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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 my students not to do this in

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general because sometimes they do it too

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much but look here we're studying real

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conversation and I did it I'm trying to

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think I'm trying to think I'm trying to

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think the word to that was very fast I

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made a flap te and

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awah so that it could be even faster

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trying D du du d d du du I'm trying to

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think I'm trying to think I'm trying to

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think you can make that word incredibly

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short and then you know we want to link

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it to the word before trying to trying

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to so it doesn't sound like a separate

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word it just sounds like another

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syllable at the end of trying I'm trying

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to think I'm trying to think I'm trying

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to think when was the last time we were

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out here another reduction I notice is

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was rather than having the uh as in

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butter vowel it also had the schah was

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was so then it could be really fast when

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was when was the last time when was the

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last time when was the last time when

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was the last time last and time were

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both a little bit

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longer they're content words so they're

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more important when was the last time

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when was the last time when was the last

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time we were out here I noticed a stop

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te here and out out here out here so

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that saves a little time because I'm

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skipping the release T out here out here

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that takes time and makes it feel very

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choppy but out here out here a stop tea

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makes it a little smoother when we were

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out here we were out here and we were

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out here when was the last time we were

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out here when's the last time you came

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out I think we came out last winter my

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dad also made a stop tea Outlast Outlast

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winter we came out last we came out last

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we came out last winter now he made a

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true T sound here winter

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T sometimes Americans will drop a te

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when it comes after n and then it

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becomes winner and it sounds like this

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word but my dad didn't do that he made a

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true tea last winter last winter last

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winter okay so

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probably my dad said the word probably

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as a three syllable word was stress on

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the first syllable

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proably

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proably he's speaking extra well here

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because I've definitely caught him on

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camera before saying

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pry reducing the word to just two

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syllables so probably so probably so

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probably yeah yeah a uh 12 months ago so

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my dad did a very common reduction with

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the word months and he didn't make a t h

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sound but just a t sound so that goes

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together with the S to make a TS ending

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months months months that helps to make

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it faster it's a little bit of a more

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simple tongue movement rather than

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making the th lots of Americans do this

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months months 12 months ago 12 months

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ago 12 months ago you haven't been out

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yet this year it's a little hard to tell

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but I'm pretty sure I dropped the H in

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haven't we drop the H at the beginning

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of function words like have him her he a

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lot that helps us make it quicker it's

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less important and we can link it to the

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word before you haven't you haven't you

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haven't you haven't been out yet this

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year you haven't been out yet this year

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you haven't been out yet this year you

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haven't been out yet another stop te

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here and out why are we making all of

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these stop te's remember when a word

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ends in a vowel or diff thong and then a

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t and the next word is a consonant y

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this is the Y consonant that we make T's

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stop T's in general we skip the release

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out yet out yet it helps to make the

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transition more smoothly you haven't

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been out yet this year you haven't been

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out yet this year you haven't been out

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yet this year I also notice the

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intonation of the phrase goes up at the

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end this year this

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year why is that that's because this

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Quest question can be answered with yes

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or no and yes no questions do go up and

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Pitch at the end you haven't been out

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yet this year you haven't been out yet

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this year 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 did you hear how my dad did a vowel

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to vowel link here no I no I so there

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really wasn't a comma there no no no we

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really like to link things together for

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smooth transitions between words in

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American English no I think this is the

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first time Dad did something funny here

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he dropped the tea so think really just

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started with an H sound now this is a

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Content word content words are important

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and normally we do not reduce them but

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I've noticed that people do drop the th

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sound in think and make an H instead H I

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think I think so my husband David says

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that all the time I think so I think so

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no I think this is the no I think this

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is the first no I think this is the

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first time yeah first time those two

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words linked together really well

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because my dad did not release this tea

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and then make another one there was just

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one t sound first time first time first

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time first time 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

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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

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yeah yeah a month uh 12 months ago or so

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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 I was trying to think I think it's

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been two years maybe since I've been out

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but we forgot our

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binoculars we're idiots we're

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idiots not that it matters for these

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guys cuz they're so close but there's

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also wild buffalo wild boar um

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horses all sorts of stuff to see and

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some of the cranes you like to get a

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good closeup yeah view Turtles lots of

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birds they're often sandill cranes that

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come here about this time of year

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MH well let's keep walking and see what

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all we see okay

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