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In the US, summer is for sand, sun, and blockbuster movies.
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And this summer, we're going to use those movies to learn English and study how to sound American.
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Rather than showing a scene from the movie Michael, I'm showing an interview with the star from the movie Michael, his nephew, Jafar Jackson.
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After the clip, we'll do a full pronunciation analysis of everything we hear to help you better understand the American accent.
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I saw an article where it said that Graham King got the rights to tell Michael's story.
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Yeah.
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My first thought was, who are they going to get to play Michael?
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And honestly, I didn't think of myself.
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I was like, this is going to be really interesting.
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So fast forward a couple of months, I get a call from Graham King, and he's kind of looking at me like he asked me, have you ever acted before?
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I said, never.
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I've never wanted to be an actor.
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I saw an article where...
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I saw an article where, then a little, little break.
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So, I saw an article all links together and we have pitch changes.
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Smooth gliding pitch changes.
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So natural in American English.
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I saw an article where are,
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the first syllable of a noun, and saw, our verb, are the two stressed syllables here.
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I saw an article where Generally,
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our stressed words are going to be nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, though not necessarily every single one of those.
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So here we have, I saw an article.
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You want that pitch change, that's what makes English clear.
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That pitch change on a stressed syllable.
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With that pitch change, those words are also longer.
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I should say those syllables are longer.
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And also, they can be a little bit louder.
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They have more vocal energy in them.
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The word I just connects into saw.
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I saw.
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By itself, it would be I, I, I, I.
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Quiet, not much to it.
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I saw.
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I saw an.
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I saw an article.
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All linking together.
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I saw an article.
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I saw an article.
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I saw an article.
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So the I diphthong right into the S, no break.
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The AH vowel right into the schwa.
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Sawn, sawn, I sawn, I sawn, R.
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And then the N right into the beginning vowel.
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Anar, nar, narticle.
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And that's a flap T because it comes after an R before a vowel, so not T, but R, R, R, R.
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a single bounce against the roof of the mouth.
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An article.
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I saw an article.
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I saw an article.
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I saw an article.
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This is a dark L here.
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It comes at the end of the word.
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Make sure you're not la-article.
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Lifting your tongue tip up, let the tongue tip stay down, ll, while you press the back part of your tongue down and back a little bit.
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L. That gets that dark sound.
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Article, L, L, not cull, la la la, in the front of the mouth.
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Article, article, article where.
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The word WHERE, not stressed here, so it's pronounced WER, WER.
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It sounds like this word.
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WER.
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I would write that in phonetics, in IPA, with the schwa symbol,
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not the EH vowel like in whaaaaaare, but whir, whir, whir.
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And it's flat, and it's short.
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That's because it's unstressed.
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Whir, whir, whir.
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This contrast between stressed and unstressed syllables are actually what makes American English clear and really easy to understand.
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I'm gonna play this three times, then there will be a break for you to repeat it.
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Let's do that in a cycle of three.
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So you'll hear it three times, then you repeat, then you'll hear it three times, then you repeat.
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I saw an article where...
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I saw an article where...
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I saw an article where...
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I saw an article where...
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it said that Graham King got the rights to tell Michael's story.
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Okay, so a little bit longer here.
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I do think there's a little bit of a lift here while he's thinking exactly of how to finish his sentence,
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but we've got a lot of words here.
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Let's see, do they all link?
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Do they glide together?
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Where are pitch changes?
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It said that Graham King got the rights to tell Michael's story.
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said that Graham King got the rights to.
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So, I'm hearing Graham King, our proper noun, of course.
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That makes sense that that would be really stressed.
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Graham King, both of those words.
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Longer, clearer, up-down shape of stress.
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And then finally, the word rights, a noun.
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All the other words, a little bit flatter, maybe a little bit quieter, said more quickly.
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Two said simply tuh, tuh, writes tuh, tuh.
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Writes tuh, writes tuh, writes tuh, writes tuh.
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We would write that in IPA with the schwa symbol, so it's not the OO vowel.
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It changes, it reduces.
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so common in American English, in order to get that contrast,
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stressed, and unstressed syllables, we have to change the unstressed syllables so we can make them so short.
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So the word to becomes to.
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Let's just look at our last three words.
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The, writes, to becomes the, writes, to.
