and I have a brand new question from Kevin from China

so let's take a listen

Hello Kevin and Hello China!

Kevin, I can see you're really "gung ho" about boosting your English

through understanding how native speakers of English really talk

You and so many others want to know how native speakers link words together

when they're talking naturally

Obviously, as in any language, we change our pronunciation

according to how formal or informal the situation is

So let’s take a look at our first example

Now straight out of an English course book

you probably learned to say that question in its complete form

OK, no problem! Then you start to see people using contractions

then you hear people talk fast in a Hollywood movie

a conversation between close friends

and suddenly you find yourself listening to an entirely DIFFERENT kind of English

Yes it’s that informal and fast spoken English you can hear in American movies and TV series

To help you understand how this fast English is spoken

I am going to use my new Ragdoll kitten Sapphire to illustrate my examples

I’m workin'

Nooo, not unless you wanna teach people how to meow!

yummy, yummy,

human food!

pizza

Noooooo! You’re a cat!

yeah! yummy, yummy!

and this is human food

pizza

and you already ate 4 times today

I'm going to the supermarket

no Sapphire, they don't allow cats in the supermarket

I gotta go now, can you get outta the way?

wait for me!!!!!!!!!!

So slowly

faster

and then really fast

Say it with me

we'll break it down

faster

faster

faster

good job!

The second one here is

when we say this quickly, the question becomes almost unrecognizable

give me becomes gimme

of becomes o’

and that loses the “t” and become tha(t)

So slowy

faster

faster

better

getting better

(it) really rolls off your tongue and that's why we use it

we also have the classic

faster

and then really fast

Now, Ken from China, you had requested I answer your question

about how to say “keep an eye on him” really fast and naturally

I’m going to do that, but since Sapphire is a female

I am changing it to

You see any time I go out

Sapphire always manages to run out, she darts right out into the hallway

I have to keep an eye on her

So split the words in blocks to get the fast pronunciation here

and slowly link the 3 words together

got it?

Well Kevin and everybody out there watching my lesson

I hope I’ve helped you today with how native speakers talk fast

and I want to thank my little kitty for helping me out

watchyadoin'?

I’m saying goodbye

ahhh!

yeah, say goodbye!

I wanna pizza!

Goodbye!