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In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to study real -life English while I make an apple pie with my dear friend, Laura.

Okay, time to make the caramel sauce.

Caramel.

They're all okay.

Okay.

Mmm.

This tasty word can be pronounced three ways.

Caramel.

Caramel or Caramel.

Each pronunciation is accepted and you will find all three of these pronunciations listed in the dictionary.

Here's what it says.

Whisk in a medium saucepan.

Now it doesn't say over medium low heat.

Okay.

I'll do that.

Okay.

Notice how we respond to each other: K and Mkay.

These are both common variants of the word 'okay'.

This word is used a lot in conversational English.

It can be used to say: I understand, I'm listening.

Which is how Laura and I both use it here.

Over medium -low heat.

Okay.

I've read a part of the recipe and we're both saying, I understand that.

Then she offers to take care of it and I say 'mkay' again, 'hear' meaning 'I understand'.

I'll do that.

'Mkay'.

We also use it for 'yes'.

Will you add the sugar?

Okay.

Over medium -low heat.

Okay.

I'll do that.

Okay.

Here's what it says.

So we do this until the sugar is dissolved, then we add the butter which I put out on the counter over there.

Is it a whole stick?

Mm -hmm.

Just light on the butter.

Yeah, you know, it's not this this pie is not very high in calories.

So that's nice.

False.

I've said something here that's not true, it's false.

I'm not being serious.

The pie is very high in calories.

Listen to the different ways you can say, 'I'm not being serious.' False.

I'm joking.

I'm being facetious.

I'm just kidding.

How else could you say that?

She's joking.

Did you already say that?

I did say that.

I'm pulling your leg.

You're pulling my leg.

Yeah, I'm pulling your leg.

It's a high in calorie pie.

Okay, so, um...

It's gonna just result.

I'm just joshing you.

Where does that one come from?

That's the old time you went through it.

I'm just joshing.

You could say that.

I'm just joshing.

Dang.

Don't get upset, I'm just stroshin'.

I'm joking.

I'm being facetious.

I'm just kidding.

I'm pulling your leg.

I'm just joshing.

All of these things mean What I'm saying should not be taken seriously or literally.

I could have also said, I'm just playing or I'm playing.

The word 'just' in all of these phrases can be used, but doesn't have to be used.

A note on the pronunciation of the word 'just'.

If it's followed by a word that begins with a consonant, the T will usually be dropped.

For example, I'm just kidding.

Just kidding.

Straight from the S sound into the K with no T.

False.

I'm joking.

I'm being facetious.

I'm just kidding.

I'm pulling your leg.

It's a high in calorie pie.

I'm just joshing you.

Where does that one come from?

That's the whole time you went through. That one.

You wanna grab this stick of butter?

Yes.

- So every fall, For what?

How many years have you been doing this?

Well, we've lived here since 2010.

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No way.

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Here?

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No way.

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Here, no way.

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What does that mean?

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That means I can't believe what she's saying.

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I don't think it's true.

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And it turns out I misunderstood.

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I thought she meant she had been living in that house since 2010, but she meant she'd been living in the town since then.

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Well, we've lived here since 2010.

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And it probably started...

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No way, here?

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Oh, no, no, no, no, in Northampton.

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Yeah.

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Seven -ish years.

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Six or seven years.

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Yeah.

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I said seven -ish years, while Laura said six or seven years.

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Ish is something you might hear put at the end of a word to show approximation.

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Seven -ish years.

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Seven -ish years.

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Yeah.

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Every fall I come up to Laura's house and we have a fall baking weekend.

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And actually, we've made lots of videos from the fall baking weekend, so I will put a link to that playlist in the comments below.

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Also right here, just click the "i".

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Thank you.

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They're really fun.

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They are.

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At least we have fun.

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We have fun.

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We keep on working on the sauce for that pie, adding butter, and then adding cream.

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Okay, are you ready to whisk?

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I think I'm supposed to add this really slowly.

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Am I supposed to keep whisking or stirring?

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There, we're both unsure of what the recipe says.

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We both use the phrase, "supposed to." We both produce this phrase too.

