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Friends. It's December and a New  Year's Eve pact has been made. 

You’re going to break the pact.  She’s going to break the pact. 

No. No. No. No. No. No. Does she?  

We're going to do an in-depth analysis of  this scene from Friends to study the rhythm,  

linking, and reductions. All the things that make  American English sound American. You're going to  

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Last week, we studied a clip where  they made a pact for New Year's. 

I say this year, no dates. We make  a pact, just the six of us, dinner. 

In today's scene, that pact starts to  fall apart. First, we'll watch the scene,  

then we'll do an in-depth analysis. I just want to be with him all the  

time. You know? Day and night, and  night and day, and special occasions. 

Wait a minute. Wait, I see where this is  going. You’re going to ask him the New Year’s,  

aren’t you? You’re going to break the  pact. She’s going to break the pact. 

No. No. No. No. No. No. Yeah, could I just? 

Yeah, ’cause I already asked Janice. Come on! This was a pact! This was your pact! 

I snapped, okay? I couldn’t  handle the pressure and I snapped. 

Yep, but Janice, that was like  the worst breakup in history. 

I’m not saying it was a good  idea. I’m saying I snapped.  

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this January. Now, let's do that analysis.

I just want to be with him all the time. 

What do you think is the most  stressed word in that sentence? 

I just want to be with him all the time.

I’m feeling the most stressed word to be ‘all’.  

I just want to be with him all the time. Now we  do have some other words that have some stress.  

I would say I, she's stressing herself and this is  her boyfriend she's talking about. I just want to  

be with him, be with him, a little bit of stress  there, all the time, and some stress on time, but  

I think all has the most. I just want to be with  him. Let's look at these words, all of the words  

leading up to our peak of stress for the sentence,  all. Let's just listen to those words together. 

I just want to be with him..

I just want to be with him, I just want to be  with him, I just want to be with him. Said pretty  

quickly and everything links together, doesn't it? Let's talk about that linking, that's so natural  

in American English. I just want to-- just want  to-- She drops the T in just, it's very common  

when we have an ending cluster like ST or CT and  the next word begins with a consonant, it's very  

common to drop that T, and that's what she does  here, the S right into the W. Now she doesn't say  

‘want to’ she says that very common reduction  ‘wanna’. Now if you're wondering what vowels  

should I put in there, you have a couple options.  I would say UH as in butter, wuh, wuh, wanna,  

would be the best choice for that  first syllable. I just want to-- and  

then the final syllable should be the  schwa. I just want to, I just want to.

I just want to,

be with him.

Be with him, be with him, be with him. So for  the word with, that's the unvoiced TH and the  

word him, it's very common to drop the H there.  Be with him. Be with him. But I do hear that she  

is saying the H, it's just unstressed, it’s said  quickly. For this unvoiced TH, you can actually  

see her tongue tip does come through, it's a  little bit grainy but we can see the tongue.  

Be with him..

all the time. 

All the time, all the time. So the word all,  we have a dark L there. You don't need to lift  

your tongue tip, it's not: all, all. But all,  uhl, uhl. That sound is made with the tongue  

tip down and the back part of the tongue  pressing down and back. All, uhl, uhl.  

Then just go into your TH sound for the  word ‘the’. Do not lift your tongue tip. All  

the, the, the, the. An unstressed word like this  that begins with the voiced TH, you don't need to  

bring your tongue tip through like you did for the  unvoiced TH. Unvoiced TH have to bring your tongue  

tip through, voiced TH, you don't necessarily  have to. And if it's an unstressed word like the,  

then you can get away with not bringing the tip  all the way through, but just touching the tongue  

to the backs of the teeth. The, the, the, the. The  tongue might show through the cracks a little bit,  

but you don't have to make the effort to put the  tongue tip through. That takes a little bit more  

time than we want for this unstressed word, so  make sure it's not dd-- with the tongue tip at  

the roof of the mouth coming down but: the, the,  the, the, the, the tongue poking straight forward  

and coming back. The, the, the, the, all the,  all the, all the, all the, all the, all the time.

All the time.

And the word ‘time’ starts with the true T,  

then we have the AI diphthong, and  the M consonant. Time, time, time.

Time.

You know?

You know? You know? You know? You know?  

