Now, last week on our video she quit her job.

This week she's just had a job interview and she's talking about it.

We're going to use this scene to study American English pronunciation

and figure out what makes American English sound American.

Here's the scene we'll study today.

Hey. How'd the interview go?

Ugh. I blew it. I wouldn't have even hired me.

Oh. Come here, sweetie. Listen. You're going to go on, like, a thousand interviews before you get a job.

That's not how that was supposed to come out.

It's just the worst Christmas ever.

You know what, Rach, maybe you should just, you know, stay here at the coffee house.

I can't. It's too late. Terry already hired that girl over there.

Look at her, she's even got waitress experience. Ugh.

And now the analysis.

Hey. How'd the interview go?

Chandler starts out up down shape of stress hey, hey, uh, uh. Hey. How'd the interview go?

Hey. How'd the interview go?

Hey. How'd the interview go?

Hey. How'd the interview go?

His H is not very clear or loud here hey, hey, hey.

Hey. How'd the interview go?

Hey. How'd the interview go?

Hey. How'd the interview go?

Hey. How'd the interview go?

How'd the interview go?

The stressed syllable of interview is the most stressed syllable in that whole thought group,

how'd the and the first two words lead up to that peak. How'd the interview go,

and the last three syllables come away from that peak.

Now, are you noticing how that T is pronounced? Interview, it's totally dropped.

It's fairly common to drop the T when it comes after N like an interview, internet, international.

How'd the interview go?

How'd the interview go?

How'd the interview go?

The apostrophe D here is the word did.

We can also do would, how'd you do that, how would you do that but in this case it's did, how'd, how'd, how'd.

Just a D sound at the end: how'd the.

Now, we don't release the D. We have the OW, diphthong OW and D voiced TH. How'd the--

So the D is subtle. The tongue is in position, the vocal chords make the noise but then

the transition goes quickly into the voiced TH, how the, how the--

and Chandler does say the E as in she vowel for the word the instead of the.

That's because the next word begins with a vowel or diphthong and that is the rule.

If the next word begins with a vowel or diphthong the final sound of this word is the E as in she vowel

however I have noticed Americans don't follow that rule very closely.

But Chandler does here, the interview.

How'd the interview go?

How'd the interview go?

How'd the interview go?

Ugh. I blew it.

Ugh. Ugh. Just a sound of exasperation ugh but even that has an up-down shape ugh.

Ugh.

Ugh.

Ugh. I blew it.

I is really hard to hear almost imperceptible; I blew it.

I know it's there grammatically, but we really barely hear it.

Blew, I blew it, blew is the stressed syllable there.

I blew it.

I blew it.

I blew it.

I blew it, blew it. She does release a true T here and the two words link together very smoothly.

If you blow something that means you do a poor job at it.

You can blow an interview, you can blow a test, you can blow a project, you can blow a first impression.

Ugh. I blew it. It did not go well.

I blew it.

I blew it.

I blew it. I wouldn't have even hired me.

Okay. In her next sentence what are our most stressed words?

I wouldn't have even hired me.

I wouldn't have even hired me.

I wouldn't have even hired me.

I wouldn't have even hired me.

I has a lot of stress there. That's a little unusual.

I wouldn't have even hired me. High and a little bit on me too.

So, usually we don't stress I but for the meaning in this sentence, she is.

I wouldn't have even hired me.

I wouldn't have even hired me.

I wouldn't have even hired me.

I wouldn't have even hired me.

Let's listen to just those three words wouldn't have even.

...wouldn't have even

...wouldn't have even

...wouldn't have even

Wouldn't have even, wouldn't have even, wouldn't have even, wouldn't have even.

A little bit hard to tell that's wouldn't have even if you hear just that.

So, wouldn't have becomes wouldn't have, wouldn't have, wouldn't have, wouldn't have.

...wouldn't have

...wouldn't have

...wouldn't have even.

Wouldn't have even becomes wouldn' have even.

So, the T. I listened to it a bunch of times to decide. Did I think it was totally dropped or did I think it's a little bit of a stop T?

I think you could do either. You could do a really light stop T, or you could just drop it: wouldn' have--

Wouldn' have even, wouldn' have even, wouldn' have even.

The H is dropped, the word have is reduced to SCHWA V wouldn' 'ave even,

wouldn' 'ave even, wouldn' 'ave even, wouldn' 'ave even, wouldn' ''ave even.

...wouldn't have even

...wouldn't have even

...wouldn't have even

These kinds of simplifications are key in American English.

They provide contrast to the stressed syllables the stressed words like the word hired.

...wouldn't have even hired me.

...wouldn't have even hired me.

...wouldn't have even hired me.

The ed ending in hired is a D sound because the sound before was voiced it was the R consonant,

hired me. So, we have the R sound, the D sound and the M sound.

The D is very subtle. I actually don't think I really hear it.

I feel like it's more dropped hired me, hired me hired me.

...hired me

...hired me

...hired me

If anything, it's just a very subtle D sound in the vocal chords

just like up here the D sound before the voiced TH. So, it's not a clear D.

