If you understand THIS you can understand fast English (test yourself!)
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Do you sometimes have trouble understanding people when they speak fast in English? When learning and speaking a second language, one of the biggest challenges we face is being able to understand the speakers of that language, and fast speakers can be extra intimidating!
In this episode, I'm gonna share with you strategic tips to improve your listening comprehension, and a quiz for you to put your skills to the test!
Using these tips will allow you to develop your listening skills and feel much more confident when communicating in English.
Key points of the video:
0:00 Intro
1:42 Why is fast English so hard to understand?
3:24 Hearing vs. Listening
4:07 How to improve your listening
5:00 Improve your pronunciation
5:34 Focus on reductions
5:55 Quiz time!
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As a native English speaker working on Spanish and French, you guys seem to speak way faster than we do 😂
It’s true, I’m french and speak way faster than most English/American people. Went to Australia for a while and I was like, well they’re not that hard to understand !
A right Spanish speaker cant reduce anything, its even not polite to shortening words, and Spanish is a transparent language, so graphemes are always same of phonetics (sounds like que, qui, gue, gui have their own rule, but always apply), but probably we can speak pretty fast.
To me, my principal difficult with English its not about speed, but compress words. Portuguese language compress words and have a closer vocabulary to Spanish than Italian, but the phonetics of Italian are more closer to Spanish, so I can understand more an Italian speaker than a Brazilian and I can understand more Portuguese when is written (graphemes). The English of the narrator of video was clear as water, I could understand everything w/o close caption
Wow tu parles plus vite que la dernière nana du clip qu'elle montre ? J'ai absolument rien compris à ce qu'elle disait... J'ai tendance à pas mal mâcher les mots, mais là on dirait qu'elle parle en accéléré. J'ai pas le sentiment que les français parlent comme ça, ou en tout cas ça choque quand quelqu'un parle très vite @@baptiste_nonat
@@fatkat727 question d’habitude. Je parle très vite en français donc en anglais j’ai tendance aussi. Après souvent quand on est amenés à parler anglais c’est pour du professionnel donc j’ai tendance à bien ralentir la cadence pour être sûr d’être compris. Comme en français.
Hello,
I'm a Frensh fifty-old-women who started to learn English since 2 years and for me it's very difficult to understand Americans. It's still frustrating and I really doubt of my capabilities. I don't want to give up and my next step would be to work more on these contractions by reading youth romcom and watching more TV shows, RUclips programs, podcast... Which ones could you recommand me to really improve my comprehension ?
Thanks in advance and thank you for your videos that are always very helpful😊
I’m so glad I always consumed audio content in english as much as in my native language growing up, because I’m used to hearing it and it definitely helped in learning.
Same
I am talking daily to native speakers from England and US. No one of them talked that fast ever.
However, that demonstration of fast speaking was really interesting!
How can you speak with them ? Also ı want to interact with native speakers but ı don't. How can ı do this
@@mohubbthmdzad123 I am traveling the world due to my job. Thus, business negotiations in English are my daily routine.
However, google "Tandem language" for having contact to native speakers.
I agree with you. There are SUPER FAST examples of English speech in this video. Native English speakers DON'T speak with so extreme speed. If somebody starts to talk such fast way, I personaly, ask them: "Please, slow down".
I agree with the teacher, a reduction is the key to understanding every day english conversations.
However, if somebody wants to understand natural english, i think this video is not good for start leaning the reductions.
Firstly, I would try to find and watch a video about "schwa sound". It is the key sound in the reduction.
And then, I would learn some information about simple reductions like,
"I could have => Couldev (pronunciation of the words with reduction)
"Let me know => Lemmi"
On the channel "English with Lucy", Lucy created a great video with almost full list of reductions in an english conversation. It helped me a lot, when I had the problem of understanding English conversation.
Finally, after 2 previouse steps, I will use recommendation from this video.
@@Lana.S. Some native English speakers do speak this fast, but they are almost all excited teenage girls.
@@jim9689 Maybe 😀, fortunately, I didn't have much experience chating with teen girls. Most of my time I communicate with adults-neighbours, coworkers and so on.
I'm a native English speaker, and I'm having trouble understanding some of the fast English samples in this video.
😭😭
Thank you very much.
That is a big relief.
As an American in the process of learning Norwegian for the first time, this video is super helpful in terms of getting to know my own language and how I can applying these definitions and methods to my learning. I appreciate the video!
The way you speak in the video I understand 100% and I wish every English speaker spoke like that
Hearing how fast this was let me feel like crying😭
I listened to this video at 1.5 x to save time untill the quiz started hahahahah
To understand fast English, i have to sleep with a lot of native speakers who from England and America!
