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

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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