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Rachel's English


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Do you wait until the last minute to buy  gifts? Joey and Chandler do. Today we’re  
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taking a scene from Friends and  we’re doing a full pronunciation  
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analysis. What are the characteristics of  American English? You're going to improve  
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your listening comprehension and your English  pronunciation too. Here's the scene we’ll study.
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Hi.
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Hey, anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
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No, nothing.
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I hope she’s okay.
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Yeah. I know exactly what she’s going through.
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How do you know exactly what she’s going through?
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She told us.
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So what you got there Monica?
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Just some stuff for the party.
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Hey, what are you guys doing here? Aren’t  you supposed to be Christmas shopping?
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You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet?  
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Tomorrow is Christmas Eve,  what are you going to do?
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Don’t you have to be Claymation  to say stuff like that?
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And now let’s do the full analysis.
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Be sure to download my Sounds  of American English Cheat Sheet,  
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it’s free. It’s an illustrated reference  guide for you for all the American English  
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sounds including the phonetic symbols you need  to know. Link here and in the video description.
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Hi.
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Hey, anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
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So, two common American greetings.  Hey is more common and I talked  
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about that in the video that we did two weeks ago,  
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another scene from this Friends episode.  Hi, hi, up down shape of stress. Hi.
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Hi.
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Hey.
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Hey, hey. And then hey, a more common  greeting, hey, also up down shape of stress.
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Hey
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Hey, anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
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So, this is a yes no question. So out pitch  is going up towards the end. That’s common  
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for yes no questions. So, we have a couple  stressed syllables, let’s listen for them.
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Anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
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Anyone hear from. So, we start higher and we come  low. Anyone. A little bit of up down on here from.  
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So, anyone and here. Anyone, three  syllable word with first syllable stress.
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Anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
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Phoebe yet? So, then we backed up. So, Phoebe,  also stressed but rather than going up down,  
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the stress here goes down up. Phoebe  yet? Because we’re heading up,  
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because of it being a yes no question. Phoebe yet?
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Phoebe yet?
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Phoebe yet? And we have a stop T there, he doesn’t  release that air stop T yet just an abrupt stop.  
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That is the most the most common pronunciation  of an ending T at the end of a thought group.  
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Let’s look at our linking and things that are  happening with the pronunciation in this phrase.
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Anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
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I want to pop in to give a huge thanks  to my supporters here on Youtube via the  
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Anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
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Anyone hear from. Anyone hear from. So, do you  hear how I’m saying this. I’m not saying from.  
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I’m saying from, from. That’s exactly how Ross  said it so this word reduces. We change from  
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the uh as in butter vowel. From, to the  schwa. From, from, from. The schwa gets  
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absorbed by that M so you can think of there  being no vowel there. From, from, hear from.
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Anyone hear from--
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The word ‘hear’, if you look this up in a  dictionary, you’ll see it’s got the ih as  
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in sit vowel, but when that vowel is  followed by schwa R like it is here,  
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it changes, it becomes a vowel more like the  E vowel. So it’s not e but he-ee, hear, hear.
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Anyone hear from--
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Anyone hear from, anyone  hear from, anyone hear from.  
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See if you can copy that  smoothness. Anyone hear from.
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Anyone hear from--
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Phoebe yet?
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Phoebe yet? So, the ph makes the F  sound, Phoebe. And both the stressed  
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and the unstressed syllables in this name  have the same vowel, that is the E vowel.
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Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe yet?
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Phoebe yet?
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No, nothing.
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No, nothing. Uhuuhuh. If we slow that down,  you would really hear that shape of stress,  
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no, nothing. So two up down shapes  of stress, we have the oh diphthong,  
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she makes a little bit relaxed, it’s not  no but more like no, no, no, no, nothing.
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No, nothing.
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Now here, the O, the letter O makes the uh as in  butter vowel. So, even though it looks like n-o,  
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n-o, the pronunciation would be the same,  that is not true. No, nothing. Now, t-h-i-n-g,  
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she does not make that an NG ending, she  doesn’t say nothing, she says nothing,  
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nothing. So, making the NG ending just  an N ending, ih as in sit n and nothing.
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Nothing.
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I hope she’s okay.
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Okay, so Monica’s response. Four words,  two of them as stressed. Which do you  
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think are longer and up down shape of  stress or a down up shape of stress?
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I hope she’s okay.
