Why Do Native English Speakers Talk Fast?

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  Welcome to the listening time podcast.

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  Hey English learners,

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  this is Connor and you're listening to episode 235 of the listening time podcast.

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  I hope you're doing great.

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  I hope you're ready to practice your listening comprehension with another episode.

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  And in today's episode,

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  I want to talk about why you might feel like native English speakers talk really fast.

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  People always bring this up,

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  meaning they mention this when they hear people speak a language that they don't understand or maybe they're learning that language,

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  but they're not at a very high level.

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  They often say something like, English speakers talk so fast or Spanish speakers talk so fast.

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  I've heard people say this about many different languages.

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  So it's obviously something that almost everyone feels in regards to foreign languages.

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  It seems like people who speak those languages speak really fast.

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  And so for you, it might feel like native English speakers talk fast.

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  And so I have some points that I want to talk about regarding this subject.

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  These thoughts will probably be a little disorganized.

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  I kind of just want to mention some different things regarding this topic,

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  and I'm sure you'll enjoy this episode.

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  And of course, speaking of fast English,

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