything you teach applies to learning a second language. Now we have you tube I watch news broadcasts in the foreign language I have learnt and see how much of them I can follow. The toughest part in any language is variations across regions, speed of the persons speech slang, and then types of language in poetry and songs. Never give up.
I was born and raised bilingual, growing up in Italy with an american mother
one thing I realized early on is the way I use my mouth, lips, throat when speaking
in English, I feel like I'm using the front of my mouth and not moving my mouth as much. words like with, that, are very difficult for people learning english. but again it's about rethinking the way your mouth pronounces words
in italian, I feel like sound is coming from deeper in my mouth and throat. I also use my mouth and lips a lot more. my voice actually sounds different when I'm speaking english or italian
my father spoke english well, but with an italian accent. instead of this or that, he would say something that sounded like tzis and tzat since it was easier
my best advice is, to really understand physically what goes into speaking a particular language. the closer we can get our brain to let the words flow and not try to translate them the faster one can learn a language
a big exception is Scottish or Gaelic, god only knows what they're saying haha! have fun
Connected speech is linking all the words together without pronounce them individually..
I think All native speakers must speak slowly when they chating with foreigners because they are stranger 🤗
Hi Emma you look stunning
How good it always is to see your videos
Thanks a bunch and I hope you have a lovely weekend 😉🇧🇷
"you know" is another filler. Such an important point, those fillers throw off my students all the time. Thanks so much! 😉👍🏼
Excellent! You are the first teacher on RUclips, who asks questions at the end of the video. It's just like methodic used to be in a good schoolbooks. It may seem obvious but it's very rarely used by RUclips instructors.
to increase the difficulty of this audio, I can increase the speed of it. second, connective speech is linking words
Your classes are great! 👌I love it so much Emma...
Really
I can understand native english but not Native American because they speak like jfhdkzlspdodi
Nylvie 😂
I am not sure what do you mean with "Native American". American Indian or in general people who grew up in the US?
I have been in the US for 30 years, and sometimes I don't understand what Americans say. They speak very fast, especially women.
Nylvie you wanna join me for practicing English?
That’s really fun 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'll teach you Arabic and you will teach me english
Answer 1: speed up a little the pace of the video ;)
Answer 2: it is the way words link together.
Cool tricks, I like them a lot! By the way, it's awesome the way you speak!! It's really nice to hear you talking about anything :)
I think it’s mainly about vocabularies, the more words you know, the more accurate and fluent you are.
I think so. When you know the word how to pronounce or write you can understand more clear.
I understood almost hundred percent of your video, that make me feel happy, but when I'm listening from native, not a teacher, I get really upset lol
I need speaking practeese are you ready for speaking with me