Learn English with Movies – Captain Marvel

261,292 views ・ 2019-07-02

Rachel's English


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In the US, summer is for sand, sun, and blockbuster movies. And this summer, we're going to use
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those movies to learn English and study how to sound American.
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Every video this summer is going to be a study English with movies video.
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We'll pull scenes from the summer's hottest movies, as well as favorite movies from years past.
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It's amazing what we can discover by studying even a small bit of English dialogue.
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We'll study how to understand movies,
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what makes Americans sound American, and of course, any interesting vocabulary phrasal
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verbs or idioms that come up in the scenes we study.
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I call this kind of exercise a Ben Franklin Exercise.
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First, we'll watch the scene. Then we'll do an in-depth analysis
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of what we hear together. This is going to be so much fun! Be sure to tell your friends
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and spread the word that all summer long, every tuesday, we're studying English with
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movies here at Rachel's English.
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If you're new to my channel click subscribe and don't forget the notification button.
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Let's get started. First, the scene.
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You want to get personal.
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Where were you born?
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Huntsville, Alabama. But technically, I don't remember that part.
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>> First job? >> Soldier. Straight out of high school.
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>> Left the ranks a full bird colonel. >> Then?
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>> Spy. >> Where?
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>> It was the Cold War, we were everywhere. >> Now?
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Been riding a desk for the past six years, trying to figure out where future enemies
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are coming from. Never occurred to me they would be coming from above.
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Now the analysis.
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You want to get personal.
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I love this sentence because there's such
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contrast between the stressed and unstressed syllables and words. He really stresses the
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word 'you' at the beginning.
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You want to get personal.
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You want to get personal.
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You want to get personal.
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You want to get personal. And in the stressed syllable of 'per', the first syllable is also
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stressed, but the three words 'want to get' are all much lower in pitch, much less clear,
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flatter than the 'you', up-down shape, higher pitch of the stressed word 'you'.
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You want to get personal.
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You want to get personal.
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You want to get personal.
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Listen to just 'want to get'.
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Want to get--
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Want to get-- want to get-- want to get-- Much less clear than 'you'. Now listen to
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the word 'you' with 'want to get' together, stressed and then unstressed.
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You want to get--
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A big difference there in the quality of those stressed versus unstressed syllables. We have
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a reduction. 'want to' becomes 'wanna'.
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Want to get-- want to get-- want to get--
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And the word 'get' has a Stop T because the next word begins with a consonant.
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Get, get, get, get, want to get, want to get.
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Want to get-- want to get-- want to get personal.
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Okay, let's get back to the analysis.
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You want to get personal.
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Then the unstressed syllables, son--, al--, both said really quickly, those both have
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the schwa, and in both of these cases, they're followed by a syllabic consonant, that means
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the consonant takes over the schwa. We don't make a separate vowel sound. So we go right
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from S into N. Sn, sn, sn-- person, person. And then right from N into L, without making
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any kind of vowel sound. Nal, nal, nal, nal.
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Now, this is a Dark L, which does have a vowel-like quality.
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You want to get personal.
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You want to get personal.
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You want to get personal.
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You want to get personal.
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each one of the youtube videos I'm making this summer, all 11 of the learn English with
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movies videos. So follow this link, or find the link in the video description to get your
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free downloadable audio lesson. It's where you're going to train all of the things that
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you've learned about pronunciation in this video. Back to the lesson.
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Now, here is how Americans make the L in this case. It's a Dark L, it's at the end of a
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thought group, it doesn't link into anything. We make that without lifting the tongue tip.
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Can you do that too? We make the Dark L with the back part of the tongue. Uhl, uhl. Back
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part of the tongue presses down a little bit, uhl, uhl, while the tongue tip stays forward.
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I find that most of my students are so heavily trained in lifting their tongue tip, that it's
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a very difficult habit to break. I want to challenge you to do this. Per-so-nal--
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uhl-- your tongue is lifted for the N, bring it back down, nal-- uhl-- and use the back
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of the tongue to make the dark sound for the Dark L.
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Personal.
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Where were you born?
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She's speaking quickly here without much emotion, very straight faced. Where were you born?
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Where and born, both are stressed words there.
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Where were you born?
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Where were you born?
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Where were you born?
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Where were you born? They both have that up-down shape, were you--
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on the other hand, are much flatter, much faster. Were you, were you, were you.
