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Hello, hello, hello, everyone.
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Welcome to our live shadowing class where we will shadow Inside Out 2.
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Yay!
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I'm super excited about today because I love this movie.
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I have a confession to make.
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I haven't watched Inside Out 2, but I'm obsessed with Inside Out 1.
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And I cannot wait to watch this with my daughters.
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I've seen parts of it and I feel like this is exactly what we need.
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So when we thought about doing another shadowing class,
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there was no doubt that this is the movie or the scene that we need to shadow and practice together.
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And I think for those of you who haven't watched it just yet, don't worry.
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There are no, there, there's not going to be any spoiler.
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Um, we're not going to be spoiling anything.
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No spoilers are included here because, um, we just took a part of the trailer that was already available on YouTube.
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So that is what we're going to analyze today.
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Practicing intonation, pronunciation, connected speech, rhythm, tone of voice, and all of that good stuff.
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So put your actor suit on, tune your ears, get ready to have fun,
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close the door, tell people you're not going to be available for the next 30 minutes, and let's go ahead and watch this.
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All right.
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So I'm going to play it once.
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I just want to make sure that you guys can hear it well.
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So let me just make sure.
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Okay.
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You should be able to hear it directly.
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If there are any issues with the sound, please let me know in the chat.
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Okay, I'm looking at the chat.
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And we're going to do this together.
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All right, let's watch the scene.
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We are going to shadow and practice and analyze together.
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Orange who made the console orange?
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Do I look orange?
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I didn't touch orange is not my color.
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Not me.
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Hello, everybody.
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Oh my gosh.
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I am just such a huge fan of yours.
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And now here I am meeting you face to face.
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Okay.
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How can I help?
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I can take notes, get coffee, manage your calendar, walk your dog, carry your things, watch you sleep.
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Wow.
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You have a lot of energy.
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Maybe you could just stay in one place.
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Anything.
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Just call my name and I'm here for you.
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Okay.
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Love that.
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And what was your name again?
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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I can get ahead of myself.
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I'm anxiety.
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I'm one of Riley's new emotions and we are just super jazzed to be here.
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Where can I put my stuff?
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What do you mean we?
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I love this so much.
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The character, like imagine doing the voiceover of anxiety.
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First of all, imagine how much energy you need to invest in this.
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And second, feels like a lot of fun and something very anxious to do.
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Good.
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So I'm glad that you can all hear.
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And now I'm going to introduce you to our script.
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So as you know, when I do any shadowing practice, I love to have the video slash audio.
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It doesn't have to be video.
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For those of you who are new for shadowing, new to shadowing.
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And I like to have the script.
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When I write the script, when I work on shadowing or speech analysis, which to me, it's the same because at the beginning you analyze it and then you shadow it.
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I really like to break it down.
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I'm a visual learner.
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So for me, when I see it organized on the page
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and I see the text either written phonetically or stress words or in bold or in bigger font,
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that makes it easier for me to understand it and to apply it.
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So if you have a little extra time and you want to do a shadowing practice with the script, this is what I recommend for you to do.
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And I like this structure, so I'm offering it to you, but you don't have to do it my way.
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You can do it without the text as well, but I feel like it's really, really helpful to see it.
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And also sometimes when we hear something, it's not exactly what it is because, um, because of listening, because of perception,
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because English doesn't always sound the way it's written.
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And this is why I really like to have that extra text to give me confidence.
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All right.
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So let's begin by listening to the first part again,
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and then we're going to analyze it who made the console orange okay text so listening to one sentence
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i want to focus on intonation here what type of intonation do we have here
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in the in this word orange orange there are several pronunciations
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for this word we're going to focus on how she pronounces it with a bit of a rounded aw sound orange
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okay have you noticed how she goes up right it's rising
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intonation have you noticed how it goes up in pitch orange let's listen to it again
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orange who made ta ta ta right try it out orange orange Who made the console orange?
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Who made the console orange?
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So it's a question and then an answer.
