Name: Learn English with Movies – Antman and The Wasp
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T10:11:34.000Z
Duration: 32 min 15 s
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Today, you're studying fast English by looking at the reductions , the linking, the melody,

the simplification that native speakers do when speaking English.

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We're going to be using the scene from the movie Ant Man and The Wasp.

When you study American English this way, and not the way you learned it in school,

or the way you learned from your book, your listening comprehension and your ability to sound natural

speaking English is going to improve dramatically.

Today, you'll see what changes in someone's rhythm when they're insulting somebody.

We're doing an in-depth analysis, studying the rhythmic contrast that gives American English its character.

And there's going to be audio to train with at the end, so you can fully understand it,

and start building that habit of natural American English.

You're the one who's on the run from the FBI.

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.

And as always, if you like this video or you learned something new, 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. Okay here's the scene.

Hope, I'd love to help you but I don't have anything like the equipment you're describing.

I told you, this is a waste of time. Come on, let's go.

Don't condescend, Hank. You're the one who's on the run from the FBI.

All because you had to grow to a size that finally fit your ego.

So what's the stress and melody of that phrase?

Doctor, doctor, that goes up. Doctor, we need to find our lab.

And then we have those three words that have a little bit of that up down shape

in the overall feeling of that phrase descending.

Now just do it with me on UH. Uhhhhh. Uhhh.

Can you make it that smooth when you put the words in?

And to do that, you might need to simplify things a little bit about how you pronounce words.

The R links right into the W with no break.

So the R absorbs the schwa. You don't need to try to make a vowel there.

Doctor. Doctor. Right from T into R. Doctor we--

So to and our, both lower in pitch, part of a valley, a little valley between those peaks of stress.

Need to-- so they're said more quickly, they're lower in pitch,

and in order to do that, we make some reductions. So rather than saying need to, we say: need duh--

Need to--  So the word to gets reduced to just the schwa.

This can happen when the sound before is a D.

And that schwa links the D and the F together so that there's no break between these words.

Then the word our is pronounced quickly. It's more like: are, are. Find our, find our, find our lab.

So then he responds with a long thought group.

No breaks here, much longer than the first statement, isn't it?

Isn't this fantastic? I love doing these analyses with you.

You know, one of the things my students ask for in lessons is more idioms and slang.

And as you watch movies, you may find that there are words and phrases you understand,

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So there we have three peaks of stress. Hope, I'd love to help you--

one sound gliding up next to the other, do it just on UH if you want to,

to practice that smoothness, to practice that melody.

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Learn English with Movies – Antman and The Wasp

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