This can be said really quickly and unclearly,  like she does. The word ‘you’ reduces to:  

ye, ye, ye, ye. You know? You know? You know?  Pitch goes up, it's a yes no question, even though  

she's not expecting anyone to answer it. You  know? You know? You know? See how quickly and  

sloppily you can make that, it's not: You know?  

Way less mouth movement than that. You know?  You know? Try to simplify your mouth movements.

You know?

Day and night.

Two stressed words with an  unstressed word in between. Day  

and night. Stop T at the end, that's  because it's the end of the thought group,  

the word ‘and’ is not pronounced, and, with a  full AA vowel, N, D sound. How is it pronounced?

Day and night.

And, and, and, and, and very quickly, the D is  dropped. I don't think the vowel reduces. It's not nn, nn.

day and-- day and night, but it's day and, and,  and, and, and, day and night, and, and, and.  

Day and night,

and night and day.

Now here she does reduce the vowel in the word  ‘and’ so she doesn't say an-- but she says nn, nn, nn, nn, nn.  

And I would write that schwa N, and  night and day. Now here she does do  

again a more clear pronunciation. The  D is dropped but it is the AA vowel,  

so there are a couple different  ways you can reduce the word and,  

you can reduce it by dropping the D, which  she does here, and here, or you can reduce  

it by dropping the D and reducing the vowel,  which is what she does in the middle one.

And night and day,

And night and day, and night and day. So more reduced the first time,  

less reduced the second time in this sentence  fragment. And she does do another stop T here,  

she doesn't link them together with  a flapped T. And night and day.

And night and day...

and special occasions.

Special occasions. And, and, and, and, again said  quickly but without the vowel reduction. That  

would be: and, and, but she says: and, and,  and, and, and. So a lot of examples here of  

the and reduction, and most of the time you will  hear the vowel reduced but not always of course.

And special occasions.

And special, first syllable stress there.  And special occasions. So the word occasions,  

in IPA, that first syllable is a schwa.  She gives it more of an OH pronunciation,  

that's not the pronunciation of the word but this  does sometimes happen with beginning syllables,  

when they're vowels, and they're unstressed,  sometimes Americans will over pronounce them  

a little bit, like in this case occasions,  it's not occasions, it's occasions, occasions.

Occasions.

I’ve noticed  this also with the word effect. The first syllable

unstressed is the IH vowel but sometimes  Americans will say effect, switching out  

the vowel sound. So the pronunciation, the only  pronunciation listed in the dictionary is IH here  

and schwa here, but sometimes native speakers  do switch that out. Anyway, the important thing  

to know is that she says occasions but  it's actually occasions with the schwa.

Occasions..

Special, CI here makes the SH sound. Special. Now  here we have a dark L but it links into a vowel,  

so you can lift your tongue tip there to help  link them together. Special occasions. And here  

the letter S along with the letter I makes the  zsh-- sound like in measure. Special occasions.

Special occasions.

Wait a minute. Wait.

Wait a minute. Wait. Wait a minute. Wait. Both  times they have that up down shape of stress.  

Wait a minute. Wait and the  words a in a minute come in here  

on the downward shape of  the stress. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

The T in wait is a flap T linking the word  wait into the schwa. Wait a, Wait a, Wait a-- 

Wait a minute. Stop T because the  next word begins with a consonant.

Wait a minute.

Wait, I--

Wait a minute. Wait, I-- Wait, I-- He also does  a flap T linking the T into the AI diphthong.  

And just like he did in last week's video he's  running his sentences together with no breaks.

Wait, I--

Wait, I-- Wait, I-- So both of  

those words have that stress feeling with  that up down shape. Wait, I-- Wait, I--

Wait, I--

see where this is going.

And again, we have some of the up down  shape on 'see'. Wait, I see where this is  

going. And then some up down shape on the stress  syllable of going. I see, I see where this is,  

where this is, where this is, where this, is where  this is. These three words, a little bit flatter  

and they really link together, don't they? Where  this is, where this is, where this is, where this  

is. The word this begins with that voiced TH,  this, but because it's in an unstressed word,  

we're not going to bring the tongue tip through,  we're not going to make that much of that sound.  

It can just quickly touch the backs of the teeth  where this, where this, where this, where this,  

where this, where this, where this, where this,  where this is, where this is, where this is going.  

Simplifying that mouth movement  will let us say it more quickly.  