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Let's look at it here.
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Orange, who made the console orange?
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So there is, you know, we go up here, something like that.
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I don't have my pen here, but we can see that it's like a question orange.
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And then what she stresses here is who made the console orange?
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So even though the second part is still a question, notice that the intonation feels like there is a period at the end there isn't really
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but the intonation is dropping down who made the console orange data data data
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so let's talk about the rhythm here made the is a little less important
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so she's going to say them quickly the is also a function word
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so we're going to reduce it so not only that we're going to say it quickly because it's less important.
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It's also reduced.
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So the vowel is not fully pronounced, not the, it's the, the console,
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the console, the console, who made the console orange,
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orange, who made the console orange, right?
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So I really want, because they're very playful and they're, they're very expressive because these are cartoon characters, right?
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And this is why there's a lot of room for playfulness with your voice here.
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They're not trying to be cool.
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So really let loose of your voice and your expressivity.
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Let's listen to the next line.
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I didn't touch it.
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Orange is not my color.
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Okay.
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Do I look orange?
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I didn't touch it.
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Orange is not my color.
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So if we're thinking about how it sounds, we can definitely see that there are three like attitudes and types of ways of saying it,
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different voices, different pitches, right?
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They're not saying it on the same note.
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Listen to it.
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Orange is not my color.
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Right?
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So if we're thinking of music, every sentence sounds a little different.
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So let's, let's analyze it.
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Do I look orange?
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Do I look orange?
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Right?
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So look is a stress word.
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and then I didn't touch it.
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It's not me who touched it because it's obvious.
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There is no new information here.
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They all know that someone touched it because there is a console and then if someone touches it, one of the characters, it becomes their color.
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So the new information here in this sentence, I didn't touch it, is not the fact that someone touched it.
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Okay.
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This is why the character doesn't stress.
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I didn't touch it.
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I didn't touch it.
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It's I, I didn't touch it.
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It's not me.
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This is why it's not my color.
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Right.
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And pronouns usually are usually not stressed, right?
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We usually don't pronounce, uh, don't stress pronouns.
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And by the way, when we stress, we go higher in pitch.
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We say it a little longer, but when we do, then we need to think why, right?
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There is like a specific focus on the sentence, on the specific pronoun, in this case, I.
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And we need to understand that in the context, it means I didn't touch it, someone else did.
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It's not about the touching, it's not about the not touching it, right?
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It's the fact that I didn't touch it, I didn't touch it, right?
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Didn't is also stressed.
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and then orange is not my color.
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Let's talk about reductions here.
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Oranges, it actually sounds like oranges in plural, sort of.
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Not is stressed, right?
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We cannot reduce it.
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So it's the ah as in father.
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My, just pronounce really quickly, color.
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By the way, the word color has a cup sound, which is like a stressed schwa, which means it's a little bit more open and more emphasized.
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The always stressed.
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So, it's not color, but it's color, color, color.
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It is not collar.
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It's not the same vowel as the not.
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Okay, so for some of you, it might sound the same, but notice the difference.
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Not color, not color, not my color,
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not my color, not color.
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It's not not collar.
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No, because collar is this, the collar of your shirt.
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Orange is not my color.
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And then someone yells there, not me.
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Right?
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So let's listen to the whole thing again.
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Too bad I can't show you both, but it is orange.
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Who made the console orange?
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Do I look orange?
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I didn't touch it.
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Orange is not my color.
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Not me.
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Hello.
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Not me.
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Okay.
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We don't need to analyze it.
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What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna let you analyze.
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I'm gonna let you shadow it.
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All right.
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So I'm gonna play a line.
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I want you to say it out loud.
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And then we're gonna, we're gonna continue.
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Okay.
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Orange.
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Who made the console orange?
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I look orange.
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I didn't touch it.
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Orange is not my color.
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Okay, so we need to look at the text here for this.
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Let's do the quick part.
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I didn't touch it.
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Orange is not my color.
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Not me.
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Notice that the not has the ahs and father here.
