Fast English | Learn English With The Movie VENOM | Learn to Speak with Movies

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Rachel's English


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You can understand Americans effortlessly and speak very natural English
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when you study the way we're going to today.
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We're going to study English with the movie Venom, and look at all the things that make spoken English difficult.
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Linking, reductions, changing the sounds of a word.
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When you study these things and you know them,
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you're going to be so much more comfortable and confident speaking English.
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Study like this and you're going to be able to understand American movies and TV without subtitles.
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You're a good person, Annie.
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We're doing this all summer, we started in June, and we're going through August.
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Stick with me, every Tuesday.
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They're all great scenes, and there's going to be so much to learn
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that can transform the way you understand and speak English.
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And as always, if you like this video, or you learned something new,
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please like and subscribe with notifications.
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You're going to watch the clip then we're going to do a full pronunciation analysis together.
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This is going to help so much with your listening comprehension
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when it comes to watching English movies in TV.
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But there's going to be a training section. You're going to take what you've just learned,
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and practice repeating it, doing a reduction, flapping a T, just like you learned in the analysis.
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Okay, here's the scene.
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You're in luck, I've decided to work pro bono.
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I'm joining the public defender's office.
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You're a good person, Annie.
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What about you? What are you going to do?
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Uh, the network asked me to bring the show back. Uh, they want to start with a piece on Drake.
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Oh, when? Really? So-what did you say?
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Uh, I'm not, I'm not into it.
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I want to concentrate on the written word.
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And now, the analysis.
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You're in luck, I've decided to work pro bono.
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You're in luck-- You're in luck-- So if the melody starts lower, you're in luck--
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it goes up for in, and comes back down as she finishes the word luck.
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You're in luck-- you're in luck-- And everything links together, doesn't it?
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There are no breaks, so we have this smooth change in pitch, this up down shape.
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See if you can imitate that. We want a lot of smoothness in American English.
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You're in luck--
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You're in luck--
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You're in luck--
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This word 'you are' is not pronounced you're, but it's: yer yer, she reduces it.
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That's the common pronunciation.
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You can try to make it with no vowel: you're, you're, just a Y sound and an R sound:
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you're, you're, you're, you're in luck, you're in luck.
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You're in luck, you're in luck.
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You're in luck, I've decided to work pro bono.
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Luck, I've-- luck, I've-- ki've-- ki've-- ki've--
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The K sound links right into the next word: I've with the AI diphthong, luck I've-- luck I've-
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Luck, I've--
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decided to work pro bono.
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That word is unstressed. I've decided-- we have some of that up down shape there.
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I've decided to work pro-- pro bono.
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So some stress on pro, and also on bo, on pro, pro, it's going up, pro bono.
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So we have three letters o there: pro bono, and they're all pronounced with the OH diphthong, oh, oh.
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One mistake my students make sometimes is they'll say: oh, and they don't change the lip position,
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oh, oh, we do need the change in the position, we go from more relaxed in the first sound,
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to more rounded in the second sound, and that change is important. Pro bono. Pro bono.
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I've decided to work pro bono.
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I've decided to work pro bono.
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I've decided to work pro bono.
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I've decided to work- decided-- decided-- decided--
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So the first syllable, said very quickly, de, de, and the last syllable said very quickly, ed, ed.
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Decided. Decided. Decided. Uhhhh. The stress is really on that middle syllable. I've decided. I've decided.
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I've decided--
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Decide. So right from the D into a true T sound.
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She wouldn't have to do that. It's common to drop it when the first sound is a D, the sound before is a D,
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decided to--, decided to-- and just make it a schwa. But she does make a true T and then a schwa.
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Decided to, decided to, decided to.
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The important thing is that the vowel here is the schwa, and it's said very quickly.
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It is unstressed. Decided to. I've decided to.
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I've decided to--
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to work pro bono.
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Decided to work pro bono. Work also said pretty quickly. To work, to work, to work, to work.
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This is a tricky word because it has the R vowel in it. Work.
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One thing that can mess up my students is when they try to put a vowel in work, something like that.
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It's just W consonant, think of there being no vowel, R sound, work, work,
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you don't need much jaw drop for that. Work. Work.
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See what happens for you if you take the vowel out. Work. Work.
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Work--
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pro bono.
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I'm joining the public defender's office.
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What are her most stressed syllables in this next sentence?
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I'm joining the public defender's office.
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I'm joining the public defender's office.
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I'm joining the public defender's office.
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I'm joining-- I’m joining the public defender's office.
