This is Elliot from E T.

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English.

How are you all doing today?

Great to see you again.

Now, today's English lesson is a little bit mawr about the way we speak.

Okay.

I want us to sound as much like a native as we possibly can now myself being a native English teacher on also specializing in the way we speak.

I think that I should be able to help you with some of these tips today.

Okay, So what we're talking about is connected speech on this connected speech.

This is just the basics, but it's still an advanced lesson.

Okay, so with connected speech, you don't really want to learn this until, you know, you're pretty good at conversational English Now, a lot of speakers, they sound a bit like robots when they speak.

And that's fine.

You know, that's because you haven't learned how to connect your English yet to sound more like a native on what I'm going to do is teach you the basics of this to sound more like a native when we're asking very common questions or answering very common questions in daily life.

Okay, so this is just the part one.

I'm going to be creating some future lessons about connected speech, and it's going to get a little bit more difficult.

So let's learn the basics right now about connected speech.

So, first of all, I want to tell you that we're not going to sound like the Queen, Okay?

I don't teach that.

I don't teach posh English.

I teach what I like to call normal English.

The type of English you would hear, Let's say 80% to 90% of the time that you're here.

Now, I have a more Southern accent.

People in the North will sound very different to me.

But we all do use this Schwab sound.

I've talked about the Schwab sound in a previous lesson.

Andi.

Now I'm going to be talking about how we use it to connect our speech.

So I'd like to ask you a quick question.

I think now think about how I say this question.

Then I'm going to slow it down, and then I'm gonna teach you how to sound like me.

What's your name?

What's your name now?

Did you notice the way that I asked that question?

It almost became one word this group of words became most one word on the reason why we do this is because if you want, you can call us native speakers.

Quite lazy.

We like to connect our words on.

Let things out quickly when we're talking fast, asking normal questions.

It sounds very normal to us if we connect our words.

So the word you often becomes Yeah.

What's your name?

What's your name?

What's your name?

Remember the Internation in this?

How?

I'm asking my question as well.

What's your name?

Okay.

We need it to sound like a question.

Intonation in questions is something else I'm going to explain in a different video today.

We're just focusing on this connected speech.

So just think about how it becomes from what's your name to what's your name?

Now to practice this practice going What?

CIA?

What's Yeah, what's your name?

And if you can't do that practice going.

What's Yeah, name?

What's Yeah.

Name?

What's your name?

Keep going faster.

Okay.

So let me ask you another question.

What do you do?

What do you do?

So now we've kind of got like a, uh Do you do you once again the u becomes a Schwab.

So is this a common trend that starting to happen now?

Yes.

It is changed that the EU is starting to change it.

Zad ing a sua sound Because the Schwab is our British sound.

Americans won't really use this.

Schwab.

They would probably say, What's your name?

But we say, What's your name?

What do you do?

Okay, so think about that.

If you want to sound British, Schwab is your friend and you have to learn it.

Let's practice this one.

What do you do?

What do you do?

What do you do?

Okay, what do you do on the question?

What do you do if you didn't know, It means What do you do for a living?

Do you work?

Do you go to school?

Do you study on?

It's a very, very, very common small talk question that we'd be asked maybe at the start of a conversation when we meet somebody.

So let's just go through a few more really quickly notice the Schwab sound.

Notice how I make this sound on.

Let's see if you can do it to practice with me.

Where do you live?

Where do you live?

Where do you live?

Where do you live?

Why'd you do that?

Why did you do that?

Why did you do that?

Why'd you do that?

Or we could say, Why did you do that?

There's a lot of why did you do that?

You know, there's a lot of these.

So let's probably stick with the Why'd you do that?

So it almost is like a job.

Just why did you do that?

Why'd you do that?

You see, so we can play around with this, But these are the kind of basics off it, and you'll pick up most of this.

Okay, You will pick up most of this if you watch TV.

If you listen to the news.

If you listen to people speaking English, OK?

Because it's so common, this kind of you becoming a sua on.

That's the basics of what I'm teaching today.

We will move on to the more advanced stuff in the future.

This is just the beginning.

I want to talk about one phrase that has way too many teas in it.

And it's a question.

What do you want to do today?

What do you want to do today?

Why don't we just make it a bit more natural and easier?

What do you want to do today?

What do you wanna do today?

What do you want to do today?

You see how we've linked a lot of different words there added a schwein there and it sounds perfect.

Okay, It sounds British.

And that's what we want not What do you want to do today?

Too many Thio.

You know we want to make that.

Schwab.

We want to make it sound beautiful on British.

That's that for you.

If you have already written down these phrases so you can practice them.

Good.

If no, I recommend you watch the video again on write down all of these phrases practice using them.

Practice doing it.

Andi, this will really make your speech sound more British.

Because I know some of you really want to sound British and you really want to improve your Internation.

Okay.

And this is the way to work it.

If you want to sound more natural when you speak unless, like a robot, then you want to connect your speech.

Okay, So I hope you enjoyed this video.

Guys, don't forget.

If you want to book a Skype lesson with me.

Just go and go into the description box below and click the link.

And I can help you improve your English speaking today.

Or if you want to pass the aisles exam, I can help you with that too.

Thank you very much for watching.

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Two of this connected speech.

Cheers, guys.

Thank you very much.

And I will see you all in the next lesson.

Bye.