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Okay?
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All right, before we get to the next scene, Let's see if we have any questions.
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I got a comment.
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I love Hadar's clothes matching her nail color with a cup sound.
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Not me.
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Good.
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Oh, that's a good point.
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I wanted to point it out that the word console, right, is a noun.
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This same word can be pronounced as a verb as well.
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So this word is also a verb.
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And then when it's a verb, it's to console, to offer someone a support, especially when they're grieving, right?
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I wanted to console her after she lost her dad.
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Console.
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Notice the difference in pronunciation.
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Console stresses on the first syllable or console.
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Two different words, two different meanings is a noun, one is a verb.
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And if I can offer another quick tip is that when we have the same word, both for a noun and a verb, and it looks the same, like present, present, record, record,
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then know that just like with console and console, when it's a noun, then the stress is going to be on the first syllable.
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Present, convict, record, console.
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When it's a verb, the stress is going to be on the second syllable.
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Present, convict, record, console.
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And then usually the first syllable becomes a schwa because we reduce it.
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It's not stressed anymore.
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All right.
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So thank you, Victor.
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And let's move on to anxiety.
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Let's listen to the scene.
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Hello, everybody.
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Just not my color.
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Not me.
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Hello, everybody.
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Oh my gosh.
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I am just such a huge fan of yours.
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And now here I am meeting you face to face.
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Orange.
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Do I look orange?
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Let's do just that part.
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Hello, everybody.
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Right?
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So if we talk about tone of voice, How does anxiety sound like?
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Excited.
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Sad.
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Right?
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And if we listen to the voices of the people before, not me.
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I'm not the one.
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What did they say here?
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Do I look orange?
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I didn't touch it.
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Or it's not my color.
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Not me.
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So every character has a typical voice that is associated with the emotion.
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We call it tone of voice.
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when the attitude or the emotion or the intention is delivered through your voice.
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Not even just intonation, because we can still have rising, rising, rising, falling, but it's really about the quality of your voice.
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So what would you say?
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Yeah, Janina says excited or enthusiastic, right?
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Hello, everybody, right?
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And how do we know that?
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Because it's high pitch, stretched, it's not low, it's not quiet, it's full of voice.
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Hello, everybody.
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Later on, we understand that that excitement is just anxiety because that's the character anxiety.
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But this is what we recognize.
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And I hear that as well.
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Okay.
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So the first phrase, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
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It's like a filler, right?
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A show of excitement.
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So you're all on point when you said excited.
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Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I'm so excited.
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By the way, O as in go for the beginning, O.
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And then gosh is the as in father.
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Oh my gosh.
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Gosh, that's in American English.
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In British English, it would be more rounded.
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Gosh, right?
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More, oh, forgive me if I'm not pronouncing it fully or correctly, but it's more rounded.
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Oh, oh, oh versus, ah, American English.
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Gosh.
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Oh my gosh.
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I'm just a huge fan of yours.
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So the character speaks really, really quickly.
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So we're going to do a lot of reductions here to be able to fit it in.
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When you say I am, you just reduce it.
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Contractions, contractions, contractions.
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I'm, she's, we're, they're, right?
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We always want to use contractions almost all the time.
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People usually use contractions when they speak.
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Just, it's usually reduced to just such a, just such a, just such a, just such a.
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Say it a few times with me.
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Just such a, just such a.
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Think of it like a new word in a different language that you're learning.
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Just such a, just such a.
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And it's so hard.
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to think about three words that you know so well how to pronounce just, such, a, and then to turn it into something so meaningless,
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like just such a, just such a, just such a.
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These are reductions in English.
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And again, it doesn't matter if you pronounce it like that or not, but it's really important that you understand that these reductions happen.
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And from my experience, learning how to do it on your own helps you open up your brain and improve your listening skills, because that is really important to be,
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to have the confidence to always understand people, even if they use reductions.
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I'm just a, I'm okay.
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I'm just such a, I'm just such a, I'm just such a, I'm just such a huge fan of yours.
