Linking with Vowels 2 (Understanding Spoken English Series)

American English can sound very fast because parts of words can be dropped at the beginning of sentences. This lesson will help you understand spoken English better. Level: Intermediate to advanced. **If you have trouble watching this video (it stops too often), start the video and then stop it. The video will continue to load. When the red bar moves all the way to the right, it is ready to watch.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• spoken
• English
• fast
• speech
• linking
• vowel
• Stacy
• Hagen
• intermediate
• advanced
• reduction
• American

[dhaka4040]

And as a result, when we watch the westerners speak English - be they are on screen or in flesh and blood - we can understand, frankly speaking, no more than 50% of what is said. But if the same thing were presented before us in written form, we could understand 100% or so. By "we" I point to those of us who have learnt this language (except for its spoken side) well.

[EnglishwithStacy]

@dhaka4040

Thanks for your feedback. I'm trying to do lessons on aspects of spoken English that aren't commonly taught. I'm glad they're helpful. I put up some new videos this week on syllable and word stress. I hope they're useful for both listening and pronunciation.

[dhaka4040]

Fantastic! In fact this two words sounding like one has been one of the most difficult aspects of spoken English for me to decipher. Now I know some golden rules.

I think analytical videos like this would be more useful for us the foreigners to learn how the spoken English words. That would be better than books. After all books can not pronounce the "Zit" thing the way a video can.

Are you planning to bring out a comprehensive DVD containing such soul-opening videos in near (or far) future?

[EnglishwithStacy]

@dhaka4040

I hadn't thought of doing a DVD, but it's a good idea. Right now, I just have time for the videos (and not as much time as I'd like!), but it's something to consider for later. Thank you for your kind words!

[1adrs]

Hi!! Are you going to make any further videos related to this topic?

Thanks!

[EnglishwithStacy]

@1adrs

Yes, I plan to do more. I'm finishing a book project and hope to have more time in December or January. Some of my other videos like Silent /h/ and Past Participles also teach linking, even though "linking" isn't in the title. You might want to look at those if you haven't seen them.

[shihanfernando123]

thanks ma'm for the vid... It's really helpful for me

[gianbf]

@dhaka4040 I thought that i was the only with this problem. I feel you.

[chakimhamzah]

I I am an ESL teacher in SMPN 102 Cijantung ,Jakarta,Indonesia. Thank your videos help me so much I cant find the material like those! You give my student clearly understand why they feel hard to repeat the native speech when we practice in language laboratory. to other teachers in whole the world/include stacy join in my group: TEFL association Jakarta and ELT forum Jakarta or my facebook: chakim hamzah email: frans115@yahoo.com

[freealaysha21]

hi thank you for these videos! i am a pre-school teacher and it is very important for me to learn english grammar and perfect pronunciation of words. we do have books to help us with our written english but our pronunciation and accent is different..i hope you can post more videos..thank you Stacy!

[dhaka4040]

Thanks Stacy (assuming it's your name). I had been an English language teacher in my homeland for more than 15 years. We do have many books and teachers skilled enough to teach grammar aimed at perfecting our written English. But I must admit that there is not any methodical way in our educational system that could teach us perfect pronunciation of words, and how they are pronounced in sentences, and how the informal spoken English differs from its formal counterpart etc.