The Ben Franklin exercise

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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