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Apr 9, 2025
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hi my name is Kristen and welcome back
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to learn English with be global in
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today's lesson we are going to talk
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about how to speak American English like
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a native now if you're a native then
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speaking English is natural to you you
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were probably born in the United States
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or maybe Canada and English is your
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first language an American English is
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what you grew up learning so it's
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natural to you and it's your native
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language so how to speak American
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English like a native is what we're
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going to learn today
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isn't that a mouthful of a topic now if
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I were to say that in slower a slower
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way for you to understand the way that I
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speak to you when I'm teaching I really
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try to break down the words so that you
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understand it so that you can learn
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better and understand more fully what it
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is that I'm trying to teach because I
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understand that English is new to you
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and that you are trying to learn it for
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the first time so I would say isn't that
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a mouthful of a topic we're going to
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revisit that in a minute but first I
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want to go over just a few things that
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can help you to learn how to speak like
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a native
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so for American English one of the first
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things that you really need to focus on
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is pronunciation pronunciation of the
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words is how they sound how do the words
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sound
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because how they sound is then how you
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are going to pronounce them and that's
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going to affect your pronunciation which
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is in turn going to affect whether you
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sound like a native speaker or whether
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you sound like someone that is learning
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English for the first time how you
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pronounce those words and how you speak
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them based on how those words sound is
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going to make that difference okay so
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based on that we want to go over a few
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different things because when you are
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learning English for the first time and
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you learn the basic principles of
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English it's very different when you are
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learning how you're supposed to say the
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words and how they end up sounding when
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you are a native speaker there is a big
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difference we speak very quickly
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definitely native English American
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speakers and English speakers speak
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quickly
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and that being said many of the words
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end up running together so for instance
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then the consonants end up running
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together as well so if I were to say for
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an example
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if you look at this question before I
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say it out loud I want you to say it to
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yourself so now if we're going to break
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it down we would say what time is it
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what time is it so you are asking about
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the time however for a Native American
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English speaker we would run it together
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so instead of saying what time is it we
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would end up saying what time is it
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so this T and this T end up coming
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together so it almost makes one word
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what time instead of what time what time
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is it when you have constants that have
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the same sound at the end of the word
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and at the beginning of a word they run
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together we blend them into almost
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sounding like one word I hope that makes
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sense for you let me give you another
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example another example
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once again I want you to say it to
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yourself first these are actually two
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different consonants but they have a
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very similar sound so if we separate it
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we have that door is open but we
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wouldn't say that door is open that
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makes it very succinct and separate now
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I want you to know you can easily say
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that door is open and we will know what
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you're talking about
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however a Native American English
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speaker would say that door is open that
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door that door do you hear how it runs
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together the T and the D end up becoming
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one sound that door so it no longer
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separates because it's a similar sound
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let me give you one more example that's
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very similar okay
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once again say that one on your own so
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if we say together separately there's a
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black cat now if we run it together
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there's a black cat there's a black cat
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black hat there's a black cat the whole
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thing almost runs together in that
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phrase it's no longer there is a black
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cat but it's there's a black cat it
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almost sounds like one one full word
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instead of an entire sentence I can see
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how that would be so confusing when
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you're learning English for the first
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time and trying to master the Native
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American English there's a black cat so
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those end up running together another
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good thing to point out right now since
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I used one is the contraction we use
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contractions a lot in our everyday
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language in American English we
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regularly will take instead of saying
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there is we will say there's instead of
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saying do not we will say don't
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instead of saying is not we will say
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isn't these are just a few very small
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examples because there truly are so very
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many so we have these different examples
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of run-ins together here we also have
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some words that we run together so for
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example we have the word business
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business
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if you look at that word you want to
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pronounce it busyness or business but
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the way that we actually pronounce it is
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one full sweep it almost sounds like
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this business this almost sounds like a
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Z business you almost don't even hear
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that I in the middle another example let
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me write it out for you
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when you look at this and separate it
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we've got comfort and we have table so
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you would think that it's comfortable
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but the way that we say it is
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comfortable comfortable
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it runs together come after Bowl okay
