Name: English Pronunciation Training with Friends | Learn American Stress with TV Series
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T16:04:46.000Z
Duration: 11 min 49 s
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Modal verbs - A2

I'm Ethan, your real life English fluency coach.

And we have a new type of lesson for you this week.

By the end of this lesson, you're going to see why fast speaking natives are so difficult to understand.

And you'll even train your pronunciation to speak more clearly and fluently.

This week's lesson is all about correct word stress in English.

And if you wait until the end, we even have a test for you.

But first, if you're new here, please remember to subscribe so we can bring you more powerful lessons like this every single week.

To start of this video, I'm going to give you a quick lesson about stress in English.

Then we will look at some real life examples from friends, and finally, we will test everything you learned today.

First, in order to understand stress in English, you need to learn that English is a stressed timed language, not a syllable time to language, civil time.

Stress every syllable and a sentence about the same, for example, in languages like Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese or Mandarin.

Stress time languages, on the other hand, like Russian, German and English, stress some syllables differently than others.

This may sound confusing and scary, but the good news is that in English, this is predictable because it is divided between two types of words.

To illustrate this, take a look at how I say the following.

You can always spot someone who's never seen one of his plays before.

You may have noticed that that's not how you're supposed to talk, but rather you need to stress the content words and reduce the function words.

Now look at how Chandler says this in this clip from friends.

Picture so exciting You can always spot someone who's never seen one of this place before.

You can always spot someone who's never seen one of this place before.

They seem longer, their higher and pitch and even sound clear content Words always have a strong valve function.

They're shorter, quicker, and de emphasized, they often drop continents or syllables.

They do not have strong vows, but rather usually reduced the vow to a Schwab sound or other week.

The becomes the can becomes four becomes for, and it even happens with multiple words.

For example, she is in a becomes She's in a stressed words that is content.

Words are heard Maur clearly than others, unstrapped words that is function.

Words are squeezed between stress words in such a way that many times they almost disappear.

So it goes without saying that if you stress function words, it can make your speech sound unnatural, and in some cases it can even convey a slightly different meaning.

So you're probably wondering now, how do we identify content and function?

The ones that are usually stressed are generally announce main verbs, adjectives, adverbs, interjections.

Question words like what, when and where and negatives, auxiliary and motive.

The ones that are usually unstrung est are articles, particles, auxiliary verbs, model verbs, pronouns, propositions or conjunctions.

Did goes the store with his daughter and notice how, even though these sentences seem longer, we say them in about the same amount of time it goes of the store.

If he's going to the store, David's gonna have gone to the store.

No wonder it seems like natives speak so fast.

Function words take almost no time to say so.

If you want to make a phrase longer, you have to add content words.

And what happens when you stress too many syllables?

Dave could have gone to the store versus Difficult Got in the store.

She is going to buy a red car, even though she wants the pink one.

She's gonna buy a red car, even though she wants a pink one.

The kids have been playing at the playground because I've been playing in the playground, as you can see.

Not only is it more tiring to speak this way, but it also sounds unnatural and robotic.

This also shows you that natives are not necessarily speaking fast, rather because we de stress reduce and cut the function words.

Sentences become shorter, which, to the untrained ear, gives the perception that we speak fast.

Luckily for you today, you will begin training your years to these native stress tendencies and understand fast speaking natives.

All right, I think you have probably got it down.

But even if you are a little confused, don't worry.

Because now we will look at some real world examples.

Why do you have to break up with their be a man?

Just stop calling Joyce Picture so exciting.

You can always spot someone who's never seen this place before.

Please, could she be more out of my league?

Please, Could she be more out of my league?

He could never get a woman like that in a 1,000,000 years.

They could never get a woman like that in a 1,000,000 years.

Never get a woman like that in a 1,000,000 years, so you can invite us all to the big opening so you can invite assault to the big opening so you can invite assault to the big opening.

I don't even think you just get one shot.

I mean, I don't even think you just get one shot.

I wish there was something we could D'oh Such There was something we could do.

What do you want me to do with a dozen lasagnas?

You guys are always hang out in my apartment.

You guys always hang out in my apartment, always hang out in my apartment.