How to Improve Your English Listening Skills - Connected speech!

All of my students have difficulty understanding English native speakers when they speak fast. If you don’t hear 'contractions' in real speech, it is easy to get lost. In this English lesson, you’ll hear a story told in three parts—“Unplanned”—with real-life contractions and connected speech that English speakers use every day. At the end, I break everything down step by step to help you identify, understand, and use these contractions in your own speech.

This video is perfect for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to improve their listening skills, speak more naturally, and finally understand fast native English in series, films, and real conversations.

✨ Learn how contractions like I’d, should’ve, might’ve, and hadn’t sound in real conversation.
✨ Master the rhythm of fluent, natural English through storytelling.
✨ Practice useful expressions like “talk myself out of it” and “stick together.”

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Introduction
1:14 – Story Part 1: Lisbon
2:34 – Vocabulary Explanation: Contractions in Part 1
4:43 – Story Part 2: Olivia and Lucas Connect
5:52 – Vocabulary Explanation: Contractions in Part 2
7:36 – Story Part 3: Olivia’s Letter
8:33 – Final Vocabulary Explanation

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