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I hope she’s. Uhuhuh. Definitely hear that pitch  change. I hope she’s. And then we have okay. Also  
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an up down shape of stress there. So, we have hope  and K. Now, the word I, that’s the I diphthong.  
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It’s unstressed here, I don’t really hear  her pronouncing both of those sounds, I.
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I hope she’s.
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It’s more like a, a, I hope,  I hope, I hope she’s okay.  
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So, ,aybe more like the ah as in father said  very, very quickly. I hope, I hope she’s okay.
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I hope she’s okay.
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Hope she’s. So, let’s talk about  our p. This is a stop consonant,  
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hope. A stop consonant is a stop of air and  a release. But it’s really common in stop  
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consonants not to make the release when  the next sound is a consonant. Here the  
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next sound is the sh consonant. So it’s not  hope she’s. But it’s just hope she’s, hope,  
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my lips come together for the P but I skip  the release rather than that escape of air,  
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we go right into the sh consonant, hope she’s.  But there is that little tiny lift break, that’s  
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the stop of the stop consonant as my lips come  together. Hope she’s. I hope she’s, I hope she’s.
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I hope she’s --
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I hope she’s okay.
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Okay, okay. This is a word that  can have first syllable stress,  
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okay. Or second syllable stress,  okay. She’s doing second.
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she’s okay.
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Yeah, I know exactly what she’s going through.
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Yeah, yeah. Up down shape of stress
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Yeah, --
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I know exactly what she’s going through.
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Yeah, I know exactly. So, more stress on  our verb. I know exactly on our adverb.
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I know exactly --
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I know exactly what she’s going through.
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Going through, what she’s going through, then  one more stressed syllable on the verb going.  
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So everything links together  smoothly even the word yeah,  
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links right into the I, he doesn’t  do a break there, yeah, yeah I know.
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Yeah, I know exactly what she’s going through.
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Maybe you noticed this, maybe you  already know it but this word is  
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pronounced the exact same way as this word.  N consonant, O diphthong. Know. Yeah I know.
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Yeah, I know --
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exactly what she’s going through.
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Exactly. Now this is an interesting word.  We have the letter X. That always makes two  
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sounds. In this case egz, G and Z, exactly. Then  we have a K, the letter C makes K, t-l-y. So,  
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when t comes between two consonants, it’s really  common in American Englsih to drop it and that’s  
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what he does, he does not say exactly. You  will find very few people pronouncing it that  
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way. Exactly, exactly with no T is a much more  common pronunciation. Exactly, I know exactly.
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I know exactly.
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I know exactly what she’s going through.
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Exactly what she’s, what she’s, what she’s, what she’s.
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Do you notice I’m not saying what she’s?  It’s a very quick stop. It’s an unstressed word  
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said very quickly. What she’s, what she’s,  what she’s, what, what. I’m debating, do I  
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want to write that with a schwa, what, what or  uh as in butter, what, what. Let’s listen again.
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I know exactly what she’s --
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I think I’m going to write it with the  schwa, I think it’s just, there’s not much  
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of a vowel there but what, what, what, what  she’s, what she’s. What she’s, what she’s.
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what she’s --
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going through.
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Going through, going through. So one  peak of stress and the rest of the  
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sentence just comes as the intonation drops  off. Now, Rachel up here took an IG ending,  
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ing ending and made it an IN ending. He's  doing that too, rather than saying going,  
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he’s saying goin’, goin’. Unstressed syllable  as it as in sit and going through, going, going,  
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going through. Through, this word can be tricky,  we have an unvoiced th with an R. now the tongue  
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does have to come through, the teeth here. But  it’s just the very tip. Make sure there’s not  
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tension so the air can just flow really freely.  Going through, going through, th, th, th, through.
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going through.
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And all of these letters o-u-g-h just  make the ooh vowel. Going through.
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going through.
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How do you know --
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How do you know. She’s stressing  you, we see that with a hand gesture,  
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how do, how do you know. A little bit  of stress on our question word. That’s  
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really typical to have the question  word be stressed. How do you know?
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How do you know --
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How do you know, how do you know. So  do and more said a little bit more  
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quickly but all of this really links together  smoothly. How do you know, how do you know.
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How do you know --
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Exactly what she’s going through?
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Know exactly. So, we have the oh diphthong,  
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the ih as in sit vowel. Know exactly. It can help  you think a w glide consonant between the two to  
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help you link those smoothly. Know exactly.  Now, wait. Is she saying the T in exactly?