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So: join, pu--, fen, and ah--, all have the most stress.
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The word I’m, I’m, AI diphthong, M. It's not fully pronounced here, I don't think. What do you think?
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I'm joining--
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I don't really hear the diphthong. I just hear the M consonant before the J.
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I'm joining, mmmm, I’m joining, I’m joining.
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It's a fairly common reduction. I'm joining. I’m joining.
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I'm joining--
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public defender's office.
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So we have our stressed syllable join, then two unstressed syllables.
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Ing the, ing the, ing the, ing the. I’m joining the public—
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I’m joining the public—
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I’m joining the public—
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I’m joining the public—
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Does it feel unnatural for you to make the pitch go up and down like this?
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It might feel very strange to do that depending on your native language.
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But that really helps with the native speakers understanding you because we're so used to that.
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It might feel silly to you, but it's how we use the language. So don't be afraid to really change your pitch.
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Joining the public. And joining the public. And joining the public.
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That's what makes English clear to us. So challenge yourself to do that even if it feels silly.
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I’m joining the public—
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I’m joining the public—
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I’m joining the public defender's office.
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Public de-- So this ends in a K sound.
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I don't hear it released. I don't hear: public, public, public defenders.
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I hear public de-- So the sound stops. She puts her tongue up into position for the K.
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Public de-- but then rather than just releasing a puff of air, she goes right into the D sound.
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Public defender's office.
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Public defender's office.
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Public defender's office.
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Public defender's office.
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This here, apostrophe S showing possession, the office of the defender, of the public defender, is a Z sound.
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Defender's office. And it links right into the vowel.
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Defender's office.
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Defender's office.
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Defender's office.
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Vowel can either be the AW as in law vowel or the AH as in father vowel. Defender's office.
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Defender's office.
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Defender's office.
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Defender's office.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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How does he stress this? What words seem the most clear to you?
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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Good, per--, ann-- that's what I hear. You’re a good person, Annie.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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Good person, Annie.
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You’re and a, both said very quickly.
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You’re a-- you’re a-- you’re a-- you’re a—not: you’re a-- you’re a-- you’re a-- you’re a—
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Very relaxed face. Very little jaw drop. You’re a-- you’re a-- you’re a-- you’re a--
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I can do that without moving my jaw or my lips or my cheeks at all. It's just the tongue.
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You’re a-- you’re a-- you’re a-- you’re a-- you’re a—
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See if you can do that. That kind of simplification of mouth movement is really important
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to help you make these unstressed syllables very fast, to give them an unstressed feeling.
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You’re a-- you’re a-- you're a good person.
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You're a good person.
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You're a good person.
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You're a good person.
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Good, good, good, good person. You know, even though I wrote this as stressed,
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and I do think it has a bit of a stressed feel, it's actually pretty short, isn't it? Good, good, good, good, good.
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There's not much of a vowel there.
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This is the push vowel, uh, sugar, good,
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but it's not good, it's good, good, good, good, good person, good person.
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Good person--
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Annie.
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Good person, Annie. Nannie. The ending N links right onto the vowel AH.
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This is what we want, we want this kind of linking. Good per--
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these two sounds with no break in between.
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You’re a-- linked together: you're a good person, Annie.
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Everything links together so smoothly.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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With this word, person, person, make sure you don't put a OH sound in there. That's the schwa.
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Schwa N. When those two go together, you don't really try to make a vowel at all.
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Person, son, son. Right from S into N. Person. Person, Annie.
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Person, Annie.
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Person, Annie.
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Person, Annie.
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What about you? What are you going to do?
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So these are two different questions but she doesn't put any break in between. They link together.
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What are our stressed words here?
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What about you? What are you going to do?
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What about you? What are you going to do?
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What about you? What are you going to do?
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What about-- A little stress on the question word. What about you?
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What are you going to do?
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So those are our peaks of stress, I would say. What about you?
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What about you?
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What about you?
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What about you?
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What about you? What about-- What about-- What about--
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She says this really quickly, doesn't she? She links the two words together with a flap, wha-dadadadadada.
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What about-- What about--
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We can do that sound more quickly than a true T. What about-- What about-- What about--
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And that's why it gets changed. We… you would never hear a native speaker do that.
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What about-- What about-- What about-- What about—Rarara—
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Just the tongue bouncing on the roof of the mouth. What about--
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The first sound there is the schwa.
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What a-- What a-- What a—What about—What about you? About--
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Stop T, so again, not about, about, about you, but a stop T, about, about, about you, about you.