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Sposter.

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We reduced it from three syllables to two.

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This is really common.

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The S and T can either be pronounced st. Sposter or ZD, sposeda.

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I think I'm supposed to add this really slowly.

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Am I supposed to keep whisking or stirring?

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Here we go.

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Whoa!

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Whoa!

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Steam bomb the camera!

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Okay, so now we're slicing the apples.

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We're using a machine to make it a little easier.

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Are you going to put them in here then?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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There are always lots of reductions in American English.

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Let's look at the ones I just used.

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'We are' contracts to 'we're' and is often pronounced 'were' in conversation.

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It's really fast and it sounds just like this word, 'were'.

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I used that contraction twice here.

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So now we're slicing the apples.

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We're using a machine to make it a little easier.

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Are you gonna put them in here then?

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Yeah, okay.

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You're gonna put them in here then?

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Some more reductions.

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The word 'are' at the beginning was dropped.

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We need that word to be grammatically correct, but it is sometimes dropped in spoken English.

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Going to became gonna, and the TH was dropped in them.

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Put them becomes put 'em.

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put 'em, no TH and a flap T to connect the two words.

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put 'em.

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Put 'em.

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You gonna put 'em in here then?

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Yeah, okay.

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All right, watch this, do its magic.

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Love it, they come out the bottom totally thin sliced.

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Let's put the lemon juice in.

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Let's put the lemon juice in.

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The word 'lets' is really unclear.

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It's very common to drop the beginning and basically just make the TS sound.

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Let's put the lemon juice in.

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Tz, tz.

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That's, it's, and what's can also make this reduction, where we're just putting the TS sound in front of the next word.

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See this video for further examples and explanation.

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Let's put the lemon juice in. And the baby's up.

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Okay, let me go get them.

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Let me go get him.

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A couple reductions here.

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Let me becomes lemme and the H is dropped in him.

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Dropping the H in this word is a really common reduction.

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When we do this, it sounds just like when we dropped the TH in them.

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Get him becomes Get them.

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Just like put them was put 'em.

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The flap T links the words, and the reduction of them and him are the exact same sounds, schwa and M.

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Get 'em.

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Put 'em.

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Okay, let me go get 'em.

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Can you look right there?

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Say hi, I just had a nice nap.

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You can say, "Hey everybody." You wanna try that?

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Hey everybody.

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You wanna try?

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- Okay.

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No. Okay.

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Can I go ahead and put the apples in there?

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Yeah, dump them in.

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Dump them in.

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Them is reduced again.

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Dump 'em.

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Dump 'em.

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Yeah, dump 'em in.

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I'm going to take you down to Daddy.

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I'm going to take you down to Daddy.

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I'm going to got reduced.

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With our most common words and phrases, we tend to do the most dramatic reductions.

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Mana.

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There's almost an idea of I in front of it, but not really.

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Amana.

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Mana Mana.

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I'm going to take you down to daddy.

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I made a video where I go over this reduction and more examples.

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Click here or in the description below to see that video.

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I'm going to take you down to Daddy.

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All right.

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All of them?

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Let me read ahead.

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Yeah, all of them.

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Okay.

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I love how when you start paying attention to a particular reduction, you constantly hear it.

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Did you catch the reductions of 'them' here?

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We're talking about the apple slices.

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All of them?

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Let me read ahead.

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Yeah, all of them.

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Okay.

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All of them, nice them reduction, Laura.

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All of them?

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Mm -hmm.

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I like it linking with the V.

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Okay.

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Then we mix the apples in with the other dry ingredients.

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We packed the apples into our pie shell and drizzled on the caramel sauce, which got too thick as it cooled.

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We overcooked it.

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And finally, we make the lattice top for the pie.

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I had some problems and I kept messing it up.

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I put it-- What is wrong with me?

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I am like...

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really screwing up really screwing up.

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Screw up is a phrasal verb, which means to do something the wrong way or to do a bad job with something.

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I screwed up the pie crust.

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You could also say mess up.

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I messed up the pie crust.

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I'm really screwing up.