Where this, the R sound right into the TH, the S  sound of this linking right into the vowel, IH of  

is. This is, this is, this is, this is, this is.

Where this is--

I see where this is going. You're going to-- Again, no break between sentences,  

he just keeps right on going, linking words  together, energy of the voice going forward.

I see where this is going. You're going to-- 

ask him to New Years, aren't you?

You're going to ask him to New  Years, You're going to ask him-- 

A little bit on 'you're'.  You're going to ask them to New  

Year's, compound word, the most stress will  happen on the first word, new, New Year's.

You're going to ask him to New Years--

And actually, this should have an apostrophe  here. It's short for New Year's eve,  

the night before New Year's day. So you are  going to ask him to New Year's, becomes:

You're going to ask him to New Years,  

You are becomes you're, you're, you're, you're,  you're, just the Y sound and then the R sound:  

you're, you're, you're going to, going to,  going to, of course becomes gonna, such a common  

reduction. You're going to ask him-- and that  schwa links right into the a vowel very smoothly.  

Gonna ask him-- Now what's  happening here with ask and him?

Ask him--

Ask him-- ask him-- ask him-- ask him--

The H is dropped, the K links lightly into the  

him reduction. You can think of that  as being an IH vowel M or schwa M,  

doesn't matter. It's said very quickly. Ask him--  ask him-- ask him to-- ask him to-- ask him to--

What happens to the word to?

Ask him to--

It also gets a reduction. That T becomes  a flap T. Ask him to-- rarararrarara--

And the vowel of OO reduces to the  schwa. Ask him to-- ask him to--

Ask him to--

New Years, aren't you?

Aren't you. How does he pronounce that?

Aren't you?

Aren't you? Aren't you? Aren't you?

What? He's getting is CH? Yes. That  happens with the NT contraction,  

or really any word that ends in T when the  next word is you or your, that can become a CH.

Aren't you?

Aren't, aren't, we can write that with the  AH as in father vowel like in car, the AW,  

R combination. Car, rrrrr-- aren't you? Then the  CH sound, ch--, and the schwa. Aren’t you? Aren’t  

you? Aren’t you? Stress on the first syllable  there, on the first vowel R, are-- aren’t you?

Aren’t you?

And You know The Z sound of New Year's? You  can link that into the vowel. New Year’s,  

aren’t you? New Year’s, aren’t you? New  Year’s, aren’t you? To help smooth that out.

New Year’s, aren’t you?

You're going to break the pact.  She's going to break the pact.

Again, two syllables, no break whatsoever,  this is part of Chandler's character.  

No breaks, no stopping when speaking.  Let's look at the first sentence.

You're going to break the pact.

You're going to, you're going to, so the vowel  reduces, but it still has a stressed feel. You're,  

you're, when I write that reduction, I write  it with schwa R, but when it's stressed,  

it has a feel like the UR as in  bird vowel R. You're, you're,  

you're going to break the pact. Three stressed  words there, going to of course becomes gonna.  

Listen to that audio three times,  think about how smooth that is.

You're going to break the pact.

And the word 'the' remember that voiced TH on  an unstressed word. You don't need to try to  

bring your tongue tip through, but try to  keep it away from the roof of the mouth,  

we don't want it to go up and release,  that will sound like a D, dd--  

try to make it: the, the, the, the, the,  lightly touching the backs of the teeth,  

and the teeth can be slightly parted.  The, the, the, the, break the pact.

Break the pact.

Break the, break the. Notice it's not  break the. That K is not released,  

it's a stop consonant so he puts  his tongue into position for the K,  

back of the tongue against the soft palate, break  the. But then rather than releasing the air,  

he releases right into the next sound. Break  the, break the, break the, break the pact.

Now pact. We have an ending cluster.  

He does not put a break, so it links into the next  word, that is a consonant, that T gets dropped.

Break the pact.

Pact she-- pact she-- pact she--  So he completely drops the T.

Break the pact. She--

She's gonna break the pact.

She's going to break the pact. She's going to  break-- again, a stop K not released. Break the  

pact. Now let's see here, it's  the end of a thought group,  

he's not linking in. Does he make a T sound there?

She's going to break the pact. 

I don't hear it. Pact is all I hear. Break  the pact. I don't even really hear a release.  

So that's a little unusual, it should  be pact, most commonly I would say,  

when it's at the end of a thought group. But he's  just dropped the T, and so he drops it here too.  