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Exactly --
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Exactly, exactly, no, she doesn’t. Like  I said, that’s really uncommon. I only  
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know one person our of everybody  I know who says that T. Exactly.
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Exactly --
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What she’s going through.
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Exactly what she’s going through? Exactly.  
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Stress on the middle syllable there. How do  you know exactly what she’s going through?
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How do you know exactly what she’s going through?
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Exactly what she’s going through. So, what  she’s again unstressed said quickly stop T,  
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what she’s, what she’s, what  she’s, what she’s going through.
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exactly what she’s going through?
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Now, Monica does not make this goin’,  
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she makes it going with an ng consonant.  So, when we have an ng consonant, ih as  
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in sit ng. This NG sound actually changes the  vowel sound. So, it actually sounds more like  
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e, going, going, rather than e, e.  So if we change the NG to an N,  
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then the vowel stays ih as in sit, it doesn’t  change goin. But if we don’t, then the vowel  
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does change even though the dictionary won’t say  this. The American habit is to make ih as in sit  
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vowel NG actually becomes E vowel NG going  going, going, going through, going through.
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Going through --
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Again, through, tricky word, unvoiced  th, bring the tongue tip lightly through,  
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r consonant, ooh vowel, going through.
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Going through --
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She told us.
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Okay, his response, three words, one  of them is stressed, which is it?
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She told us.
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She told us. Pretty clear there, dadada.  It’s like what you want to make a gesture  
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on. Dadada. She told us. She told us. Higher  pitch, change in pitch a little longer. She  
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told us. Now this word does start with a true  T. The rule is a t is a true T if it starts a  
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stressed syllable. So here it does. Told us. Let’s  look at the word told in IPA. We have T consonant,  
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O diphthong L-D. Now, this is a dark L because  it comes after a dipthong And this L does change  
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the diphthong, it’s to, told but it’s told. It’s  almost like one sound. You can maybe think of it  
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as an awe as in law, that’s just a little bit  darker so the tongue shifts back a little bit,  
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it lifts a little bit, lips round a  little bit, uhl, uhl, uhl, told. She  
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told us.And the D links into the u as in  butter vowel, told us [flap], told us.
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Told us.
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Told us, told us. And a little bit a stronger  T and a stronger D because he’s stressing this  
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word. She told us. So, usually when we say I  know exactly what she’s going through. That's  
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because we have also gone through that. We  have experienced that or experienced something  
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similar. So, gone through means to experience  something. And Joey has not experienced what Phoebe  
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is experiencing. In this Episode, Phoebe is maybe  going to meet her father for the first time. This  
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has not happened to Joey. So, when Joey says I  know exactly what she’s going through, it makes it  
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sound like the same thing happened to him. Monica  calls him out on that. Of course, he doesn’t know  
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that but then he says, well I know that because  she told us that. It’s not how we would normally  
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use exactly what she’s going through.which  is why it’s a joke and everyone laughs.
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She told us.
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So what have you got there, Monica?
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Okay, Chandler comes in, he’s  speaking fast, it’s a little unclear.  
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So what have you got there. So  we have some stress on what.  
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In a question, the question word is usually going  to be stressed just like here with how. So what do  
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you got there, Monica? So, Monica tagged on at  the end, it is stressed but because he’s making  
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his intonation go up, the stress goes down  up instead of up down like it normally does.
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So what have you got there, Monica?
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Okay, this is so unclear. So the word so is  not pronounced so with the O diphthong so  
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but it’s su. It's just the S sound, so what,  so what. Maybe you would write that S schwa.  
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The w consonant for what but then  really not the rest of that word,  
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so-ya, so-whya. Is more like what I’m hearing
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So what have you got --
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So what have you becomes to my ears  so-wuh and maybe uh? Let’s listen again.
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So what have you got --
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Yeah, So-ya, so, so-ya-su, so-ya. So I’m going  to write that with the Y consonant and the schwa.  
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So-ya, so-ya, so-ya. So what have you got there.  So what have you got there. So what have you  
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becomes so-ya, so-ya. The word have dropped  totally and the vowel in all of these three  
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words reduced to the schwa, so-ya, so-ya, so what  have you got there, so what have you got there.
