that includes linking contractions and reduced forms sadly not being familiar with or comfortable with the accent what do you think do you agree what worries you the most when you have to listen to someone list absorbing The sounds in the woods taking what you know and understanding it interpreting it but today I really want to talk about how you can practice and how you can improve your listening skills so that you can feel more confident joining conversations one of the best things that you can do to improve your listening skills is to study pronunciation but I'm not really talking about learning and practicing individual sounds but rather focusing on the elements of naturally spoken English things like contractions reduced forms sentence stress information English doesn't always sound like what you expect does it sounds blend together they changed sometimes they're completely dropped that you're poor little brain is crying out for help as your listening to someone speaking in English you haven't been taught to hear what do you want to do that's what you expect to hear isn't it what you actually hear is something like what do you want to do sounds with the words what do you want to do is going to help right and I have the perfect video to help you practice the 30 most common reductions in English the link is up here and I'll add it to the end of the video but if you study and learn the sounds of naturally and spoken English next stop is reading and listening together now this really shouldn't be a new idea because I talk about it all of the time it is one of my favorite techniques to help you improve your pronunciation which I just explained is an excellent way to help you with this technique hey quick question do you use TED talks at all when you study and you practice your English TED talks are brilliant resources to help you with your listening skills in English if you go to their website every video has an interactive transcript and that transcripts you can even use it to pause and to practice imitating what the speaker is saying TED talks are also a really awesome way to listen to different types of English speakers because there are so many different tal
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Suleiman Adam Tabba :
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2026-08-20 05:58:41
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user6567699394159 :
لاأرى ان الإنجليزية تستحق كل هذا العناء خاصة للعرب من لديهم لغة بحجم العربية يصعب عليه تعلم لغة عشوائية وغير واضحة كالإنجليزية
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Nge :
Good Morning 🌞 thanks 👍
2026-08-14 03:09:16
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MYANGLISH :
is that real emma acc?
2026-08-14 10:34:34
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الوطن :
Thanks a lot
2026-08-15 08:36:28
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Halim reraoui :
for me the most reason is talking very fast and using idioms
2026-08-14 14:21:48
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franciscoramones04 :
well, not understand because of slangs and probably speak too fast with Lot of contractions and after study too much we don't understand someone.¡ It's frustrating!
2026-08-15 20:40:14
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@🔱⚡️ youthMasters ⚡️🔱 :
yes
2026-08-14 01:38:26
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