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So what do you think the stress words are here?
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And let's play it again. Should have it.
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Orange.
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I didn't touch it.
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Orange is not my color not me hello everybody oh my
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gosh i am just such a huge fan of yours okay i'm just such a
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they actually emphasize the such a i'm just such a huge fan of yours
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so this is something that we see often by the way
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when we connect words together um when there is an important part you hear the character slowing down a little bit.
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Listen to the words, huge.
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Okay, good.
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So, Maximo says huge.
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Good.
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Diana says huge fan.
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Yeah.
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And I think all of these words, huge fan of yours, a little less stressed.
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Listen to it again.
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Listen to the words, huge fan of yours.
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I'm just such a huge fan of yours and huge.
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That's how we stress words, especially when we're excited.
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It's about the vowel being stretched.
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I'm just a huge fan of yours.
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All the rest doesn't matter so much.
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Okay.
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Even if we don't fully hear the yours of yours, of yours, it's not fully reduced, but it's not emphasized as much.
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I'm going to move here a little bit so we can see the video.
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All right, let's continue.
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Now, here I am meeting you face to face.
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Okay.
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And now here I am meeting you face to face.
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I want to talk about these three parts.
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And now, and now, and now, say it with me.
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And now, and now, pitch is flat.
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Something else is coming up.
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I'm not closing it.
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I'm not saying, and now, I'm not saying, and now, right?
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No time, no time.
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And now, and now listen to these three cute groups.
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and what we do to make things interesting.
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It's not, and now here I am meeting you face to face, right?
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It's not on the same note.
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Have you noticed it?
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I'm going to explain it, then listen to it again.
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And now here I am meeting you face to face.
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Let's do it again.
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Just don't think about it.
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Just follow the intonation.
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And now, here I am meeting you face to face.
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One more time.
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And now, neutral, here I am meeting you face to face.
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So, we can actually hear those groups.
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And notice that in each group, everything's connected.
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Here I am, break, meeting you, connected, but break in between face to face.
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Two is reduced.
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So now listen to it again.
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And I'm meeting you face to face.
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Right?
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So see how much versatility we can create with our voice, even in such a short sentence.
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Now I'm not saying this is how you should go ahead and start speaking, but there's a lot to learn from this.
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especially in practice, when you allow yourself to kind of like go with it when you practice, nothing can stop you.
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Well, nothing, you, you create more options with your voice.
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Let's continue listening.
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Okay.
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How can I help?
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Okay.
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We're not going to, we're not going to squeak, squeal squeak.
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Um, but okay.
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How can I help you?
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Okay.
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Let's cut to the chase.
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How can I help you?
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This is a very common phrase.
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Let's practice it.
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Cause I think it's good to know how to say it.
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How can I help you?
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So we have how or help.
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I don't think they say help you.
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How can I help?
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How can I help?
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How can I, can I, can I, can I, can I see it?
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How it's reduced?
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It's not, how can I help?
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And by the way, a lot of you have been asking me lately about the difference between can and can't.
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Okay.
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When it's can, it's usually reduced.
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How can I help you?
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Can, can, can.
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When it's can't usually you don't actually hear the t it's held
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how can't I help you now I said the negative how
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can't I help you sometimes people even drop the t completely
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how can't I help you however the negative form cannot can't is never reduced So when you hear it as can't,
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can't, no, it's the negative.
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Okay.
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When you hear can, can, can, can, it's always the can, the positive.
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Okay.
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Because if it's reduced, it's C-A-N. Can.
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How can I help?
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How can I help?
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How can I help?
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Good.
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Let's continue.
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Get coffee.
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Manage your calendar.
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Walk your dog carrier things watch you sleep wow you have okay
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so we have a lot of stuff here we're gonna look at the text
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and just practice it together so again we have a lot of different units
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and that's what i want to practice today first of all to remember
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that units are connected i can take notes
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so in between comments right we put commas here
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and this is probably how it was written right i can do this I can do this, I can do this, I can do that, I can buy this, I can get that, I can offer this, right?
