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  1. It's easier to remember new vocabulary when you're studying real English conversation.0:00
  2. Today, we're studying 10 conversations.0:05
  3. You'll chat with my mom, my dad, my uncle John.0:08
  4. We'll visit Colorado, Michigan, and you'll meet some of my very best friends.0:12
  5. Let's get started with our first conversation.0:17
  6. This is my husband, and guess what?0:20
  7. He hates watermelon.0:22
  8. Um, David hates watermelon, he thinks.0:25
  9. I know, but I want to try again.0:28
  10. You said it was the best one you've ever had.0:30
  11. I don't, I didn't say that.0:31
  12. So we start here by debating what I said.0:33
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  1. If someone says you said something that you didn't, you can say, I didn't say that.0:36
  2. I didn't say that.0:41
  3. The N apostrophe T ending can be pronounced several ways.0:43
  4. I think I'm doing a really quick stop T.0:47
  5. I didn't say that.0:50
  6. I say this phrase pretty quickly, don't I?0:51
  7. I didn't say that.0:54
  8. I didn't say that.0:55
  9. I didn't say that.0:56
  10. But it wasn't too fast.0:57
  11. It was the pace of conversational English.0:59
  12. Let's listen again.1:01
  13. The clearest longer word was say.1:02
  14. I didn't say that.1:05
  15. I didn't say that.1:06
  16. I didn't say that.1:07
  17. When you listen to it on a loop, it's easier to hear all the pieces you need to simplify, isn't it?1:08
  18. I did not is, I didn't say is the peak of that sentence.1:14
  19. Say, say.1:21
  20. I didn't say that.1:23
  21. I didn't say that.1:24
  22. I didn't say that.1:25
  23. You can even completely drop the T in didn't if this helps with this simplification.1:26
  24. You'll hear it again five times, then you try it.1:32
  25. Don't think about the words, but think about what you hear.1:35
  26. I didn't say that.1:38
  27. I didn't say that.1:39
  28. I didn't say that.1:40
  29. I didn't say that.1:41
  30. I didn't say that.1:42
  31. Okay, let's go back and listen to the beginning of the conversation again.1:43
  32. Um, David hates watermelon, he thinks.1:48
  33. I know, but I want to try again.1:51
  34. You said it was the best one you've ever had.1:53
  35. I don't, I didn't say that.1:55
  36. You say one of the best.1:55
  37. I probably said that.1:57
  38. I said it's amazing watermelon and if you're going to try it again, now's the time to try it.1:58
  39. So we've said a few words to describe food and if we like that food.2:02
  40. David hates watermelon.2:06
  41. We can say hates.2:08
  42. We can also say it doesn't like, but it's not as strong and David feels very strongly about watermelon.2:09
  43. David hates watermelon.2:16
  44. I called it an amazing watermelon.2:18
  45. Very good.2:20
  46. Don't you love amazing food?2:21
  47. We had an amazing meal.2:23
  48. The wine was amazing.2:24
  49. I said it's amazing watermelon and if you're going to try it again, now's the time to try it.2:28
  50. Oh, you're just going to have bite of mine?2:32
  51. Yeah.2:34
  52. Oh.2:34
  53. So I kept waiting for him to cut a piece of watermelon, but he didn't do it because he didn't want a whole piece.2:35
  54. He decided just to have a bite of mine.2:41
  55. Listen to how I said that.2:44
  56. Oh, you're just going to have bite of mine.2:46
  57. Again, I feel like I'm speaking very quickly and I am, but also that's just conversational English.2:48
  58. It is fast.2:53
  59. Let's listen to this one on a loop and see if we can figure out which words are the most stressed and where you can simplify.2:55
  60. Oh, you're just going to have bite of mine?3:03
  61. Oh, you're just going to have bite of mine?3:05
  62. Oh, you're just going to have bite of mine?3:06
  63. I hear more stress on oh -your and bite and mine.3:08
  64. Oh, you're just going to have a bite of mine?3:15
  65. Oh, you're just going to have bite of mine?3:18
  66. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.3:19
  67. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.3:22
  68. Notice how all the words run together smoothly with no breaks.3:24
  69. That's an important characteristic of American English.3:28