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So a little dot, then our up-down shape of stress, then a little dot.
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The rights to.
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The qualities are really different between these stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Now let's link it all together.
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The rights to.
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Let's look back here.
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It said that.
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It said that.
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Now that I'm looking at just three words, I do think there's a little length on our verb.
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It said that.
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It said that.
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It said that.
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It and that, so fast.
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They both have a stop T.
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it, that, where we don't hear the release but the sound gets cut off.
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That's how we pronounce a T when it's followed by a consonant.
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Here it's followed by S.
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Here it's followed by G.
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So it, that, it, that, practice that.
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Practice saying that so quickly.
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It said that, it said that, it said that.
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So let's do our repetition training, this time with the words, it said that Graham King.
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Listen to it three times, feel the smoothness, feel the up-down shape of stress, and then repeat it.
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And we'll do that three times.
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It said that Graham King.
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It said that Graham King.
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It said that Graham King.
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It said that Graham King.
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It said that Graham
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King
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got the rights to tell Michael's story.
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Got the rights to, got the rights to.
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So we have another stop T here.
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The next word begins with the voiced TH.
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This is how we write it in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Got the, got the, got the.
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So there's no tt, t release.
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Got the, got the, got the, got the, got the.
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Got the rights to, got the rights to.
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This is the only word that really has length there.
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Now, you do the repetition training.
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Make sure you're actually practicing out loud.
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That's how to make real change happen and feel the smoothness.
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Got the right to, got the right to, got the right to.
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Got the right to, got the right to, got the right to Got the rights to...
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Tell Michael's story.
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Tell Michael's story.
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Okay, what do you think is the most stressed word there?
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Tell Michael's story.
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I think it's story.
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The noun, tell Michael's, so we have some there.
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Tell Michael's story.
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But our noun has the most change.
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Tell Michael's story.
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The word tell begins with a true T, so we do get that release right into the EH vowel.
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Now here's another dark L.
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Written with two letters this time, still just one sound.
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O, O, O.
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Made with the back of the tongue, not the tip.
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Tell, tell, tell, O, O, O, O.
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Tell Michael's story.
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Tell Michael's story.
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My-culls.
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We would write this second syllable in IPA, K-Schwa-L, and again, that is a dark L.
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Do not lift your tongue tip for it.
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The apostrophe S here possessive after an L is a Z sound.
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Michael's story.
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Michael's story.
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Michael's story.
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Michael's zzzz.
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But when a Z links into an S, guess what?
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The S wins.
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So it's really just Michael's story.
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Linking these two words with the single S sound, forget the Z sound exists.
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Michael's story.
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Michael's story.
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Michael's story.
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Michael's story.
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Michael's story.
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To tell Michael's story.
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Yeah, my first thought was...
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Then the host Jimmy Fallon says, yeah, he's listening.
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He's showing that he's listening by saying, yeah, yeah.
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Little up down shape of stress.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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My first thought was...
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My first thought was, and then a break.
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What was his first thought?
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Okay, so my first thought was, when we have an S-T cluster followed by a consonant,
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here it's TH but it's different than the word the up here.
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Here it's unvoiced.
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But when we have an S-T clustered followed by a consonant, we usually drop that T and he does that here.
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He's actually holding out the S a little bit but there is no T-T released sound.
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My first thought was...
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My first thought was...
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My first thought was...
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My first...
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So we have some stress in first and it's held out a little bit.
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Thought was...
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Then we have the up-down shape of stress for the AW vowel.
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Tho-t was...
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That's a slop T because the next sound is a consonant.
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We don't hear that release.
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Thought was...
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The word was, just like the word to up here, it's unstressed.
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In order to make it really fast, for contrast, it's what we call reduced,
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where the vowel changes from uh to uh, was, was, was, thought was, thought was.
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We don't want to hear was, but was.
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My first thought was, my first thought was,
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my first thought was, My first thought was...
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My first thought was...
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Who are they gonna get to play Michael?
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Who are they gonna...
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And then he does a little break here.
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Everything else linked together.
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Going to, of course, so common, becomes gonna.
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Who are they gonna?
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Let's get rid of our two down here. Who are they gonna?
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So when we have a question that begins with a question word, like who, what, when, where,
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almost always have quite a bit of stress. Who? Who?
