Name: You Want to Improve the Way You’re SPEAKING ENGLISH? I Know Exactly How To Help!
Uploaded: 2025-09-02T18:25:30.000Z
Duration: 25 min 26 s
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I can't believe it's been 12 years since this movie came out.

The superlative

And I think it's one of the best movies to learn English with.

The conversation isn't too fast and there isn't much background noise.

It's a great way to study real, natural English.

Today, we'll take one scene from this movie and study the pronunciation of the words and the stress and flow of the phrases so you can start to understand what makes a natural American accent.

I have a background in opera singing and I've been teaching the American accent to non-native speakers for over 20 years.

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It will change the way you think about speaking American English.

But it does make me very sad that you can't handle real emotions, Theodore.

We used to be married but he couldn't handle me.

He wanted to put me on Prozac and now he's madly in love with his laptop.

Well, if you'd heard the conversation in context, what I was trying to say...

You always wanted to have a wife without the challenges of actually dealing with anything real.

Let me know if I can get you guys anything.

Clear bounce there of the tongue on the roof of the mouth.

Making a flap sound connecting those two words.

But it does, but it, but it, but it, but it does, but it does, does.

Stop of air and then the D sound for does.

Notice the word does is spelled with the letter S but that makes the Z sound.

Does, does, but it does make me very sad that you can't handle real emotions, Theodore.

It's a stop consonant and she's stopping the air.

I would imagine she's putting the back of her tongue up into position for the K but she's certainly not releasing it.

I can exaggerate the break there a little bit.

We hear the K because it's a little bit shorter and more abrupt, a little flatter.

If it was the word may with no ending, it would be shaped more like this.

But instead, it's make with this stop and then me.

She stresses the V a little bit here for emphasis.

And it's also, in general, the whole thing is a little bit higher in pitch.

That makes it a little bit more stressed.

A little bit of that sound in the throat, that voiced sound to show that it's a D.

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