  70. The contraction you are to your is pronounced your.3:32
  71. That's how it's almost always pronounced in conversational English.3:37
  72. That's a common reduction.3:42
  73. Your, your, oh, your, oh, your.3:43
  74. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.3:46
  75. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.3:48
  76. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.3:50
  77. The words just going to have a.3:52
  78. We have a few reductions there.3:56
  79. The t in just is dropped.3:58
  80. We do that when the next word begins with a consonant.4:00
  81. The vowel reduces to the schwa.4:03
  82. It's not just, it's just.4:05
  83. Going to becomes gonna.4:08
  84. Have a is have a.4:11
  85. All of these words are lower in pitch, flatter, and said very quickly.4:13
  86. Just gonna have a, just gonna have a.4:19
  87. Just gonna have a, just gonna have a.4:21
  88. This is what happens in conversational English.4:23
  89. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.4:27
  90. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.4:29
  91. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.4:30
  92. Bite of mine becomes bite of mine.4:32
  93. The word of is reduced to the schwa.4:36
  94. And the t in bite is a flap t linking the two words together.4:39
  95. Bite of mine, bite of mine.4:42
  96. Again, these changes are typical of conversational English.4:45
  97. They're part of what helps us make English fast.4:48
  98. A t is a flap t when it comes between two vowels or diphthongs.4:51
  99. And that's true even in two different words when the t links the two words.4:55
  100. Bite of mine.5:00
  101. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.5:01
  102. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.5:03
  103. Oh, you's gonna have bite of mine.5:05
  104. Okay, let's move on.5:07
  105. David will try the watermelon.5:08
  106. Will he be convinced that this is an amazing watermelon?5:10
  107. What?5:17
  108. No!5:19
  109. That's awful.5:20
  110. No, David was not convinced.5:22
  111. He called it awful.5:24
  112. I've also heard him use the term disgusting.5:26
  113. What foods do you think are awful or disgusting?5:29
  114. Put them in the comments.5:32
  115. What?5:34
  116. I don't get it.5:35
  117. The melaniness is...5:37
  118. Is it the texture or the taste?5:38
  119. No, there's a flavor.5:39
  120. Our friend Off Camera asked if it was texture or taste.5:41
  121. The texture of the food is how it feels in your mouth or in your hands.5:45
  122. It can be hard, soft, mushy, crunchy, slippery, smooth, and so on.5:49
  123. Some people might not like a food for its texture more than its taste.5:55
  124. David said, in this case, it was not the texture, it was the taste, the flavor.5:59
  125. Is it the texture or the taste?6:05
  126. No, there's a flavor.6:07
  127. It's like...6:09
  128. I don't know.6:10
  129. It's such a good one.6:12
  130. I know you guys are crazy.6:13
  131. Like you literally had to spit it out.6:14
  132. Let's talk for a second about the word literally and how it's used.6:17
  133. In British English, it sounds more like three syllables.6:21
  134. Literally.6:24
  135. Literally.6:26
  136. In American English, it sounds like four and we flap the T.6:27
  137. Literally.6:31
  138. Literally.6:32
  139. Literally.6:35
  140. Now, this word is overused in American English.6:36
  141. The meaning has morphed as a result.6:39
  142. It's used often for emphasis.6:41
  143. For example, I once heard someone say, I was so tired, I literally slept all day.6:43
  144. Now I know that person didn't sleep all day.6:49
  145. She slept a lot of the day.6:52
  146. Certainly she was very tired, but she did not literally sleep all day.6:53
  147. She did not actually sleep from sun up to sun down.6:58
  148. She slept a lot that day.7:02
  149. So she's using literally here for emphasis.7:04
  150. I can also picture someone saying, I literally fell out of my chair when I heard the news.7:08
  151. This would in no way mean that someone did literally fall out of a chair.7:14
  152. It just adds emphasis to say how amazed they were, how caught off guard they were.7:18