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The word 'born' this would be written with the AW as in law vowel, followed by R. When these
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two sounds come together in the same syllable, like here, the AW as in law vowel is not pure.
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It's not AW but it's owh. My lips round more, the tongue pulls back a little bit, born,
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born. Where were you born?
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Where were you born?
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Where were you born?
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Where were you born?
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Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.
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So this is a longer thought group. He says: Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't
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remember that part. No brakes. If it's no brakes, then that means it's one thought group.
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So I've written in here with Huntsville Alabama, on this slide, and on the next slide, is the
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second half of the thought group, but he didn't actually put a break there.
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Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.
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Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.
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Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.
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The stress of these multi-syllable words, we have huntsville, first syllable stress,
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Alabama, so the most stressed syllable is bam--, and the first level has a little secondary
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stress, so I would put the primary stress marker there, secondary stress marker there.
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The other two A's are schwas. Actually, just a few weeks ago on the channel, I made a video
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of how to go over the pronunciation of the 50 states and their capitals, we talked about
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the four A's in this word. Click here or in the video description to check out that video
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that goes over the pronunciation of the 50 states.
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Huntsville, Alabama
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Huntsville, Alabama
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Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.
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But technically, I don't remember that part. Our stressed syllables, very clear, but tech--
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but technically, I don't remember that part. Those have higher pitch, they have the up-down
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shape, that curve. The rest is a little bit flatter. It's either leading up to a peak,
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or falling away from a peak.
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But tech-- but, but--
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But technically, I don't remember that part.
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But technically, I don't remember that part.
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But technically, I don't remember that part.
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Now we have an ending T, and a beginning T. Those will combine into a single sound, one
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true T, but technically, but technically.
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But technically, but technically, but technically.
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He's pronouncing this word as three syllables, first syllable stress, tech-- and the ch here
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makes a hard K sound. Tech-nic-- the C here makes a hard K sound. Tech-nic-lly-- and then
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he's not pronouncing this at all, just an LY ending then. Tech-nic-lly-- technically.
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Technically.
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Technically, I don't remember that part.
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And all of these words linked together really smoothly. Technically, I don't re--
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Okay what's happening with the N apostrophe T contraction? We have lots of different ways
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we pronounce that. And in this particular case, I think I'm actually hearing the whole
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thing dropped. Doh remember-- doh, doh. So we have the D consonant, oh diphthong, and
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then I hear that linking right on to the next sound, which is the R.
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I don't remember that part.
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I don't remember that part.
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I don't remember that part.
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Now, it doesn't sound like 'do' because 'do' has different sounds. It has the D consonant,
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and the oo vowel. So the fact that we have this oh diphthong, that's how we know it's
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the negative. Doh-- don't remember. Don't remember. But I actually, I definitely don't
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hear the T. For a second, I listened to it on a loop, I was asking myself: do I hear
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a light quick N? I don't think I really do. I think it's just dropped. Don't remember.
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Don't remember. Don't remember. Don't remember. Doh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Just the OH diphthong
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right into the R. Isn't it crazy? We can pronounce this contraction without the N apostrophe
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T at all, without the part that makes it a negative. But I still hear it as that word
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because of the OH diphthong.
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I don't remember that part.
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I don't remember that part.
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I don't remember that part.
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Are you pronouncing this word? Remember? Try to pronounce it with the schwa. Remember, re-re-re,
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remember
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remember,
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I want you to listen to just the last three words. Remember that part.
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Remember that part.
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Kind of mumbly, it's at the end of the thought group, it's losing the vocal energy, and when
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I'm listening to the word 'that', which would have a Stop T in most cases because it's followed
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by the P here, I actually think I am also not hearing that. That part, that part, that
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part, that part, that part. I think he drops it. TH, quick AA vowel, and then right into
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the P. That part, that part, that part, that part.
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The ending T, he's also not really pronouncing that too clearly. I would still write that
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as a Stop T, I don't think it's dropped, that would sound like par-- and I don't hear that.
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I hear: part, part, and that more abrupt end is the Stop T. But let's listen to these last
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three words on a loop again and think about how you have to simplify everything in your
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mouth to be able to say this this quickly and this unclearly. It's a little bit mumbled.
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This is pretty common for how words come out at the end of a thought group.
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They're definitely less clear.
