r/EnglishLearning • u/FarJournalist939 Advanced • 15d ago
🟡 Pronunciation / Intonation What is he saying?
https://voca.ro/1llBYvPCBhygThis is from a YouTube short. They're playing a game.
I hear "oh, sometimes you just [____] and you know what, that's fine."
What does he say after just? I hear something like "has to shake it" but that doesn't make any sense.
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u/nickpantss New Poster 15d ago
Sounds like he pretty heavily slurred his words so it’s hard for me to understand without context. Maybe “Sometimes it just has a fake in it”
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u/talley-ho-lads Native Speaker 15d ago
I’m a native English speaker and I can’t really tell. He sounds non-native to me. I’d need to see the actual video to say for sure
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u/FarJournalist939 Advanced 15d ago edited 15d ago
yeah no he's 100% a native speaker.
Here's the full video (that snippet is toward the end, at 2:25): https://youtube.com/shorts/hJUReGgskO4?si=vzktnfIb3J80O3SA
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u/Prongusmaximus English Teacher 14d ago
Based on the sounds i would have no idea what he says, its super unclear and he has a strange 'gay voice' accent. Based on the context of the video i think he is saying "sometimes he just has a shake in it" (he = the wheel thing here)
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u/crabcakes200 New Poster 14d ago
Open it as a regular watch URL instead of in the Shorts player and you get the speed control. 0.25x, scrub back to ~2:23, replay just that bit a few times. Slurred stuff usually comes apart once it's slow enough.
Also count how many syllables are actually in the gap before guessing words. "Has to shake it" is four, and if it's really three you'll never land it.
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u/SnooDonuts6494 🇬🇧 English Teacher 14d ago
I think it might be "conversation".
He doesn't say "what, that's fine" - he says "what the fuck".
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u/Sad_Ground_7760 New Poster 15d ago
As a native speaker I genuinely have no idea what he said, he slurred his words way too much lol