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another small example would be
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restaurant
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there's a you there that we don't really
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say we say restaurant
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we don't say resto Ron or rest all wrong
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it's just rusta wrong so there are so
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like I said I keep saying this but it's
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just so true there are so many examples
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of ways that the native English in
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English is different and it's very hard
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to pick up on some of those little
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nuances so I wanted to give you a few
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examples of little things that you can
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kind of work on as you're going through
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your English lessons and your vocabulary
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so one more thing that I'm going to
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throw at you today just for you to
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practice is the soft tea
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so whenever we have anything that has a
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tea oftentimes we end up making it sound
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like a d' instead of a tea example when
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we have the words better instead of
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better we would say better so it sounds
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like
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d instead of T better
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another example is metal metal it ends
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up having a soft T sound which then
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sounds like a D or setting
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setting it has that soft T or D sound
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instead of saying set T you would say
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setting so these are just a few
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pronunciation aspects of learning to
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speak like a Native American English
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speaker and then a few other things I
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just kind of would like to run by you is
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to make sure that you look into
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different sayings and phrases the hard
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thing with American English is we have
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such a large country we have the United
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States don't you love my drawing of the
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United States pretty great I think and
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then we have Canada definitely a great
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drawing of Canada so between the two
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countries we have so many different ways
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of speaking so even in American English
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between for the full of North America I
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am in California we have different
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sayings and different ways of speaking
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here in California over here than they
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do in Texas in Texas they have a
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completely different accent
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they say y'all and they talk with a
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different drawl they have a completely
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different accent than we do here then
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they do in New York they have different
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slang different ways of speaking in New
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York and they have different ways of
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speaking in Canada so it's really hard
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because when you're learning to speak
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like a Native American English speaker I
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encourage you to learn the different
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sayings get an idiom dictionary
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study phrases slang and sayings from the
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region that you're interested in or the
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region that you plan to visit whatever
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region that maybe that's where you want
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to learn from because they're all so
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different and one great way if you're
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not sure if this is also overwhelming to
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you and you don't know where to start I
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recommend that you start by just
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watching television find some American
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movies an American TV that you like and
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will start watching them on a regular
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basis that's the greatest way to really
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learn the native american english
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because most television has examples
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from all over the different regions they
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have movies that are based in California
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they have movies that are based in New
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York they have movies that are based in
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Texas in the Midwest all over North
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America so you can take a look and see
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which areas you love and which ones you
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want to learn from it's a really great
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way to study the Native American tongue
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for American English so I highly
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recommend it I also recommend that you
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find an American friend to speak to
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that's going to give you an invaluable
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way to learn when you can learn from a
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person who has actually spoken the
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Native American English their whole life
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you're truly going to get a first-hand
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experience of how to learn and that's
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going to be the greatest way to go about
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it the most most important thing to do
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is practice practice and repetition
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I can't say it enough the more that you
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can study the more that you practice the
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more that you repeat these sayings go
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through even if you go through this
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lesson a hundred times and just practice
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these simple little sentences and
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running those words together is going to
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make a big difference so as I said
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earlier I do want to go through this
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sentence so I had said isn't that a
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mouthful of a topic that's the proper
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way to speak that out is it that a
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mouthful of a topic now in my native
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american english the way that i would
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say that is isn't that a mouthful of a
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topic do you hear how that all runs
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together let me say it one more time i
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will try to speak a little bit slower
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for you but still in the native american
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english isn't one more time isn't that a
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mouthful of a topic do you hear how the
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teeth end up being silent this runs
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together isn't that uh
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isn't that a mouthful of a-- did you
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hear how those ran together
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isn't that a mouthful of a topic and
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then this goes up at the end because
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it's a question
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isn't that a mouthful of a topic i hope
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that i've been able to help you today
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this is truly a huge lesson we probably
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could have broken this into four
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different parts because there's so much
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to be learned when it comes to trying to
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speak like a native speaker i encourage
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you to keep learning keep trying and
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don't get discouraged I know that it's
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hard but the more that you practice I
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know that you can do it please continue
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to subscribe to my page hit that like
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button and ask me any questions that you
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may have I appreciate your support thank
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you for joining us here today at learn
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English with be global again my name is
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Kristen and I'll see you again very soon
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bye