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Remember that part.
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First job?
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First job? First job? Two stressed words. They're both a little bit longer. First job?
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And pitch goes up at the end because she's asking the question. She wants to know what
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was his first job. Notice how we're pronouncing the T here. This T is dropped because it comes
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between two consonants. That's really common to do that when we have an ending cluster
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like the ST cluster in 'first' or 'just' or 'must'. When it's followed by a word that
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begins with a consonant, you'll hear that T dropped. That helps to link the two words
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together more smoothly. So right from the S into the J sound. First job. Also note we
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have the letter O here. I know my students see that and they want to do some lip rounding.
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No lip rounding in this sound. It's the AH as in father vowel. It is not job, actually,
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this reminds me of Tom who's a Rachel's English teacher. His name is the same, single syllable
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has the letter O. It makes the AH as in father vowel. And even so, almost all of his students
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say something like: Tom, Tom, instead of Tom, ah-ah, with no lip rounding, even though he
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reminds them it's not an OH sound, it's the AH vowel.
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We see the letter O, we have such a strong association. But in English, one of the challenges
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is to break your association between what you see on the page, and the actual natural
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American pronunciation. Because as you can see, we change things quite a bit.
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We drop sounds, vowels are not what we think they are, so the vowel in 'job' and in the word
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'Tom' is the AH as in father vowel. Oh--
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First job?
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First job?
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>> First job? >> Soldier.
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Soldier. Soldier. Two-syllable word, first syllable stress, soldier.
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DI here is pronounced as a J sound, which we would write in IPA: dj-- soldier, soldier.
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Soldier. Soldier. Soldier.
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And the L here, this is the break of the syllable. Soldier. So the L comes after the vowel. That
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makes it a Dark L. He made it without lifting his tongue tip. I make it without lifting
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my tongue tip. Soldier. Soldier. I'm not lifting my tongue tip at all there, I'm using the
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back of my tongue for a more dark sound, for the Dark L. I challenge you to do the same
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thing. Do not lift your tongue tip. An L is a Dark L when it comes after the vowel or
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diphthong in a syllable. Soldier.
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Soldier. Soldier. Soldier.
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Straight out of high school.
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Five-word thought group, the word 'straight' and 'high', most stressed. School also has
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some length, but it's at the end of the thought group, the pitch isn't as high. Straight out
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of high school. Straight out of high school.
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Straight out of high school.
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Straight out of high school.
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Straight out of high school.
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We have an STR beginning cluster, strai-- strai-- the T can come out as a CH there.
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Stch-- strai-- strai-- straight out of-- straight out of--
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Just make sure you make it light. Don't put too much ch-- air in it. Strai-- strai--
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then these four letters, a-I-g-h, all make the AY diphthong.
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Straight out of high school.
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All of the words in this thought group are really smoothly connected. We have a couple
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Flap T's linking words together, like connecting 'straight out'. Straight out, straight out,
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dadadada.
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Straight out ah-- straight out ah-- Another Flap T connecting here.Straight outta--
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The word 'of' reduced, it's just the schwa. Straight outta-- straight outta-- straight
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outta-- straight outta-- dadadadada-- two flaps linking those words.
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Straight out of high school.
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Straight out of high school.
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Straight out of high school.
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High school. High school. High school.
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And again, we have a Dark L. I guarantee you he is not lifting his tongue tip. Don't lift
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your tongue tip as you practice this.
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High school.
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Left the ranks a full bird colonel.
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So, the word 'left' stressed, 'ranks' also sort of stressed, but also not totally clear.
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We'll talk about that in a second. Then the last three words, even more clear, even longer.
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Full bird colonel.
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Left the ranks a full bird colonel.
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Left the ranks a full bird colonel.
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Left the ranks a full bird colonel.
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So the rhythm pattern of these first four words, I would say, is still: da-da-da-da.
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Stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed. Even though 'left' and 'ranks' are said more
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quickly, it really slows down then on 'full bird colonel'. He's really stressing all three
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of those words.
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Left the ranks a full bird colonel.
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Left the ranks a full bird colonel.
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Left the ranks a full bird colonel.
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Left the ranks, left the ranks. T is dropped, it comes between two other consonants.
