Name: Rachel's English Trifle ✏️Learn English with Friends TV Show ?Rachel’s English
Uploaded: 2020-10-08T19:16:52.000Z
Duration: 26 min 8 s
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where Rachel famously makes an English trifle.

We're going to take a little scene from this episode

and we're going to do a full pronunciation analysis.

Actually, next week, we're going to do another scene

It's where Rachel is describing the trifle to Joey and Ross.

So, be sure to come back and check that out.

What makes American English sound American?

In this first phrase, she repeats herself.

She repeats if I, and these two words are linked together

And they link together with that F consonant.

So, we have the ih vowel, which we barely hear,

the F consonant, which links right into the I diphthong,

The word so is longer, it's more stressed.

That's to show that she is not done talking.

This is the first part of what she wants to say.

This, said very quickly, flatter and lower in pitch.

And everything links together very smoothly.

That's because the next word begins with a consonant,

and that's fairly common for stop consonants.

mess this up, there's nothing else for dessert?

Let's listen to the rest of the sentence.

And again, dessert, pitch goes up, just like it did here.

it went up because she was continuing her thought.

Here it's goes up because it's a yes-no question.

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