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Today, I'm going to be helping you with some common English phrases and sentences and questions,

how to combine them, how native English speakers make them quick and fast, so that you can

pronounce them like this yourself if you feel like it, but also to help you be able to understand

fast English.

You are going to be pronouncing these eight fast sentences in English in no time.

Let's get started.

Our first five sentences include some kind of reduction with the word you.

Let's take a look at our first sentence.

What do you think?

But do you think that we really say it this slowly?

What do you think?

Absolutely not.

I just bought this new dress.

What do you think?

What is happening in the middle of this question?

Let's break it down, there are a couple different ways that we can reduce this question, so

let's talk about the first one.

What do you think?

What do you think?

Here, the final T on the question word what is cutoff.

We just say "what."

Then, instead of saying do with a nice oo sound, instead it sounds like duh.

What do, and then the next word you is going to have a similar sound.

What do you?

What do you think?

What do you think?

Can you say that with me?

What do you think?

What do you think?

But would you imagine that we can reduce this even more?

Yep.

You will definitely hear in English movies and TV shows.

People say, "I just bought this new dress, what you think?

What you is happening to the verb do?

Listen carefully.

I just bought this new dress, what you think?

What you think?

Do is just gone.

It's completely absent from this sentence.

It's off on vacation somewhere.

So you can say, what you think.

What you think?

What you think?

What you think?

Our second question is, where did you get it?

But do you think we say it like this?

Where did you get it?

No.

If English speakers spoke like this, then you probably wouldn't be here because you'd

already be able to understand fast English because it would just be slow English.

So let's see how this is actually said.

I love that dress.

Where'd did you get it?

Where'd did you get it?

Let's break this down where'd.

Where'd.

This is a contraction of where and did.

Where'd you, this is you.

Where'd you.

And then our final two words we're going to link together.

Get it.

Get.

Where's that D coming from?

Get.

Get it.

Well, in American English, when there is a T between two vowels, we often change that

T to a D sound.

This is going to be extremely common in American English and it's going to help you to pick

up on fast words like sweater, water.

These are common examples of a T changing to a D.

And finally in this question, there's one more thing we need to mention.

Listen to the final sound of the question.

Where'd you get it?

It.

It.

Do you hear it?

Nope.

Listen one more time.

Where'd you get it?

Where'd you get it?

That final T is not really pronounced.

Your tongue is going to be in the same place as if you are going to make a T sound, but

instead of letting that air flow out, your tongue just stops on the top of your mouth.

That's why we call this a stopped T. Can you say those final two words with me?

Get it, get it, get it.

All right, let's put it all together and I want you to say this out loud with me.

Where'd did you get it?

Where'd did you get it?

Now sometimes we reduce this a little bit further and the entire rest of the sentence

sounds the same except for the word you.

Sometimes we say where'd you, where'd you.

Instead of where'd you.

This is the difference between Y and J. Where'd you get it?

Where'd did you get it?

Where'd did you get it?

Oh, I like that dress.

Where'd did you get it?

Where'd.

So that's the one main difference here between these two different reductions and you're

going to hear both of them.

So now I hope that you'll be able to understand them.

Let's go to our next one sentence number three or I guess question number three is are you

doing okay?

This is a very kind question you can ask someone who you feel like might be having a hard time

in life.

It's the year 2020, so a lot of people are in this situation and it's a kind question

you can ask and you will also hear other people asking.

But do they say, are you doing okay?

No.

This is often reduced in the couples different ways within the sentence.

So let's talk about it.

Hey, I haven't seen you in a while.

Are you doing okay?

Are you doing okay?

Here, we have kept the word are, but then you listen carefully.

Are you doing okay?

Does that sound familiar?

We already talked about how sometimes you becomes you, and this is extremely common

as we're speaking quickly and talking with people in a comfortable situation.

Are you.

And then listen to our verb doing okay.

What's happening with the G at the end?

Doing.

It's gone.

It is on vacation.

So make sure that we say are you doing okay?

Are you doing okay?

Are you doing okay?

We can reduce this even further by cutting off our first verb, are.

You doing okay?

You doing okay?

Say that with me.

You doing okay?

I haven't seen you for a while.

You doing okay?

You doing okay?

Fast sentence number four, did you eat yet?

Did you eat yet?

But do you think we say it like this?

Nope.

Instead we're going to reduce this in a couple different ways.

So you might say, when I visit my grandma's house, she always asks me, did you eat yet?

But she doesn't say it like that.

Instead she says, did you eat yet?

Did you eat yet.

Here, the word you is being reduced to you?

Did you eat yet?

And also notice what's happening with the two final words.

Eat.

And yet they both end in T. So think back to another rule about T that we talked about.

Eat yet my tongue is stopped at the top of my mouth and I'm not letting that air pass

through.

Listen to the full sentence.

Did you eat yet?

Did ya eat yet?

Can you say that with me?

Did you eat yet?

We can reduce this another time and say, did you.

Did you eat yet?

Say it with me.

Did you eat yet?

Did you eat yet?

And then we can reduce this one final time.

And this is I think one of my favorites.

Growing up my family sometimes used to laugh about this because it's reduced so much it

doesn't sound like any English word, but in the right context you can totally understand

it.

What if I said to you, did you eat yet?

It sounds so weird.

Did you eat yet?

Did you eat yet?

This means did you eat yet?

But we are reducing this again and again and again.

If you remember we just talked about did you making you into a J sound.

So that's what's happening here, but we're dropping did and we're keeping J and then

eat yet.

Did you eat yet?

Did you eat yet?

Did you eat yet?

Now, if you are uncomfortable using these extremely reduced versions of English sentences

yourself, that's no problem.

One of the biggest benefits to knowing these types of reductions is being able to understand

other people when they use them.

So I want to give you these tools in your figurative English toolbox so that you can

understand people.

If you're watching a movie and they say, did you eat yet before this lesson you would've

thought, what in the world did they say?

But now you know that they're asking did you eat yet?

So you have that tool in your toolbox to know how they're saying this, what they're saying

and how they're reducing it.

Sentence number five is I'll text you later, I'll text you later.

We often use this if we just want to get in touch with a friend later.

Maybe you don't have the information they're asking about.

You don't know if you're free on Saturday to get together.

So you're going to go home, look at your calendar and then you'll text them later.

So let's break down how we can say this sentence.

I'll text you later.

I'll text you later.

Did you notice what we're doing here?

You is becoming, listen again, I'll text you later.

It's becoming you again.

As you can tell, this is a very common reduction of the word you.

I'll text you later.

We have another reduction that's happening here.

What is that first word?

This is simply a contraction of I plus will the future tense in English.

I'll text you later.

Listen to our final word.

Later.

Later.

There's a T, but it sounds like a D. Is this happening again?

Yes.

Here we have a T between two vowels and so the word later doesn't sound like later.

Instead, it's going to sound like later.

Later.

Can you say that full sentence with me?

I'll text you later.

I'll text you later.

We can even reduce this a little bit more, especially in an informal situation and drop

the subject altogether.

You might just say, text you later.

This is kind of like when you say goodbye to someone and you say, see you later, you're

dropping.

I'll see you later.

We just say, see you later.

Talk to you later.

This is the similar idea, but you can say, text you later.

Okay, text you later.