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Left the, left the. So a quick F goes right into the voiced TH, which doesn't come through
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the teeth here, because it's beginning an unstressed word. Left the, the, the, the--
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I make that sound by just pressing my tongue on the backs of the teeth. It's not at the
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roof of the mouth, that would make it sound like a d, but the tongue tip doesn't come
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through the teeth either. Left the, left the, left the ranks. Left the ranks a--
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Left the ranks--
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The N here is the NG sound because it's followed by the letter k. Ranks, ranks, ranks. And
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I really feel like it's very subtle here. He says this word quickly, a little unclearly.
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It almost sounds like 'rakes' without the ng to me.
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Left the ranks-- left the ranks-- left the ranks a full bird colonel.
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Full-- we have a Dark L. Don't lift your tongue tip. Try it: full, full, full bird. 'bird'
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has the UR vowel, and that's overtaken by the R so you don't actually need to try to
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make a vowel at all. Make the B sound, the R sound, the D sound. Bird, bird.
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Now the word 'colonel'. Okay, that's obviously...
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This is one of the weirdest words in American English as far as letters and sounds.
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Full bird colonel. Full bird colonel. Full bird colonel.
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We have the K sound, which we get from the letter C, then we have the same sound combination
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as in 'bird', the ur vowel and the R consonant. Where's the R, exactly? So where's the O?
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Don't know. Where's this O? Don't know. It's just very strange. I don't know how this word
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evolved, it'd be interesting to look into that. Colonel. Two-syllable word, first syllable
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stress, K sound, R sound: ker-- ker--, and then a very quick: nl, nl, nl. And Dark L
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sound at the end. Colonel.
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Colonel.
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Then?
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Then?
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Voice goes up in pitch, she's asking a question,
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it's not a statement. She's saying what's next? Then?
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Then?
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Spy.
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Spy. So his voice has a little bit of popcorn quality. There's not a full engagement of
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the air. Quick up-down shape of a stressed syllable. That is a statement. It comes down.
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Spy.
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Spy.
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Where?
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Where?
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Now this one also comes down and she also
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has a popcorn quality of her voice. Uhhhh-- where? Where? Instead of: where? Where?
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Which has more volume, more air.
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Where?
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Now, why does this one go down in pitch, where the other question statement went up in pitch?
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That's a great question. The general rule is for the most part, if it's a yes/no question,
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it goes up in pitch, if not, it goes down in pitch. But there are always exceptions
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when she said 'then?' going up here, that was not a yes/no question, but going up made
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us know it was a question. Here, the pitch of 'where' it goes down. We still know it's
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a question.
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Where?
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The word 'where' as a statement wouldn't exist, wouldn't really make sense. And I'm trying
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to think: would I ever make the intonation of 'where' go up? And I would. I would if
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someone had told me where something was, and I didn't hear them, and I needed them to say
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it again, then I would say: where? But this is her first time asking the question: where?
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She's making it a statement.
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Where?
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It was the cold war, we were everywhere.
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Okay, this is interesting. We have: it was the cold war. It was the cold war. Stress
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on 'cold'. It was the-- those three words, hmm, how are they pronounced?
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It was the cold war--
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I'm hearing a Z sound, I'm hearing a schwa. It was the cold war-- it was the cold war--
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Now, I know that the phrase grammatically would be 'it was the cold war.' but he says
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those three words really quickly, just combines them into two sounds. It was the cold war--
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it was the cold war--
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It was the cold war--
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We were everywhere.
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Then the words: we were everywhere. We were-- pitch goes up, energy goes up. We were eh--
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we have the peak on the EH vowel, everywhere. And then the pitch comes down. We were everywhere.
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We were everywhere. All connected, smoothly together.
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We were everywhere.
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We were everywhere.
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>> We were everywhere. >> Now?
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Now? Now? Again, her pitch goes up, showing it's a question. Now, this is a word that
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we could make as a statement. Now? Like if someone said: hey rachel! When are you leaving?
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Now. So by making the intonation go up, now? It's inviting that question by a conversation.
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Now?
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Now? Now? Now?
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Been riding a desk for the past six years,
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trying to figure out where future enemies are coming from.
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Then he has a really long thought group. Actually, let's add the end of this thought group here
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to this slide. So we have lots of words that are a little bit longer, a little bit clearer.
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Been riding a desk for the past six years--
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Been riding a desk for the past six years--
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Been riding a desk for the past six years--
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Been riding a desk for the past six years,
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trying to figure out where our future enemies are coming from.