And of course again 'going to' much more natural  in spoken English to say 'gonna' I wouldn't ever  

recommend writing the word gonna, even if it's in  something casual like a text. Definitely people  

do it but I would say when you're writing, just  write 'going to' because there are definitely  

cases where writing 'gonna' like in a more  formal situation would be really frowned upon.  

For example, in a cover letter for a job,  you would never want to write gonna. But in  

the job interview, it would be perfectly fine  to say 'gonna' as part of your spoken answer.

She's going to break the pact. 

No. No. No. No. No. No.

Okay so then she says no many  times in a row. N consonant,  

OH diphthong linking into N consonant,  OH diphthong. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.  

No. No. No. No. No. No. No

Yeah, could I just?

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Quick up down shape. Yeah.

Yeah,

could I just?

Could I just? Could I just?

Stress there, I would say on I,  remember the L there is silent.  

Could, could, could, could, could  I-- D links into the AI diphthong,  

make everything smoothly connected. Could  I just-- what happens to the T here?

Could I, just?

Absolutely dropped, no T at all. So You know That  we drop the T in an ending cluster like CT or ST  

when the next word begins with the consonant,  but we've just here now seen two examples of  

native speakers dropping the T there even at  the end of a thought group. So it does happen.

Could I, just?

Yeah, because I already asked Janice.

Yeah. Yeah. Holds that out a little  bit. Yeah, ’cause I already asked  

Janice. And then two up down shapes of stress  there. Because I-- that gets reduced, doesn't it?

Yeah, ’cause I already asked Janice. 

’Cause I, ’cause I, ’cause I, ’cause I, ’cause I.  

K schwa Z. The Z linking into the AI diphthong.  Cause I, cause I , cause I , cause I. 

Keep it flat, keep it simple. Cause  I, cause I, cause I, cause I already--

’Cause I already,

Already, already. So it's pretty common to drop  the L in already. I do it too. Already, already,  

I would say he's doing the AH as in father  sound right into the R. Already. Already.

’Cause I already, ’

The word 'already' has second syllable stress but  he gave it first syllable stress here. I already--  

and i've noticed I do that too sometimes.  It's not listed in the dictionary as one  

of the pronunciations but it definitely happens  sometimes when we're really stressing that word  

that we change the stress to the first syllable.  Cause I already asked Janice. Cause I already.

Cause I already asked Janice.

The ending E vowel links right  into the AA vowel of asked.  

Now let's look at this word asked, we  have a bunch of consonants in a row:  

S, K, T, the ED ending here makes T, and  then we have the jj- J sound of Janice.  

Now we know that we drop the T sometimes between  other consonants. Let's see what's happening here.

I already asked Janice.

I already asked Janice. I already asked Janice.  I’m hearing both the T and the K as dropped.  

So basically, it's the AA vowel S  consonant linking right into the J  

consonant. I already asked Janice.

I already asked Janice.

Janice, the name, we have the AA as in bat  vowel followed by N, and when that happens  

it's not pure, it's not an, aa-- an, but it's  Jauh-- aauh-- So you can think of that being  

the UH as in butter vowel, or the schwa in  between as the tongue relaxes. Jan-- Janice,  

Janice. Unstressed syllable, IH as  in sit, and the S consonant. Janice.

Janice.

Come on! This was a pact!

Come on! Come on! Phrasal verb.  The peak of stress there is on  

on. Come on! And the M  links right into that vowel.

Come on!

The vowel in 'on' can be written with either AW  as in law, or AH as in father. Come on! Come on!

Come on!

I would say he is doing the AH as in father  vow-- the AW as in Law vowel. Come on! Come on!

Come on!

This was a pact!

This was a pact! Stress on this, this was a-- and  I would say it's a scoop up and down. This was a  

pact! Going up to that up down shape of stress  on pact. Now he really clearly pronounces the CT  

cluster, he puts a little bit of extra energy in  his P, he does a hand gesture on the word pact,  

he's really stressing that word. This was a,  was, and a, said quickly. The Z links into the  

schwa. Was a, was a, was a, was a. This was  a, this was a, this was a. This was a pact!

This was a pact!

This was your pact! I snapped.

This was your pact! This was, was, was  reduction. This was your pact! And then  

his ending consonants get lost because Chandler  starts talking. Let's talk about the word your.

