I promised a Youtube subscriber I would answer their question

and here it is: Phong from Vietnam

well Phong, you and so many other English learners around the world can find it tough to understand what people are saying in movies

there are a few reasons for it

one reason is that possibly Hollywood movies are exported to other countries, around the world, and dubbed into so many different languages

so to make an actor look convincing in another language, he has to or she has to mumble the words

"hey John, what did you think of the party last night?"

so trying to understand such pronunciation can be tricky

but don't worry because I am going to teach you some tricks to understand how native speakers talk in movies

now you will notice that many English teachers talk slowly

and it's a language called "teacherese"

teachers just get used to pronouncing all the words slowly in a sentence

then, when the go watch a movie, the students, they can't understand what the hell is going on

so all of these examples use the "j" sound

you can make a game out of it by saying it with me

now faster

now really fast

great job!

our next sound is "s + y" whihc is a "zh" sound

now this sound reminds me of a name in Russian: Nadezda

so I hope that you can hear that sound "zh"

we often make this sound when we combine the last letter of a word "s" and the beginning letter of the next word "y"

so let's take a look at some examples

so once again try to practice these sounds with me

there's a good tip for people who need to pronounce telephone numbers quickly

let's read this one

so we can see it like

you see how, when they link together, the sound totally changes

the form totally changes

now this last combination...I've used in other videos

and it's a fun one to pronounce and it's used in music all of the time

why? because it really flows

in fact i made a song for it in Learn English Live 20

so we can try it at different speeds

teacherese would be

then you can relax your "t's"

then we can use the "ch" sound

well everybody, I hope you enjoyed my lesson for today

I know that many times when you're listening to native speakers talking fast

it all sounds like "bla! bla! bla!" or maybe "ba! ba! ba!"

but hopefully my lesson today will help you crack the code of how native English speakers talk fast

See you in our next lesson!

Bye for now!