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Who are they gonna, who are they gonna, who are they gonna?
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The word who, W-H, it's very common for that to be pronounced like a W, like in the word what,
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or appear in the word where.
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But in this word, W-H makes the H sound.
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Who, who, who.
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There's no W in it. Who.
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Who are they gonna, who are they gonna, who are they gonna.
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Who are they gonna, who are they gonna.
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So all of the rest of these words are unstressed.
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They're just falling down from that one peak of stress.
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Who are they gonna, who are they gonna, are they going to becomes are they gonna are they gonna are they gonna
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so fast quiet not a lot of vocal energy the word
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are reduces it said just like earth who were who were
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the word they is they they they they they flat not
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a lot of energy going to becomes gonna gonna gonna who are they gonna who are they gonna, who are they gonna?
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Gonna, gonna, gonna.
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They both feel unstressed to me really, both of those syllables.
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I think I'm gonna write them both with the schwa.
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The schwa is the most common sound in American English because so many sounds change to the schwa when they're reduced.
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Who are they gonna?
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Who are they gonna?
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Who are they gonna?
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Who are they gonna? Who Who are they
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gonna get
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to play Michael?
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Get to play Michael.
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Okay, so now we have a couple more up-down shapes of stress.
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Get to play.
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Get to play.
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Michael.
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And then the proper noun has, of course, an up-down shape of stress on the stressed syllable.
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Get to play.
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Notice we have two Ts here.
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Those words link together with a single true T.
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Get to.
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Get to.
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And just like here, where the word to reduced, it reduces here also.
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We don't say to, we say to.
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Get to.
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Get to.
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Get to play.
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Get to play.
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Get to play.
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Get to play.
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Get to play.
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So, stress on get.
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Get to play.
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Then the pitch comes down, the voice falls off as you put in the rest of that phrase.
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Get to play.
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And then another smooth up down for Michael.
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Michael.
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And again, K sound schwa, dark L.
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These mixed together, they make a dark L.
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You don't need to try to make a separate schwa sound.
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It's just L, L.
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Or with the K, K, K, K, K, Michael.
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Get to play Michael.
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Get to play Michael.
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Get to play Michael.
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Get to play Michael.
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And honestly, I didn't think of myself.
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And I will say I didn't think of myself.
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Okay, honestly, this is pretty unclear.
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I will say I didn't think of myself.
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Two up-down shapes of stress.
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I'm sorry, three.
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And even though I put one here, it's so unclear the other sounds here that I'm not 100% sure
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if he said I will say or if he said honestly.
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I'm pretty sure he said I will say, but it's so mumbly.
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If someone told me they thought he was saying honestly, I could believe it.
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And I would say I didn't think of myself.
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The word and reduces and there's no D there.
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And the vowel changes.
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It's not and, but it's n, n, schwa n, nai, nai,
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and the n links into the I sound.
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And I will say, and I will say, and I will say.
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And I will say.
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I didn't
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think of myself.
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I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't.
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Linking together smoothly, the N apostrophe T.
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This can be pronounced a couple of different ways it's really common in spoken English to use contractions.
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Let's look at how he's saying it.
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I didn't think.
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I didn't think.
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I didn't think.
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I would say that's a stop T.
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I didn't.
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Just a little separation from the TH of think.
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I didn't.
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Because it's with the N sound, it's nasally, it's in the nose.
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I didn't.
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but there's that abrupt stop of air, very quick before moving into the TH.
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I didn't think.
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I didn't think.
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I didn't think of myself.
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Think of myself.
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The ending K of THINK, THINKOV, kkk, kkk, kkk, kkv, kkv, kkv, kkv, kkv, kkv, kkv, kkv, kkv links really lightly into the schwa,
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the word of pronounced with a V sound, THINKOV, THINKOV.
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I didn't think of myself.
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My unstressed self up-down shape of stress.
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I didn't think of myself.
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myself.
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I was like, this is going to be.
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He does a little break here after be.
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I, I, repeats the word I, I, I, I, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,
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I was like, I was like, I was like, okay, a little bit of up, down shape of stress on I, I was like, and then was like,
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just part of the continuation of that, not a movement in pitch.
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The word was, I was like, I don't really hear the W.
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I hear that as the I diphthong.
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Quick I diphthong going into as like...
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I was like...
