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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 text topic

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where I

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live I call this a Ben Franklin exercise

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this is when you take very good notes

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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 clap 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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I live in New York City in Manhattan

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currently in Midtown but I do move

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around a lot I've been in New York for

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about 5 years and I've already moved

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four times one of the first things I

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notice is how my voice goes up at the

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end of the word city city city

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that's because of the comma here and I'm

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not done I'm going to keep going I'm

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going to say more about that I live in

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New York City I live in New York City I

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also notice how connected that first

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line is I live in New York City there

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are no breaks I live in New York City I

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live in New York City and I noticed the

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ending consonant sound of Live Links

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into the beginning of the next word Liv

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Vin Vin VIN Liv I live in New York New

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York City I live in New York City I live

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in New York City in Manhattan in

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Manhattan again my voice went up at the

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end

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Manhattan again there's a comma here and

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I'm about to give more information about

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that New York City Manhattan more

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specifically Midtown so my voice is

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going up at the end of each of these

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little phrases to signal that there is

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more information yet to come about this

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in Manhattan in Manhattan I noticed that

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the stressed syllable of

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Manhattan is the middle syllable

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Manhattan also I hear that I'm not

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really pronouncing these T's as true T's

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that would be

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Manhattan but I'm saying

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manhatt with a little break that means

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these T's are stop te's in Manhattan in

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Manhattan also the last

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syllable is just the N sound so the

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letter A there is representing the schah

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sound

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Manhattan

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Manhattan in Manhattan in Manhattan in

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Manhattan currently in Midtown again I

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did not hear the release of this T that

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would be

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currently I heard currently with a stop

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that's a stop T currently

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currently and in this three- syllable

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word I noticed that stress is on the

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first syllable

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Cur

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Cur

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currently currently in Midtown currently

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in midtown midtown stress on the first

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syllable here and that is a true te

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Midtown currently in Midtown currently

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in Midtown currently in Midtown

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currently in Midtown but I do move

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around a lot the stressed syllables in

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that sentence are

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do

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round and lot but I do move around a lot

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but I do move around a lot but I do move

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around a lot let's talk about the T

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pronunciations here but I do but I but I

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I'm hearing that as a flap t or a D

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sound but I but I it's also very

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connected but I do but I do

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but I do move around a lot but I do move

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around a lot the final T lot I did

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release that and give it a true T sound

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but I do move around a lot but I do move

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around a lot but I do move around a lot

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again this sentence was very linked

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together the ending V consonant here

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linking on to the next vowel movea movea

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vvv move around but I do move around

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around a lot but I do move around a lot

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but I do move around a lot but I do move

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around a lot I've been in New York for

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about 5 years the stressed words in this

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sentence fragment New York and five

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years I've been in New York for about

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five years I've been in New York for

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about five years so how are the

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unstressed words pronounced the

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contraction I've the word bin and in

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they're all quite quick and linked

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together I've been in I've been in I've

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been in I've been in I've been in New

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York and the words for and about for

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about five years I notice I'm reducing

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this to the schah f f for about five

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years for about five

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years I've been in New York for about 5

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years so these three words I've been in

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very quick they're unstressed New York

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the pace slows down a bit there so those

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words are longer because they're

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stressed then for about those two words

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unstressed are again quite quick for

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about and then five and years are both

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given more time because they're stressed

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I've been in New York for about 5 years

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I've been in New York for about 5 years

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I've been in New York for about 5 years

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and I've already moved four times here

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I'm hearing

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all and

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moved for and times as being the most

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stressed syllables in that sentence

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fragment and I've already moved four

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times and I've already moved four times

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and I've already moved four times I also

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notice I'm not really pronouncing the L

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here this syllable is coming out more

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like the a as in law vowel already

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already and I've already moved four

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times and I've already moved four times

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also did you notice how I reduced the

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word and and I've already moved n n n

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the schah n Sound and I've already moved

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and I've already moved four times and

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I've already moved four times and I've

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already moved four times so just a few

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lines of speech but there's really a lot

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to study about reductions and stressed

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words the way T is pronounced and how

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words linked together I hope this has

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given you some ideas on how to take

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notes and study the speech of native

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speakers do this on your own take video

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and audio clips that interest you or

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that have topics that are important to

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your field of work after you take good

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notes record the text yourself and

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compare to the original recording what

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do you still need to work on or what did

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you do well this is a great way to

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improve your

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