This was your pact.

Your pact! So he doesn't reduce it, he doesn't  say: Your pact! He says: Your-- AW as in law  

vowel plus R. The R changes this vowel a little  bit, it's not pure, it's not law, yaw-- yar--  

but it's yo, oh, or-- lips round more. Tongue  shifts back a little bit more. This was your pact!

This was your pact.  

I snapped, okay?

I snapped, okay? I snapped, okay? Pitch going up,  he's going to say a little bit more. Snapped. The  

ED ending here is a T sound, so we have an ending  PT cluster. The next word begins with a vowel,  

so we do hear that T lightly released into the OH  diphthong. Snapped oh-- d oh-- d oh-- d oh-- okay?

I snapped, okay?

Really, really light T sound. I’m  wondering if you can even hear it. I  

hear it super subtly. It doesn't sound  dropped to me. But it's very subtle.

I snapped, okay?

Snapped. It has a couple of  different meanings, idiomatically.  

Um it can mean to go crazy like: she snapped and  started yelling at everybody. But in this case,  

it's more like to snap under pressure, to try not  to do something, but oh my gosh there's too much  

pressure so you do do it. So he was feeling all of  the pressure of the New Year's eve holiday. Even  

though he had these dinner plans with his friends,  in his head, it just got built up into this  

thing where you should have a date, and it built  up, and it built up, and it weighed on him, and he  

didn't want to do it, but he snapped, and he did  do it, he did invite a date to New Year's eve.

I snapped, okay?

I couldn't handle the pressure and I snapped.

Snapped, okay? I couldn't-- Again the two sentences  

linking right together. Okay links  right into I, okay, I couldn't,  

and then he has up down shape of stress  on couldn't. Couldn't handle the pressure.

I couldn't handle the pressure--

and I snapped.

Couldn't handle the pressure and I snapped.  And I snapped. More up down shape of stress.  

And here we do clearly hear that PT cluster  being released at the end of the thought group.

I couldn't handle the pressure and I snapped.

I couldn't handle-- couldn't han-- so the N  apostrophe T there, there are a couple different  

pronunciations. I think he's dropping the T.  Couldn't-- the D and the N, he doesn't bring the  

D down, he doesn't bring the tongue down for the  D, he puts it up for the D and then makes the N.  

Couldn't han-

And then that releases right into  the hh consonant. Couldn't han,  

han, han, that's just like Jan--  Janice. AH vowel plus N, not pure.  

UH as in butter kind of sound as the  tongue relaxes in the back. Aauh-- handle--

I couldn't handle--

the pressure.

Handle the, dle the, dle the, dle the, the two  unstressed syllables simply, quickly, that's  

a dark L. You don't need to lift your tongue  tip for that. That would take too much time.  

Handle, uhl. Just make that dark sound. It's like  a vowel. Handle the, the, the. Then the tongue tip  

through the teeth for that, not through the teeth,  sorry, touching the backs of the teeth for that  

voiced unstressed TH. You don't need to  bring the tongue tip all the way through.  

Handle the pressure. Double S there  makes the SH sound. Pressure and I--

Handle the pressure and I--

Pressure and I-- Now here we do have the  and reduction where the vowel changes.  

Pressure and-- The R links right into the schwa,  

the N consonant links right into the  AI diphthong, pressure and I snapped.

Pressure and I snapped.

Yeah--

Yeah-- Yeah-- Yeah-- Yeah-- Yeah-- 

Quick up down shape, drop abruptly  cut off, isn't it? It's not yeah, but:  

yep yep yep. She stops the air in her throat.

Yeah--

but Janice--

But Janice-- but Janice-- Her pitch is  high. She's very surprised. But Janice,  

three syllable, mini phrase there, stop T in But:  

but Janice. And then the peak of stress on  the stress syllable of her name: but Janice.

But Janice--

That, that was like the worst breakup in history.

That, that, that, that, that both of those  words that with a stop T. That, that, that,  

that, that was, was, not was, was, was,  was, was like the worst breakup in history.  

Let's look at the word worst. We have an ending  cluster here. Next word begins with a consonant.  

What do you think she does naturally  to link those words together?

That, that was like the worst breakup in history. 

I was expecting it to be dropped, but it wasn't. I  do hear a true T release. She surprises me there.  