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What about you?
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By changing those T pronunciations, we can say them more quickly,
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and we can make the whole line more smooth
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without stopping the air with a stop and release. That's what we want.
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What about you?
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What about you?
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What about you?
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What about you?
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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Said really quickly, isn't it? There's a little bit of up down shape, a little bit more length on what and you,
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but then really, most of the stress on do.
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What are you going to do? What are-- What are—
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Just like here, what about, with the flap T, here we also have a flap T. What are— What are—
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The word are reduces to schwa R.
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What are— What are— What are— What are—what are you-- what are you-- what are you--
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Everything links together so smoothly, doesn't it?
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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Going to, she pronounces that as gonna, very common reduction.
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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Uh, the network asked me to bring the show back.
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Uh—uh-- this is the sound we make when we're thinking.
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What is the sound in your language that you make?
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Uh-- it's very relaxed, open sounds, the uh as in butter vowel, uh—uh—
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Uh— uh—
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Uh, the network asked me to bring the show back.
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The network asked me to bring the show back.
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The network asked me to bring the show back.
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I feel that those have that up down shape, the higher pitch,
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and therefore feel more stressed. Let's look at the other syllables, the other words.
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The network asked me to bring the show back.
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The network asked me to bring the show back.
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The network asked me to bring the show back.
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The— almost always unstressed, said quickly. The network, the network, network.
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Do you notice that's a stop T? That's because the next word is a consonant.
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The network—
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The network—
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The network asked me to bring the show back.
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The network asked-- I don't really hear a released K here. If anything, I feel like it sounds almost like a light G.
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The network asked-- the network asked—kasked-- kasked-- kasked-- super light though, do not say: gassed.
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The network asked-- The network asked--
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Actually, I think it's going to work for you to think of it as a K or G. Either one, as long as it's extremely light,
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and it links right into the vowel.
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Kasked-- kasked-- kasked—
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The network asked--
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The network asked--
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The network asked--
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The ED ending is a T when the sound before is unvoiced. The K is unvoiced, so the ED ending here is a T.
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The network asked--
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The network asked--
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The network asked me to bring the show back.
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So let's listen to: asked me to-- Do you hear the T in asked?
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Asked me to--
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Asked me to--
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Asked me to--
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Asked me to--
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Asked me to--
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Nope. I don't hear it. You know, it's common to drop the T when it comes between two other consonants.
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Here, it comes between K and M. That sound is totally dropped. Asked me to-- asked me to--
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Asked me to--
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Asked me to--
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Asked me to--
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Do you hear the K?
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Asked me to—
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No. The K is also dropped.
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Asked me to--
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Asked me to--
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Asked me to--
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So what is happening here?
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In the word ask, we have the AH vowel, S consonant, K consonant.
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When we add the T, well, first, I should say ask. Did you ask him? I'll ask you later.
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We would pronounce both of those sounds. But in the past tense, when we add the T.
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I asked you to do that yesterday. Asked. Asked. When we add the T, we tend to drop the K sound.
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Here, I’m linking into a word that begins with another consonant, the M,
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and I often, it is the habit to drop the T very often between two other consonants.
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So that also gets dropped.
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So now it's just as—as-- ask me-- ask me-- ask me to—
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By dropping some of those consonants, we can link more smoothly.
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So just know asked, past tense, we're going to drop that K.
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Pretty much always. Asked. Asked. Asked.
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The T, we might also drop that T if the next word begins with a consonant like here, ask me, ask me.
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Asked me-- asked me-- asked me to bring the show back.
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Asked me to bring the-- asked me to-- me to-- me to-- me to—
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The word to gets changed, this becomes a flap.
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I write that as a D. It sounds just like a d between vowels. Me to-- me to-- me to—
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And the OO vowel changes to the schwa, uh, uh, me to— asked me to-- asked me to-- asked me to bring—
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Asked me to bring—
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Asked me to bring—
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Asked me to bring the show back.
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Bring the-- little unstressed word, lower in pitch.
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Bring the show back. Show back. And then the word back, just comes in on the downward pitch,
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coming down from that peak in show. Show back.
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Bring the show back.
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Bring the show back.
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Bring the show back.
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Uh, they want to start with a piece on Drake.
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They want to start with a piece on Drake. Start, piece, Drake.
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I hear those as our stressed syllables. The other words said pretty unclearly. Uh, they-- uh, they-- uh, they--
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Uh, they want to start with a piece on Drake.