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Trying to figure out where our future enemies are coming from.
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Future. A little bit of length on 'enemies co--', but we have some reductions,
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what are you noticing? First let's look at the first word.
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Been riding,
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EE is pronounced as the letter IH, that's actually not a reduction, but it's just the
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pronunciation, but it's said very quickly.
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Been, been, been, been. Been riding, been riding--
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Been riding, been riding, been riding a desk--
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Riding a desk-- riding a-- riding a--
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NG sound is changed to just an N sound.
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Ridin a--
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And that links right into the schwa. Ridin a-- ridin a--
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Been riding a,
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Now, we have 'desk for the'.
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I want you to listen to those three words, and listen especially for the K.
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Been riding a desk for the--
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Desk for the-- desk for the-- desk for the-- K is dropped.
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Comes between two consonant sounds,
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we sometimes do that when we're linking things together. Desk for the--
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Been riding a desk for the--
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Desk for the-- desk for the--
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'for the', both said really quickly, we have a for reduction, the word 'the',
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tongue tip does not need to come through the teeth for that TH, you can just touch it at the back
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of the teeth, the back of the front teeth. For the, for the, for the, for the.
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How fast can you say that? For the, for the, for the. Desk for the, desk for the.
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Desk for the-- desk for the-- desk for the past six years.
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Now look, let's look ahead.
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We have STS, a cluster, the T comes between two other constant sounds.
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Do you think it's dropped? I think it is. Let's hear.
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The past six years. The past six years. The past six years.
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Past six years. Past six years. Past six years.
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Okay, yup. It is dropped. Past six.
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Those two words connected with the single S and actually, I'm gonna write a little bit of
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length on that word too. Past six years, past six years.
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I think they all have a little bit of length to them.
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The past six years. The past six years. The past six years, trying to figure out where
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future enemies are coming from.
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Trying to figure out-- okay, that has... That's not how it's pronounced.
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The TR, I am hearing a CHR, trying, trying, that's really common.
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Now the ING, again, he's dropping the G sound.
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He's making that an N sound. Tryin, tryin, tryin. The word 'to' this word is reduced
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to just the schwa. We don't usually drop the beginning sound, we do make that a Flap T
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sometimes. But I have noticed we do sometimes drop that altogether when the sound before
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is an N, and that's what's happening here. Tryna-- tryna-- tryna--
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Trying to figure out,
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Trying to figure out, trying to figure out, trying to figure out. Figure out. Figure out.
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Figure out. Figure out.
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Also said pretty quickly, out, we have a Stop T here, figure out, figure out, figure out.
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Because the next word begins with a consonant, the W sound.
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Trying to figure out,
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where our future enemies--
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WH word but he makes just a clean W sound. There's no wh, wh, wh, where in front, it's
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just: where, where. The word 'our' pretty unclear. I would probably write that schwa R,
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it's reduced. Where our, where our, where our, where our.
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Where our future enemies-- where our future enemies-- where our future enemies--
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You know, I would normally write this schwa R, but I actually almost think I'm just hearing
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it like a schwa. Where our-- where our future-- where our future enemies are--
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That's not too common, but I do think that's what he's doing here. Where our future-- where
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our future enemies are--
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He's just speaking so quickly. This particular word is said so quickly. Now, when it's all
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linked together, I totally get it. It would sound weird to pronounce 'our' that way if
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it wasn't linked in as part of the sentence.
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Where our future enemies--
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This word 'our' and this word 'are', both often reduced to something that sounds pretty
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much the same, schwa R. Of course, over here, I said the R was dropped but here, I do hear it.
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Enemies are-- enemies are-- enemies are-- ending Z sound linking right into the next sound.
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Zar, zar-- enemies are--
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Enemies are--
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coming from--
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Are coming from-- are coming from-- are coming from-- so he has three ING verbs here, and
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for each one of them, he's changed the NG sound into an end N sound.
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I do tell my students not to do this all the time.
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It just doesn't sound quite right, mixed in with other things
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that students tend to do. There will be some native speakers that do it all the time, that
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will definitely sound like an accent, a regional accent in the us, and that's fine. Especially,
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you know, if you live there, you might want to pick that up. Although people in the US
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move around so much, I can't say that, you know, everyone in a particular region speaks
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that way. A lot of people would speak with a more standard accent. And that's what I teach.
