{"id":172887,"date":"2023-06-13T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/?p=172887"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T10:48:05","slug":"speaking-english-how-to-use-reductions-to-sound-like-a-native-speaker-english-speaking-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/speaking-english-how-to-use-reductions-to-sound-like-a-native-speaker-english-speaking-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking English: How to Use Reductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learn to pronounce &#8220;for&#8221; correctly out of context to sound like a native speaker quickly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"entry-tags\">Tagged With: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/speaking-english\/\" rel=\"tag\">speaking English<\/a><\/span> \u00a0 <strong>YouTube blocked? <\/strong><a href=\"#video\">Click here to see the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oEdkZIU8n0g\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"They Were WRONG!...(They THOUGHT They Knew How to Say this Word)\" title=\"Play video &quot;They Were WRONG!...(They THOUGHT They Knew How to Say this Word)&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oEdkZIU8n0g<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oEdkZIU8n0g\" title=\"They Were WRONG!...(They THOUGHT They Knew How to Say this Word)\">They Were WRONG!&#8230;(They THOUGHT They Knew How to Say this Word) (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oEdkZIU8n0g)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s so simple, but most native speakers don\u2019t think about it at all, and most non-native speakers are taught the wrong pronunciation of the most common and most simple words in American English.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today we\u2019re having fun teaching Americans things they didn\u2019t know about their own language, and we\u2019ll make sure you know the most common pronunciation of English reductions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Were you taught that these two words are pronounced the same? If not, wow, bravo to your teacher. If you ask most native speakers how they\u2019re pronounced, they\u2019ll say: How do you say this word?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For, four.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What about you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And you know what, this word too.\u00a0 Let\u2019s see, are all three the same?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For, four and fore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A non-native speaker if someone came up and said excuse me, how\u2019s this word pronounced? Then you say what you would say, okay? So.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For, four, fore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you the same John?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the thing is, even though these people all said all three are FOR, none of them pronounced this one that way when I asked them to put it in a sentence. And that\u2019s because this is one of the most common reductions in American English. It\u2019s not \u2018for\u2019. But it\u2019s actually [f\u0259r]. What? Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be sure to download my sounds of American English Cheat Sheet,\u00a0 it\u2019s free. It&#8217;s an illustrated reference guide for you for all the American English sounds including the phonetic symbols you need to know. Link here and in the video description.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For. Said so quickly said with basically no vowel. One of my students was married to an American and she told him that I taught her the pronunciation is \u2018for\u2019 and he said, \u201cthat\u2019s wrong. I don\u2019t say it that way.\u201d And then she noticed later, he did say it that way. When we change or drop a sound like this, it\u2019s called a reduction, and American English is full of them. When you use reductions in your own speech, you sound more natural and you\u2019re easier to understand. When you study them, your listening comprehension improves. So let\u2019s hear these native speakers say some sentences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m bringing an umbrella for the rain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the rain. So natural. For the rain. Not for, but for, for, for the rain. \u201cFor Agnes\u2019s birthday, we had cake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Agnes\u2019s birthday. For, not FOR.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is this gift for me?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me? For me? For, for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let&#8217;s wait for the car to pass. Because like why let him ruin my audio.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wait for the car to pass. Wait for, for. Did you notice \u2018to\u2019 was also reduced? It wasn\u2019t \u2018to\u2019. It was \u2018duh\u2019. Car-duh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Car to pass. Let\u2019s wait for the car to pass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Car-duh pass. Wait for the car-duh pass. Okay, now, you might be thinking, why does this matter? Two reasons. First, if you know about reductions and you study them, you\u2019ll understand them, and then it\u2019s really going to improve your listening comprehension of fast, native English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second, believe it or not, using reductions will make you easier to understand. The contrast of unstressed reduced words with clear, stressed words creates the rhythm of American English. And a familiar rhythm really impacts how easily other speakers will understand you. It\u2019s actually better than each word being fully pronounced.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only is that not very natural, but if some of your sounds are a little bit off, it can be pretty hard to understand because we don\u2019t have the rhythm to anchor and guide us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wait for the car to pass. Wait for the car to pass. That rhythm helps us get the sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s wait for the car to pass. Let\u2019s wait for the car to pass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four, F-O-U-R, does not reduce. It\u2019s a word that will be clear in a sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh yeah, I played tennis four days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four days ago. F-O-U-R, not reduced. Also, this word does not reduce. \u2018fore\u2019, it\u2019s not very common in conversational English. It means forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s yours?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have four children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes you do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four children, four, no reduction. F-O-R, for. Now, like I said before, native speakers aren\u2019t taught\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reductions, because we learn speaking first. So we just naturally do them. We\u2019re not even aware of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We had sauerkraut for lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uh-huh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, Audrey, you actually said for lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, you told me that this was pronounced for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know like would you ever teach anybody that this word is pronounced for?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would you ever tell me that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, like that\u2019s probably how you say it almost every time you speak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, so, something funny happened when my niece was making up a sentence with F-O-U-R:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does anyone know what these four pies are for?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They\u2019re for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She used both F-O-U-R and F-O-R, but she didn\u2019t do the reduction.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does anyone know what these four pies are for?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are for? For? Not reduced, but why? I just told you to reduce it! Okay, there is one exception. We don\u2019t reduce the last word in a sentence. F-O-R was the last word, and it wasn\u2019t reduced. My mom also did this in her sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is this for?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mmm, nice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love when native speakers become aware of this and learn something new about their own language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay now I don\u2019t know if you guys noticed but when you are being conversational, you actually said for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I noticed that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You did notice that?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is this for me?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, right? For dinner, this is for New Year\u2019s Eve. Isn\u2019t it funny that we think that it\u2019s four.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s what we would tell somebody.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it\u2019s actually, we never actually say it that way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weird. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost never. Actually if it\u2019s the end of the sentence you said, \u201cWhat are these four pies for?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The end of a sentence, you didn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kind of pronounce it that way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wow, Interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, that\u2019s just a little funny pronunciation thing because people are taught that this is for and then when they get into real life English and they\u2019re not hearing it as that and their pronunciation of it is more clear then it can lead to just confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, f\u0259r.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you guys for joining me for this video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For this video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, every time I teach a reduction, I\u00a0 have some haters. We all have haters. And my haters say things like \u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re teaching this wrong, lazy English! People need to speak proper English!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the thing is, reductions are a part of proper English. No English speaker fully pronounces every word, it\u2019s just not the rhythm of our language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So let\u2019s look at some more formal talks. Most of the time, you\u2019ll still hear this reduction. Here\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are four examples. F-O-U-R, Four. Four examples of \u2018f\u0259r\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, precision medicine comes from a very special place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not just for you, but for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For you&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s premature for us to say that\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For us&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now our usual tactics for tackling problems like these\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For tackling&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope I\u2019ve convinced you. Most native speakers, though they would say this word is pronounced \u2018for\u2019, say \u2018f\u0259r\u2019. If you want to further explore the reductions in American English, I encourage you to check out my series on the 100 most common words in English. It\u2019s absolutely crazy how many of them reduce. And if you want to train those words in sentences, check out my online school Rachel\u2019s English Academy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have a course on the 500 most common words in American English and of course it includes\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a bunch of training audio so you can really imitate those reductions. Be sure to subscribe\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here on YouTube, with notifications on, I love being your English teacher. 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