My name is Ronnie. Have you ever

had someone...a native speaker...

ask you a question and you had no idea what they said to you.

I'm sure you have.

we...as native speakers

speak really really quickly expecially

Expecially we don't know that you are not native a speaker because in Canada

we have people from all over the world. There is not one person that looks

Canadian so when we speak to people on the street or in the shop

we don't know that they don't speak or

understand English so we tend to

speak very quickly especially when we ask questions

so today gonna teach you how to understand

native speakers' questions. There are about three or four

techniques that you can use with the question for

The first one, you will read in your text books

or if you're studying English. The question would be "what are you doing?"

and then you come to a

native english-speaking country and people say

"What are you doing?"

and you said "what!?" "What are you doing?...what are you doing?..."

you see in your dictionary, you go what dia....

How do you spell whadia...whadia...whadia doin...doin...doin...

...I don't know! no idea!

So this is how we change it! what are you doing we say

"Whacha doin?"

what!? "what" changes, we drop "t", we said

"Whacha doin?"these are the changes that we will make

In English, when we speak very quickly

we usually drop the G at the end of ING verbs

so we say doin, watchin, havin. The other thing

is "are you", you say "r ya"

It's just like writing

"r" and the word "ya".

so I can say "what are you doing" or "what r ya doing?"

changes even more to

"Whacha doin?" Whacha...Whacha

Trying to say that, "Whacha doin?"

The trick is to say altogether, you can say

"Whacha doin?" or you can say

"whatchadoing", try that, "whatchadoing", I am honking my horn.

The next one is

"who do you like?" You will never hear people say to you

Hello, who do you like? you will say

"Whodoya like?"...Whodoya like?

Whodoya...Whodoya

That sounds like a new word, "Whodoya like?" so we changed

"who do you" again we changed to ya

and we actually squish who do you

altogether. We say Whodoya...Whodoya

like, Whodoya see, Whodoya want

so the verb stands on its own in the sentence

which is easier. We actually pronounce this verb

but we squish all these ones together. The next one is

when did you go?

Now, as I have told you. "you"

we usually change to ya, but sometimes we can change it to

a "ja" sound.

"did" we keep the same, we say

"When did ja"..."When did ja"

When did ja go?

Again, we keep this in it stands alone so is this thing

"When did you go?", native speakers say "when did ja go"

"when did ja go?"...try that... "when did ja go?"

Other one, this one is easier

Yes! it's easy.

"is she" people would not say

"Where is she?". She will say...

he will say "wherezshe"..."wherezshe"

so it's like we completely take off this

and we put in the "ze" or the "z" in American English

we say "wherezshe"

where is she, wherezshe, wherezit,

wherezhe, wherezthey

where are they, whererthey, whererthey

Next one, why did he do that?

we're going to connect

this

These two together. So we don't say "why did he", we say "whyde"

d

"Did he" changes to "De"

Why de do that, why de do that

Why de do that

So, I encourage you to practice

saying these phrases. If you

can not say them perfectly do not worried

the important thing is that you understand

when people ask you the question, for you to be

able to actually save these phrases really quickly.

it will take practice, but you can try.

if you can keep on practicing these, maybe you can speak into

digital recorder or tape recorder and listen to your sound

A lot of people ask me: "Ronnie, how can I improve my pronunciation?"

the best thing to do is getting a lot of words you want to

listen to or you want to try to say and record your voice is that you know

what you sound like. This will help you, you can listen to it go

"Oh~that sounds strange or

Yes! that was awesome!", so I hope you had a great time

what did you do on the weekend, tell me till next time.

Bye bye~