Name: English Training Lesson | Understand English Effortlessly—How to Learn English with Movies and TV
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T09:22:08.000Z
Duration: 41 min
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Today you're transforming your spoken English by studying a scene from the movie, First Man, with me.

This is the story of Neil Armstrong, and the thing I love about this,

Adverbs of manner

he's in an interview and he speaks very thoughtfully, very intentionally. We're going to go in-depth,

studying how he expresses himself, and we're also going to study how the melody of a sentence can

change the meaning. When you study scene the way we're going to in this video, you'll be

able to understand American movies and TV effortlessly without subtitles.

We're going to be doing this all summer, June 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

And as always, if you liked this video or you learn something please, like and subscribe with notifications.

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. Ok, here's the scene.

I don't know what space exploration will uncover, but

I don't think it will be exploration just for the sake of exploration.

Yeah. You know, I was sorry to hear about your daughter.

I think it would be unreasonable to assume that it wouldn't have some effect.

I don't know what space exploration will uncover, but I don't think it will be

exploration just for the sake of exploration.

So he has a pretty long sentence here, but he breaks it up into a lot of smaller thought groups. The first one

is after the word what, he pauses, let's look at these first four words.

It's a little bit unclear, isn't it? It certainly doesn't sound like: I don't know what.

I don't know what. Uhhh. It's just one big phrase with one peak. I don't know what. Uhhh.

And everything glides together really smoothly. I don't know.

So the T is dropped, and these two words connect with a single N sound. K of course is silent in this word. I don't know what.

changes here to the UH, that's somewhat common in the phrase: I don't know, becomes: don't know.

I don't know, I don't know,  I don't know.

So I would actually write this: doh know, with stress on know. I don't know. I don't know.

And because of the AI diphthong before, this D is just a flap, dadadadada.

What, the vowel on what, what, what, what, what, what. To me, he's darkened it a little bit. It's not quite uh,

uh, uh, it's almost a little bit like push.

Definitely he does a stop T at the end there, because it's a T at the end of a thought group,

and he does pronounce the word what, without that  wh sound in front.

So WH words can be pronounced with the pure W, or with a what, escape of air before.

and then a little bit of a pause here as he continues to think about how to articulate his answer.

So let's look at these three words and is there just one peak of stress like I don't know what?

Or do we have more than one feeling of an up-down shape?

Space exploration. I feel two stressed syllables there.

Space and ay, the AY diphthong here in exploration, TION is the SH, shwa N ending.

Tion tion tion, space exploration. We have an ending S in space, and ending S sound,

and it links right into the beginning vowel of the next word, EH, space eh, seh, seh, sexploration.

So there's no break in sound there. Everything connects really smoothly.

Exploration will. Will,  And then he holds this out a little bit while he's thinking.

Will, doesn't reduce the vowel. Sometimes, we do, sometimes, we might say: space exploration will,

will, will, but he doesn't do that, he keeps the IH vowel. Space exploration will.

Uncover but, he does a little break here, he makes a stop T, he does not connect it to the AI diphthong,

that would be: but I, but I, and that would be pretty common to connect, but he is breaking this up a lot,

and so he breaks it up here. He is speaking slowly, intentionally. Uncover but.

Just one, and it's uncov, uncover. So we have the letter O but it's the UH as in butter vowel.

There's no lip rounding for that. Uncover. Cover. Just like in the word love, ove, ove, cove, cover, uncover but.

I don't think it'll be, and then he holds out the EE vowel a little bit here at the end of 'be', while he's thinking.

I don't think it will be. Don't and be both have that uhhhhh, up-down shape.

And then we have, we have a really beautiful rhythm here. Dadadadada, dadadadadada,

I is shorter, think it will, shorter, actually 'it will' is contracted, it's not it will, but it's it'll, it'll,

so I would write that with the IH vowel, flap T, schwa L. It'll, It'll,It'll, It'll, It'll, It'll, It'll, It'll,

just like the word little, but without the L. It'll, It'll, It'll. I don't think it'll.

The word don't just pronounced quite differently than it was the first time he said it.

We actually have a stop. So we do feel that as a T. I don't think. I don't think.

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