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 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