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So what have you got there --
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All leading up to the longer word, the  more clear word, got. But that’s a stop T,  
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it’s not fully pronounced. Got there, got  there. That stop of air. That is the T there.  
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The letter O, ah as in father,  got, got, got there, got there.
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So what have you got there --
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So what have you got there, Monica?
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So what have you got there, Monica? There begins  with a voiced th, it’s not stressed. You can get  
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by with not bringing your tongue tip through. You  can just touch the backs of the teeth [flap] with  
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your tongue rather than taking the time to  bring that through. [flap] there, there,  
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there, there. You’ll see it in IPA. Unvoiced  th, eh as in bed schwa R but the schwa R  
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does affect this vowel just like the dark L  affects to oh diphthong, the R or the schwa  
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R affects to eh vowel, not as much jaw drop  not the but the eh, there, eh, eh, eh, there.
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So what have you got there, Monica?
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This is one where you’ll really  have to ignore what you see,  
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what the black and white text is and just  go with what you hear and just try to  
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imitate that and have to simplify your mouth  movements so much to match his reductions,  
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to get through this sentence with the  same pacing, the same rhythm as Chandler
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So what have you got there, Monica?
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Just some stuff for the party.
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Just some stuff for the party. Just some.  Stress on our first word. Just some stuff  
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for the party. She’s making her stress  go up, we have three stressed syllables.  
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Now, even though the word just is  stressed, the T is dropped. That’s  
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really common between two consonants even  in the stressed word like, exactly where  
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we drop that T because it comes between two  consonants. Just some, just some, just some.
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Just some
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Just some stuff for the party.
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Also notice, it’s not some, it’s not stressed.  Some but it’s some, some, I would write that  
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with a schwa, I’m going to say that quickly, also  by the way, there’s not two S sounds here. Just  
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think of one S sound to link, just some, just  some, just some. Just some becomes just some.
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Just some --
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Just some stuff for the party.
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Just some stuff for the. Now here again,  just like just some, when we drop the T,  
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we had two S’s. We have stuff for, two F’s,  we’re going to link that with a single F.  
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Stuff for, stuff for, stuff for. So we have the  uh as in butter in stuff and in the word for,  
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that reduces to schwa R so it’s not for but it’s  for, for. For the. These two words become for the,  
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for the, for the. And remember, this is a voiced  th so you don’t need to bring your tongue tip  
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through because it’s unstressed. For the, for  the, for the. Stuff for the, stuff for the.
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Stuff for the --
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Stuff for the party.
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Party, party. Do you hear a true  T in that word? Party. I don’t.  
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That’s because the T after an R before a vowel  or diphthong is a flap T and that sounds like  
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the American D between two vowels in English.  Party [flap], flap of the tongue. Party. Party.
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Party.
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So, everything links together really smoothly,  we have some reductions, we have a flap T.
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Just some stuff for the party.
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Hey, what are you guys doing here?
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Hey, what are you guys doing here? Two stress  words are question words. What and do. The  
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other word said really, really quickly.  Instead of hey, it’s more like hey, hey.
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Hey, what do you guys --
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You almost don’t even hear it. Hey, hey,  hey. I do hear it. I wrote it when I was  
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sriting out the transcript but it’s so subtle,  so fast. Hey, hey, hey, hey. What are you guys
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Hey, what are you guys --
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Hey, what are you guys. So we have the  word R, this is going to reduce to schwa r  
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and the T comes between two vowels so that  becomes a flap T. What are, what are. The  
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word you said really quickly attached to the word  are, attached to the word guys. What are you guys.
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What are you guys --
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What are you guys. what are you guys,  what are you guys. Can you do that that  
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quickly? It’s like you throw your arm  up and on what and then you just let  
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the rest of the words fly out quickly.  What are you guys, what are you guys.
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What are you guys --
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None of those are stressed. We do not want  to say what are you guys, uh, uh. We don’t  
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want that up down shape of the voice, we don’t  want to length. It’s fast. What are you guys.
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What are you guys --
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Doing here?
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Doing here. Doing here. Now again, we an ING  ending he does not change it. So think of it  
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as ending in eng, doing, doing, doing here.  Doing here. Alright this is interesting. Now  
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we have the word here also with the ih  as in sit this time followed by schwa R  
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so this was ih as in sit followed by ng changes  to the E. That happens in this combination too.  
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Ih as in sit followed by schwa R becomes  more like an e vowel. Doing here, doing here.
