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One of the most common questions I'm asked as a pronunciation teacher by students of my course or people who subscribe to my channel.

They always ask me, Elliot, how can I speak English faster, but clearly now the first thing to understand is that communication speaking English well, it's communication.

That's what it is.

We're not in a race to talk as fast as we can.

We're not trying to wrap and speak really, really fast like this so that people can't really understand us.

We need to find that balance in the middle because then our listener will enjoy listening.

We don't want to make our listeners feel uncomfortable by talking really, really fast.

The key is being ableto handle your stress on your rhythm when you speak, so the first thing to understand is that English is a stress timed language.

This means that everything we do is timed by stress.

We have stress inwards.

Different syllables could be stressed on.

We have stress in sentences, which is when different words a stressed throughout our sentences on.

We can also break these sentences into what we call thought groups.

Now I'm not going to talk about thought groups today because they're a little bit mawr in depth on that saved for my pronunciation course.

But what I will talk about is generally just how to control your rhythm.

Andi stress so that you can talk a little bit faster but still maintain ah, clear and confident sounding accent on.

The other thing I mentioned before I begin is the accent I teach.

The accent I focus on in my lessons in my course is my accent, which is just a form of modern RP very common in the south of England.

But there are many other accents which you can learn.

We stress the words which we basically which we want our listener to hear.

So verbs, noun adjectives, adverbs, anything which paints the picture right.

We're painting a picture for our listener all of the time we're talking and creating an image or creating a new emotion or anything with our words.

So the words which do that are obviously the words we really want our listener to hear.

A basic example would be me saying, I'm going to London tomorrow.

I'm going to London tomorrow.

Which words do you think are important in this sentence going London tomorrow?

Because if I said to you going London tomorrow, you'd still kind of understand me.

The problem is we need the other words there.

So we have to include the word to I'm going to London tomorrow, right?

We need that too.

Now we call these words which are less important.

You know, we could actually live without them, but we need them.

We call them function words or grammar words, or you can even just call them boring words.

They're the words which we don't really need.

When we speak words like to four on the, we often pronounce them as toe for and the we say them quickly and relax them.

And that is how you will start speaking faster when you start saying these function words in a relaxed way.

But the key, the rial ki, is that you need to slow down and emphasize the stressed words, so speak faster on the words which are not important and slow down a little bit and emphasize the words which are important.

That's how you get your point across clearly on how you speak faster, Let's go back to this sentence.

I'm going to London tomorrow.

So what's happening is I'm pronouncing two as to I'm using the Schwab sound instead of do so instead of you.

Just keep the tongue in the middle of your mouth.

Relax your mouth to Thio, to London, to London, going to London, going to London, going to London.

Practice that and get faster and faster on because I'm relaxing, too.

It's speeding up my speech.

If I said going to London, going to London or going to London, it becomes a lot faster when I relax.

That, too, and it becomes toe.

But I'm still making going and London clear and emphasized because it paints the picture.

So practice with me now.

I'm going to London tomorrow.

I'm going to London tomorrow, and it's very important that you work on your stress on your Internation before you start working on the vowels and the continents.

If you're trying to learn a British American, any kind of accent, so let's take a look at this sentence Now what do you want to do later?

What want do later?

Imagine I say this to you now what what do?

Later again?

It's still kind of makes sense.

You can still understand that.

I'm asking you a question partly because of my intonation, but also because I'm saying what want do later.

I'm asking you what you want to do later.

Those other words are relaxed.

What do you want, Thio do later?

Okay, so dear.

And what do you want to do?

Later?

Saying these words instead of saying What do you I'm saying?

What do you?

It becomes very quick.

Doesn't it do instead of do and you instead of you?

What do you want to do, Thio?

Just like into London to do later.

And this will speed up your speech.

So try it with me.

What do you want to do later?

Now I could actually stress the word you and I could say, What do you want to do later?

What do you want to do later?

Now what that does is it actually pushes the question mawr onto the listener.

What do you want to do later?

So when we don't relax, the word you we don't say Yeah, we say, What do you want to do later?

It's more like I'm being a bit more forceful with my question, and I'm not saying What do I want to do?

What do you want to do later?

Right?

So we can actually stress different words to create effect.

So don't always rely on these function words.

Sometimes you will need to say you instead of you.

Or sometimes you will need to say to instead of too, if you want to emphasize what you're trying to say.

So let's just try a few more sentences.

I can see you could become I can see you because I see you.

That makes sense, right?

The can just becomes can I can see you because it's not so important.

I mean, I could say I can see you.

That's absolutely fine, but you'll find more often.

Natives will say, I can see you.

I could see you.

I can see you.

She was looking at me for five minutes straight.

She was looking at me for five minutes straight.

She looking me five minutes straight.

Those of the important words, the other words again, could be relaxed.

She was was was looking at me but me five minutes straight.

So four is becoming for and again with speeding up.

She was looking at me for five minutes straight.

She was looking at me for five minutes straight.

It's very hard to do that, so we need to relax those function waas on.

That is how you could begin talking faster and there are other techniques and other things that we can do on guy.

Of course, talk about those things in my British pronunciation course, which you're welcome to join.

If you wish the links in the description below Onda, we can work towards making your accent clearer.

Faster.

Whatever your goals are.

Really, if you're looking to achieve more of a British sounding accent, that's what the courses for.

So I'd love to meet you there.

We can also talk on what's app after you've joined the course so I could give you feedback through voice messaging.

Onda have full analysis on your accent when you first join, so hopefully I'll meet some of you there after you've joined the course.

But the rest of you please give me a thumbs up, subscribe and I will see you in the next lesson next Friday.

Cheers, guys.