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I was like...
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I was like...
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I was like...
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I was like...
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I was like...
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I was like...
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I was like, this is gonna be.
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This is gonna be.
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This is gonna be.
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Two really clear stressed syllables.
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This is gonna be.
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The first and the last there.
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Going to again becomes gonna, gonna, gonna, gonna.
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So is going to is gonna, is gonna, is gonna, is gonna.
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This is gonna be, da-da-da-da-da, feel that rhythm.
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Feel everything smoothly linking together.
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We don't have any skips.
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The sound, the voice, either glides up or glides down.
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This is gonna be.
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This is gonna be.
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This is gonna be.
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This is gonna be.
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This is gonna be.
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This is gonna be.
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This is gonna be.
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This is gonna be...
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Really interesting.
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Really interesting.
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Really.
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First syllable stress.
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Really...
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And then it glides right up into the next stress syllable with no break.
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Really interesting.
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Ah.
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Now let's look at the word interesting.
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Interesting.
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Interesting.
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Interesting.
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It's not four syllables.
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It's much more common for native speakers to make this three syllables.
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Interesting.
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So I would write that in the International Phonetic Alphabet with a stressed syllable.
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In-tra.
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Then it becomes a CH sound which we write an IPA like this.
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I'll put this down here so it makes sense.
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Why CH?
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Because we drop this sound and the TR cluster often gets pronounced as CHR.
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In-tra.
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Another schwa.
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Interesting.
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The IH vowel followed by the NG sound is more like E, not like IH.
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But the important thing is, make it three syllables, not four.
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Interesting.
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Interesting.
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Interesting.
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really interesting really Interesting really interesting really interesting really interesting really Interesting
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really Interesting really Interesting really Interesting really Interesting so fast forward a couple months i get a call from Graham
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So.. so.. do you hear how his voice tapers off at the end?
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So.. so.. so...
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So.. that's really natural in American English.
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Some of the energy comes out at the end of a phrase. So...
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So.. so.. so fast forward a couple months, I get a call from Graham King.
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Fast forward a couple months, I get a call from Graham King.
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Now I want to point out here, Graham, we have our up-down shape of stress, but then on King, King,
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the stress actually changes directions.
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And that's because when our pitch goes up at the end of a phrase, it shows a couple things.
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Here it shows that we're still talking.
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He's not done.
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He wants to talk about the conversation with Graham King, not just that Graham King and he talked.
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Let's look at our other stressed words here.
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Fast forward a couple months, I get a call from Graham King.
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Fast forward a couple months, I get a call from Graham King.
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Fast forward a couple months, I get a call from Graham King.
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fast forward a.
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So we have fast forward a couple months.
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I get a call.
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And then again, our verb call.
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I get a call from.
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So let's look at our ST ending here.
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It's followed by a consonant now.
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I've said that that T is usually dropped.
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Let's see. Is it?
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Fast forward a c- fast forward a c- fast forward a c- Yeah, I'm not hearing t- I think we can consider that dropped.
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Fast forward.
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That means skip ahead.
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Now a couple months later.
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Fast forward a couple.
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Everything linking together smoothly.
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This is a dark L.
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Don't lift your tongue tip.
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C-u-p-ple.
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C-u-p-ple.
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Fast forward a couple months.
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A couple months.
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Okay, I love his pronunciation of this word.
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It's exactly what I do.
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Months.
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M consonant, uh as in butter vowel, n-t-s.
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The th sound gets changed into a t.
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Months, months, months.
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It's just easier to pronounce I've noticed a lot of Americans do that
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Fast forward a couple months Fast forward a couple months Fast forward a couple months
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Fast forward a couple months Fast forward a couple months Fast forward a couple months
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Fast forward a couple months Fast forward a couple months Fast forward a couple months Fast forward a couple of months,
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I get a call from Graham King.
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For a couple of months, I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a, I get a, I get a, I get a.
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Unstressed, pretty flat, said very quickly, all linked together.
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The T in get becomes a flap T as it links the two words together, so the tongue just bounces once against the roof of the mouth.
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Get a, get a, get a, I get a, I get a, I get a call from.
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The word from becomes from, from.
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I would write that with a schwa.
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No full vowel there, not fully pronounced.
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I get a call from.
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Now look at our L here.
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Comes after the vowel.
