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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

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text topic evening

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plans 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 te or the way two words link

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together after you've recorded yourself

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compare it to the original did you do

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everything that you wanted to do in this

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video we're going to take notes together

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tonight I'm meeting up with some friends

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in the West Village for pizza we may

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stay in the West Village afterwards or

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we may hop on our bikes and go up to UCB

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for a comedy show one of the first

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things I notice is that I've made this a

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stop tea rather than a flap tea tonight

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I'm meeting up with some friends Tonight

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Tonight Tonight often when the t comes

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between vowels or diff thongs in this

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case we have the I as in by D thong for

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tonight and the I as in by diff thong

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for I we would make that a flap te to

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connect but I made this is stop te so

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there was a little break in the line

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tonight I'm meeting tonight tonight

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tonight I'm meeting up with some friends

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tonight tonight tonight I also noticed

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that I've made this o awah a t t t

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tonight this t on the other hand was a

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flap T meeting up meeting up I did not

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release the P here so that's a stop

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consonant up up my lips came together to

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make the P but rather than releasing

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them up I went right into the next word

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with meeting up with some friends I'm

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noticing sort of to my surprise that I

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also dropped the th with some friends

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with some friends help with some friends

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help with some friends help with some

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friends so I took this function word

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which will not be stressed it is less

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important in the sentence and I dropped

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the final sound with some with some with

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some with some friends in the West

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Village for pizza it's very obvious to

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me there what the most stressed words

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are in the West Village for pizza in the

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West Village for pizza in the West

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Village for pizza let's start with the

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first four words in the West Village in

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the was very quick in the in the in the

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in the in the in the west and Village

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both had more time West Village in the

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West Village so even though inth is two

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words it was probably faster than the

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single word West in the West in the West

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Village in the West Village in the West

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Village in the West Village and the

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final two words for pizza for

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pizza I definitely hear the first

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syllable of pizza as being stressed the

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word for was reduced it had the schw for

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for for for for pizza for pizza for

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pizza for pizza for pizza in the West

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Village for

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pizza we may stay in the West Village

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afterwards which syllable was the most

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stressed we may stay in the West Village

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afterwards we may stay in the West

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Village afterwards we may stay in the

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West Village afterwards I definitely

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heard stay as being the most stressed

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that's our verb that's a Content word

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which will usually be stressed in a

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sentence again in the was very quick

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West and Village were both stressed as

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was afterwards but they had less curve

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to the voice they were less stressed to

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me than the word stay which was louder

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we may stay in the West Village

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afterwards I noticed that I did not

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reduce the word or that's one word that

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can reduce

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to or we may or we may but here I said

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or we may or we may I did not reduce the

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vowel or we may hop on our bikes or we

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may hop on our bikes or we may hop on

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our

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bikes we may hop on our bikes what do

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you think is the loudest most stressed

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word in that sentence fragment we may

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hop on our bikes we may hop on our bikes

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we may hop on our bikes

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I hear hop again the

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verb we may hop on our bikes and go up

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to UCB and go up to UCB I definitely

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reduce the word and here by dropping the

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D and go up to UCB and go up and go up

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and go up again here the word up I did

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not release the P sound I made that a

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stop up to up to again a reduction I did

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not do the word to usually has the schah

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sound in it and instead I left in the

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vowel o to to I usually reduce the word

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to in conversation t t t I did not do it

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here because I was talking into the

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camera and I've noticed that I do use

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fewer reductions when I'm recording than

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I do in normal

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conversation to UCB to UCB to UCB for a

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comedy show for a comedy show I most

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definitely reduced this vowel to the

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schah f f f f f so I also connected that

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word very much so to the article a which

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is also pronounced as the schah for f

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for for for a comedy show for for a

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comedy show for a comedy show Let's test

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your listening skills for stress the

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word comedy is a three- syllable word

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which did you hear as being the most

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stressed comedy comedy

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comedy it's the first syllable

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so the last two syllables are lower in

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pitch and flatter also maybe a little

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quieter than the stressed syllable midi

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midi midi midi

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comedy

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comedy comedy

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show I hope this is giving you some

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ideas on how to take notes and study the

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speech of native speakers do this on

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your own take video and audio clips that

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interest you or that have topics that

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are important to your field of work

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after you take good notes record the

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text yourself and compare to the

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original recording what do you still

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need to work on or what did you do well

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this is a great way to improve your

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pronunciation just a few lines of text

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but there's a lot to study about

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pronunciation these were my plans for

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tonight what are your plans tonight let

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me know by making a video and posting it

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as a video response to this video on

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YouTube I can't wait to hear about your

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plans that's it and thanks so much for

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