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Uh, they want to start with a piece on Drake.
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Uh, they want to start with a piece on Drake.
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This utterance, this thinking vowel goes right into the word they. This TH pretty unclear.
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Uh, they-- uh, they-- uh, they-- uh, they-- uh, they--
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Want to-- becomes wanna.
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So all of these unstressed words are pretty unclear. Uh, they want to-- uh, they want to-- uh, they want to—
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Uh, they want to—
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Uh, they want to—
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Uh, they want to—
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Uh, they want to-- Can you do that so simply, barely moving your mouth?
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Pay attention. Pretend that your cheeks are frozen.
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uh, they want to— uh, they want to— uh, they want to—
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What can you do with frozen cheeks? How much can you simplify those mouth movements
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so that those words all feel really unstressed matching the way he does it?
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Uh, they want to—
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Uh, they want to—
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Uh, they want to start with a piece on Drake.
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Start with a piece-- start with a piece-- I love that rhythm. Stressed, then to unstressed, with a, with a, with a, with a, and then stressed. Dadadada.
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Start with a piece-- start with a piece-- Think about that rhythm while you're doing this exercise.
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Start with a piece. Start, stop T,
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start with a, with a, with a, with a. Low in pitch, flat, said very quickly, linking together.
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Start with a piece on—
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Start with a piece on—
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Start with a piece on—
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I barely even hear the TH. Start with a, with a, with a, with a, with a.
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I'm going to say that that's like the voiced TH, that's unstressed, where the tongue tip doesn't come through.
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It just comes to the back of the teeth. That's going to let you say that as quickly as he does.
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And that sound links together right in with a schwa. With a, with a, with a, with a, start with a piece.
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Start with a piece on—
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Start with a piece on—
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Start with a piece on Drake.
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Piece on Drake. And then we have stressed, unstressed, stressed. And they link together.
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The S feels like it begins the next word.
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Piece on, son son son. Piece on Drake.
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Piece on Drake.
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Piece on Drake.
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Piece on Drake.
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Oh, when? Really? So—what did you say?
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Oh, when? Really? Oh-- Up down shape. Oh, when? Really?
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Very quiet and a little bit high, a little bit breathy.
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Oh, when? Really? Not super well pronounced.
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I think she's a little surprised.
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Oh, when? Really?
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Oh, when? Really?
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Oh, when? Really? So—what did you say?
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So-- she doesn't really say so with the OH diphthong it's more like suh suh,
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I would maybe write that with a schwa. Suh-- she doesn't fully pronounce it. Just like these words were.
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She was sort of saying things without saying them to him, they were just her reaction.
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Here she's putting together what she wants to say. So--
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and here's what she wants to say. She wants to put a question out there.
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So--
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What did you say?
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What did you say? What did you say? What, the question word, and say have our stress.
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What did-- so we have some interesting things happening here with the links.
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When a word ends in T and the next word begins with a D, like:
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what did, it's not uncommon to just drop that T sound and link it in.
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Wha—wha—what did—what did-- So I would probably write that W, uh as in butter. Wuh—duh--
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and it links right into the D, which is a flap because it's between two vowels.
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What did— what did— what did— Now what happens with the D and the Y?
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What did you say?
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What did you say?
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What did you say?
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What did you—dya—dya-- the D when it's followed by you or your can be turned into a J sound,
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JJ-- and that's what she does. She reduces the vowel in you to the schwa. So what did you—becomes:
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what didya-- what didya-- what didya--
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Do you hear how flat in pitch that is? Unstressed, less clear, quieter,
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What did you— What did you— What did you say?
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All linking together smoothly and the schwa linking right into the S of say. What did you say?
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What did you say?
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What did you say?
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What did you say?
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Uh, I’m not—
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Uh—uh—Again, that thinking vowel. Uh-- I’m not, I’m not, stop T.
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More stress on I’m, I’m not, and then not comes in in the downward pitch. I’m not-- uh, I’m not—
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Uh, I’m not—
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Uh, I’m not—
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Uh, I’m not, I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it. I’m, in, the rest, a little bit unstressed. Dadadada-- I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not in-- not in-- not in-- I hear those two words linking together with a flap.
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M right into N with no break. I’m not in-- what about this T?
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it. Into, into--
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That gets turned into a D. Into-- into-- into--
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There are a couple ways that we can reduce this word by changing a sound. We can say into,
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we can also say into. I've heard both of those.
