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How we speak isn't always how we write.
La forma en que hablamos no siempre coincide con la forma en que escribimos.
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Today, I want to teach you five things English speakers do in real conversations,
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specifically when they ask questions.
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This includes reductions and how words connect together in natural English speech.
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by the end of this video you will be able to understand english better and speak more naturally
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now i will start slowly and then increase the difficulty as we go so
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if the beginning is a little easy for you stay with me i promise you will get something useful from this video
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Let's start with the contracted S.
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So, you probably know that we can contract S with many words in English, but I want to focus on questions.
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And I want to involve you immediately.
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So please, listen and repeat.
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Do some shadowing practice with me.
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So repeat after me.
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Who's that?
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What's this?
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Where's the milk?
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When's the test?
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What time's the game?
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Why is she late.
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How's the coffee?
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Good.
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So, you notice that with most of these, you have a Z sound, right?
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So, So, whose, where's, when's, what time's, why's, how's.
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The only question word that uses the tss, the actual S sound, is what is,
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which becomes what's, what's, what's.
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Okay?
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So, just repeat after me one more time. Whose.
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What's?
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Where's?
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When's?
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What times?
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Why's?
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How's?
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All right, let's continue with the reduced ing.
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And I have three examples, and one of them, Yeah, I think one of them, the first one, uses something from the first section.
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So repeat after me.
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We reduce the ing, by the way, by instead of saying going, we say going, going.
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No ing, just in, in, in.
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So how's it going?
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How's it going? When are we leaving? When are we leaving?
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Are you coming with us?
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Are you coming with us?
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So I speak like this when I speak with my friends.
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Like, are you coming?
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Right?
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Are we going?
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What time are we leaving? leaving, leaving, going, coming.
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You can say coming, going, leaving.
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Sometimes I say coming, going, leaving, but if I don't think about my speech and I feel lazy,
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I will say, what time are we leaving?
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Who's coming?
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Right?
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So, you can say it this way.
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Here, I have a list of other common speaking reductions.
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I have other videos that teach this, So, this might be a review for some of you.
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It's never a bad idea to review.
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For example, you is often said as ja, and this is not only in questions, but it's in natural speech.
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So, for example, how are you doing?
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How are you doing?
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Our is often shortened, reduced to our, our, our, our. Is that our car?
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Too fast, Alex.
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I know.
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Is that, is that our car?
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Okay, let's try fast now.
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Is that our car?
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To is often reduced to ta, ta, ta.
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So are you going to go?
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To go, to go, to go.
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Are you going to go?
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Are you going to go?
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now you might be wondering wait alex i i know
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you can also say are you gonna go
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that's okay too are you gonna going to is often shortened
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to gonna are you gonna go are you gonna go are you gonna go that's it okay
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and and and is it him and me repeat is it him and me
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like is it our turn uh during the presentation or the meeting at work or er um you want tea or coffee
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tea or coffee
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and the h's in him he her
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when they are in the middle of a sentence
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or the middle of a question they are often reduced
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so him sounds like him he sounds like e her sounds like er for For example, do you know him? Do you know him? Where did he go? Where did he go?
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You can say, where did he go?
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But in fast speech, we say, where did he, where did he, where did he, where did he go?
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And, of course, her. Is that her car? Is that her car?
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Is that her car?
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Okay.
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Not bad.
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So far, so good.
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Okay, so we have the contracted S.
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We have the reduced ING.
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these are some bonus reductions and let's go with three more before we do
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that if you are enjoying this video
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and you want to learn how to ask more english questions in a correct way in a natural way
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i actually have a book called perfect english questions
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and how to answer them so you can just check out the link
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that is attached to this video to practice present simple past
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simple negative questions tag questions questions about work questions about school directions offers many many things
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there's a pdf an ebook and a physical version now let's go back to the video i'll start with two present reductions,
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and both of them have the subject you.
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So, what do you and what are you in question form?
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With what do you, this is often reduced to what -a -ya?
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What -a -ya?
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So, repeat after me, slowly.
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What -a -ya?
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Okay.
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Let's do some practice.
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What do you think?
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What do you want?
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What do you need?
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what do you do what do you say what do you say what do you say
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this is something you can say
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when you are trying to convince someone to you know do something
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and to agree with you come on help me what do you say
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right so come i want you to agree with me and to help me
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so let's do these one more time but faster okay so
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if i were actually speaking in a real conversation i would say it like this what do you think
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right yeah i know what do you think slow down but natural fast speech.
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What do you think?
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What do you want?
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What do you need?
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What do you do?
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What do you say?
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Not bad.
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Are you laughing?
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Okay, I hope you are laughing.
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I know it's difficult, but with more practice, more listening,
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you will get it next what are you this has two options usually you can say whatcha whatcha whatcha
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and you notice these are all continuous questions right present continuous whatcha
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and yes you can use what are you for present simple questions what do you
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and present continuous questions what are you okay we'll start with watcha watcha watcha
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which might be easier actually so instead of what are you doing
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and you noticed I added remember we did the reduced ing so listen and repeat what you're doing
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slower okay what you're doing what you're writing what you're watching
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what you're watching
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what you're looking at if i see you are on your phone and you are very focused ah what you're looking at
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whatcha whatcha what you're looking at you can't say what you
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as well what you looking at what you looking at right okay let's try what are ya what are ya
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what are you doing what are you writing what are you watching
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what are you looking at
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i know and you are saying alex i don't want to speak like this even
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if you don't want to speak like this you need to be able to understand
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when people speak like this uh you hear this in movies, in TV shows, in podcasts.
