Improve Your English Listening Skills in 15 MINUTES! | English Speaking Practice

Today you're going to learn  the best way to understand native English speakers. Do you know what it is? The best way is to practice listening to native speakers and to expand your vocabulary  with natural expressions and that's what you'll do today! Welcome back to JForrest English of course, I'm Jennifer now let's get started! Here's how this lesson will work I'm going to say a sentence three times and you need to write down exactly what you hear in the comments and I'm going to talk fast and

use natural expressions and this listening task will progress from beginner to more advanced let's get started I'll say it three times you're on a roll you're on a roll you're on a roll did you get this one I said you're on a roll notice that contraction you're this is you are and native speakers we pronounce this very unstressed you're you're you're you're on notice how on a sounds like one word because I use that n from on I transfer it to ah on nah nah but I have to say it as one word Anna An

na you're on a roll you're on a roll and you're on a roll what does this mean this is a great expression because when you're on a roll it means your experience a period of continuous success or good fortune so this is a very positive thing in the sports world if a sports team wins five games in a row which means consecutively one after the other that team would be on a roll or in the workplace let's say Muhammad has a sales job and Muhammad made five sales today he's on a roll because you need t

he verb to be he is as a contraction he's he's on a roll he's on a roll or how about you if you pass this listening test the next one the next one and the next one in this lesson you can say I pass all four listening test I'm on a roll I'm on a roll or you could say I studied English every day this month so that continuous success one after the other I've studied English every day this month I'm on a roll and notice that verb tense I've studied I have studied this is the present perfect and it's

being used because it's an unfinished time reference so if I say this month it means the month is still in progress maybe it's the 20th or 23rd so put I'm on a roll I'm on a roll because you're watching this lesson and I'm sure you've watched other English lessons hopefully mine this week so you can say I'm on a roll put that in the comments are we on a roll or are we on a roll our next listening exercise  a little more difficult I'll say it three times I'm not a fan of sports I'm not a fan of

sports I'm not a fan of sports did you get this one I said I'm not a fan of sports notice that contraction I'm I am I'm not all can be linked together so said as one word but notice that t is between two vowels so I'm going to pronounce it as a soft d nada the nada nada I'm nada fan of so I can combine fan of together fan of but I need to take that end  and transfer to the next sound love love fan of I'm not a fan of sports I'm not a fan of sports this has a very simple meaning to be a fan of so

mething or  someone means you like it you like that something or you like that someone what about you are you a fan of American football which in North America we just call football but to avoid confusion for you are you a fan of American football the NFL to reply on the negative side you can say I'm not at all a fan so this means you really dislike sports or American football I'm not at all a fan a little less negative I'm not a fan I dislike it but not really dislike it I dislike American foot

ball I'm a fan I'm a huge fan I'm a giant fan if you love American football so which one describes you put it in the comments for me I would say I'm not at all a fan I would rather watch football soccer than American football which we call football now remember you can use this expression  with something or someone for example I'm a fan of  Taylor Swift and of course that means her music what she does I'm a fan of Taylor Swift I'm a fan of Elon Musk or sports something I'm a fan of yoga biking t

echnology is a great something I'm a fan of Google Drive personally I'm a huge fan of Google Drive I love it I'm a fan of Amazon I'm a fan of Android whatever you want so you can get a lot of use out of this expression oh oh oh I just wanted to tell you I'm a huge fan I'm I'm a huge fan not a sports fan huh are you enjoying this lesson if you are then I want to  tell you about the finally Fluence Academy this is my  premium training program where we study native English speakers from TV the movi

es YouTube and the news so you can improve your listening skills of fast English expand your vocabulary with natural expressions and learn advance grammar easily plus you'll have me as your personal coach you can look in the description for the link to learn more or you can go to my website and click on finally Fluent Academy now let's continue with our lesson our next listing exercise I'll say it 3 times you really hit the Jackpot you really hit the Jackpot  you really hit the Jackpot did you g

et this one I said  you really hit the Jackpot now native speakers we often pronounce you as a very unstressed yeah you're really you're really you're really you're really hit notice I don't say hit and pronounce that t because it forces me to take a pause hit the so you don't really hear the t this is called a flop t hit the Jackpot now when you hit the Jackpot it means you win the lottery which is an awesome thing Woohoo I hit the Jackpot but outside of the context of the lottery when you hit

