Understanding fast speech

If you join a video game with native English speakers, one of the first things you will likely notice is how fast they speak. They may slow down for you, but not when they are talking with each other.

If you are very good at the game you are playing – Fortnite, for example – this may not be a big problem since you know what to do in most situations. But to be a good teammate, you really need to understand the questions they ask you or the information they share.

This takes practice and you will get plenting of that with Real English for Gamers. You might want to start with our section Fast Speech Listening Practice

Practice Understanding Fast English Speech

Here you will find dozens of video clips taken from popular video gamers featurlng gamers with different accents and different speaking styles. The first units are very short. The video clips are only 10 to 20 seconds long, but you will hear them several times both with and without subtitles.

Here is an example:

Later units are longer with clips of up to 45 seconds, but they are still short enough for you to listen several times. Here’s an example.

The first two examples were both taken from gameplay videos so the language is not scripted, i.e., it is not read from a text. But there are times when we take our examples from explainer or training videos. These are read from a text so they are much smoother and better organized. They also tend to be very fast, however, so you will definitely want to listen more than once. Here is an example:

We have more than 100 units in our collection. Why not listen to all of them? In just ten minutes you can do two or three a day.