  153. I'm going to put a link in the video description to some articles about the word literally and how its use has changed and its meaning has changed.7:23
  154. Now, how did I use it?7:31
  155. Like you literally had to spit it out.7:33
  156. There I am using it to mean actually.7:36
  157. I'm not just adding emphasis.7:38
  158. I'm asking, you had no other options than to actually physically spit it out.7:40
  159. He claims he didn't.7:46
  160. Like you literally had to spit it out.7:48
  161. Can you do it again without spitting it?7:51
  162. No, I don't want anymore, huh?7:53
  163. Ever.7:56
  164. I'm done trying.7:57
  165. You'll never be convinced again.7:58
  166. No, this is one of the best you've ever had and I had a vomit reaction.8:00
  167. Is there agreement here?8:03
  168. He said he had a vomit reaction.8:05
  169. Another way to say vomit is to say throw up, which is a phrasal verb, which means your food comes back up out of you.8:08
  170. He had a vomit reaction to watermelon.8:15
  171. This guy really hates watermelon.8:18
  172. It's an excellent melon.8:20
  173. It's a tasty watermelon.8:22
  174. It's a tasty watermelon.8:23
  175. So there we just heard two other opinions and two other descriptors.8:24
  176. Excellent and tasty.8:28
  177. Everyone else seems to really like this watermelon.8:31
  178. I thought it was a very good watermelon.8:34
  179. I only like watermelon really this time of year when they're the real sweet, juicy ones.8:36
  180. I find, you know, watermelon in the off season to be pretty terrible.8:42
  181. More descriptors, very good, sweet, juicy, also terrible in the off season in the U .S.8:47
  182. when they're imported from further away.8:53
  183. I'm all in favor of this watermelon.8:56
  184. She is all in favor of watermelon.8:58
  185. She thinks it's a great one.9:01
  186. We often use the term all in favor of when we need to challenge something or part of something.9:03
  187. For example, I'm all in favor of less screen time for kids, but when we're flying, I do let him use my iPad.9:09
  188. Or I'm all in favor of exercising more, but I can't make myself do it five times a week.9:17
  189. I'm all in favor of.9:24
  190. I'm all in favor of this watermelon.9:26
  191. I'm grateful that everyone liked the watermelon.9:28
  192. I bought the watermelon at the Woods Edge Farm Stand, which is about a mile from here.9:30
  193. It started out as a guy just selling stuff that he grew, sort of greenhouse greens and vegetables, but now they also buy things from the produce auction, including from9:34
  194. farther afield.9:44
  195. So this is a Virginia grown watermelon, but from the produce auction.9:45
  196. And I found it pretty delicious.9:50
  197. I thought it was good.9:52
  198. My friend, Jacob, used the phrase farther afield.9:54
  199. You can also say further afield.9:58
  200. This means not the nearest, closest or most obvious place.10:00
  201. For example, we didn't find a solution to the problem with our preliminary research, so we'll have to look further afield.10:05
  202. Or there isn't a pet adoption agency in our neighborhood, so we'll have to look farther afield.10:13
  203. As Jacob used it, the watermelon was not grown there on that local farm, but brought in from somewhere farther afield, somewhere else in Virginia.10:20
  204. But now they also buy things from the produce auction, including from farther afield.10:29
  205. So this is a Virginia grown watermelon, but from the produce auction.10:33
  206. And I found it pretty delicious.10:39
  207. How did you choose it?10:41
  208. I thought it was good.10:41
  209. Two more positive descriptors for the watermelon.10:43
  210. Delicious and good.10:45
  211. So let's review our descriptors.10:47
  212. The people who liked it said it was amazing.10:49
  213. One of the best I've ever had.10:52
  214. Excellent.10:54
  215. Tasty.10:55
  216. Very good.10:56
  217. Words to describe not liking it were hate, awful, vomit reaction, disgusting, and terrible.10:58
  218. Okay, now this video is not over, but since I'm hungry right now, I'm going to ask you one of your favorite foods.11:06
  219. Put it in the comments below.11:13
