4 Reasons Why You Don't Understand Fast English Native Speech

SUMMARY
"What did you have?" > "Whajav"
"How is it going?" > "Owsitgan"
"How did you?" > "Owja"

😉 reference sammfenton

2 Reasons

1. Linking (Joining Words)
Native speakers often join words so they sound like 1 long word instead of 3 or 4 separate ones.

Example: At [00:27], "How is it going" sounds like one single word: "Owsitgan."
The words "stick" together.

2. Dropping Sounds (Elision)
Sometimes, speakers completely "delete" or drop sounds from a word to save time.

Examples:
At [00:27], the speaker drops the "g" at the end of "going," so it sounds like "gan."
At [00:13], the "t" in "What" & the "d" sounds in "did"become very quiet.

Some letters are not spoken at all.

The Other 2 Reasons

3. Assimilation
4. Weak Forms

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💊 WHAT 1 Adjective Can Be Used With 9 Nouns in 4 Categories

The real no BS (bullshit) pill you can take for your English is to pay attention to collocations. Simply, to what words are used together. Yep, not only to separate word translations, but to whole phrases.

🍑 NAKED

Boy 🐣

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Man 🐔

🫧looks up what nouns 'naked' can be used with
🫧learns collocations in 2-4 categories
🫧commands attention and respect with his speech > gets power over his enemies' asses

4 Collocation Groups with NAKED

1. Physical appearance

Examples: naked body, naked skin, stark naked (completely without clothes), half naked

2. Figurative / emotional exposure

Examples: naked truth (unembellished truth), naked fear (pure, intense fear), naked ambition (blatant ambition), naked aggression (overt aggression), naked power (unconcealed power), naked hostility

3. Perception / visibility

Examples: visible to the naked eye (without instruments), naked flame (open, uncovered flame), naked light bulb (unshaded bulb)

4. Literary / poetic uses

Examples: naked branches (bare trees), naked landscape (devoid of covering or shelter), naked soul (emotionally exposed self)

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HOW English changes: trace one word's journey across a 155 years

🐾 SOUTHPAW

From highly specific baseball terminology to a widely recognized, affectionate term for left-handed individuals

📌Original Baseball Meaning (1880s)

Left-handed pitcher. Derived from stadium orientation (home plate facing east, pitcher's left arm on the south side). Popularized by sportswriter Finley Peter Dunne

📌Expansion in Sports (1900s)

Boxing Left-handed or orthodox-stance-reversed boxer (leads with right hand, left hand is power hand)
General athletics Left-handed athletes in various sports

📌General Usage (20th Century)

Any left-handed person Expanded beyond sports entirely. Generally affectionate or neutral in tone (unlike older terms like "sinister" — a historical prejudice against left-handedness

This Baseball slang term took over the English language. An example of how a specialised word becomes mainstream.

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DON'T Confuse a Polyglot for a Polygamist

Have you ever dated a polyglot? ;)

Trasnscript

— You are a polyglot. Yeah, yep. Wow, um, I did not know that was legal. So I am taking a candid approach* to dating. Trying something new. And to be totally upfront with you, I prefer one. One and done. But that's just me. And no judgment whatsoever, truly.

How many? Uh, six. Six?!

— Yeah.

— Oh my gosh. The number of conversations you have to have just to stay on top of it. That is wild! You know, I must say, I have never met someone with such a strong conjugal* desire.

— Oh, you mean conjugation*.

— Um, no. Not conjugation. Conjugal. Yeah. I know what words mean.

When did this start in your life?

— Oh, as a child.

— I'm sorry?

— Yeah, I had three at age six.

— Where were your parents?!

— Um, they taught me everything I know.

— I feel sick. I feel like you don't understand the gravitas of the situation*. I feel ill.

Could you tell me their names?

— Yeah, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German.

— Don't do that!

— What?

— Treat them as people! Please, okay? They have names. They have real names.

— Oh, and I also speak in tongues*.

— Oh. Okay. Euphemism*. I gotcha. No, I know what that means. La la la la. I get it. I get it.

📹reference sonyakatarina

*Glossary

🫧A candid approach - honest and direct

🫧Conjugal - related to marriage

🫧Conjugation - changing a verb form (walk → walked)

🫧The gravitas of the situation - how serious it is

🫧Speak in tongues - speak in unknown or religious languages

🫧Euphemism - a softer word for something unpleasant

WBU
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How to Get HNW Individuals to Follow You on LinkedIn in 4 Steps

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🫧As … said, (agreement, you mark yourself as a public fan giving tribute)

🫧Unlike what … said, (disagreement, you position yourself as a knowledgeable equal ready for a debate)

🫧Thank you … for the inspiration to research this topic (willingness to learn, you acknowledge their thought leadership and claim a right for your own)

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