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0:01 Hello and welcome back to the Easy English Podcast. 0:05 Have you ever felt like a total English pro where you're starting to think, wow, I'm getting great at this? 0:14 I understand so much when I'm watching this movie or I'm listening to my teacher, but then all of a sudden you hear a 0:24 strange voice, perhaps a different accent, someone from 0:30 Glasgow or Liverpool or maybe from Texas in the United States. 0:37 And suddenly you feel like you've never learnt a day of English in your life. You've never studied a day in your life. And it's almost like all that 0:49 English practice and knowledge has went out the window. 0:53 It's disappeared. It's frustrating, right? 0:56 You're probably thinking, you know, I've spent so long on this. Why does this person sound like they're speaking a different language? 1:06 Well, I've got some good news. It's not because your English is broken or that you're maybe learning incorrectly. 1:14 It's because your brain is trying to understand or listen to something that it hasn't heard yet, so you're not used to it. And today we're going to talk 1:24 about how to tune your radio, so how to get your brain used to new accents, so how you can start to understand more accents 1:35 more easily, and also about why accents are so difficult for us to understand, even for native speakers like myself. 1:46 But first, as always, in every episode of the Easy English Podcast, I like to teach you some key vocabulary for you to 1:54 learn for today's topic. And I'm going to give you the word and the definition and some examples as well. 2:03 The first word for today is the word dialect. 2:07 Dialect. This is very useful when we talk about language. Dialect is a regional version of 2:16 a language and it has its own words and its own sounds. 2:21 So the Australian dialect, for example, uses a lot of unique 2:27 slang or informal language. We could say the British dialect is different from the American dialect of English. 2:38 Our second word today is mumble, mumble, and to mumble is to 2:44 speak quietly or unclearly, making it quite hard to hear. 2:51 I think we all probably know someone who Mumbles. 2:55 Even in your own language, someone does not talk so clear they mumble. Our third word for today's 3:06 episode is distinct. Distinct. 3:10 This is a great adjective and it means clearly different, distinct or I guess easy to recognize or see something which 3:21 is clearly different or easy to recognize or see. 3:25 So someone might have a distinct accent or a distinct Scottish accent, for example. It means it's very clearly a 3:35 Scottish accent. It's obvious. 3:39 And we have our fourth word today, and that is a verb, and the verb is interpret to interpret. 3:48 And to interpret is to decide on the meaning of something, to interpret something to decode. It is another way you could say 3:56 it and we might say that for example, your brain has to interpret what the person is saying. 4:05 Our final word is vague, vague or vague if we want to go very British. And this means not clear in 4:15 meaning. So it's non specific or not incredibly direct or specific, usually a little bit more general. So we might say that if someone 4:25 is not very clear in their instructions, you could call their instructions or directions a bit vague. 4:33 OK, now that we've got our 5 words dialect, mumble, distinct, interpret and vague, we're ready for today's episode. 4:45 But if you want to take your key vocabulary to the next level, make sure you're following the Easy English Patreon that 4:53 you're, and you'll get access to flip cards for each episode, as well as a PDF transcript with some exercises and a lot of 5:03 bonus content on the Patreon. There is a back catalog, a 5:09 history of over 50 or even 60 bonus episodes now from the last year, so you can sign up and you get access to all of that today. 5:20 And it supports the Patreon, it supports Easy English, and it supports me. So thank you very much for all my Patreon supporters and for new ones. 5:31 The link is in the description on every episode. 5:34 Let's go to the main topic of today. 5:39 I've said this before, but you can think of your brain like a high tech filter. So what does that mean? 5:47 It means that since you started learning English, your brain has been building a sound library. So a library in your brain which 5:59 has lots of files on lots of different words. 6:02 So for example, you have a perfect file for the word water or water, you know the very British and it expects to hear 6:13 maybe a a clear crisp T in the middle. 6:18 So for me, I say water, like water, right, water, water. 6:24 But whenever you hear a New Yorker or an American say water, water with AD, your brain might not understand that, or you 6:35 might hear a Londoner say water, water or that. 6:40 I guess that actually to me sounds a little bit more. 6:43 We call it a West Country accent. 6:45 So in the southwest of England, water, water. 6:50 And that is the same word there. That is water, it is water. 6:54 It's all one word, but your brain is looking in the library of words and you've learnt the word as water and of course it 7:04 sounds different, so you don't match the two together. 7:09 So your brain then ignores it or it gets confused. 7:12 It might make a mistake in connecting as well, and that's why you feel that lag or delay in understanding something when 7:22 you hear a word and it sounds different from what you're used to. And it's not that you don't know the word, it's that your brain is trying to interpret the 7:33 sound. It's trying to understand and decode the sound that you've just heard and match it up with 7:42 what you know. Most textbooks teach standard English, whether that's American English or in a lot of cases, 7:51 British English. But the real world is full of dialects, and that's what makes this so important. 7:59 Understanding a new accent is not about learning 5000 words again and how they sound. It's just about updating your 8:09 brain's software so it knows that water and water are the same thing. And I can tell you this is 8:18 exactly the same process for native English speakers. 