Okay, so she's really stressing the word worst.  So maybe that's why they both got pronounced:  

worst breakup, worst breakup. It would  be very natural to drop it. Worst breakup,  

wors breakup. But I am hearing the  T. Worst breakup. Worst breakup.

Worst breakup.

Worst, W consonant and then the UR as in  bird, vowel R combination. Worst, worst.

Worst--

The worst  breakup in, breakup in, breakup in, breakup in.  

Link those words together P into  EE vowel. P in, p in, p in, break  

up in, break up in, break up in history.

Now the word 'history' can  have two pronunciations.  

She gives it the three syllable pronunciation.  History. She's really stressing that word.  

Worst breakup in history. I mean that's an  exaggeration, of course. So she's bringing  

a little bit more stress to those words. She  is exaggerating what she's saying. You might  

also hear sometimes history as two syllables. But  here, she does history. History. Three syllables.

Worst breakup in history.

I’m not saying it was a good  idea. I’m saying I snapped.

I’m not saying it was a good idea. Stress  on i’m. I’m not saying it was a good idea.  

Stress on good, an idea going up,  he's going to finish his thought.

I’m not saying it was a good idea.  

I’m not saying it was a good idea.

I’m saying I snapped.

Good idea. I’m saying I snapped. And then  all of those go up to our peak of stress  

on the word snapped. And again, PT  cluster released and we hear the T.

I’m saying I snapped.

I’m not, not, not, that's going to be a stop  T because the next begins with a consonant.  

And the M links right into the N, no break, I’m  not saying it was a-- linking together smoothly.  

NG constant into IH. Stop T, just a quick lift,  saying it was, it was, it was, the word was,  

is not pronounced was, it's pronounced was,  faster than that, and the Z links into the schwa.  

So much linking and smoothness. I’m not  saying it was a, I’m not saying it was a.

I’m not saying it was a--  

good idea. I’m saying I snapped.

Good idea. I’m saying I snapped.  And then a hand gesture on that last  

and stressed word. But everything  links together really smoothly.

Good idea. I’m saying I snapped.

Let's listen to this whole  

conversation one more time.

I just want to be with him all  

the time. You know? Day and night, and  night and day, and special occasions. 

Wait a minute. Wait, I see where this is  going. You’re going to ask him the New Year’s,  

aren’t you? You’re going to break the  pact. She’s going to break the pact. 

No. No. No. No. No. No. Yeah, could I just? 

Yeah, ’cause I already asked Janice. Come on! This was a pact! This was your pact! 

I snapped, okay? I couldn’t  handle the pressure and I snapped. 

Yeah, but Janice, that was like  the worst breakup in history. 

I’m not saying it was a good  idea. I’m saying I snapped.

Phoebe and Chandler have broken the  pact. Next week, we'll study this clip.

Tell me something. What does the  phrase ‘no date pact’ mean to you? 

Look, I’m sorry, okay? It’s just that  Chandler, has somebody, and Phoebe has  

somebody, I thought I’d asked fun Bobby! Fun Bobby? Your ex-boyfriend, fun Bobby? 

Yeah! Okay, so on our no date evening,  

three of you now are gonna have dates. Uh, four. 

Four? Five. 

Five. Sorry! Paolo’s catching an earlier flight. 

Okay, so I’m gonna be the only one  standing there alone when the ball drops? 

Oh, come on! We’ll have, we’ll have a big  party and no one will know who’s with whom.

Who’s with whom. It looks like Ross is the  only one without a date, so they decide to  

throw a big party instead and it even ends with  a countdown. We'll study this scene in two weeks.

In 20 seconds, it’ll be midnight. And the moment of joy is upon us. 

Looks like that no date pact thing worked out?

Happy New Year! 

You know? I just thought I’d throw this out here,  

I’m no math whiz but I do believe there  are three girls and three guys right here. 

Oh, I don’t feel like kissing anyone tonight. I can’t kiss anyone. 

So I’m kissing everyone? No. No. No. You can’t kiss Ross,  

that’s your brother. Oh yeah. 

Well perfect, perfect. So now  everybody’s gonna kiss but me? 

All right, somebody kiss me. Somebody kiss me!  It’s midnight! Somebody kiss me! It’s midnight!  

So stick with me. All of December, we’re learning  English with TV. We’re going to follow the pact  

and watch how it falls apart, and you’re going  to improve your listening comprehension along  

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