the Jackpot it means you achieve a highly desirable or fortunate outcome and it's by chance just like when you win the lottery when you hit the Jackpot it's by chance they just pull a number and  by chance it's your number you hit the Jackpot so when you use this expression outside of the lottery it's also by chance so I can say I love fashion and my boss just assigned me to the Vogue account Vogue is a fashion brand and I get to go to fashion week for free I hit the Jackpot but this suggest tha

t it was just by chance that I was given the Vogue account it's not because I spent weeks preparing a presentation to try to get the account it was just randomly assigned to me I hit the Jackpot and just remember those conjugations of hit it's hit hit hit so very easy to remember so in the past simple last week I hit the Jackpot when my boss assigned me to the Vogue account or I could say I've hit the Jackpot the present perfect I have I've hit the Jackpot with this new account in this case the

present perfect is for an action a completed past action that has a result in the present and here's a true example my students are absolutely amazing all of you are so amazing I truly feel like I've hit the Jackpot with such amazing students especially when I read the comments and everyone is so positive and supportive I truly feel like I've hit the Jackpot so thank you all our final listening exercise and the most challenging listening exercise I'll say it 3 times she really pushes my buttons

she really pushes my buttons she really pushes my buttons did you get this one I said she really pushes my buttons and this is the most difficult one because maybe you heard the individual words but do you know what it means if someone said this to you would you be able to reply back would you be able to have a conversation because this is an advanced idiom that native speakers use for pronunciation maybe the word buttons wasn't clear because native speakers we  don't pronounce those t's I don't

say buttons buttons that sounds very awkward for me to pronounce I never ever say it like that I always say buttons buttons buttons buttons so those TS become flat TS we don't push out the air now you can absolutely say buttons you can pronounce the t but it's important that you know how native speakers pronounce it so you can understand us and not be confused when we say buttons and you can hear that unstressed buttons in this clip let's listen now button button who's got the button so now tha

t you know how to hear buttons let's learn about this  expression to push ones buttons and notice buttons is always plural this is when you annoy someone on purpose now why would you annoy someone on purpose well you have maybe a sister a brother a best friend a husband a wife a mom and dad and you probably know how to push their buttons you know how to get a reaction out of them and let's be honest sometimes you do it on purpose right so let's say you have a sibling your mom could say to you wh

y do you always push your sister's buttons so notice your sister's buttons the buttons belong to your sister so you need the possessive there and your mom is saying why do you always purposely annoy your sister and maybe you push her buttons by talking about her ex boyfriend and you know just the mention of his name really irritates her but you do it on purpose to get that reaction let's be honest we've all done something like this there are always little rivalries in the workplace as well so so

meone could say she's just trying to push my buttons but it won't work so she's saying someone else is trying to annoy her on purpose but she's going to ignore it it won't work and maybe this other coworker is doing this by talking about the Vogue account that she lost remember she hit the Jackpot  with the Vogue account but then she forgot to do something and they fired her from the account so she's not going to Fashion Week and she's not working on the Vogue account so just talking about the V

ogue account really creates a reaction in her this happens a lot let's say you have two friends one of them supports this sports team and the other friends supports this sports team and their rivals and simply talking about the other sports team gets that person really upset and annoyed so you can say I know how  to push Alexander's buttons just mention how France lost the World Cup he pushes my buttons this kid is pushing my buttons really knows how to push buttons now let's do an imitation exe

rcise so you can practice all these natural pronunciation changes I'll say each sentence again three times but this time after I say it I want you to repeat it out loud here we go you're on a roll you're on a roll you're on a roll I'm not a fan of sports I'm not a fan of sports I'm not a fan of sports you really hit the Jackpot you really hit the Jackpot you really hit the Jackpot she really pushes my buttons she really pushes my buttons she really pushes my buttons so would you like this lesson

do you want me to make more lessons just like this if you do then put on a roll on a roll on a roll in the comments below and of course make sure you like this video share with your friends and subscribe so you're notified every time I post a new lesson and you can get this free speaking guide where I share 6 tips on how to speak English fluently and confidently you can click here to download it or look for the link in the description and learning idioms is must know to understand native speake

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