when you study the way we're going to today.

We're going to study English with the movie Molly's Game.

And we're going to study an argument.

There are two different ways that people tend to speak in an argument.

Louder and more intense, and quieter and more intentional.

And in this scene, we have both.

We're going to look at all the things that make spoken English difficult—linking, reductions,

changing the sounds of a word. When you study these things and you know them,

you're going to be so much more comfortable and confident speaking English.

Study like this and you're going to be able to watch American movies and TV without subtitles.

That is my business literally.

We're doing this all summer we started in June and we're going through August,

stick with me every Tuesday, they're all great scenes and there's going to be so much to learn

that can transform the way you understand and speak English.

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You're going to watch the clip then we're going to do a full pronunciation analysis together.

This is going to help so much with your listening comprehension

when it comes to watching English movies in TV.

But there's going to be a training section.

You're going to take what you've just learned and practice repeating it,

doing a reduction, flapping a T, just like you learned in the analysis.

Okay, here's the scene.

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

Be that as may…

You know who the biggest winner in this game is?

It's you.

You know who the second biggest winner is?

>> Look. >> It's you.

What are you taking home? 10,000 a night now?

That is my business, literally.

Between you, the dealers, and the servers, you're taking a lot of money out of this game.

And now, the analysis.

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

Okay, so these people are arguing.

His voice is higher, it's louder.

These guys-- it's a little bit more intense, has a little bit more of an edge to it.

What do you think are the most stressed syllables here?

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

These guys-- a little bit of stress there.

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

So me and you get the most stress. He's comparing the two of them.

But even guys, even all of the words other than me and you, are said pretty quickly.

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

These guys, These guys, These guys, These guys. These, said quickly, unstressed.

These guys--

These, These, These, These. That S is a Z sound.

It's weak. Just make sure you're not saying: these.

These, These, These, These, These, these guys.

These guys—

These guys want to play cards with me, not you.

What about: want to play cards with--?

What about this string of unstressed words before our next stressed syllable, me?

Want to play cards with—

Want to play cards with—

Want to play cards with—

Want to play cards with--

want to play cards with—So, pretty fast. The words 'want to' are combined into the reduction: wanna, wanna.

Wanna play cards with—

Want to play cards with—

Want to play cards with—

Want to play cards with—

And actually in the word with, I hear that TH being dropped. With me, with me, with me.

Just a super fast W, IH sound linking into the word me. With me.

With me.

So let's listen to that whole string of unstressed, less stressed words.

Want to play cards with me--

Want to play cards with me--

Want to play cards with me, not you.

Me, not you. Me, not—stop T in not. And actually, now that I'm focused on just these three words,

I hear that the word you is stressed but it doesn't have the stress that goes up and down.

It has a stress that goes up. You—me, not you.

Me, not you.

Me, not you.

Me, not you.

Be that as it may…

Her voice is much quieter.

Each word is more clear and separate.

More so than it would be in normal conversational English.

Be that as it may. Stress on be, be that as it may.

Be that as it may…

Be that as it may…

Be that as it may…

And she makes her stress go up, so that she can signal that she's going to continue, she's not done,

but he goes ahead and talks over her anyway, doesn't he? Be that as it may…

>> Be that as it may… >> You know—

>> Be that as it may… >> You know—

>> Be that as it may… >> You know—

Be that-- So even though she's being clearer than you would in normal conversational English,

she still doesn't release that as a true T.

Be that as it-- that's a stop T, she stops the air.

Be that as it may… she doesn't link it together with the flap T.

Be that as it may… Be that as it may…

That would be the way that you would probably pronounce that in conversational English,

you would reduce the vowel in as, you would make a flap T to link,

but she doesn't do that. Be that as it—

She does link here, the Z sound links right into the beginning IH vowel.

As it may-- another stop T in it. Be that as it may…

>> Be that as it may… >> You know—

>> Be that as it may… >> You know—

>> Be that as it may… >> You know—

So this is very careful English.

He's speaking much more quickly, his is more conversational.

So even though we think: oh, this is so clear, this one has to be right. It's actually not.

I mean, it's fine that she does it here, but if you spoke everything you said this clearly, this slowly,

that would no longer be natural English.

It's this kind of English with the reductions and the linking, words like wanna, dropped sounds,

that's the kind of English that's normal conversational English.

Okay, let's keep going.

>> Be that as it may… >> You know—

>> Be that as it may… >> You know—

>> Be that as it may… >> You know who the biggest winner in this game is?

You know-- A lot of stress there.

You know who the biggest winner in this game is?

I think those are our most stressed words.

Let's look at the rest. How does it all link together smoothly?

You know who the biggest winner in this game is?

You know who the biggest winner in this game is?

You know who the biggest winner in this game is?

So the word you, I don't think that's a reduction. I do think it's you instead of ye, ye, ye. You know--

that's a common way to pronounce it, with the schwa. Ye-- you know.

But I do hear that that as the OO vowel. You, you, you, you, you. You know-- you know--

but it's said incredibly quickly. It's not: you know, it's you know, you, you, you. You know who the—

You know who the--

You know who the--

You know who the--

The word 'who' pronounced with the H consonant and the OO vowel.