  220. And if there's a recipe involved, put a link to a YouTube video where someone is making that.11:15
  221. I love watching YouTube videos of people making food like pasta grannies and Joshua Weissman.11:20
  222. Okay, now that we got that taken care of, let's review this whole short conversation again.11:26
  223. Notice the descriptive words for food and think about how you would talk about your very favorite and least favorite foods in English.11:31
  224. David hates watermelon, he thinks.11:41
  225. I know, but I want to try again.11:44
  226. You said it was the best one you've ever had.11:45
  227. I didn't say that.11:47
  228. You say one of the best?11:48
  229. I probably said that.11:49
  230. I said it's amazing watermelon and if you're going to try it again, now's the time to try it.11:51
  231. Oh, you're just going to have bite of mine?11:54
  232. Yeah.11:56
  233. Oh.11:57
  234. What?12:02
  235. No.12:03
  236. That's awful.12:05
  237. What?12:06
  238. I don't get it.12:07
  239. The melaniness is...12:08
  240. Is it the texture or the taste?12:10
  241. No, there's a flavor.12:11
  242. It's like...12:14
  243. I don't know.12:15
  244. It's such a good one.12:17
  245. You guys are crazy.12:18
  246. Like you literally had to spit it out.12:19
  247. Can you do it again without spitting it?12:22
  248. No, I don't want it anymore.12:24
  249. Ever.12:26
  250. Don't try it.12:28
  251. You'll never be convinced again.12:29
  252. No, this is one of the best you've ever had and I had a vomit reaction.12:31
  253. Is there agreement here?12:34
  254. It's an excellent melon.12:36
  255. It's a tasty watermelon.12:37
  256. It's a tasty watermelon.12:38
  257. I thought it was a very good watermelon.12:39
  258. I only like watermelon really this time of year when they're the real sweet, juicy ones.12:41
  259. I find watermelon in the off season to be pretty terrible.12:47
  260. I'm all in favor of this watermelon.12:52
  261. I'm grateful that everyone liked the watermelon.12:54
  262. I bought the watermelon at the Woods Edge Farm Stand, which is about a mile from here.12:56
  263. It started out as a guy just selling stuff that he grew, sort of greenhouse greens and vegetables, but now they also buy things from the produce auction, including from13:00
  264. farther their field.13:10
  265. So this is a Virginia grown watermelon from the produce auction.13:10
  266. And I found it pretty delicious.13:16
  267. How did you choose that?13:18
  268. I thought it was good.13:19
  269. Now a throwback to when my first son was a newborn.13:20
  270. Well, I had a big change in my life this year.13:24
  271. So in this American English pronunciation video, you're going to meet someone very special and we're going to study real life American English.13:27
  272. This is my son, Stoney.13:37
  273. He was born in January, so he's almost four months old.13:38
  274. So far, his life consists mostly of eating and sleeping, although not sleeping too much, which is why I look so tired, and also meeting friends and family.13:43
  275. Here he is meeting his grandma and grandpa, my husband's parents.13:55
  276. Yeah, two fingers.13:59
  277. Oh, you're going to get a mouthful of skin.14:02
  278. Did you notice how my mother -in -law reduced going to to gunna?14:05
  279. Americans do this all the time.14:11
  280. Two syllables, very relaxed.14:14
  281. Gunna.14:17
  282. Do that with me.14:18
  283. Gunna.14:21
  284. Gunna.14:23
  285. Gunna.14:24
  286. Gunna.14:25
  287. You're going to get a mouthful of skin.14:26
  288. Oh, he definitely knows they're there.14:37
  289. Did you notice the contractions, Grandma used?14:42
  290. Americans use contractions all the time in speaking.14:45
  291. First, there.14:48
  292. This is the contraction of they are.14:50
  293. Often in conversation, Americans will reduce this contraction so it sounds like they're.14:52
  294. They're.14:59
  295. But here, Grandma used the full pronunciation, they're.15:00
  296. When it's fully pronounced, it sounds just like two other words, they're and they're.15:04
  297. Here she said they're there, talking about his fingers.15:11
  298. Two different words, but they sound the same.15:15
  299. Listen again.15:18
  300. Oh, he definitely knows they're there.15:19