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Doesn't have to do with, I can do this, but there was like a list.
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And when there is a sense of repetition, the only way to keep it interesting is through intonation, right?
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We want to keep the intonation interesting.
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I can take notes, I can take notes.
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So within here, everything is connected notice the can, how it's reduced.
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I need to just learn how to write what's going on here.
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It's here.
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I can, I can, can you see it?
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Do you want me to make it a little bigger?
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You guys can make it bigger without disappearing myself maybe.
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Okay.
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Is this better?
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watch you sleep let's find something in between sorry give me a moment this is good okay this is better
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so let's trade energy okay let's okay how can i help
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uh i can take notes get coffee manage your calendar walk
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your dog carry your things watch you sleep wow okay
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so i want you to pay attention listen to it again
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i want you to pay attention to the pitch at the end right and the difference
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between the units and how it's broken down
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so instead of it being better there are breaks these are the units
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but to show how it's grouped up all the words are connected let's listen to it again
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okay how can i help uh i can take notes get coffee manage your calendar walk your dog carry your things?
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Watch you sleep.
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Right?
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So notice how like when we make a list, there's always this rising pitch at the end.
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Right?
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So there is escalation, right? In pitch.
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It goes up and then more and then more.
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This is how it creates anticipation and also kind of like shows that sense of anxiety.
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So now let's practice connected speech.
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I can take notes.
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I can take, I can take, I can take notes.
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Next one, get coffee.
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Notice it's a held tea.
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So we don't pop it.
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Get coffee.
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Next one, manage your calendar, manage your, yours reduced.
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So we don't have a vowel there.
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It's a Manage your calendar escalation.
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So pitch goes up a little bit.
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Walk your dog.
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Dog is another Oz and father.
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This is such a good text for the Oz and father practice.
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Carry your things.
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Okay.
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Your is also reduced.
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So right now really focus on reducing and connecting and playing with the intonation.
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A lot of things I'm asking you to do.
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So, carry your things, watch you sleep.
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Notice how they slow down a little bit at the end because it's a little weird, right?
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And you is somewhat stressed, watch you sleep.
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So let's do it again together.
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I'm going to say it first.
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You're going to repeat.
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Then we're going to try doing it with a video.
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I hope we can do it.
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I can take notes, get coffee, manage your calendar, walk your dog.
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your things watch you sleep good let's listen to the text
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to the video you have a lot of here i am
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meeting you face to face okay how can i help uh
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i can take notes i can take notes coffee manage your
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calendar get coffee manage your calendar your dog carry your things watch you sleep Manage your calendar.
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Walk your dog.
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Carry your things.
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Watch you sleep.
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Okay, good.
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Let's watch a little bit more and continue shadowing with a mic.
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Wow, you have a lot of energy.
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Okay, what's the attitude here?
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Is she really excited?
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Let's listen to it again.
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Wow, you have a lot of energy.
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And what is stressed as well?
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I'm going to play it again.
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Wow, you have a lot of energy.
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Wow, you have a lot of energy.
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Yeah, sarcastic irony, maybe a little stressed, nervous, right?
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She's not very sarcastic.
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It's like, I think she's genuinely excited, but She's like very surprised.
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She doesn't know what to do with herself.
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It's definitely not pure excited.
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That sound, but you hear, wow, you have a lot of energy.
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Yeah, I'm a bit afraid, but she wants to be kind.
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Yeah, I think Monica, like I think that's it.
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Like she's a bit afraid.
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I'm like, who are you here?
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I don't know how to manage my voice.
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Okay.
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What are the stressed words?
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Creeped out.
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Yes.
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I would say, what are the stress words here?
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A lot of energy, right?
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And notice again, awesome father.
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This is a lesson about the awesome father.
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A lot of, a lot of, a lot of, um, the word of O F is actually pronounced with a V.
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And in many cases, you can even drop the V a lot of coffee.