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I'm going to have to wipe that off.

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Oh darn.

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I'm going to have to eat that caramel sauce.

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This is weird, Laura.

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Last time I made this, It seeped in much more so when, cause look, when I'm doing the lattice now, when I pull it up, it's like bringing up all this new.

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It's thicker.

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It's weird.

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I gotta say, right now I'm feeling embarrassed.

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about how this is turning out.

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Turn out, another phrasal verb.

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As I'm using it here, it means how something develops or ends.

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I'm not happy with how it's going.

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I'm embarrassed with the end result of my pie.

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I gotta say, right now, I'm like, I'm feeling embarrassed about how this is turning out.

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I finished making the top and we put it in the oven.

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And the final scene, of course, needs to be trying the pie.

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It's out of the oven, looking good.

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Laura, how are you feeling about it?

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I'm feeling great.

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Oh, also we made a pumpkin pie.

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I'm also feeling great about that.

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From scratch with the pumpkin.

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We made whipped cream.

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Big deal.

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and Dana made chocolate dipped macaroons.

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Macaroon or macaroon?

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To clarify, this is a macaroon, and this is a macaroon, which is also pronounced macaroon.

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I don't know, I'll look it up and I'll let everyone know.

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Okay, let's cut this pie.

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Who wants a little bit of apple?

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If you'd like to recreate this pie, it really is amazingly delicious.

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Please see the link in the video description below.

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It's from my favorite pie book, the 4 and 20 Blackbirds book.

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I'm gonna have a caramelly taste.

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Mmm.

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- Mm.

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- Mm.

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It turned out well.

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That's it guys.

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And thanks so much for using Rachel's English.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “English Speaking Practice – Learn English Pronunciation through Real-Life Conversation – Pie Making!”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: pie, word, reduction, caramel, apple. Deze video bevat 296 zinnen en 1906 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 11:59. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 159 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. Slechts 80% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
caramel zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkæɹ.ə.mɛl/	karamel
macaroon zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌmæk.əˈɹuːn/	bitterkoekje, kokoskoekje
dump werkwoord	/dʌmp/	dumpen
whisk zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈwɪsk/	garde, klopper
pronunciation zelfstandig naamwoord	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	uitspraak
calorie zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkæləɹi/	calorie
pronounce werkwoord	/pɹəˈnaʊns/	uitspreken, verklaren
slice zelfstandig naamwoord	/slaɪs/	plak, schijf
lemon zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈlɛmən/	citroen
phrase zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	uitspraak
facetious bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/fəˈsiːʃəs/	al te lollig, misplaatst grappig
embarrassed bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/	in verlegenheid gebracht
lattice zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈlæt.ɪs/	raster, latwerk
playlist zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpleɪˌlɪst/	afspeellijst, playlist
verb zelfstandig naamwoord	/vɝb/	werkwoord

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
turn out werkwoord		uitvallen, resulteren
mess up werkwoord		verrommelen, in de war brengen
bring up werkwoord		opvoeden
check out werkwoord		onderzoeken
come out werkwoord	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	uitkomen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

Will you add the sugar?
How else could you say that?
Did you already say that?
You wanna grab this stick of butter?
You're gonna put them in here then?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	can be pronounced · is accepted · is used
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	I've read · I've said · we've lived
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	verb, which means · macaroon, which is
Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgd	keep whisking · start paying · kept messing

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 93 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, we're, gonna. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, facetious /fəˈsiːʃəs/, approximation /əˌpɹɑk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, contraction /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/, conversational /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, approximation /əˌpɹɑk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, conversational /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, verb /vɝb/, dissolve /dɪˈzɑlv/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: caramel /ˈkæɹ.ə.mɛl/, macaroon /ˌmæk.əˈɹuːn/, calorie /ˈkæləɹi/, embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/, flap /flæp/
/w/ — met ronde lippen: whisk /ˈwɪsk/, whoa /woʊ/, woohoo /wuːˈhuː/, wipe /waɪp/, whip /ˈwɪp/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als caramel, macaroon, dump.

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Uitspraak om op te letten

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