  301. They're there.15:23
  302. They're there.15:24
  303. So did you guys have good traffic down?15:25
  304. Oh, we did.15:27
  305. Wonderful traffic.15:28
  306. I reduced did here.15:30
  307. So did you guys became so did you guys.15:33
  308. I reduced did to just the ending D.15:37
  309. And when the D sound is followed by you or your, it combines with the Y sound and becomes J.15:41
  310. Did you guys becomes you guys.15:48
  311. You guys have good traffic?15:52
  312. Listen again.15:54
  313. So did you guys have, so did you guys have, so did you guys have, so did you guys have.15:56
  314. Did you is a very common word combination in conversational English.16:00
  315. Pay attention as you study English and see if you notice this reduction.16:04
  316. Try using it yourself.16:09
  317. Do you see that?16:12
  318. Do you know that?16:13
  319. Do you, do you?16:15
  320. It can also be reduced further to J with the schwa.16:17
  321. Just see that.16:22
  322. Do you know that?16:24
  323. How is it to hold them?16:27
  324. Oh, how is it?16:28
  325. Oh, I don't know.16:30
  326. It's beyond description.16:32
  327. How is it to hold them?16:34
  328. What do you notice about the word him in this phrase?16:36
  329. How is it to hold them?16:39
  330. How is it to hold them?16:41
  331. How is it to hold them?16:42
  332. The H was dropped.16:43
  333. Hold them.16:45
  334. Hold them.16:46
  335. And the two words linked together with no gap in between.16:47
  336. This is a very common conversational pronunciation of function words that begin with H, like him, her, his, have, has, and had.16:51
  337. How is it to hold them?17:03
  338. Oh, how is it?17:05
  339. Oh, I don't know.17:07
  340. It's beyond description.17:08
  341. Hi.17:12
  342. Come on in.17:13
  343. You might not have understood this phrase, come on in.17:14
  344. It was all very linked together.17:19
  345. Come on in.17:21
  346. Come on in.17:22
  347. Come on in.17:24
  348. Two consonant to vowel links.17:25
  349. Come on in.17:29
  350. Come on in.17:33
  351. You can use this phrase when welcoming someone to your house.17:35
  352. Come on in.17:39
  353. Listen again.17:40
  354. Come on in.17:42
  355. Hi, baby.17:43
  356. Hi, Stan.17:45
  357. Hi.17:47
  358. Oh, I'm so new to you.17:49
  359. New to you.17:51
  360. Grandpa.17:53
  361. I brought you some toys.17:55
  362. Oh, boy.17:57
  363. I bet you did.17:58
  364. I bet you did.18:01
  365. Earlier in this video, you learned that when D is followed by U, you can combine the D and Y to make a J sound, Jiu.18:02
  366. There is a similar rule.18:12
  367. When T is followed by U or Yor, you can combine T and Y to make CH.18:13
  368. Now U will sound like Chu, or you can leave in the Y sound, Chu.18:19
  369. Also, like I did here, you can reduce the vowel to the schwa.18:26
  370. Ch, betcha, or betcha.18:30
  371. You'll hear this a lot.18:34
  372. Listen again.18:35
  373. I bet you did.18:36
  374. I bet you did.18:38
  375. I bet you did.18:40
  376. In the beginning, he didn't do much, so we just sat around and stared at him.18:41
  377. This was okay with us.18:46
  378. It never got boring.18:48
  379. Are you gonna smile?18:49
  380. Another gunna.18:51
  381. Are you gonna smile?18:53
  382. Are you gonna smile?18:55
  383. Are you gonna smile?18:57
  384. Huh?19:01
  385. We did get a couple of his first smiles on camera.19:02
  386. The first four months have been so fun.19:06
  387. He's changing a lot, kicking, and he has even started talking.19:09
  388. His head's kind of big, so he has a hard time holding it up.19:17
  389. Some people have asked me about his name, Stony.19:21
  390. It's not very common in America.19:24
  391. In fact, most people say they've never heard of it or never known anyone named Stony.19:26
  392. It's just like the word stone with the st consonant cluster.19:32
  393. What do you think about your name?19:37
  394. Do you like it?19:39
  395. I think he's not sure yet.19:41
  396. It has the st consonant cluster, the o diphthong, the n consonant stone, so it's just like stone, and then a little unstressed e at the end, Stony.19:43
  397. You already know Stony if you're subscribed to my mailing list.19:57