8:24 So that brings us to the T and the R letters, which are very important when it comes to accents with English if you want 8:35 to understand 90% of English accents across the world. 8:40 So global accents, you really only need to watch specifically in most cases at two different letters, and this is the letter 8:49 T and the letter R, And they're the biggest troublemakers when it comes to understanding people and what they're saying in 8:58 English because they change depending on where you are in the world. So if we look at the letter T, 9:06 we have the vanishing or disappearing T versus the D sound that you hear in some dialects. 9:14 In many British accents, the T in the middle of the word just simply disappears. You'll notice that I pronounce 9:22 the word T or sorry, the letter TA lot more than someone from England. But that's because I have a more 9:30 northern dialect, a more northern UK dialect, because I'm from Northern Ireland. So that's why I pronounce the T 9:40 more. But you know, if we take someone from England, particularly the South of England, they have the 9:49 vanishing T in many cases. So you take a word like butter and it becomes, you know, butter in some areas or butter as well 9:59 with the with I guess a vanishing R or a soft R, which sounds like an AH. And then you take the US and the 10:08 Canada are and Canada and the T becomes more like AD sound butter butter. So it doesn't sound like AT 10:18 right, it sounds like AD butter butter. 10:23 And if you're expecting a hard T or to hear a hard T, both of these sounds will sound like mumbling to you. 10:32 It will sound like the person is mumbling, like they're not talking correctly. And that brings us to the next 10:41 letter, which is also a problem, and that is the letter R. 10:45 So like a hard R versus a ghost R. 10:50 And I'll explain what that is in a minute. 10:52 But this is really one of the biggest differences between American and British or Australian English. 11:02 So in the US and in some northern dialects like my own in parts of the UK, the R at the end of the word is quite strong. 11:13 For example, I say car, car. The same in America, they would say it like car, car, maybe even a little bit stronger than me. 11:23 But someone in in the South of England, they have more of a ghost R, an R which isn't really there. 11:31 It's very soft. So in London or Sydney, even in Australia, they would say that word car a little bit more like 11:39 car, car, car. So the R isn't really there, it's just a soft sound. I think the subtitles for this 11:50 podcast episode will be a little bit off because I'm trying to say these words in so many different ways. 11:58 I will be impressed if it manages to subtitle correctly. 12:02 But anyway, when you realise that these sounds are simply shifting, so they're changing between dialects, you can start 12:10 to predict them and understand. So if you hear someone you know speaking with the D sound instead of AT, you'll be able to 12:20 start to switch into that dialect in terms of understanding. Your brain will get quicker and it will get faster. So how do you actually get 12:30 better at understanding and listening to different accents? 12:35 You can't simply read a book for it. 12:37 You have to actually train your ears and practice. 12:42 And here is a little method that you can use to try. 12:46 So the first is the repeat method. 12:49 So you can listen to perhaps about 30 seconds of a difficult accent. So it could be a movie that's set in Ireland, for example. Or you could look up on YouTube, 13:00 you know, an interview with an Irish person or an interview with a Scottish person or whichever accent you're struggling with. And listen to a short clip, 13:11 maybe 30 seconds five times. And the first time you're going to understand probably about 10%. 13:19 And by the time you get to that fifth time, I can guarantee you will understand more. You can try to slow it down, you can reduce the speed and you can re listen and re listen until 13:30 you start to understand the words a lot more. 13:36 But the key thing is to do this with clips, which are not too difficult in terms of vocabulary. 13:41 So stuff that you can definitely understand. 13:44 Another way that helps is listening to music in that dialect as well, because it helps to teach you the rhythm of that dialect, the rhythm of the accent. 13:54 It's something that you can learn very well through songs and music. My last tip on this is don't 14:01 listen with subtitles because it will kind of, it will not flex that muscle, It won't use that muscle in your brain. 14:10 That process of matching up as well. 14:13 It's just going to tell you what the word is. 14:15 So it's very important that you try to do this without subtitles in my opinion. Let's take a break and go to our 14:23 listener Spotlight for today. In the last episode, I asked you what is the most difficult words or maybe some of the most 14:32 difficult words that you have learned in English or that were very difficult for you to learn. Now I didn't get a lot of answers this time despite the episode being very popular. 14:43 It was probably one of my most listened episodes. 14:45 There was not a lot of people brave and courageous to tell me what their answer was. So what their word was, that was hard for them. So I'm going to read out a 14:57 couple a couple of comments that we got, which were really good and I liked their answers. And then I will ask you the question for today's episode. And I really hope that more of 15:08 you answer this week. OK, so we had a great comment from Lou, who is always fantastic and very engaged and I 15:16 really appreciate her comments. And that comment was hello Oliver. For me, I think it's with these ones and she's given me a list of words. 15:26 So I think a couple of them let me see. 15:29 So tot tough thought through though throughout and thorough. 15:39 So I definitely probably pronounce a few of those in my dialect, but there you go. Those are quite difficult words to say. And I actually when I was 15:49 reading them, because they were all so close together, I had to think about each one as I was reading it. 15:56 So it is definitely hard and a lot of native speakers do incorrectly pronounce these words. 