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So, the purpose of this video is not only for you to speak naturally,
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but also to understand English speakers when you hear them on the street, in a movie, in a show, or in a podcast, for example.
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Okay, let's talk in the past.
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Welcome to level 99.
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This is a challenge, so please come with me.
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I will do my best to guide you on this journey. Did you?
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We use did you to make past simple questions.
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For example, what did you do?
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When did you leave?
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Did you talk to Lois?
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Where did you find it?
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How did you meet?
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Did you have breakfast?
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However, in natural, fast English speech,
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English speakers often smash did you into a variety of sounds.
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There are many, many options here.
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So, let's start with these. For example,
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did you can be said as did you? did you
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or did you did you okay
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it can also just be said as Jew
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or Jew Jew Jew you you will hear it soon okay in a context
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you can also say instead of ooh we say ah right like you yeah from before it all connects
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so did ya did ya did ya did ya did ya
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so you can say did ya or did ja very fast
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and of course ja you will hear it and in a moment I promise ja ja
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or ja okay let's start with these repeat after me we will start with did you did you if you say
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Jew or Jew both are fine okay so what did you do
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what did you do did you what did you do when did you leave
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Did you talk to Lois?
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Did you talk to Lois?
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Where did you find it?
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Where did you find it?
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How did you meet?
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How did you meet? Did you have breakfast? Did you have breakfast?
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Okay.
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Should we go to this one?
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No, not yet.
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Not yet.
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Okay.
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let's start with uh did you now so instead of did you you say did you
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we'll do just three examples three examples okay what did you do what did you do what did you do
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when did you leave when did you leave
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Did you talk to Lois?
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You notice I'm using ta for to, right?
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To Lois, to Lois.
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Did you talk to Lois?
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Okay.
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Expert level.
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Here we go.
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With jiu or jia or jia.
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I'm going to mix them,
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so just repeat after me we will read all six and i will use jew or ja okay what'd you do
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what'd you do what'd you do when'd you leave when'd you leave
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did you talk to lois oh sorry not did you you can very fast
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i can say hey did you talk to lois
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do you talk to lois let's use ta here did you talk to lois
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don't hate me don't hate me don't hate the player hate the game game.
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The English game.
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Love English, actually.
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Okay.
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Where'd you find it?
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Where'd you find it?
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How'd you meet?
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How'd you meet? Do you have breakfast? Do you have breakfast?
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Do Did you have breakfast?
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Let's use ja.
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Did you have breakfast? Did ja? Did you?
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Ja have?
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So, we have a lot of difficulties.
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If this was a challenge for you, that's okay.
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You can go back, listen, repeat, and you will understand more,
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and you will be able to speak more fluently with practice.
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As I mentioned, I do have a book of English questions, if you want to check that out,
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to continue to improve your English after this video.
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I'm tired.
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That was a lot of talking, a lot of questions, so this is a good point for me to stop.
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Thank you very much for watching.
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Check out all of the videos we have on engVid, and learn to unlock the world, and I'll see you in the next video.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “How English Speakers ACTUALLY Ask Questions”. Las palabras que más se repiten: english, lois, repeat, speak, example. Este vídeo tiene 220 frases y 1905 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 19:38. El hablante habla despacio, unas 97 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 91 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir. 88 de sus 220 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| reduction sustantivo | /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/ | reducción |
| continuous adjetivo | /kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/ | continuo, contino |
| naturally adverbio | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | naturalmente, a natura |
| connect verbo | /kəˈnɛkt/ | conectar, empalmar |
| difficulty sustantivo | /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/ | dificultad |
| podcast sustantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, pódcast |
| bonus sustantivo | /ˈbəʊ.nəs/ | bonificación, plus |
| shadow sustantivo | /ˈʃædəʊ̯/ | sombra |
| presentation sustantivo | /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/ | presentación, exposición |
| involve verbo | /ɪnˈvɑlv/ | involucrar |
| convince verbo | /kənˈvɪns/ | convencer, llevar al huerto |
| lazy adjetivo | /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/ | perezoso, flojo |
| smash verbo | /smæʃ/ | estrellar, destrozar |
| unlock verbo | /ʌnˈlɑk/ | abrir, abrir con llave |
| attach verbo | /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ | adjuntar, atachar |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| check out verbo | investigar, chequear |
| slow down verbo | desacelerar, decelerar |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Are you coming with us?
- What time are we leaving?
- I will say, what time are we leaving?
- Is that, is that our car?
- Are you going to go?
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 38 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, gonna. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, smash /smæʃ/, shorten /ˈʃɔɹtn̩/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: continuous /kənˈtɪn.juː.əs/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/, convince /kənˈvɪns/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, lazy /ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como reduction, continuous, naturally.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.