  398. If you're not subscribed, sign up now.20:01
  399. You get a free weekly newsletter with English lessons and also photos and stories from my life.20:04
  400. Also, if you're not on the list and you sign up now, you get access to a free 10 -day mini course in Accent Reduction sent right to your inbox,20:10
  401. so sign up here.20:20
  402. That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.20:22
  403. Can you say bye, Stony?20:27
  404. Do you want to say bye to everybody?20:29
  405. Do you want to say bye?20:31
  406. What do you think?20:33
  407. He likes funny noises.20:36
  408. But not right now because he's too tired.20:43
  409. Bye, everybody.20:47
  410. Bye, everybody.20:48
  411. And now you'll meet my parents on top of a mountain.20:51
  412. Today's topics, words that reduce, at, for, that, can, and, was, and probably.20:54
  413. This...21:06
  414. Oh.21:07
  415. There we go.21:08
  416. So we're at 12 ,335 feet.21:09
  417. Now, yesterday morning when I got on the plane, I was at about one foot there at New York's LaGuardia Airport.21:12
  418. So no wonder I had such a hard time catching my breath on this hike.21:21
  419. So for the metric fans of Rachel's English, this is almost 4 ,000 meters.21:26
  420. It's pretty high.21:32
  421. Americans speak with a mix of long and short syllables.21:33
  422. It's what helps make speech clear to us.21:37
  423. Short syllables are often reductions.21:40
  424. Words where we've changed or dropped a sound to help us say them faster.21:43
  425. Let's discuss three reductions in the passage you just saw.21:49
  426. The first is the word at.21:54
  427. At has the a vowel.21:56
  428. But usually we reduce that in a sentence to the schwa.21:59
  429. I can make that very fast.22:03
  430. It's abrupt because I'm making a stop T.22:07
  431. That's because the next word begins with a consonant.22:11
  432. At 12.22:14
  433. At...22:15
  434. At...22:16
  435. At 12.22:17
  436. We're at 12.22:18
  437. When I make the word at, very short, it makes the word 12 more important.22:20
  438. This is what makes English clear.22:26
  439. Listen again.22:29
  440. At 12.22:30
  441. At 12.22:31
  442. At 12.22:31
  443. At 12 ,335 feet.22:32
  444. Now, yesterday morning when I got on the plane, I was at about one foot.22:36
  445. Another at example.22:40
  446. I was at about one foot.22:42
  447. I was at about.22:45
  448. I was at about.22:47
  449. Do you hear how I and bout are clearer?22:48
  450. The middle three syllables are all less clear.22:53
  451. Was it a?22:57
  452. Was it a?22:59
  453. Though it may seem wrong to make some syllables less clear, it actually makes speech overall more clear to Americans because American English depends on this contrast of long and23:00
  454. short syllables.23:13
  455. Was it a?23:15
  456. Was it a?23:16
  457. Practice that with me.23:17
  458. Was it a?23:19
  459. Was it a?23:21
  460. Was it a?23:22
  461. You really need to simplify the sounds and mouth movements and take some of the energy and volume out of the voice to make these syllables fast.23:24
  462. Yes, do that.23:34
  463. Was it a?23:36
  464. Was it a?23:37
  465. I was at about.23:39
  466. Listen again.23:40
  467. I was at about.23:42
  468. I was at about.23:43
  469. I was at about one foot.23:44
  470. They're at New York's LaGuardia Airport.23:46
  471. So no wonder I had such a hard time catching my breath on this hike.23:49
  472. So for the metric fans of Rachel's English.23:54
  473. The reduction of the word for for in his sentence, you'll usually hear it as for how fast can you make it practice for for for listen again.23:58
  474. For the metric fan for for for for for for the metric fans of Rachel's English.24:14
  475. This is almost 4000 meters.24:20
  476. It's pretty high.24:23
  477. Finally, the word that's was reduced to it's pretty.24:24
  478. It's pretty high.24:30
  479. It's this is the same reduction we would use for what's or it's at the end of the video.24:33
  480. Follow the link for more information on the reduction.24:40
  481. It's pretty high.24:50
  482. It's pretty high.24:53
  483. It's pretty high.24:55
  484. It's pretty high.24:56
  485. Very high.24:57
