Name: Study English | American English Pronunciation | What Makes American English Sound AMERICAN?
Uploaded: 2020-11-10T19:30:29.000Z
Duration: 19 min 57 s
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Today is the third video this December where we're using the Friends Christmas episode,

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The One Where Rachel Quits  Her Job to study English.

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Now in this episode, she's gotten the job and it's her last day working at the coffee shop.

We're going to study this scene and everything we can about American English pronunciation

to figure out what makes American  English sound American.

>> Should I tell her I ordered tea? >> No.

And, uh, I just wanted to say that I made  some really good friends here.

As of this moment, I will never have to  make coffee again.

Okay our first thought group here is  three words long.

The stress is all going up towards the peak.

The energy peaks out on the word  go that has the O diphthong.

You will need some lip rounding for that.

There you, going up and pitch, going up  in energy and volume,

there you go and then the up-down shape  on the stressed syllable

Try to do that. Try to do it really smoothly  connected with that peak of stress on go.

You'll listen to it three times then there will be a little pause for you to try it.

So, the context here, this is  Rachel's last shift.

She did get a job in the video that  we studied last week.

she had just had an interview where she  didn't feel like she did very well,

and so this is her last shift and she knows  that she has a job to go on to.

Okay Chandler didn't actually order coffee.

Should I tell her, the verb, should I tell her I  ordered tea, tea and the pitch goes up.

Those are our two most stressed  syllables there.

the word should. I would say is I would write that with a SCHWA should, should, should I, should I.

The D is a flap sound because it comes  between two vowels or diphthongs.

The L is silent here, so it comes between  the SCHWA and the I diphthong.

So, it says should I, should I, da, da, da, da, da.

The tongue bouncing on the roof of the  mouth should I tell her.

unless it's the TR cluster then it might  be a CH sound, tell her.

We have a dropped H the ER, the SCHWA R ending just links on to the word before tell her,

I ordered both a little flatter, lower in pitch  I ordered, I ordered, I ordered, I ordered tea.

and again that is a True T because the T  there begins a stressed syllable.

I ordered, I ordered, I ordered these two words flatter in pitch simplified less clear.

can be really tough I actually have a video that goes over how to pronounce that word when it's stressed,

I'll put a link in the video description.

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