I listened to this video at 2.0 x to save time until the video ended heheheheeh
@@sirixaysabandith3903ı did not listen to this video to save time hehehe
@@gildardobarrios3115 you made laugh so hard
I work as auditor in several countries worldwide. Spanish is my mother tongue (I was born in Bolivia and live now in the Canary Islands). I've got to say that the hardest accent I've ever had the chance to deal with was English from Liverpool. It's not just fast, but it has so many linguistic turns and accentual nuances that you really need to get used to that, if you wish to understand enough to do your job properly. It should be said though that talking fast is not necessarily talking right 😉
yeah, scouse is HARD to understand. Jodie Comer or Stephen Graham are scousers. I guess even some people from Britain have problems with understanding it
hahah scouser here, i also agree
If it's any consolation, native speakers of English, including people who live in the UK, can have a hard time understanding each other. The Liverpool accent is definitely one of the most distinctive!
Actually, it's pretty easy. Once the brain is levelled in on listening to English, you can follow whatever is being said much better because you process the information simultaneously rather than picking up the words first, thinking about what they mean and then basically translating them to yourself.
A good way of getting into the English native "flow' is to visualize the words as they're spoken.
Speaking with punctuation in the sentence is just right for everyone, listen to the speaker which they're Pro to do that and speak fast isn't a priority.
Too slow or too fast it's always wrong in my opinion, what's the point of talking soo fast?
It's not about the English language but all things working in lifestyle... society.... progress...
Again I talked about the "too fast" or even "too slow".
Hi Hadar! I'm a brazilian guy and because of that sometimes I can't understand native english speakers that speak so fast. Your english is super understandable, but when I put myself to listening another person who speaks fast, its so hard hahaha its a challenge and I love it...
What's up bro! I'm from Brazil too! Just know that not everyone speaks that fast in everyday life, when you're talking to people from all over the world you learn the difficulties everybody has when they speak, like pronouncing VAT in place of WHAT (Russian and German people), or 'EAD in place of HEAD (Italian people). And if you really want to improve listening to fast English, then you have to pick a series or movie you like with good subtitles and try to understand WITHOUT subtitles at least 3 times, then you watch it with SUBTITLES then you try to pick the sounds. Fast music works well too, with lyrics...
Just for general knowledge in day life people speak normal like in other languages
@@geomax2010 Look at the Brazilian squad hahaha, who says we don't know how to speak English. That's it guys, keep it growing
I'm also Brazilian but for me the biggest problem is not the fast speech but the reduction of words, especially in connected speeches cuz sometimes I can't recognize the word that was said....even the sound changes.
Hi
Im Danish and i actually fully understood the clips.
Native Finnish speaker, surprised that I didn't need the breakdowns to know exactly what they said. Saw a lot of movies in my lifetime, and I try to not rely on subtitles. That's it really, haven't spoken to native speakers much in my lifetime
Great tips on how to improve your listening comprehension. I like that you encourage people not to worry about using or not using subtitles - just expose yourself to lots of English! I love how listening and pronunciation reinforce each other. I get my learners to do a bit of pronunciation work but the aim is actually to help them with their listening - I don't expect them to pronounce words like a native speaker because sometimes the pronunciation is actually way too reduced and unclear. But it has made them more confident with their speech as they're able to make the language flow better by linking words together. That quiz was HARD by the way!
This season was really great, I really enjoy your lessons , ❤
Thank you for everything 😘🙏🌻
... i'm so sad. you never thanked me for everything. or for anything. i feel so unappreciated.
Hi Hadar, I loved your video. I am from and currently living in Peru. As part of my work, I have heard different accents in English, from the West Coast, people from India, Latinos, and my accent also lol and all of that trained me in the best way possible to understand better English. I think the secret is getting used to it and then in a moment you just feel comfortable and too immersed in the language. I remember watching one of your videos like 5 years ago when I used to feel so lost in my understanding of English. I never thought of working for a US company never in my life as I am doing today or have lived in the US for some months. Last year, gained and scholarship and was living in Virginia. But little by little, opportunities came and now working in English every day, every moment of studying the language was worth it. I enjoyed so much this exercise and definitely would recommend everyone to immerse as much as they can in talking and hearing English, if there are opportunities to study/work in an English-speaking country just do take them. Congrats on these amazing videos!
Oh my, such an amazing job you do, thank you. God bless you
Very interesting and helpful!!! I'm a French Canadian and I have a hard time with fast English speakers. I just discovered your chanel and I love the way you explain!! Thank you very much 🙏🙏
Congratulations Mrs. Hadar. Your lessons are excellent. As a retired Math teacher, I know a lot of teaching methods. The most effective for learning the English language is the conversation through the messenger in Face Book. If you like, accept a friend request to see the truth. Thank you and I look forward to the continuation.