  486. As you can see.24:57
  487. Very cold and windy.24:59
  488. Yeah.25:00
  489. We just heard two more reductions.25:02
  490. The word can a helping verb here was reduced to can how fast can you make that practice with me can can can can can see listen again can see25:04
  491. can see can can can can can see very cold and windy and the and reduction.25:23
  492. Practice with me.25:32
  493. Make it fast.25:36
  494. Cold and.25:39
  495. Cold and windy.25:42
  496. Very cold and windy.25:45
  497. Cold and cold and cold and very cold and windy.25:46
  498. It's very interesting landscape.25:51
  499. Mom, what did that sign say about this?25:57
  500. Mom reduced was.26:03
  501. She said was instead of was.26:07
  502. It's less clear, isn't it?26:11
  503. Was was that this was once was that's exactly what we want for these unimportant words.26:13
  504. Listen again.26:22
  505. it said that this was this was this was it said that this was this was this was it said that this was this was it said that this was26:23
  506. this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that26:45
  507. this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that26:50
  508. this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that this was it said that26:51
  509. this was it said that this was it said that this was was that was pushed it was it was it was pushed and thrust upward by tremendous pressures of26:51
  510. the earth wow yeah you can see some patches of snow over there did you catch that can reduction can you can you can see can can yeah you can27:02
  511. can can see some patches of snow you can see some patches of snow over there where right over there they're very dirty right that's all that's left from last27:18
  512. year's snowfall and they'll probably get snow here within the next couple of weeks did you hear how my dad said probably he reduced it to probably probably probably probably27:29
  513. probably and they'll probably get snow and they'll probably get snow and they'll probably get snow a real life example of the word probably at the end of the video27:42
  514. follow the link for more information on reducing this word you can see some patches of snow over there where right over there they're very dirty right that's all that's27:52
  515. left from last year's snowfall and they'll probably get snow here within the next couple of weeks i hope you enjoyed this cold and mountaintop study of real life american28:04
  516. english i know it seems strange to pronounce things quickly not fully but reductions are an important part of american english follow the links here or in the description below28:17
  517. for more information on the reductions we studied today now we'll go from the cold of the mountains to summer vacation this is my uncle frank hey uncle frank brings28:30
  518. his boat every year so that we can did you notice the reductions of the word that and can these two function words will often reduce that becomes the with28:43
  519. either a flap or stop T depending on the next sound and can when not the main verb in a sentence becomes can can so the weekend so the weekend28:54
  520. so that we can try skiing try and skiing the two content words in this sentence are clearly much longer than so that we can so that we can so29:05
  521. that we can these four function words are low in pitch and very fast listen again so that we can try skiing so that we can try skiing so that29:16
  522. we can try skiing sure appreciate that uncle frank i'm glad to bring it glad to bring it here frank reduced the word two to the flap T and the29:26
  523. schwa sound d d d glad to glad to glad to bring it listen again i'm glad to bring it i'm glad to bring it i'm glad to bring it29:36
  524. this boat is 17 years old and i was beginning to wonder earlier in the week if i was going to bring it back again here frank reduced the phrase29:45
  525. going toe toe gana a very common reduction in american anglish if i was going to bring it back gana gana if i was going to bring it back listen29:53
  526. again i was beginning to wonder earlier in the week if i was going to bring it back again if i was going to bring it back again if I30:03