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Doing here?
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Aren’t you supposed to be Christmas shopping?
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Aren’t you supposed to be Christmas shopping?  So, the word aren’t, I basically don’t hear that,  
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it’s so mumbled. You can just think that tiny  little throat sound. Aren’t you supposed to be.
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Aren’t you supposed to be --
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Supposed to be. So we have the word supposed  feels like two syllables with second  
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syllable stress. Supposed. But actually, we  drop the first vowel so it becomes just one  
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syllable beginning with an SP cluster. Spo,  spo and it is stressed. Now, supposed to.  
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There is a shortcut we do with this, let’s write  out what the all the sounds would be. Supposed to.  
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Because the word to is pretty much always going to  reduce. Supposed to. But that’s not what he says.
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You supposed to --
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Supposed to. He says supposed to  not spouzd to. So, what happens?  
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Basically, supposed to, we drop  the ZD, we make it instead an S.  
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Supposed to, supposed to. And that’s how we  pronounce supposed to, supposed to, supposed to
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You supposed to --
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Er,er ,er. Are you, are you spo. Are  you supposed to, are you supposed to.  
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Aren’t you supposed to be. So we have  two really quick unstressed syllables  
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then one stressed syllable, supposed  then two more unstressed. To be, to be.  
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Aren’t you supposed to be. Aren’t you  supposed to be. Aren’t you supposed to be.
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Aren’t you supposed to be.
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Christmas shopping?
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It’s a yes no question so he’s making his  intonation go up so now it’s changing so  
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that our stressed syllables are going  down and up. Christmas shopping?  
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And those are our stressed syllables. Christmas,  Christ-mas. Do you notice we dropped that T?  
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That’s because it comes between  two consonants. Christmas shopping?
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Christmas shopping?
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So, we’re linking an S to an SH. I think  you could get away with dropping this  
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but I think he does do it very lightly  and very quickly. Christmas shopping?
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Christmas shopping?
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Shopping? Shopping? I’m hearing  in instead of ing. That means  
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he dropped the NG sound and turned it  into an n sound. Shoppin, shoppin’?
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Shopping?
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You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet?
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You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet? I  can’t hardly make my voice that high right now?  
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A higher pitch shows more energy,  
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a little bit of tension, she cannot believe  that they haven’t done Christmas shopping yet.
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You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet?
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So again, this is a yes no question and  her intonation is going up at the end.  
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You guys, you guys haven’t gotten, a little  bit on gotten, your presents yet and then  
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it’s going up so most of our stress is  on the word presents. Pre, presents yet?
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You guys haven’t gotten your presents yet?
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And she does do a really light release of that t.
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Your presents yet?
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So we have a s, ending s followed by y just like  in the word this, I’m sorry, in the phrase this  
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year which was in the scene we studied two weeks  ago here. This year, linked with sort of an sh  
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sound this year. I’m hearing presents yet linking  with a little bit of an sh or maybe even a CH  
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sound which is written with the T and then the sh  sound which makes sense because we got a t here.  
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So, a little bit of a sound  change happening on that link
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Your presents yet?
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You guys haven’t gotten. Okay, so  we have a couple stops here, haven’t  
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gotten, got’n. So when we have t schwa  n like we do at the end of this word.  
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Even though the sound before is a vowel and  a t between two vowels is usually a flap T,  
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there is an exception. When we have T schwa  N, that T is a stop T. So, it’s not gotten,  
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it’s not gotten but it’s gotten, gotten, gotten.  That’s going to be the most common pronunciation.  
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Haven’t gotten, haven’t gotten.
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Haven’t gotten --
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Your presents yet?
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Haven’t gotten your, haven’t gotten your, your,  your, your. The word your becomes your reduces  
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said quickly, you don’t need to try to make a  vowel there at all, just Y sound R sound, your .
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Haven’t gotten your --
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presents yet?
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Also notice in the word presents, this  letter s makes a z sound. Pres, pres,  
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presents. And it might help you to think of  this as being an I, I’m not sure, it’s a schwa.  
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So, don’t do ents but ents,  ents, presents. Presents yet?
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Presents yet?
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Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.
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Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. Three stressed  syllables there. Tomorrow is Christmas  
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Eve. All with that up down shape of stress,  more length. Notice this word is not tomorrow  
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but it’s to. Always make that a schwa. To, to,  tomorrow. Tomorrow is Christmas. Dropped T,  
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Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve.  Everything linked together.