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I just had a lot of coffee, a lot of coffee.
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Since we start with a vowel here, a lot of energy.
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I cannot drop the V.
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The V is needed when it's between two vowels.
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All right.
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So we do pronounce it a lot of, and it's a flap T.
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So we hear a lot of energy, a lot of energy, a lot of energy.
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We can connect it.
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You have a lot of energy.
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And again, notice how when people People stress, people, characters, stress.
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They stretch out the vowel.
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A lot of energy.
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Okay?
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Maybe you could just stay in one place.
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Maybe you could just stay in one place.
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What are the stress words here?
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Maybe you could just stay in one place.
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Maybe you could just stay.
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You could, you could, you could, can you hear it?
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could, you could, you could just, again, the just stay in one place.
525
Okay.
526
Good.
527
Let's continue.
528
Call my name and I'm here for you.
529
Okay, good.
530
Just call my name.
531
A lot of justs here as well.
532
Anything.
533
Just call my name and I'm here for you.
534
Do it with me.
535
Just call my name and I am here for you.
536
What are the stress words?
537
So we know that just is a filler word and people a lot of times use it to,
538
to make something like quick, simple, like that's all you need to do, right?
539
It's not a big deal.
540
Just call my name.
541
It's really easy, but also to diminish something, right?
542
For example, I just think it wasn't such a great idea.
543
You know, it sounds a little softer than I think it it wasn't such a great idea
544
so people use just to soften a message
545
and sometimes we overuse it just saying so we need to make sure
546
that we're using it properly okay um what did you say call my name right just call my name
547
and notice how they said I am here for you.
548
So I feel I am was also really, really stressed here for you, for you, for you, for you.
549
Again, notice how all these function words are really reduced.
550
Okay.
551
Let's continue.
552
What was your name again?
553
Oh, okay.
554
So this is like something, but it's typical.
555
People don't necessarily speak like that, but you see it a lot in movies, especially movies for kids.
556
What was your name again?
557
Right?
558
I don't know of a lot of people who speak like
559
that deliberately unless they make a joke or they play a character or they kind of like, okay, yes, that's right.
560
Of course we're going to do it.
561
What was your, but let's focus on the rhythm.
562
What was your name again?
563
What name?
564
These are the stress words.
565
So let's practice it.
566
And what was your name again?
567
And if you want, you can play with your voice.
568
And what was your name again?
569
Just for fun.
570
You don't have to speak like that in real life.
571
That's not going to make you sound like a native.
572
I can get ahead of myself.
573
I'm anxiety.
574
Okay.
575
Important part.
576
Listen again.
577
Oh, I'm sorry.
578
I can get ahead of myself.
579
I'm anxiety.
580
Now this is really fast speech.
581
Listen to it again.
582
Can you hear what they said?
583
Write it down in the chat.
584
Okay.
585
Love that.
586
And what was your name again?
587
Oh, I'm sorry.
588
I can get ahead I can get ahead of myself.
589
I'm anxiety.
590
Can you hear how it's reduced?
591
I can get ahead of myself.
592
I can get ahead of myself i can get ahead of
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myself i can get a i can get a very reduced
594
but this is what we're hearing i'm sorry again the oz
595
and father my friend our friend i'm sorry i can we're actually it's i teach it as a schwa
596
but some people do pronounce it as a lax e the lax e sit kid finish
597
when it's unstressed like in this word is often it is often reduced to a schwa
598
so we can just pronounce it as a schwa
599
or the way the character pronounces it kin can get uh
600
get ahead of myself get ahead of myself what does it mean to be to get ahead of yourself
601
get ahead of myself.
602
I can get ahead of myself.
603
Let me know in the chat.
604
Yeah.
605
And that was really, really fast.
606
And then I'm anxiety.
607
Let's listen to it again.
608
Riley's new emotions.
609
And we are just get ahead of myself for you.
610
Okay.
611
Love that.
612
And what was your name again?
613
Oh, I'm sorry.