16:06 Of course, dialect defending someone from the South of England will tell you that I have just said those words incorrectly, which may be true in the South of England, but 16:17 that is how I say them. OK, so our next. 16:21 Thank you very much again for that comment. 16:23 Excellent comment. Our next comment was from Matthias and Matthias said, hi, Oliver, your podcast is so nice. 16:34 I'm listening to you every day in the morning. 16:37 That's a great, great, a great idea. 16:40 Very good idea to get a good routine of English listening each day. Thank you very much, Matthias, for for listening daily. And Matthias has asked, can you 16:50 make an episode about freelancing jobs? 16:54 That's my niche. So it'll be really nice to hear you talking about it a little bit. 16:59 And he said, answering your question, I'd say rendezvous is the hardest word for me. Thanks for all your content, man. Yeah, great suggestion. 17:10 So I will try, maybe do an episode. 17:12 I'll probably have to group it into, you know, a wider topic. 17:16 So perhaps, you know, remote working, maybe get it into an overall topic with freelancing jobs in there as well. 17:25 But that's a very good recommendation and I will try my best to fit that in on an episode as well for you, Matthias. And on your word that you've 17:34 chosen for a difficult word, rendezvous. 17:38 So I would say that's that's pretty hard for native speakers too in terms of pronunciation, primarily because that word is actually French, but it's a French word which we have put 17:50 into English. There's lots of words like that which we use in English, which has been basically just taken from from French. So yeah, but but great, great 18:02 option. I guess it's if you're used to learning English and spelling in English, that could be a hard one even to write, but also to pronounce because it's very different from other English words. 18:13 So that's a great, great point from. 18:16 Thank you very much for your comment and your support, Matthias. OK, so let's look at the question for today's episode. So we're talking about accents. 18:28 I want you to tell me what accent is the hardest for you to understand. Is it Scottish? 18:35 Is it Irish? Is it Welsh? 18:39 Is it Australian? Is it maybe an Indian accent with English? Is it, you know, it could be any accent with English. Just tell me what accent is the 18:51 hardest for you in English. It doesn't have to be a native 1. And I hope to see more of your answers today. And I will read out some, as 19:00 always, in the next episode. So really, I guess before we wrap up, I want to say, you know, don't be discouraged if 19:09 you can't understand an accent. For me as a native speaker, I'll tell you a story. So when I moved to Scotland for 19:18 university, so I was studying in a city called Edinburgh. 19:22 It's a great city. If you get the chance I would recommend to visit. But when I was studying in Edinburgh, I went, I had to do a part time job just to help, you 19:33 know, pay for my rent and food while I was studying. 19:37 And I work got a job in a pizza place, Papa John's, a pizza chain. And while I worked there, I was working with a lot of Scottish people, so people from Edinburgh 19:49 and people who were employees but also customers. 19:54 And I really struggled to understand what people were saying to me. They were native English speakers. I was a native English speaker 20:04 from Northern Ireland and I still couldn't understand what they were saying. And it took me weeks to fully understand. One of my colleagues that I was 20:15 working with, he would talk and talk to me and I just had a big smile on my face. I was nodding my head and saying 20:24 yeah, yes, I understand, yes. And it took honestly quite a long time for me to fully understand what he was saying. 20:34 But I'll tell you what, after 2-3 months I started to really understand the Scottish accent and some of the stronger accents 20:45 in parts of Edinburgh. Edinburgh is known for having a lot of English people, quite mild accents, but there are some 20:52 stronger accents and there are quite a few people from Glasgow as well, which is the accent that I struggled with with one 21:02 of my colleagues. But if it happens to me is what I'm saying. If it took me time to get used to this accent, it will take you as well. 21:11 So don't be stressed if you hear a new accent. 21:15 I also struggle with accents before I get used to them. 21:19 It takes some time, some practice, some input, and then your brain starts to make it make sense. 21:27 So at the end of the day, an accent really is just the music of a place, the music of a region, which is just added in 21:37 and it's adding some nice extra flavor to the language. 21:42 And I think that's amazing. So whatever accent that you have or whatever accent you want to have or you want to understand, just take some time, be patient, and it will come. 21:54 Practice listening and look for those differences and once you understand them, you'll be able to spot them a lot easier. 22:01 Thank you so much for listening. Remember, if you haven't followed or subscribed yet, to follow and subscribe so you don't miss a new episode every week. 22:11 And thank you for all the Patreon supporters, I hope to see many more of you on there. The link is in the description below and I will see you next week. 22:19 Goodbye.
دربارهی این قسمت Bonus Episodes & Full Transcript PDFs, Vocabulary Flipcards Every Week on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/englishwitholiver My Phrasal Verb Book and more : https://stan.store/easyenglishpodcast Have you ever felt like a pro in the classroom but a beginner in the real world? In this episode, we explore why your brain struggles to interpret different dialects . We reveal the secret of the "Missing T" and the "Ghost R," and explain why most people aren't mumbling - they’re just using a different "Sound Library." Learn how to tune in to any accent and stop feeling lost in conversation.