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So I just want to talk about that here, he's done it three times, a student watching this
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might think: oh, it's... We should be doing this all the time. I wouldn't say that.
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The last word 'from', not reduced. Sometimes, we reduce this word to: from, from, but the
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vowel is not reduced. It is the UH as in butter vowel. We generally don't reduce the last
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word in a sentence, or a thought group.
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Coming from,
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Never occurred to me they would be coming from above.
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So let's talk about stress. Never occurred to me they would be coming from above.
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And the most stress on that last word because this is what is unusual.
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The enemies are coming from above.
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Never occurred to me they would be coming from above.
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Never occurred to me they would be coming from above.
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Never occurred to me they would be coming from above.
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Also, grammatically, we would have the word 'it' here. The word 'it' is implied. It never
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occurred to me. But he doesn't say that, he just says: never occurred to me--
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Never occurred to me--
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Never occurred to me--
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Never occurred to me--
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Never occurred to me--
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So in the stressed syllable of occur, we have that R vowel again.
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Occur-- ur-- occured--
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So you don't need to try to make a vowel there.
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It's really the R sound. Occurred. Occurred.
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Occurred.
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A little bit of stress on the first syllable of ne-- never uh-- then the R links into the
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schwa. Never uh, never uh, never occurred--
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Never occurred--
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to me--
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Never occurred to me-- occurred to me-- so the ED ending here is a little light D sound,
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not released. Then he makes the word 'to' with a true T, and the vowel is reduced to
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the schwa. Occurred to-- occurred to-- do you hear that D sound in my vocal cords before
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I make the T? Occurred to-- occurred to me-- occurred to me--
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Occurred to me-- occurred to me-- occurred to me
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they would be coming from above.
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So we have the stressed syllable: occurred-- then we have 'to me they would be', all of
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these words before the next stressed word.
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To me they would be coming--
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To me they would be coming--
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To me they would be coming--
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To me they would be, to me they would be,
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to me they would be, to me they would be.
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A little bit flatter in pitch but you don't have much of that up-down shape.
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To me they would be, to me they would be, to me they would be. Now, I hope you're noticing the
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L in 'would' is always silent. To me they would be, to me they would be.
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A very light D sound in the vocal cords here, again, not released. That would be: they would be.
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They would be. They would be.
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We don't hear that. They would be, they would be, they would be. That's what we hear.
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They would be. Little D sound, the vocal cords are vibrating, that's a voiced sound, but
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it's not released, I go right into the B sound.
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To me they would be--
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coming from above.
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Coming from above. We have interesting stress here. He's playing
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with it a little bit because of the surprise of the enemies coming from above, from outer space.
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Coming from above. Da-da-da-da-da. Really stressing that last syllable.
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Now, here we have an ING word, he does pronounce that as an ING word. He makes the NG sound
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instead of an N sound. Coming, coming, coming, coming, coming from, coming from.
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Now, here I probably would write this as the from reduction with a schwa instead of the
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UH as in butter vowel. Coming from, coming from above. Coming from above.
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Coming from above.
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The last thing I want to talk about is he does do a little lift here: from above.
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When I was practicing it one time, I did it with the link: from a, from a, from a, from above,
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from above. But no, it's not how he does it. He says: from above, from above, from-- little
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break, above. Putting that little break there makes that word even more stressed. If we
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linked it into the word before, it would sound a little bit more conversational. But by putting
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a little lift there, a little break in the sound, it brings more stress to that word.
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Wow. The enemies are coming from above.
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Coming from above.
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Let's listen to this whole conversation one more time
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You want to get personal.
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Where were you born?
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Huntsville, Alabama. But technically, I don't remember that part.
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>> First job? >> Soldier. Straight out of high school.
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>> Left the ranks a full bird colonel. >> Then?
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>> Spy. >> Where?
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>> It was the cold war, we were everywhere. >> Now?
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Been riding a desk for the past six years, trying to figure out where future enemies
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are coming from. Never occurred to me they would be coming from above.
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We're going to be doing a lot more of this kind of analysis together. What movie scenes
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would you like to see analyzed like this? Let me know in the comments! And if you want
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to see all my Ben Franklin videos, click here!
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You'll also find the link in the video description.
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That's it and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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