I could understand all of it, that makes me happy. What helped me most with my english were (and still are) reality tv shows... Especially Big Brother UK, US, CA and AU. People there talk fast and in many different dialects and it was great to hear. In the beginning listening to scotish or irish people was pretty challenging, but now it feels as natural as listening to brits or americans. Neither movies or tv shows usualy use as many dialects, so these feel less useful to me.
I think this kind of exposure to the fast language and the amazing explaining from Hadar made super clear thank you from Libya
Todah for the homework !! Thank You !!
You definitely one of the best teachers) Thank you.
Hi Hadar
Actually all your videos are extremely helpful.
I stick to watch them all bc i liked them all.
the thing i,m doing right now is
i write down whatever you say and repeating it like a " parrot" .
This is the way i liked and i guess it,s gonna work.
i expect to find out the results so soon.
thank you very much
Hi! I loved pretty much that lesson! Congratulations!!
omg i already love you!! you're helping me a LOT. tysmmm
A native speaker born into a US American home that spoke English as its first language, I have spoken American English for 64 years.
If another native speaker of American English reduced their English to the extent that the speaker (not the auctioneer) in the example has, and I though it important that I understand, I would find myself annoyed, and suggest to them that if they thought it important that I understand, they should slow down.
Yes, I am impatient, sometimes rude, and sometimes obnoxious. But if they want to communicate something to me, they think important, they should do so in a way that is easy to understand.
Notice that I chose to not contract words in this response. I rarely use contraction in either my writing, or my speech. Eliminating contraction slows me down, safeguards against excessive language reduction, and safeguards that I say precisely what I intend to say. After all, if I am communicating, I think that what I say is important enough that I want people to understand what I say.
I enjoyed the video. Thumbs up!
This is so very helpful!
I love the way you teach in your videos. Greetings from Colombia.
Thank you Hadar. The last speaker was literally singing, I couldn't hear even a word, but sounds.
Thank you a lot for these pieces of advice.
I did need a second try to fully understand her, but that was mainly because I wasn't familiar with the expression "to be in someone's face" and also because I work in IT and the term "interface" is ubiquitous in my field of work, so that's what I heard and what threw me off the first time around. I then focused exclusively on this part of the audio and got it, thanks to the video, because she literally is "in their faces" (standing right in front of them).
I like the quiz! Thank for it. There is a lot of work to start understand fast speech for me.
Super teacher , from Guatemala
Took me years, but now I'm proud of being able to understand the first two speakers. I mostly got only numbers from the action guy. But they are notorious for being hard to understand unless you know what to expect.
Ty 4 all your tips
The ‘homework’ totally sent me 😂 Nothing better than a good old country song for practicing decoding 😅😂
Hahahaha 😂
@@hadar.shemeshIt wasn't a country song. It was an auctioneer.
Hi Hadar, I'm soooo glad that I found you. I always struggle with understanding English. I am working with native speaker but most of the time I have no idea what they are talking about. There are two reason: I cannot hear all the works and I don't understand the content .
I dont know why RUclips recommended this to me, being an english-speaking American, but thankfully I can understand it all.
Key points of the video:
0:00 Intro
1:42 Why is fast English so hard to understand?
3:24 Hearing vs. Listening
4:07 How to improve your listening
5:00 Improve your pronunciation
5:34 Focus on reductions
5:55 Quiz time!
The best teacher in the🌏 ❤❤❤😊 thank you 🙌
Thanks for this lesson, it feels so good when getting a 90% percent of the fast audios you played😍😊❤️
I live in switzerland, where we have separate dialects everywhere and we are used to different pronounciations and can easily understand (nearly) all the different dialects. So it's a little easier to get shortcuts and dialects in english, because we are used to different versions of a word.
Thank you for all your tips you’re really a professional ❤👍
great. /Thank you
Hi Hadar! Do you mean then that I don't need to feel bad about not understanding some speakers? Because I've had this experience, I'm learning English, but with you everything has changed for the better, I'm just sorry I didn't discover you sooner, congratulations you're amazing and you've helped me in other videos to continue learning with motivation.
Thank you
Hello Hadar. ?I 'm spanish and I've discovered your videos. I have a great help with your audios. I need to improve my listening and hearing because it's difficult to me understand the people. Thanks for your helpul videos. i'm your new student 😀
الفيديو تبعك خلاني افقد الامل 😍
I loved it! Thanks Hadar! 🤓
I love your bookcase!
Enfin un bon cours d'écoute et de compréhension. J'ai très peu fait d'anglais au lycée (3 années). J'essaie depuis quelque temps de comprendre les natifs. J'ai compris tout ce que Hadar a dit. Cependant, rien du tout s'agissant des vidéos du cours. Mais je vais poursuivre. Merci Hadar.
🙏🙌 thanks a bunch for helping us 🙏🙌
Fantastic!! I really loved It.
Thanks ma'am i always follow you.
look like I saved your whole channel to my learning list. =]].
again, thank you so much.
