Finding stress in conversation

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in this American English pronunciation

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video you're going to come with me to my

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home state of Florida and we're going to

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do a Ben Franklin exercise where we

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study conversation today's topic the

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last time we were

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here now we were trying to think when

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was the last time we were out here

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when's the last time you came out I

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think we came out last winter okay so

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probably yeah yeah a month uh 12 months

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ago or so you haven't been out yet this

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year no I think this is the first time

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yeah now we were trying to think when

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was the last time we were out here this

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sentence was very fast so how did I make

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it so fast what did I

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shorten I noticed I dropped the G here

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and I made it an n Sound instead of an

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NG sound trying

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trying this is something that can happen

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a lot in the South although really

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everybody does it

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with very common ing words sometimes I

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tell