Today you're studying fast English, conversational English, with the movie Shazam.

All the linking and reductions that Americans do can make it pretty hard to understand them.

When you study American English the way we will in this video,

your listening comprehension and your ability to sound natural speaking English

is going to improve dramatically.

Study like this and you're going to be able to understand American movies and TV without subtitles.

It's time someone looked you in the eye and told it to you straight.

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.

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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 and 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.

Foster home in Pittsburgh reported you missing two weeks ago.

You're sending me back?

No, they don't want you.

Harsh.

You laugh, but you've run from foster homes in six counties, Mr. Batson.

From good people who want you.

All in pursuit of someone who arguably does not.

It's time someone looked you in the eye and told it to you straight.

And now, the analysis.

Foster home in Pittsburgh reported you missing two weeks ago.

You're sending me back?

In this scene, they're discussing how this boy keeps running away from foster homes.

And his first question for her is, are they going to make him go back to the foster home?

You're sending me back?

You're sending me back?

You're sending me back?

So we start out with an unstressed word, You're becomes: yer yer yer, don't put a vowel in there.

Yer yer yer, you're sending me-- sending me--

We have a stressed syllable on sen-- and then the unstressed syllables, --ding me,

all come down in pitch after that peak. Sending me back?

And then this word is stressed but it goes down and up, because he's making it a question, a yes no question.

Back? Back? You're sending me back?

You're sending me back?

You're sending me back?

You're sending me back?

He's really making this unstressed word very quiet, isn't he?

Make sure you're imitating that. We want it to feel unstressed. Yer yer yer yer yer you're sending me back?

You're sending me back?

You're sending me back?

You're sending me back?

Back? This has the aa vowel.

Ah ah-- might help you to make this sound if you just raise your upper lip a little bit: back, back.

Back?

No.

No. No. I love this very clear, up down shape statement. No. No.

No.

They don't want you.

They don't want you. They and want, are two most stressed words there.

They don't-- what happens with our two T's here?

They don't want you. That's not what we hear. What do we hear?

They don't want you.

They don't want you.

They don't want you.

They don't want you. Nt. Nt. Nt.

That sound is an NT ending, stop.

So the T is a stop consonant usually when the next word begins with a consonant.

Here, it's W, here, it's the Y consonant,

don't want-- do you hear that little nasal squeak, and then I stop?

Don't want, don't want, they don't want you, they don't want you.

I'm exaggerating those breaks a little bit, those stops, but that's the feeling.

Don't want. Don't want. It's certainly not don't want, don't want.

Very often in American English, our Ts do not have that full release.

This helps us make things more smooth, and we really like smooth, linked together speech in American English.

They don't want you.

They don't want you.

They don't want you.

They don't want you.

They don't want you.

See if you can do that and move your hand up and down on 'they don't want you', on they, and don't,

and see if that can help you get that feeling of stress.

I think it's always a good thing to bring in our bodies to help with this. They don't want you.

They don't want you.

They don't want you.

They don't want you.

You coming down in pitch off of the peak of stress. You, you, you, you.

You.

It's quiet, it's subtle, don't make it more than that. We want it to have that unstressed feeling.

You.

Harsh.

Harsh. Harsh. Harsh. Up down shape. Harsh means wow, that's a little bit hurtful

that someone doesn't want him back.

Of course, he doesn't seem hurt by it. He didn't want to be there, he ran away.

But it's still a bit harsh for the family not to want him.

Harsh.

You laugh--

You laugh-- And then she puts a little break here.

Breaking it up into a different thought group. So for you and laugh, which word is more stressed?

You laugh--

You laugh-- you has a little bit of its own up down shape.

You laugh-- but laugh definitely has more.

Laugh, pronounced with a light L, the AA as in bat vowel, just like back, and an F consonant.

Laugh. You laugh-- you laugh--

You laugh--

You laugh, but you've run from foster homes in six counties, Mr. Batson.

Okay now a little bit of a longer thought group. What are her most stressed syllables?

But you've run from foster homes in six counties, Mr. Batson.

But you've run from foster homes in six counties, Mr. Batson.

But you've run from foster homes in six counties, Mr. Batson.

But you've run-- a lot of stress there. But you've run from foster-- a little bit of stress there.

Foster homes, a little bit of stress there.

But you've run from foster homes--

But you've run from foster homes--

But you've run from foster homes in six counties, Mr. Batson.

In six counties, and then that word, six counties, gets a lot of stress, she really holds on to that S, in six counties.

In six counties--

Mr. Batson.

Mr. Batson. Mr. Batson. His name, gets a little bit of stress. Stress is on the first syllable there.

Mr. Batson.

But you've run-- we have a stop T in but, next word begins with a consonant, but you've run--

But you've run-

from foster homes

Run from-- both lower in pitch, you've run from-from-what? From, yes, from, not from,

that word is reduced, F consonant, R consonant, schwa M. From, from, not from, that's stressed.

This word is unstressed, it's: from, from, from, from foster, from foster.

O letter there makes the AH as in father vowel.

From foster--

From foster homes in six counties--

Foster homes-- foster homes in six counties--

Make sure everything's linking together. We don't want breaks. Foster homes. Right from the R into the H.

Foster homes in-- homes in-- homes in--

that ending Z sound links right into the IH vowel for in.

Homes in six counties-- and then I love how she holds that out.

Holding out a beginning consonant can really stress a word. I mean, these are a lot of homes,

a lot of places that he's run away from. Six counties.

Foster homes in six counties--

Foster homes in six counties--

Foster homes in six counties--

The letter X makes the KS sounds. Six counties.

Six counties--

Counties. Counties. What's happening with this word?

Counties. Well, she's dropping the T, isn't she?

This is pretty common in NT words like: internet, interview, and so on. Counties.

Very often pronounced counties with no T.

Counties.

Counties--

Mr. Batson.

Mr. Batson. Batson. Stop T, next sound is an S. Batson.

And this also has the AA vowel. I hope you're comfortable with that vowel because

we've run into it a couple times, haven't we? Mr. Batson.

Mr. Batson.

We have a lot of names that end in s-o-n,

but it's not pronounced like the word sun.

They're pronounced sun, sun, you can think of it as being a schwa, or an IH.

Either sound is okay. Just make sure you're thinking of it being very unstressed.

Son, son, son, son, Batson.

Batson.

From--

Okay this is great. She breaks out the word from while she's thinking and even though it's by itself,

not in the context of a whole sentence, even though she doesn't stress it, it's not: from, it's: from from from.

from--

good people--

Good people. Another little break. So she's breaking this up in two thought groups while she's thinking,

she can't believe that this boy would continue to run away

from homes of people who want to take care of him.

from good people--

good people--

from good people--

from good people--

from good people-

The D is not released, that would be: good people, good people, but it's good people.

I do make the D sound in my vocal cords.

Good. But I don't release it, it's a stop.