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in this American English pronunciation

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video we're going to study American

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English by looking at a short text topic

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what I ate for

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breakfast I call this a Ben Franklin

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exercise this is when you take very good

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notes very detailed notes on what you're

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hearing and then go back and try to

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record yourself based on what you've

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written down the notes did you write

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down a flap tea or the way two words

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link together after you've recorded

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yourself compare it to the original did

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you do everything that you wanted to do

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in this video we're going to take notes

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together this morning for breakfast I

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had Barbara's shredded oats with milk

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this is my favorite breakfast but

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sometimes I do have eggs so let's take a

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look at what's happening

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here this morning for breakfast one of

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the first things I notice is how much

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this s and M were connected this morning

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this morning it's almost like the S went

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on the next word morning morning this

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morning this morning for breakfast did

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you notice how I pronounced the word for

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that was reduced to fur fur fur very

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quick with the schah r sound fur fur for

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breakfast this morning for

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breakfast also I noticed the Rhythm here

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mourn and Bre are the two stressed

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syllables this morning for breakfast

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they have that swooping up and then down

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shape of the voice that makes up a

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stressed syllable let's listen in slow

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motion this morning for

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breakfast this morning for breakfast

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this morning for breakfast I had

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Barbara's shredded oats with milk what

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do you hear as being the stressed

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syllables I hear barbaras shredded and

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milk what else do you notice I had

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Barbers shredded oats with milk I

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noticed that Barbers is only two

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syllables even though it looks like it

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might be three we sort of leave this

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middle sound out here Barb r r also note

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this apostrophe s is a z sound that's

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because the sound before is voiced so

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the apostrophe s is also voiced z z r r

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barbaras I also noticed that the e d

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ending here is pronounced as the e as in

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sit vowel D sound that's because the

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sound before was a

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d Ed endings are among the few cases in

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American English that follow regular

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rules I had Barber's shredded oats with

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milk I noticed that the word width is

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not reduced but it's very flat in Pitch

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because it is unstressed with with with

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it's also quite fast with milk with with

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with with milk I had barbera's shredded

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oats with milk let's listen in slow

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motion I had Barber's shredded oats with

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milk I had Barbers shredded oats with

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milk I had Barbers shredded oats with

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milk this is my favorite breakfast what

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was stressed in that sentence I heard

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fave and

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Breck also these three words this is my

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those were incredibly fast listen again

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this is my favorite breakfast so this

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string of three unstressed words this is

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my this is my this is my this is my very

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fast and very

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connected I also noticed that the word f

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favorite was pronounced with only two

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syllables as if this letter was dropped

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favorite favorite favorite this is my

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favorite breakfast I'm also noticing

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this tea pronunciation the final te and

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favorite was pronounced as a stop

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favorite favorite favorite breakfast so

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there was no release T of the tea sound

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favorite breakfast let's listen in slow

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motion this is my favorite favorite

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breakfast this is my favorite breakfast

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this is my favorite breakfast but

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sometimes I do have eggs did you notice

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the lift here where the comma

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is but sometimes I do have eggs there

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was just a little pause there for the

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punctuation I also notice how I stress

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the word do I do I do have eggs but

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sometimes I do have eggs the word eggs

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even though it's a Content word a noun

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which is usually stressed doesn't have

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that much stress I notice because it's

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at the end of a sentence I do have

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eggs eggs eggs with just a little curve

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up and then down in the voice I do have

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eggs also the plural ending here s is

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pronounced as a z that's because the

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sound before the G sound is a vo

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consonant eggs eggs let's l listen in

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slow motion but sometimes I do have

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eggs but sometimes I do have eggs but

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sometimes I do have eggs so just three

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little sentences but we really were able

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to study a lot about American English

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pronunciation let's listen once in slow

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motion this morning for

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breakfast I had Barber's shredded o with

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milk this is my favorite

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breakfast but sometimes I do have eggs I

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hope this has given you some ideas on

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how to take notes and study the speech

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of native speakers do this on your own

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take video and audio clips that interest

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you or that have topics that are

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important to your field of work after

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you take good notes record the text

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yourself and compare to the original

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recording what do you still need to work

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on or what did you do well this is a

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great way to improve your

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pronunciation that's it and thanks so

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