I barely hear an H consonant. You know who the-- You know who the--

You could even do that dropped, I think. You know who the-- You know who the--

because I'm not even sure if I hear the H.

You know who the--

You know who the--

You know who the--

You know who the--

Wow, that's not very clear, is it? But that's what we do in normal conversational English.

The, also said very quickly, unstressed. The-- the-- the-- the-- the—

You know who the--

You know who the--

You know who the biggest winner in this game is?

Now we have two words with a stressed syllable.

Biggest winner so even though the word biggest is stressed, the T is dropped.

We drop this T in an ending cluster like ST cluster when the next word begins with a consonant.

Biggest winner. That helps us link more smoothly.

Biggest winner—

Biggest winner--

Biggest winner--

Now this vowel is the IH vowel like in sit.

Make sure you're not making the EE vowel like in seat.

Biggest, biggest, bih—ih-- it's more relaxed. Bih-- biggest. Biggest.

I'm saying it now with the T, but no, when we link in, we drop the T.

Biggest winner. Another IH vowel.

Winner. Biggest winner.

Biggest winner--

Biggest winner--

Biggest winner in this game is?

In this game is? In this game is?

So the R links right into the IH vowel. Winner in this--

So the unstressed syllable of winner,

the word in, and the word this, this is three unstressed syllables together.

Ner in this-- ner in this-- ner in this-- ner in this-- and they're flatter in pitch.

In this game. Then for the stressed word game, we have that up down shape,

all linked together smoothly.

Ner in this game— ner in this game is?

Winner in this game is?

Winner in this game is?

Winner in this game is?

Winner in this game is?

Now in this, you're going to have to really simplify the mouth movements, especially here,

the TH in this is voiced, same with hearing the word the, voiced TH.

When you have a voiced TH beginning an unstressed word like the, or this, you don't actually say: the or this.

To do that, I'm making my tongue tip come through the teeth.

Well, that's too much and too long of a sound for a little unstressed word like the, or this.

So we actually do a shortcut with that TH in these situations, voiced sound, beginning a stressed word.

That, this, the, these, up here as well.

So rather than a full TH sound, it's, the, the, the, the.

The TH is made with the tongue, not coming through the teeth, but

pushing forward, it moves forward and it's right towards the backs of the teeth,

but it's not at the roof of the mouth, that would probably end up sounding like a d,

Ddd—it's the, the, the, and you pull the tongue tip back.

So for here, the word the, you pull it back and you just make the schwa.

The, the, the. Here, for the word these, these, these, these, these. You pull it back, you make the EE vowel.

For the word this, this, this, this, this, this, this. You pull it back and you make the IH quickly before the S.

This, this, this, this. So it's not this, this this, this, this,

it's this, this, this, this. Winner in this game is?

You really have to simplify that TH in order to get that sound right,

in order to get that word said quickly enough as an unstressed word.

Winner in this game is?

Winner in this game is?

Winner in this game is?

Game is, game is. The word 'is' is pronounced IH as in sit, Z.

So don't make it 'is' but: is, is, is. This is weak, you don't have to go izzz--

and really put a lot of energy into that sound, just make sure it's not a strong S, is, is, is.

Game is.

It's you.

It's you. It's you. More stress on you. It's you.

Than on its. But both words pretty clearly pronounced. It's you. It's you. Nice and smooth.

It's you.

It's you.

It's you.

You know who the second biggest winner is?

You know who the second biggest winner is?

So we have a few more syllables here with this length. Let's look at the word you.

I think I hear a reduction. Let's listen.

You know--

You know, you know. It is a reduction. So it's not you,

with the OO vowel, but it's: ye ye ye, you know, you know, you know.

Here where it was stressed, it was definitely you, but here, unstressed, it can either be the same sounds but

with an unstressed feeling, or it can be reduced, and he reduces it. Ye ye ye ye you know, you know.

You know--

who the second biggest winner is?

You know who the— who the— who the— who the—

Again, low in pitch, flat, simplify this voiced TH, You know who the— You know who the—

You know who the—

second biggest winner is?

Second biggest winner is?

Okay so we have four words, they all have a little bit of an up down shape feeling in their stressed syllable.

We have a couple dropped sounds. Second biggest.

The D is dropped here.

So we dropped the T in biggest, we already know that,

because it's part of an ST cluster and the next word begins with a consonant.

So biggest winner, we already looked at that, but second biggest.

We also dropped that for the same reason. It comes between two consonants, especially if the consonant before was an N,

very likely we're going to drop that. Like in the phrase:

grand piano, grand piano, it's very common to drop a D in that situation, after an N,

before another consonant, grand piano.

Second biggest winner is?

Second biggest winner is?

Second biggest winner is?

Second biggest winner is? Uuhhh.

That up down shape. Really practice that when you're working with the audio. Second biggest winner is?

It's just the smooth pulse up, uhhhh, gliding together very smoothly.

Second biggest winner is?

Second biggest winner is?