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  • In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to study real-life English while I make an apple pie

  • with my dear friend Laura.

  • Okay, time to eat the caramel sauce.

  • Caramel. Caramel. Caramel.

  • They're all okay. They're all okay. Okay.

  • Hmmthis tasty word can be pronounced three ways.

  • Caramel. Caramel. Or caramel.

  • Each pronunciation is accepted and you will find all three of these pronunciations listed in the dictionary.

  • Here's what it says.

  • Whisk in a medium saucepan.

  • Now it doesn't say over medium-low heat.

  • Okay.

  • Okay.

  • -I'll do that. -Okay.

  • Notice how we respond to each other. K and mkay.

  • These are both common variants of the wordokay’.

  • This word is used a lot in conversational English.

  • It can be used to say ‘I understand, I'm listening

  • which is how Laura and I both use it here.

  • Over medium-low heat.

  • K. Mkay.

  • I've read a part of the recipe and we're both saying I understand that.

  • Then she offers to take care of it and I saymkayagain here, meaning I understand.

  • -I'll do that. -Okay.

  • We also use it foryes’.

  • Will you add the sugar?

  • Okay.

  • Over a medium low heat.

  • -K. -Mkay.

  • -I'll do that. -Okay.

  • Here's what it says. Hmm

  • So we do this until the sugar is dissolved then we add the butter

  • -which I put out on the counter. -with a stick.

  • -Just light on the butter. -Yeah.

  • You know, it's notthis, this pie is not very high in calories.

  • So that's false.

  • False.

  • I've said something here that's not true. It's false.

  • I'm not being serious.

  • The pie is very high in calories.

  • Listen to the different ways you can say I'm not being serious.

  • False. I'm joking. I'm being facetious.

  • I'm just kidding.

  • - How else could you say that? - She's joking.

  • You already say that?

  • - I did say that. I'm pulling my leg. -Youre pulling your leg.

  • Yeah, I'm pulling your leg. It's a high in calorie pie.

  • Okay so um...

  • - Just joshing… - I'm just joshing you.

  • Where does that one come from?

  • I'm just Joshin.

  • You could say that. I'm just joshing. Hey, don't get upset. I'm just Joshin.

  • I'm joking. I'm being facetious. I'm just kidding. I'm pulling your leg. I'm just joshing.

  • All of these things mean what I'm saying should not be taken seriously or literally.

  • I could have also said I'm just playing or I'm playing.

  • The wordjustin all of these phrases can be used but doesn't have to be used.

  • A note on the pronunciation of the wordjust’,

  • if it's followed by a word that begins with the consonant, the T will usually be dropped.

  • For example, I'm just kidding.

  • Jus kidding.

  • Straight from the S sound into the K with no T.

  • False. I'm joking. I'm being facetious.

  • I'm just kidding.

  • I'm pulling your leg. It's a high in calorie pie.

  • I'm just joshing you.

  • Where does that one come from?

  • You want to grab the stick of butter?

  • Yeah.

  • So every fall, for what, how many years have you been doing this?

  • Well we've lived here since 2010.

  • - No way. - And it probably started...

  • No way.

  • Here? No way.

  • What does that mean?

  • That means I can't believe what she's saying.

  • I don't think it's true and it turns out I misunderstood.

  • I thought she meant she had been living in that house since 2010

  • but she meant she'd been living in the town since then.

  • Well we've lived here since 2010.

  • - Here? No way. - And it probably started...

  • - No. No. No. In North Hampton. Yeah. - Oh, you mean North Hampton.

  • -Seven-ish. -6 or 7 years. Yeah.

  • I said seven-ish years while Laura said six or seven years.

  • Ishis something you might hear put at the end of a word to show approximation.

  • -Seven-ish. -6 or 7 years. Yeah.

  • Every fall I come up to Laura's house and we have a fall baking weekend

  • and actually we've made lots of videos from the fall baking weekend

  • so I’ll put a link to that playlist in the comments below.

  • Also right here, just click the I.

  • They're really fun.

  • They are. At least we have fun.

  • We have fun.

  • We keep on working on the sauce for that pie adding butter and then adding cream.

  • Okay, are you ready to whisk?

  • - I think I’m supposed to add this really slowly. - Slowly.

  • Am I supposed to keep on whisking or stirring?

  • There we're both unsure of what the recipe says.

  • We both used the phrasesupposed to’.

  • We both reduce this phrase to: spose ta.

  • We reduced it from 3 syllables to 2.

  • This is really common.

  • The S and T can either be pronounced: Ss-- sposta, or ZD, spose ta.

  • - I think I’m supposed to add this really slowly. - Slowly.

  • Am I supposed to keep on whisking or stirring?

  • Alright. Here we go.

  • - Woah! - Woah! Steam bomb! The camera!

  • Ok, so now we're slicing the apples. We're using machine

  • to make it a little easier. You can put them in here then.

  • Yeah. Okay.

  • There are always lots of reductions in American English.

  • Let's look at the ones I just used.

  • We arecontracts towe'reand is often pronouncedwerein conversation.

  • It's really fast and it sounds just like this word: were.