614
I can get ahead of myself.
615
I can get ahead of myself.
616
I can get ahead of myself.
617
I can get ahead of myself.
618
Try it.
619
Now, the secret to reduced English or fast English is to really not emphasize your consonants.
620
Just be very, very soft with a consonants.
621
Don't overemphasize them.
622
I can get ahead of myself.
623
I'm anxiety.
624
I'm one of Riley's new emotions and we are just super jazzed to be here.
625
Okay, so let's analyze this.
626
I'm anxiety, right?
627
Introducing themselves.
628
I'm anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.
629
It's as in cat in the dictionary, but before NG, which is the next sound, it's often pronounced as A in American English.
630
Anxiety.
631
Okay, we don't have an X here.
632
It's not anxiety, anxiety.
633
So it's like, ang, zah,
634
ya, if I'm really simplifying it, anxiety.
635
This is the primary stress.
636
Anxiety.
637
Anxiety.
638
I'm anxiety.
639
I'm, again, reduction, one of Riley's new emotions, and we're just super jazzed to be here.
640
Do you know this phrase?
641
Jazzed, I'm jazzed be here jazzed as in cat jazzed jazzed jazzed this is pronounced as a d
642
and we're connecting it not jazzyd but jazzed to be to be to be
643
and we're just super jazz to be here and we're just super
644
and we're just and we're just and we're just and we're just
645
and we're just super jazzed to be here
646
so as you can see there's a lot of usage of jazz just which is also something very common for
647
younger people to use teenagers in this case and these characters are the emotions in the teenager's body.
648
So I think this is why the language is very kind of like youngish and we're just super jazzed to be here.
649
Okay.
650
And let's listen to the end.
651
What do you jazzed to be here?
652
Where can I put my stuff?
653
Can you hear it?
654
Where can I put my stuff?
655
Let's do it together where can I put my stuff?
656
Where can I put my stuff?
657
Where can I put my stuff?
658
Where can I put my stuff?
659
Um, what is stressed here?
660
Tell me the words.
661
Okay.
662
Get ahead of myself.
663
Get ahead of myself.
664
Yeah.
665
I guess from what you're saying is like, get carried out.
666
Like I'm not in sync with myself, right?
667
Get, get ahead of myself.
668
It's like, I'm going too quickly get ahead of myself.
669
So what are the stressed words here?
670
good let's see if you have more definitions for get ahead of myself okay good
671
so get ahead of myself is also let me just write down share with you the script
672
let me see in the chat put and stuff put my stuff good
673
so we have where can i put my stuff good
674
and we talked about get ahead of myself
675
so get ahead of myself is not be in sync
676
but also to just be just a little bit overconfident right kind of like i'm not.
677
It's kind of like I already feel at home here.
678
Where can I put my stuff?
679
Okay.
680
And then they keep doing the same thing.
681
And then she says, what do you mean we?
682
Okay.
683
What do you mean?
684
That's a good phrase to practice.
685
What do you mean?
686
What do you mean?
687
What do you mean?
688
What What do you mean?
689
What do you mean?
690
What do you mean we?
691
What do you mean we?
692
Right?
693
Emphasize.
694
What is the attitude here?
695
What do you, what do you mean?
696
What do you mean we?
697
Good.
698
What do you mean?
699
And then we, is she happy?
700
It's kind of like angry, frustrated, worried, right?
701
Good.
702
All right.
703
To wrap up, let's do one last shadowing session from the beginning until the end.
704
This time, because the video is way too quick for me to pause and give you space to repeat, I'm going to say the sentences and you're going to repeat after me.
705
And the link to the video is going to be linked below the description of the video.
706
Or in the description of the video.
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Below the video.
708
Orange?
709
Who made the console orange? Do I look orange?
710
I didn't touch it.
711
Orange is not my color.
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Not me.
713
Hello, everybody.
714
Oh my gosh.
715
I'm just such a huge fan of yours.
716
And now, here I am, meeting you face to face.
