Name: Learn English the RIGHT Way – Better English Speaking with MARRIAGE STORY | English Conversation!
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T16:25:05.000Z
Duration: 27 min 6 s
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A great movie to learn English with  -- the pace is good, the conversation is frank.

Today, we’re going to take a scene from this movie and do a full, in-depth analysis of everything that’s said,

looking at how it’s pronounced, why it sounds American, and go over idioms too.

Studying English this way will help your listening comprehension,

and it will also help you understand how to sound more natural speaking English.

Can you, uh, answer the email so we can set a time?

I understand. I just want to rule out everything, you know, with his reading.

I just think he's a little over-anxious. I think he wants it too much.

He quits too easily when things aren't easy for him. You know, he's like us. He's stubborn.

He's still a lousy Monopoly player because he tries to save all his money.

What are our most stressed syllables in this phrase?

Everything links together really smoothly, but we have some peaks where the melody goes up.

Henry's teacher-- I'm feeling a lot of stress there.

Listen again and notice how every word slides right into the next word with no breaks.

This linking is really important to the character of American English.

So after the peak of stress on 'teach' we have three syllables, cher wants to--,

that are flatter in pitch, said more quickly,

wants to--, the word 'to' reduces, it's not 'to' it's 'tuh' with the schwa.

Wants to--  wants to--  wants to--  wants to--

Then we have a stop T in 'meet' that's because the next word begins with the W.

So it's not, meet with, but it's meet with, meet with, that tiny little break, little lift, is what we feel as the T.

What about this next question? What happens with the melody?

You mean his-- a little bit of up-down shape there. You mean his L.A. teacher?

Then we have most of our stress on A. Whenever we have an acronym like this,

where we're saying the letters, LA, JFK, etcetera, it's always the last letter that gets the most stress.

L.A. teacher?  We're going up in pitch, it's a yes/no question, and those usually go up in pitch,

but since it's going up in pitch rather than feeling the stress as an up-down shape, it's sort of the opposite.

L.A. teacher? It's a scoop down and then up.

That little utterance, very smooth, no breaks in the voice. Can you, uh--

And we have that peak on 'you', the word 'can' is not 'can' it's kuhn.

I would write that with the schwa, said very quickly, can, can, can, can you, can you, can you, uh...

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and it's the sound that Americans make when we're thinking. Uh, uhm, for example.

Answer the-- Then she does a little break here, either because she's drinking, or while she's thinking.

Answer the-- So 'an' is the most stressed syllable, and the two unstressed syllables, swer, the,

just sort of fall down in pitch from that peak. The letter W, there's no W sound here.

The word 'answer' will be written phonetically with the AA vowel, and then N,

but when AA is followed by N, it's not quite pure.

And that's not how we say it, we say answer. So the back of the tongue relaxes,

we move through a sound that's sort of like the UH as in butter sound, aauhh-- aauhh-- aauhh--

Email, email. Going up, stress on E. Email.

So we can set a time, and then intonation goes up.

It's almost like this is a question, and then the second half is also a question.

The L in 'email' is a dark L. It comes after the diphthong in that syllable,

and you don't need to lift your tongue tip for this dark L.