Name: How Do Americans Really Speak? | 👻SCREAM English Pronunciation Analysis (🎃 Halloween Special 🎃)
Uploaded: 2025-10-28T18:27:30.000Z
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To celebrate Halloween later this week, we're doing a full pronunciation analysis of one of the most iconic scary movies.

Studying movies this way will help improve not just your listening comprehension of American English, but

Be sure to stick around for the training section at the end so that you can pick up all all the habits that you'll learn about.

You know, the one with the guy in the white mask who walks around and stalks babysitters?

So he stresses the F. He holds it a little bit more.

In this case, it's the A, as in, say, diphthong.

Each syllable in English has either a vowel or a diphthong.

And here it's got a diphthong f. And when we have a stressed syllable, it's never flat.

We like it to go up and then down in pitch.

Make sure you get that shape, that voice coming down.

That's really important for understandability when it comes to stressed syllables.

Now, you may notice it's not favorite or favorite.

It ends with a stop T. The T is not released.

And there's an abrupt stop there at the end of the word.

That's very common for ending T's, especially when the next word begins with a consonant.

You'll almost never hear an ending T fully pronounced when it comes after a vowel or diphthong and the next sound is a consonant.

Let's go back to the beginning of the sentence.

What's your Favorite scary movie what's your Favorite scary movie what's your Favorite scary movie what is your Becomes what's your what's your Way under pronounced compared to the up down shape of stress that we had here on our stress syllable.

What's your what's your so these words are flat.

This is not pronounced your, but it's ear ear.

In IPA we would write that with the Y consonant sound and then the schwa r sound.

But there's not really a separate vowel sound.

It's just the Y into the r ear Low in pitch Flat what's your what's your what's your and what's Also said very quickly and also flat what's what's what's what's what's your what's your what's your what's your what's your what's your what's your These words are unstressed.

And unstressed words in English have a very different feel than stressed words like fave Fave what's your what's your what's what's your Flatter in pitch, lower in volume, linking together and less clearly pronounced.

What's your fave what's your favorite what's your favorite what's your favorite what's your favorite Scary movie Scary Movie Scary Movie so his voice is lower in pitch and he's losing a little bit of the volume here as we go down.

And then it just kind of falls out with this popcorny kind of sound.

But these two words also have a little bit of an up down shape of stress on the first syllable scare and moo.

So we have three two syllable words here in a row and they each have first syllable stress.

Favorite scary movie Favorite scary movie Favorite scary movie Favorite Scary movie Favorite scary movie this melody of English is really important.

It helps people understand what you're saying when you give stressed syllables an up down shape with your voice.

Favorite Scary movie Favorite Scary Movie Favorite Scary movie I don't know.

Both just going up towards that peak of stress on no.

This is the only word with an up down shape.

I and don't Lower in pitch flatter just building up to this up down shape.

Notice the T in don't is completely dropped.

These two words link together with a single N sound.

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