I'm a native English speaker, but I've got a cousin who speaks so quickly that I only ever catch half of what she's saying, lol. I think it's important for non-native speakers to know that sometimes native speakers have trouble understanding what the heck fast-talkers are saying!
This kind of videos it is useful . Thank you so much
Despite having difficulty to get all , I loved it
Thank you so much! ❤
Thank you very much .How is pretty good listen your lesson.
I'm past that now, but i wish i'd found such video years ago. Great content
Cảm ơn Chị rất nhiều thank you so much my dear friend
This is really good!
One of my favourites is the word something, which is often pronounced simply "sum'm", as in "sum'm like that".
I like this video because you to expleing the world mining !!! Tanks !!!
Woooww!!! what a good training lesson....congrats Hadar. This is really good content.
Thank you! 😃
Thankyou so much ma'am 🙏❤
What a good video for learning English. Absolutely, I already pushed subscribe button. See you again & again.
Oh ... by the way ... your english is nice and balm for the ears ....... thank you .... greetings
Actually it's not about only pronunciation and it's not about what we expected and heard. the problem is sentences structure. my main lang is turkish and our sentences sequence is subject, verb, object, time. but english is diffrent so our brains wait main lang sequence but english talks come with diffrent sequence so we can not directly generate to mean, our brains put the sequence according to default sequence and so we lost time for it then we can not catch to other words or sentences. as I said it is about structure so we have to learn to english sentence, not word by word. I hope tell clearly. My english is not good :) . I am follower you. I can understand to you so easly coz you give me time for translating to my brain. As I mention before. when I watch your contents you do not break the word or sentences and you speak so clear. thanks for your contents. Wish I could make conversation face to face with you.
Hı Hadar.. Thanks for lesson..Please go on..❤
I'm into your videos!
I have been speaking English properly for 5 years now, and living in an English speaking country. But anytime I can do a test like this I am here.
The worse/best parts is how surprised I am when I do pass the test or when I horribly fail, haha
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻perfect
Thank you teacher 👩🏫 ❤
Great
👍That was interesting and helpful, I'd like you to analize british and australian accents when they speak very fast. Thank you 😊
Well I’ve lived in England my whole life and I couldn’t even work out what that second clip was. Something about eating peppers…. I think if someone is talking THAT quickly, you’re perfectly justified in asking them to slow down a bit 😂😂
Really good, it show me how I need to improve my listining😊
Hadar, thank you very much for this lesson, I really appreciate what you are doing in this lesson. It help us very much to tune our ears to listen and understand not only a common daily spoken English, but I may say any English speaker if it were possible...once again thank you very much... God bless you..
*helps
Speaking as a native English speaker I have to say that even I could not understand the first example of "fast English" in the quiz. If her annunciation is that bad she doesn't deserve to be understood 🤪
Als Schwabe kann ich "Reductions" auch sehr gut: "Das kann ich auch" - "Ko i au!"
🎉❤Haddar!! Eres la mejor!!❤❤🎉🎉
Thank you so much
Awesome❤
As a native English speaker, even the fastest English was a cake walk. They were practically talking slow. This must be the feeling of native Spanish speakers. I shall continue my spanish studies so I can understand them when they are talking fast.
Same thing for me as an American learning French. Even living in France for some time it still sounds like they’re always in a competition to see who can talk the fastest lol
great job
so good vedio, it is fast english that is hardest
At the end I still hear: "leading to it" 😂....it is quite incomprehensible no matter how hard I try 😅....the ghost pepper challenge clip I understood everything, it was weird but I think I got it all....I am hooked! 😁😁😁
It is very helpful
Alright, now i think i even see myself improving my english. Moreover I'm now 80% sure i can speak like an american. Thank you so much Hadar.
I love these quizzes! But the second audio I can not hear clearly on my own, but I can master what she said. Maybe I need more practice in my listening and speaking. Anyway, thanks Hadar!
4:30 Radio really worked for me. Thank you, BBC 4. Not the fastest speakers, but good to start with.
never knew how good I can understand that fast stuff
As an excercise I watch videos, listen to podcasts, news etc at double speed. At the beginning it is shocking but later I get accustomed and real everyday speakers seem to speak very slowly. Another thing I learn whole sentences and pieces of texts saying them aloud. It also helps with better understanding of fast speech😊😊
Nice video...!
Awesome!! Now I know why I don't understand movies and songs many times, and the words I actually do not know is NOT an excuse not to keep trying 🙃😂.....we don't understand because sometimes we just don't pay attention 😅
This is the hardest lesson I've ever heard))
i love so much
Thank you Hadar for this valuable video.
A shortcut for solving this issue is by simply asking the speaker to speak slowly 😁
Hahahah love that!
Wow very very difficult but good good video 🤩