Name: Learn English | Learning English with FRIENDS! | English Lesson—FRIENDS Christmas episode | Part 1
Uploaded: 2020-10-20T19:30:08.000Z
Duration: 31 min 53 s
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It's my favorite time of year, Christmas time.

I love the festive feeling. I mean, look at  this a Christmas tree, lights, ornaments.

Today we're going to celebrate the Christmas season by taking a friend's episode

from Christmas time and using it to learn English.

Actually, we're going to take this episode and take little bits from it for the next three Rachel's English videos.

All December we are learning  English with this episode.

What's fun about this episode is in it  Rachel quits her job.

So, we're also going to be seeing some words some phrases used to describe your job,

Remind me to review with you which pot  is decaf, and which is regular.

Okay. Fine. Gunther, you know what, I am  a terrible waitress.

I don't care. I don't care which pot is regular and which pot is decaf. I don't care where the tray spot is.

I just don't care. This is not what I want to do.

So, I don't think I should do it anymore.  I'm going to give you my weeks notice.

Does this mean we're going to have to  start paying for coffee?

Rachel, first syllable stress and the pitch goes up.

Ra-chel and the pitch goes up because  he's trying to get her attention.

The breathiness just sort of shows exasperation and that she's kind of over it,

And then this next set group is pretty long.

What do you hear as the most stressed syllables?

It's longer so there are a few.  I'm hearing re-mind

the stress syllable of that first word the  verb remind me to review with you,

review some on that verb as well which  pot is decaf and which pot is regular.

So, the two verbs and then the difference  between coffees,

decaf and regular and we do have a few reductions.

We actually have a dropped D here in the stressed word, in the stressed syllable.

It's not uncommon to drop a D between two constants especially when the first one wasn't N like this.

So, it's remin' me, remin' me and this is a pretty common two-word phrase.

Remind me to do this. Remind me to call mom.  Remind me to pick up the dry-cleaning.

I diphthong N and then write into the  M with no D, remin' me.

Now, the word to is not reduced and  that's not very natural.

It's pronounced with the true T  and the OO vowel.

and when I was trying to think about why he would do this fully pronounced.

It is still unstressed, so the stress is right but by not reducing that word it sounds a little bit more formal

and this character is supposed to be a little bit odd

and so by not doing a reduction that's one  way to develop that character,

Remind me to review, me to re...  Me to re... Me to re....

These three syllables all flatter in pitch  compared to the up-down shape

Review with you which pot is decaf then these five words all a little bit lower in pitch.

Which pot is... Which pot is with the flap T and that's really common when one word ends

in a T, a vowel or diphthong and T and the next word begins with a vowel or diphthong,

Decaf is short for decaffeinated.  Decaffeinated coffee.

its caf that stressed but when we shorten it for some reason the stress changes and it's de-caf

it's not decaf but it's de-caf so the stress changes now we have first syllable stress.

in the word decaffeinated it's a SCHWA de-caffeinated,

but we can't ever have a SCHWA in a stressed syllable and so the vowel changes de-caf

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