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That's another dark L.
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Call from.
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You don't need to lift your tongue tip for that call from call from.
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I get a call from.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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I get a call from Graham King.
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And he's kind of looking at me like he asked me.
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And he's kind of looking at me.
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And he's kinda.
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And he's kinda.
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So one stressed syllable there.
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And he's kinda.
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Everything else goes up to it or away from it.
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Anies kinda.
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Then we have another stressed syllable.
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Lookin' at me.
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So, and he's.
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How are those two words pronounced?
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Anies.
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So we already know it's common to drop the D in and.
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Did you know it's also common to drop the H in he?
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So we have annies, annies, annies.
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No D, no H.
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He's just becomes the E vowel with a weak Z at the end.
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E's, ease, ease, and ease, and ease, and ease.
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And he's c- And he's c- And he's c- We really want that to have contrast with our stressed syllables because remember,
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it's the contrast that makes the language clear.
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Therefore, parts of the language like and, And he's become very unclear to provide overall clarity.
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And he's kinda looking at me.
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Looking at me, looking at me.
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So instead of looking with the ng ending, he makes it looking with an n ending.
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Looking at me, at me.
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There's another stop T.
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It's not at me, but it's at me, at me, looking at me.
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Looking at me, looking at me, looking at me, like he...
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Like, like, like, like, this little filler word said very unclearly.
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Looking at me, like, looking at me, like, looking at me, like, he asked me...
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He asked me.
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He asked me.
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Just one peak of stress there.
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He goes up, me comes down.
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He-ya-ah.
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The E vowel links into the AA vowel.
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You can think of that being a Y consonant that helps you link.
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Yeah, yeah, he-ya, he-ya.
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So here we have three consonant sounds in a row.
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S, K, and the ED ending makes T, But then we have another consonant because it links into the next word.
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So we have S, K, T, M consonant sounds all in a row.
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That's a lot!
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Native speakers don't usually pronounce all of those.
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Let's see how he links them together.
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He asked me.
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He asked me.
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He asked me.
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He asked me.
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He asked me.
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I'm hearing it with just the S and the M.
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I'm hearing it so the K and T aren't really there, ask me, he asked me, he asked me.
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He asked me, he asked me, he asked me, he asked me,
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he asked me, he asked me, he asked me, he asked me,
525
He asked me, have you ever acted before?
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So he says do, but it's not really part of his sentence.
527
He immediately changes exactly grammatically how he's going to put it together.
528
Have you ever acted before?
529
Have you ever acted before?
530
We have two stressed syllables there and they both have the AH vowel.
531
Have you ever acted before?
532
So you ever becomes you ever, you ever, you ever.
533
Not you, but you, you.
534
Lower in pitch, less energy, less volume. Have you.
535
Have you ever.
536
Have you ever.
537
Really, really smoothly linked together.
538
You ever.
539
To help you link the OO vowel to the EH vowel, you might want to think of a W.
540
That is a glide consonant that can help you link.
541
You ever.
542
You ever.
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You ever.
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You ever.
545
And then the R links right into the AH.
546
Everacted.
547
Now the ED ending here is different than here.
548
Here it was a T.
549
Here it's IH as in sit, D.
550
I have three videos on the different pronunciations of the ED endings.
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Be sure to check it out.
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They do actually follow rules.
553
Have you ever acted before?
554
Before.
555
So I usually pronounce this with an IH vowel, bih, bih, before.
556
But I'm hearing him do something more of an E vowel, B, before.
557
Have you ever acted before?
558
Have you ever acted before?
559
Have you ever acted before?
560
Have you ever acted before?
561
Have you ever acted before?
562
I said, never.
563
I've never wanted to be an actor.
564
I said, I said, I said, I said, pretty flat, a little bit mumbly, not very stressed.
565
I said, I said, I said, I said, I said, I said,
566
I said, I said, I said, I said, I said n...
567
I said n...
568
I said n.. never.
569
I've never wanted to be an actor.
570
Never.
571
Pretty dramatic pitch change there.
572
Never.
573
Holding on to the N a little bit brings more stress there.
574
Never.
575
Never.
576
Never.
577
Never.
578
Never.
579
Never.
580
I've never wanted to be an actor.
581
I've never wanted to be an actor so I've never wanted to, all said pretty quickly, I've never wanted to.
