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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

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discussing

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plans not till two

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maybe somewhat after that but we said

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we'd be there at 1:30 right I think they

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want to just chat and yeah you know

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stuff before and will it take like 15

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minutes to get there or oh no it'll take

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10 five

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five not till

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two I noticed my dad makes a stop te

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here not till not till instead of not

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till that makes the transition between

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these two words less obvious it makes it

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a smoother link not till two not till

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two not till two maybe somewhat after

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that another stop te here at the end of

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that because it's the end of a thought

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the end of the sentence often we make

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those te's stop te's in American English

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somewh after that and what after that

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and what after that but we said we'd be

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there at 1:30 but we I actually drop the

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T all together here to make this even

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more connected and smooth B we

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B but is a function word not too

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important so it's okay to reduce it but

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we said we but we said we but we said

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we'd be there at 1:30 did you notice how

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I pronounced 30 I took this second T and

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made it a flap T so it sounded like a d

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30 30

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130 but we said we'd be there at 130 130

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130

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this was another stop

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te and it was very quick so it was hard

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to tell but I think this was awah at it

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at 1:30 at

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1:30 be there at 1:30 be there at 1:30

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be there at 1:30 when you're talking

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about the time of something try

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pronouncing at this way very quickly

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right I think they want to just another

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stop T here it's the end of a sentence

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right right right right I think they

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want to just did you notice how my dad

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did not make a th sound here but rather

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just an H sound and he connected it to I

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I think I think I think I think they

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want to just I think they want to just I

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think they want to just I've noticed

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some native speakers do this with the th

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and think we use this phrase a lot I

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think this I think that and it's not

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uncommon to hear the H sound instead of

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the th it's a funny little reduction

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that we do of a Content word I think

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they I think they want to just I think

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they want to just I think they want to

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just chat and yeah you probably noticed

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the W reduction

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here I think they wanted I think they

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wanted I think they

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wanted very common in American English I

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think they want to just chat and yeah

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also the word just we often reduce this

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so it sounds like there's basically no

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vowel just just just

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want to just want to just I think they

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want to just I think they want to just I

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think they want to just chat and yeah

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chat another stop tea at the end of this

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thought I think they want to just chat

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yeah the word and was very reduced to

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just the schw n

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Sound chat yeah chat and yeah chat and

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yeah you stuff you know did you know

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noticed that this was the schah and not

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the U ASM bu vowel y y you know we

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pronounce these two words together this

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way all the time you know you know you

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know chat and yeah you know stuff yeah

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stuff yeah stuff before will it take

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like 15 minutes to get there or let's

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talk about the word 15 for a second some

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people have a hard time hearing the

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difference between

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15 and 50

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the sounds are a little different but

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also the stress is different 15 stress

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is on the second syllable there teen

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teen

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15 so it's short long for the word 50

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it's the opposite it's long short 50

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50 15

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15 will it take like 15 minutes 15

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minutes 15 minutes to get there or I

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reduce the vowel in two to the schah

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like we almost always do I did keep this

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as a true T though the sound before was

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unvoiced minutes T minutes to 15 minutes

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to get there or 15 minutes to get there

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or 15 minutes to get there or did you

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notice this tea stop te because the next

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sound was a consonant the voiced th get

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there get there 15 minutes to get there

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or 15 minutes to get there or 15 minutes

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to get there or how was this word

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pronounced just the schw r sound very

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quick this is another function word so

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I've reduced it to get there to get

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there to get there or oh no it'll take

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did you hear dad he reduced it will to

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the contraction it'll it'll it'll it'll

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oh oh no it'll take oh no it'll take oh

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no it'll take 10 five five what's

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different about the pitch the intonation

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of these two

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phrases 10 five

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five this one goes up and

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Pitch this one goes

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down that's because I'm asking the

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question

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here I don't know how long it will take

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the statement where my dad was sure goes

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down in Pitch

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if you're not sure your phrase goes up

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if you're sure your phrase goes

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down 10 five five 10 five 10 five

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five not till two maybe somewhat after

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that but we said we'd be there at 1:30

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right I think they want to just chat and

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yeah you know stuff before will it take

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like 15 minutes to get there or oh no

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it'll take 10 five okay so we can leave

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at like 12 125 yeah we might as well

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head back anyway that way we can still

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stop and look at the alligators if we

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want we probably won't see much more I

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was hoping to see Sand Hill cranes but

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right we would definitely see heard any

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we would definitely see more alligators

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but we probably wouldn't see any more of

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anything different well we've seen

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enough of those I think

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