717
Okay.
718
How can I help?
719
I can take notes, get coffee,
720
manage your calendar, walk your dog, carry your things, watch you sleep.
721
Wow.
722
You have a lot of energy.
723
Maybe you could just stay in one place.
724
Just call my name and I'm here for you.
725
Okay, love that.
726
And what was your name again?
727
Oh, I'm sorry.
728
I can get ahead of myself.
729
I deliberately did it quickly.
730
Practice it quickly.
731
I can get ahead of myself.
732
I'm anxiety.
733
I'm one of Riley's new emotions.
734
And we are just super jazzed to be here.
735
Where can I put my stuff?
736
What do you mean we?
737
All right.
738
Bravo.
739
Well done, my friends.
740
You did it.
741
You did it.
742
You did it.
743
You did it.
744
Good job.
745
Okay.
746
Great.
747
Wonderful.
748
Okay.
749
Next steps.
750
You guys, click the link below the video to watch that little part again.
751
And maybe if the team is here watching this, maybe Amar from the team, if you can put the link in the comments as well,
752
so you can click on it and watch it and practice it.
753
And what I'm going to do, because I'm a kind person,
754
I'm also going to just link the doc, the PDF, so you can have it as is.
755
Let's see if I can do it.
756
You know what?
757
Come back.
758
You don't need to download anything.
759
I'm just going to put the link to this script in the description of the video
760
so you can come back to it later to download the script for the video.
761
It's just the doc that I used.
762
If you're watching the replay, then the link to this doc specifically, the way it's organized now, is going to be in the description.
763
All right.
764
Now, if you like this type of work and if you want more of this, make sure to check out my website, hadarshamesh.com.
765
You also have a link here and
766
And you can find a lot more shadowing exercises and speech analysis exercises with the script that you can download.
767
Okay, good.
768
You guys, you did great.
769
Thank you so much for being here with me live or thank you for watching the replay.
770
And if you enjoyed it, make sure to share it with your friends, like it and comment.
771
So I know that you liked it.
772
Have a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day.
773
You guys are the best.
774
And I'll talk to you soon next time.
775
All right.
776
Bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Live: Practice Shadowing a Scene”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: orange, ahead, word, color, console. This video has 776 sentences and 6090 words to shadow. The speech runs for 42:37. The speaker talks at a steady 143 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 133 of its 776 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| console noun | /ˈkɑn.soʊl/ | A stand-alone cabinet designed to stand on the floor; especially, one integrated with home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system. |
| distress noun | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. |
| jazz noun | /d͡ʒæz/ | A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time… |
| pronounce verb | /pɹəˈnaʊns/ | To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously. |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm. |
| intonation noun | /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/ | The rise and fall of the voice in speaking. |
| calendar noun | /ˈkæl.ən.də/ | Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years. |
| analyze verb | /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/ | To subject to analysis. |
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| vowel noun | /ˈvaʊ.əl/ | A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. |
| verb noun | /vɝb/ | A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being. |
| contraction noun | /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/ | An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative). |
| schwa noun | /ʃwɑ/ | An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA. |
| emphasize verb | /ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/ | To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something). |
| syllable noun | /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/ | A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get ahead of verb | To take preemptive action before a potential development becomes reality. | |
| go up verb | To move upwards. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| slow down verb | To decelerate. | |
| break down verb | To stop functioning. | |
| carry out verb | /ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/ | To hold while moving it out. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Where can I put my stuff?
- What do you mean we?
- It's not, how can I help?
- I'm like, who are you here?
- Can you hear how it's reduced?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are included · can be pronounced · is associated |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't watched · I've seen · Have you noticed |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | sound, which is · people who speak · just which is |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should be · Should have · should go |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 188 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, enthusiastic /ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, contraction /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/, schwa /ʃwɑ/
- Long words — get the stress right: intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, escalation /ˌɛs.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, expressivity /ˌɛk.sprɛˈsɪ.vɪ.tɪ/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like console, distress, jazz.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.