582
I never wanted to.
583
BE an actor.
584
And then we have much more stress on the verb BE and a little bit also on actor.
585
BE AN ACTOR.
586
O-R ending here is schwa-R.
587
It's not actor, actor.
588
Be-n.
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The E vowel there linking into the schwa.
590
Be-n-actor.
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The N linking into the AA vowel.
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It might help you to think of the glide consonant Y here.
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Be-n.
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Be-n.
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Be-n.
596
Be-n-actor.
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I've never wanted to be an actor.
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I've never wanted to be an actor.
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I've never wanted to be an actor.
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I've never wanted to, I've never wanted to, I've never wanted to, I've never wanted to.
601
All said really quickly, to is the schwa.
602
T, t, t, wanted to.
603
Let's look at the word wanted.
604
That T is dropped.
605
Wanted, wanted.
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The ED ending here is the I as in sit vowel D.
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Wanted, wanted.
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No tea.
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I've, not I've, but I've, not a whole lot of jaw drop, not a whole lot going on, a little bit mumbly.
610
I've never wanted to be an actor.
611
And that really brings more clarity to the word be.
612
I've never wanted to be an actor.
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I've never wanted to be an actor.
614
I've never wanted to be an actor.
615
I've never wanted to be an actor.
616
I've never wanted to be an actor.
617
I've never wanted to be an actor.
618
I've never wanted to be an actor.
619
I've never wanted to be an actor.
620
I've never wanted to be an actor.
621
I've never wanted to be an actor.
622
Let's listen to the whole conversation one more time.
623
I saw an article where it said that Graham King got the rights to tell Michael's story.
624
Yeah.
625
My first thought was, who are they going to get to play Michael?
626
And honestly, I didn't think of myself.
627
I was like, this is gonna be really interesting.
628
So fast forward a couple of months, I get a call from Graham King, and he's kind of looking at me, like, he asked me, have you ever acted before?
629
I said, never.
630
I've never wanted to be an actor.
631
Keep your learning going now with this video, and don't forget to subscribe with notifications on.
632
I love being your English teacher.
633
That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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Video này có 633 câu và 4873 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 42:15. Người nói giữ tốc độ đều, khoảng 115 từ mỗi phút, vừa sức để nói đuổi theo. Chỉ 80% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất, nên từ vựng khá khó.
Từ vựng quan trọng trong video
15 từ đáng học trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| noun danh từ | /naʊn/ | danh từ |
| verb danh từ | /vɝb/ | động từ |
| audio tính từ | /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/ | âm thanh, âm tần |
| phrase danh từ | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | cụm từ, câu |
| pronunciation danh từ | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | cách phát âm, cách đọc |
| symbol danh từ | /ˈsɪmbəl/ | ký hiệu, biểu tượng |
| vocal tính từ | /ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/ | nói to tiếng |
| bounce động từ | /baʊns/ | nảy |
| sand danh từ | /sænd/ | cát |
| butter danh từ | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | bơ |
| connect động từ | /kəˈnɛkt/ | nối |
| clip danh từ | /klɪp/ | kẹp (cái), ghim (cái) |
| accent danh từ | /ækˈsɛnt/ | trọng âm |
| rhythm danh từ | /ˈɹɪð.əm/ | nhịp điệu |
| subscribe động từ | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | đăng kí |
Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe
| Từ | Nghĩa |
|---|---|
| go up động từ | lên |
Phát âm cần chú ý
Người nói dùng 150 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ gonna, I've, didn't. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.
- Âm “th”: smoothly /ˈsmuːðli/, smooth /smuːð/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, diphthong /ˈdɪpˌθɔŋ/
- Âm “sh” và “zh”: contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, continuation /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
- Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, continuation /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
Cách luyện với video này
- Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
- Nói đuổi từng câu ở tốc độ bình thường, lặp lại mỗi câu đến khi nhịp của bạn khớp với người nói.
- Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như noun, verb, audio.
Ngữ pháp trong video
Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:
| Cấu trúc | Trong video |
|---|---|
| Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tại | I've never wanted · I've said · I've noticed |
| Câu bị động be + quá khứ phân từ — nhấn vào việc xảy ra, không phải người làm | be pronounced · are unstressed · can be pronounced |
Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?
Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.