English listening is hard because real English pronunciation is VERY different from the English pronunciation you hear in the classroom.
Sometimes native English speakers talk like their mouths are full of chewing gum- common words and phrases come out in ways that are extremely hard to understand: “don’t you” becomes “doncha”, “didn’t you” is pronounced “dincha”, and “I am going to” is pronounced “ongana”, or even “omma”! For better or worse, these chewing gum pronunciations are extremely common, and affect all kinds of words and phrases, not just common ones. Listen to English teacher, polyglot, author and world traveler Tim Sexton explain a few of the rules about how ordinary phrases end up sounding like a foreign language, so you can begin to understand native English speech better.

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