  • I use that contraction twice here.

  • So now we're slicing the apples. We're using a machine to make it a little easier. You can put them in here then.

  • Yeah. Okay.

  • You're going to put them in here then.

  • Some more reductions.

  • The word are at the beginning was dropped.

  • We need that word to be grammatically correct but it is sometimes dropped in spoken English.

  • Going tobecamegonnaand the TH was dropped in them.

  • Put thembecomes: putemputem

  • No TH and a flap T to connect the two words.

  • Putemputem

  • You can put them in here then.

  • Yeah. Okay.

  • Right. Watch this do its magic.

  • Love it. They come out at the bottom. Totally thin slice.

  • Let's put the lemon juice in.

  • Let's put the lemon juice in.

  • The wordlet's’ is really unclear.

  • It's very common to drop the beginning and basically just make the TS sound.

  • Let's put the lemon juice in. Ts- ts- ts-

  • That's, its, and what can also make this reduction.

  • We're just putting the TS sound in front of the next word.

  • See this video for further examples and explanation.

  • Let's put the lemon juice in.

  • And the baby’s up. Let me go get him.

  • Let me go get him. A couple reductions here.

  • Let me becomes lemme, and the H is dropped inhim’.

  • Dropping the H in this word is a really common reduction.

  • When we do this, it sounds just like when we dropped the TH in them.

  • 'Get him' becomes 'get um'.

  • Just like 'put them' was 'put um'.

  • The flap T links the words and the reduction ofthemandhimare the exact same sounds, schwa and M.

  • Get emput em

  • Let me go get him.

  • Can you look right there? SayHi! I just had a nice nap!’

  • Can you sayHey everybody!’

  • Can you try that?

  • Hey everybody!’ You want to try?

  • No. Okay.

  • Can I go ahead and put the apples in there?

  • Yeah, dump them in.

  • Dump them in. ‘Themis reduced again.

  • Dump emdump emYeah, dump em in.

  • I'm going to take you down to daddy.

  • I'm going to take you down to daddy.

  • 'I'm going to' got reduced.

  • With our most common words and phrases, we tend to do the most dramatic reductions. I’m gonna--

  • There's almost an idea of I in front of it but not really.

  • I’m gonna-- I’m gonna-- I’m gonna-- I'm gonna take you down to daddy.

  • I made a video where I go over this reduction and more examples.

  • Click here or in the description below to see that video.

  • I'm going to take you down to daddy.

  • Alright.

  • - All of them? - Let me read ahead.

  • Yeah, all of them.

  • I love how when you start paying attention to a particular reduction, you constantly hear it.

  • Did you catch the reductions ofthemhere?

  • We're talking about the apple slices.

  • - All of them? - Let me read ahead.

  • Yeah, all of them.

  • All of them. Nicethemreduction, Laura.

  • - All of them? - Mm-hmm.

  • I like it.

  • Okay.

  • Then we mixed the apples in with the other dry ingredients.

  • We packed the apples into our pie shell and drizzled on the caramel sauce which got too thick as it cooled.

  • We overcooked it and finally we make the lattice top for the pie.

  • I had some problems and I kept messing it up.

  • What is wrong with me?

  • I’m like really screwing up.

  • Really screwing up.

  • Screw up is a phrasal verb which means to do something the wrong way

  • or to do a bad job with something.

  • I screwed up the pie crust.

  • You could also say mess up.

  • I messed up the pie crust.

  • I’m really screwing up. I have to wipe that out.

  • Oh darn. I I have to eat that caramel sauce.

  • This is weird, Laura. Last time I made this, it seeped in much more.

  • So when... because look when I'm doing the lattice now, when I pull it up, it's like bringing up all this goo.

  • - It’s thicker. - It's weird.

  • I gotta say right now I'm like, I'm feeling embarrassed about how this is turning out.

  • Turn out. Another phrasal verb.

  • As I'm using it here, it means how something develops or ends.

  • I'm not happy with how it's going, I'm embarrassed with the end result of my pie.

  • I got to say, right now, I'm like, I'm feeling embarrassed about how this is turning out.

  • I finished making the top and we put it in the oven and the final scene of course needs to be trying the pie.

  • It’s out of the oven, looking good. Laura, how are you feeling about it?

  • I’m feeling great!

  • Oh, also we made a pumpkin pie.

  • I’m also feeling great about that.

  • From scratch with a pumpkin.

  • We made whipped cream. Big deal.

  • And Dana made chocolate-dipped macaroons.

  • Macaroon or Macaron?

  • To clarify, this is a macaroon and this is a macaron,

  • which is also pronouncedmacaroon’.

  • I don’t know, I’ll look it up and I’ll let everyone know. Okay, let’s cut this pie. Who wants a little bit of apple?

  • If you'd like to recreate this pie, it really is amazingly delicious.

  • Please see the link in the video description below.

  • It's from my favorite pie book, the Four and Twenty Blackbirds book.

  • I’m going to have a caramely taste.

  • It turned out well.

  • That’s it guys, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English!

In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to study real-life English while I make an apple pie

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