It's not hired me but it's hired me, hired me.

If anything, it's just d, d, d a very quick subtle D sound not released.

Just the vocal cords vibrating with the tongue in the position.

...hired me.

...hired me.

>> ...hired me. >> Oh.

Oh. Oh. His voice sort of has a nasal quality to it here I'm just noticing.

Oh, oh, a little bit of sympathy, oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh. Come here, sweetie.

What is our stress in this three word thought group?

Come here, sweetie.

Come here, sweetie.

Come here, sweetie.

Come here, sweetie. Come here becomes c'mere, c'mere, c'mere.

The word come reduced. I would write that K SCHWA M

and actually M takes over the SCHWA. It's a syllabic consonant so it's really just like KM, k'm here, k'm here.

The H is dropped, come 'ere, come 'ere, come 'ere, come 'ere, sweetie, come 'ere sweetie.

Come here, sweetie

Come here, sweetie.

Come here, sweetie.

And stress on that k'm 'ere sweetie.

Sweetie with a flap T because the T comes between two vowels sweetie,

k'm 'ere sweetie, k'm 'ere sweetie. So, it's not come here it's k'm 'ere.

That's a very common way to pronounce those two words together, k'm 'ere, k'm 'ere sweetie.

Come here, sweetie.

Come here, sweetie.

Come here, sweetie. Listen.

Listen.

First syllable stress we have that up-down shape

listen and the second syllable just comes in on the way down.

The T in listen is silent.

That's just the pronunciation, it's not something Americans do,

it's the actual official pronunciation.

Up here the actual official pronunciation of here is

with the H but every once in a while we drop it like in this phrase

but in this word it's just not ever pronounced, listen.

Listen.

Listen.

Listen. You're going to go on, like...

Okay. So, he puts a little break here.

So, in this thought group

what do you hear as being the most stressed syllable.

You're going to go on like...

You're going to go on like...

You're going to go on like...

You're going to go on like.

You're going go- I hear go, the verb as the most stressed.

You are going to becomes you're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna.

You are you're becomes yer, yer, yer.

Just a Y sound and a R sound. You don't need to try to make the SCHWA.

R is also a syllabic consonant, it overpowers the SCHWA yer, yer, yer.

Going to becomes gonna so you are going to is

you're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna

You're going to...

You're going to...

You're going to...

You're gonna go, you're gonna go.

You're going to go....

You're going to go...

You're going to go on like...

On and like just falling in pitch away from the peak of stress at go.

Go on like, go on like.

...go on like...

...go on like...

...go on like a thousand interviews before you get a job.

Okay and in this next thought group what is the most stressed syllable?

...a thousand interviews before you get a job.

...a thousand interviews before you get a job.

... a thousand interviews before you get a job.

A thousand. I think thou has the most stress.

A thousand

interviews before, a little bit of stress here as well,

before you get a job, but I think the most stress is on thousand.

So, that word begins with an unvoiced TH.

You do need to bring your tongue tip through the teeth for that a thousand.

...a thousand...

...a thousand...

...a thousand...

And the letter A here just a SCHWA.

A thousand, oops I just realized

there's a typo here isn't there?

There's an A in that word a thousand.

...a thousand...

...a thousand...

...a thousand interviews...

Interviews, interviews, again he drops the T it's a very normal and natural pronunciation interviews.

...interviews...

...interviews...

...interviews...

It's so weird I have never noticed this about Ross before and yes I've seen this show

but his R in interviews and before is a little weak

which is a little bit of a New York accent interviews before.

...interviews before...

...interviews before...

...interviews before you get a job.

I definitely recommend you stick with a standard American accent

which does have a bit of a stronger R sound in those words interviews before you get a job.

...interviews before you get a job.

... interviews before you get a job.

... interviews before you get a job.

Before you get a job, before you get a job.

You can really feel that stress before you get a job, da-da-da-da-da-da.

It starts to feel like a music a little bit when you study the stress before you get a job.

You get a, all lower in pitch flatter.

Again, the letter A is just a quick SCHWA linking the words together.

The T in get is a flap T. It comes between two vowels,

it links those words together, you get a job.

...you get a job.

...you get a job.

...you get a job.

That's not how that was supposed to come out.

So, of course what he meant was it takes a lot of tries to actually get a job.

What it sounded like was she's not going to interview

very well and is going to have to do it a thousand times before she gets a job.

So, that's what he meant when he said that's not how that was supposed to come out.

We say that if we say something and the meaning didn't quite come across right.

That's not how that was supposed to come out.

That's not how that was supposed to come out.

That's not how that was supposed to come out.

That's not how that was supposed to come out.

That's not how that was, that's not how that was supposed to come out.

Come out, a phrasal verb.

That's not how that was supposed to come out.

That's not how that was supposed to come out.

That's not how that was supposed to come out.

That's not how that was... So, we have a full A vowel in that's

both times it doesn't reduce that's not how that was.

We have a stop T in this word that.

That was, that was, that was.

It's not released, that would be that was, that was over pronounced. We don't release our T's very often.