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So he's doing: into, into, into, he's keeping the vowel OO. Into, into,
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I’m not into it. Into it. Into--
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and then the OO vowel links very smoothly into the IH as in sit vowel followed by a stop T. I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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So smooth, those changing those true T pronunciations into flaps or stops
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really helps us smooth out English and we love that smoothness.
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I think that's part of what makes it really hard for people to understand when they're learning English,
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is everything is so smooth, it glides together so smoothly.
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That is just one of the characteristics of American English.
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I can totally understand how someone would listen to this phrase:
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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And not understand what they're saying.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I’m not into it.
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I want to concentrate on the written word.
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What are our most stressed syllables here?
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I want to concentrate on the written word.
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I want to concentrate on the written word.
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I want to concentrate on the written word.
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I want to concentrate on the written word.
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I think those are our peaks of stress. I want to-- how are those words pronounced?
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I want to— I want to— I want to—
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I want to-- I want to-- Said so fast. Want to—becomes wanna. I want to—
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I want to— I want to— I want to— I want to— I want to— So fast, isn't it? Try that.
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I want to— I want to—
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I want to
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That's really great contrast with the stress syllable con--. I wanna con--
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we need that contrast in American English to be clear. I wanna con—
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I want to con—
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Concentrate. Cen—cen-- So this C is an S sound. Concentrate. Trate, trate, trate, concentrate.
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Concentrate--
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on the written word.
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He could have connected those with a flap T. Concentrate on-- concentrate on--
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but I actually don't hear that. I hear him making a stop and a little lift before moving on.
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Concentrate on the written word. On the, on the, on the, on the, flat and low in pitch.
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Concentrate on the written word.
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Concentrate on the written word.
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Concentrate on the written word.
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On the written word. Writ—nn-- what's happening here? Wri-- the W is silent in this word.
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Wri-- Oops, I totally wrote that wrong, didn't I?
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We have the R consonant, IH vowel and then we have T schwa N.
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And in this pattern T schwa N, the T is a stop T. Written. Written. Written.
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So you put your tongue up into position for the T, you stop the air, writ—nn.
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And then you just make an N sound.
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You don't need to move your tongue because your tongue is already up at the roof of the mouth
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for the T position. Written. Written. Written word.
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Written word--
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Word. Word. So this is just like work. The first sounds can be a little bit tricky,
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but you don't really want to try to make a vowel because this vowel R combination just sounds like the R sound.
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So it's ww—rr—dd, word, word, word, not much jaw drop needed for that sound, word.
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Word.
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And everything in that phrase links together really smoothly.
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N right into W, no breaks, no leaps in pitch, just uhhh, this constant flow of sound.
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Concentrate on the written word.
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Concentrate on the written word.
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Concentrate on the written word.
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Let's listen to the whole conversation one more time.
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You’re in luck, I’ve decided to work pro bono.
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I’m joining the public defender’s office.
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You’re a good person, Annie.
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What about you? What are you going to do?
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Uh, the network asked me to bring the show back. Uh, they want to start with a piece on Drake.
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Oh, when? Really? So—what did you say?
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Uh, I’m not, I’m not into it.
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I want to concentrate on the written word.
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Now for the fun part,
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you’ll look at the notes we took together and
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you’ll hear a part of the conversation on a loop three times.
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Then there’s a space for you to repeat.
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For example, you’ll hear this:
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Maybe so, sir.
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Then you’ll repeat it: maybe so, sir.
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Try to imitate everything about this exactly so when you see this,
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then you’ll repeat it. Maybe so, sir.
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That’s from Top Gun: Maverick, which was the first movie we studied in this summer series.
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You’ll also have the opportunity to listen and repeat in slow motion.
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This will be important for you if you’re more of a beginner,
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or if you’re having a hard time focusing on linking or the melody.
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Maybe you’ll want to do it both ways, but the important thing is
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here is your opportunity to take what you learned and put it into your body and your own habit.
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That’s what’s going to transform your speaking.
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You might do well to work with the audio section of this video every day for a week.
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Imitating the rhythm and the simplifications will get easier each time you do it.
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If you can’t keep up with the native speaker, do the slow-motion imitation.
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Okay, here’s our audio training section.
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Don’t forget to come back and do this audio again tomorrow and the next day.
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You want to build habits here so you don’t need to think about it so much when you’re speaking in conversation.
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You can focus on the words and not the expression or pronunciation.
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Don’t forget this is part of a series all summer long, 13 videos, 13 scenes for movies check out each one,
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learn something new each time.
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I make new videos on the English language every Tuesday and I’d love to have you back here again.
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