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Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do? Okay, so  again like I said, the question word  
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is stressed. What are you going to do? And  then our verb is stressed. The other words  
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said quickly, it is not what are  you going to do. Oh my goodness,  
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no, that is all syllables, all words  stressed but it’s what are you gonna.
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What are you going to --
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What are you going to. These  words are all lower in pitch,  
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they’re just coming down from  the what, leading up to the do,  
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the word are reduces, what are, what are, what  are. And that’s a flap T linking. Water, water
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What are you going to --
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What are you going to. So the word you said  really quickly, she doesn’t reduce the vowel,  
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it could be ya. What are ya but she says what are  you, what are you, what are you. Going to, gonna.  
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What are you gonna. What are you gonna do?
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What are you going to do?
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Don’t you have to be Claymation  to say stuff like that?
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So, her pitch is high, she’s panicked about  Christmas Eve. Chandler makes a joke about  
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Claymation. What is Claymation? It’s this way  of making video that uses stop motion. You have  
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a figurine, you move it slightly, you take  a picture of it, you move it slightly again,  
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you take another picture of it. And we have some  very famous popular Christmas specials, you’re  
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probably seen some of them that use Claymation  and in the Christmas special, there’s always  
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something intense happening, we have to save the  day and so that’s why he is making fun of her,  
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don’t you have to be Claymation to say stuff  llike that, her panic about Christmas Eve.
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Don’t you have to be Claymation  to say stuff like that?
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Don’t you have to be. Don’t you have  to be. So we have stress on don’t  
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and no more stress until Claymation. So you have  to be. We don’t really have longer syllables,  
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we don’t really have it up down or  down up but all feeling unstressed
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Don’t you have to be --
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Don’t you. It’s pretty common for an ending T  to mix with a beginning Y to make a CH sound  
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and that’s what’s happening here.  Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you.
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Don’t you have to be --
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Except he’s not saying you, is he?  He’s saying yu. He does reduce the  
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vowel to the schwa. Don’t  you, don’t you, don’t you.
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Don’t you have to be --
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Don’t you have. Don’t you have. We’re dropping  the H. Don’t you have to be, don’t you have to.  
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Pretty confusing but we go right from  the schwa into the ah smooth transition  
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and then we have the V consonant.  Don’t you have. Don’t you have to.
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Don’t you --
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Then the word to reduces. It’s T schwa, Don’t  you have to be. Now, V followed by T have to,  
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often becomes haf-to. So you can make that an  f. Don’t you have to be. Don’t you have to be.
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Don’t you have to be --
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Claymation.
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Claymation. Clay. Up down, clay-mation. So he  
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sort of stressing clay. Clay. Even  though the most stressed syllable is  
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may, mation. Claymation. And he’s making  this one go up because it’s a rhetorical  
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yes no question. He doesn’t actually expect  her to answer it but it is a yes no question.
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Claymation --
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to say stuff like that.
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Claymation, claymation to say  stuff like that. Say. Again,  
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stress but it’s more of a down up  because of it being a yes no question
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Claymation to say stuff like that.
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Claymation to say, claymation to say.  
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To, hmm, no it’s not to. It’s more of a d schwa  claymation to, mation to, claymation to say.
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Claymation to say --
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The t-I-o-n ending here ma-tion  is sh schwa n. Claymation.
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Claymation --
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Claymation to say stuff like that.
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To say stuff like that. To say  stuff like that. And again,  
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a little bit of stress on that  but it’s more of a down up.
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to say stuff like that.
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And maybe a super light release  of a true T there. That, that.
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That --
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Let’s listen to the whole  conversation one more time
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Hi.
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Hey, anyone hear from Phoebe yet?
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No, nothing.
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I hope she’s okay.
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Yeah. I know exactly what she’s going through.
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How do you know exactly what she’s going through?
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She told us.
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So what you got there Monica?
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Just some stuff for the party.
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Hey, what are you guys doing here? Aren’t  you supposed to be Christmas shopping?
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You guys haven’t gotten your presents  yet? Tomorrow is Christmas Eve,  
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what are you going to do?
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Don’t you have to be Claymation  to say stuff like that?
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Thank you so much for studying with me. Be  sure to subscribe with notifications on so  
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being your English teacher, that’s it and  thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.
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