Name: Learn English with Movies – Toy Story 4
Uploaded: 2020-03-09T03:44:48.000Z
Duration: 23 min 26 s
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In the US, summer is for sand, sun, and blockbuster movies. And this summer, we're going to use

those movies to learn English and study how to sound American. Every video this summer

is going to be a study English with movies video. We'll pull scenes from the summer's

hottest movies, as well as favorite movies from years past. It's amazing what we can

discover by studying even a small bit of English dialogue. We'll study how to understand movies,

what makes Americans sound American, and of course, any interesting vocabulary phrasal

verbs or idioms that come up in the scenes we study. I call this kind of exercise a Ben

Franklin Exercise. First, we'll watch the scene. Then we'll do an in-depth analysis

of what we hear together. This is going to be so much fun! Be sure to tell your friends

and spread the word that all summer long, every Tuesday, we're studying English with

What is the melody, the song of this word?

If you had to just hum the tune of this word, what would you what would you hum?

Situation? What does that mean at the end that it goes up?

That means it's a question. She's asking for information.

She's like what's going on? Situation? It's very different than: situation.

Where the pitch goes down. That's a statement. Pitch goes up makes it a question. Asking for information.

Lost toy. Side yard. Okay, so he has a little bit of...In his voice

because he's pulling himself up. But it's two little sentences put together into one

thought group. Let's look at how he links everything together. First, the word 'lost'

He links them together with a single letter T, a true T.

Any word that begins with a T that is a stressed word, is going to be a true T.

Toy, toy, toy. The exception is if it's in a TR cluster, then it might be CH,

like the word train. But if it's just T, not in a cluster, it is gonna be a true T if it

starts a stressed word or syllable. Lost toy. Link those together with a single T. Try that.

Whoa! Different day, different outfit, important announcement. Did you know that with this

video, I made a free audio lesson that you can download? In fact, I'm doing this for

each one of the youtube videos I'm making this summer, all 11 of the learn English with

movies videos. So follow this link, or find the link in the video description to get your

free downloadable audio lesson. It's where you're going to train all of the things that

you've learned about pronunciation in this video. Back to the lesson.

Lost toy. Side yard. Okay. So no break, I put a period there, but there was no break.

The OY diphthong goes right into the S. Side yard. And the D goes right into Y. So there's

no release of the D. If I did release it, if he did release it, it would sound like

this: side yard, side yard, side, side, side yard. But it's not that clear, its side yard.

So my tongue is in position for the D. I do vibrate the vocal chords, it's a voiced sound,

side yard. But rather than releasing the tongue tip down, I go right into the Y consonant.

That helps the two words link together more smoothly.

And the final D I don't even really hear. So I wouldn't say, I would also say it's no

release. I think he does voice it. Side yard. It's just that it's a subtle sound, and she

starts speaking, the music starts, so we sort of lose it. But just know this is a common

pronunciation for D especially when it links into another consonant, is that we don't release it.

If we were linking into a word that began with the vowel or diphthong, it would sound

more released. Like if I was going to say the words 'side of' together, it would sound

like this: side of-- duf, duf, duf. Then the tongue is coming down, it is releasing into

the vowel. But here, we go right from the voiced to D into the next consonant.

Okay, so she calls her three sheep. And each of them is its own little thought group of

a stressed single syllable. What is the melody of that stress syllable? Actually I need to

correct myself, it's not single. Billy is a two-syllable word. Okay, but what is the

Uh-uh-- It's up down. That is the shape of stress.

Billy. Goat. Gruff. And actually, I love that we have an opportunity here to

talk about the fact that this word is two syllables, this word is one, this one is one,

but they still all have the same shape because the second unstressed syllable here just falls

into the same line of pitch. Billy. There's no skip, there's no change, I just change

syllables as my voice continues to smoothly come down. Goat. Stop T. Gruff. So it's this

little up-down shape that makes a stressed syllable. And the unstressed syllable in Billy

just falls into that same line. Really smoothly connected.

Raise the blinds! What are our stressed words here?