  527. was going to bring it back again, but it seems like people are still kind of interested in skiing.30:09
  528. We love it!30:13
  529. Love it!30:15
  530. Did you hear how I connected the V sound to the word it?30:16
  531. One of the easiest ways to link in American English pronunciation is the case when one word ends in a consonant and the next word begins with a vowel or30:20
  532. diphthong.30:29
  533. You can practice the connection between words by putting the ending consonant on the next word.30:30
  534. Vit, vit, vit.30:35
  535. Love it, love it, love it.30:38
  536. This will help to eliminate gaps between words.30:41
  537. In American English, we want to link all the words in one thought group.30:44
  538. Listen again.30:49
  539. We love it, we love it, we love it.30:50
  540. We'll see if it'll go a couple more years.30:53
  541. Yeah, I hope it does.30:55
  542. So Jace, you gonna go skiing today?30:57
  543. Another gunna.31:00
  544. You gonna go skiing today?31:02
  545. You gonna go skiing today?31:03
  546. You gonna go skiing today?31:04
  547. Yeah.31:06
  548. Have you been before?31:06
  549. No.31:08
  550. This is the first year.31:09
  551. Yep.31:10
  552. Are you nervous?31:11
  553. A little.31:12
  554. Yeah.31:14
  555. It might take a couple tries, so don't be discouraged if it doesn't happen right away.31:15
  556. Right away.31:20
  557. Did you notice how I linked the ending T of right to the beginning vowel sound of away?31:21
  558. This means that the T comes between two vowels, so it becomes a flap T.31:27
  559. Or a D sound.31:32
  560. So right away sounds just like right away.31:34
  561. Listen again.31:39
  562. If it doesn't happen right away.31:40
  563. If it doesn't happen right away.31:41
  564. If it doesn't happen right away.31:42
  565. Okay.31:44
  566. Yeah.31:44
  567. Okay.31:45
  568. Okay.31:46
  569. Meg, are you gonna try skiing?31:47
  570. Another gunna.31:49
  571. Also notice I've reduced the word R to rr, rr, rr.31:50
  572. Listen again.31:56
  573. Meg, are you gonna try skiing?31:57
  574. Meg, are you gonna try skiing?31:58
  575. Meg, are you gonna try skiing?32:00
  576. I don't think so.32:01
  577. I tried it when I was 10 and I was traumatized because I fell and it hurts.32:02
  578. Oh yeah.32:06
  579. I think I'm just gonna stick to a bystander.32:07
  580. Hailey, have you skied before?32:10
  581. I've done sit skiing before when I was like 6.32:12
  582. Wait, yeah, what is that?32:15
  583. What is?32:17
  584. Just like with right away, we're connecting the ending T in what to the beginning vowel of the word is.32:18
  585. So the T turns into a flap T or D sound.32:25
  586. What is?32:29
  587. What is?32:30
  588. Listen again.32:31
  589. What is that?32:32
  590. What is that?32:33
  591. What is that?32:33
  592. It's got the skis.32:34
  593. Yeah?32:35
  594. It's like a chair in the middle and he's just sitting there.32:36
  595. Really?32:37
  596. I've never even heard of that.32:39
  597. Heard of.32:40
  598. Another linking consonant to vowel.32:41
  599. Heard of.32:44
  600. Heard of.32:46
  601. Notice that I am reducing the word of to the schwa V sound.32:47
  602. E -v -e -v.32:51
  603. D -v -d -v.32:52
  604. Heard of.32:53
  605. I've never even heard of that.32:55
  606. I've never even heard of that.32:56
  607. I've never even heard of that.32:58
  608. I haven't either.33:00
  609. I've done it.33:01
  610. Done it.33:02
  611. Another great example of linking ending consonant to beginning vowel.33:02
  612. Done it.33:07
  613. Done it.33:08
  614. I've done it.33:09
  615. I've done it.33:10
  616. I've done it.33:11
  617. So I'm nervous to do this.33:12
  618. I think you'll be just fine.33:13
  619. Thanks.33:15
  620. I'm ready.33:16
  621. Here, Hailey reduced the contraction I'm to simply the M consonant.33:17
  622. I'm ready.33:22
  623. Of course, with that reduction, she linked it to the next word.33:23
  624. I'm ready.33:27
  625. Listen again.33:28
  626. Ready.33:29
  627. Ready.33:29
  628. Ready.33:30
  629. This is my cousin, Brooke.33:32
  630. Brooke, how are you enjoying your vacation?33:34
  631. I'm having a great time on my vacation.33:36
  632. What's the highlight of your vacation so far?33:38
  633. I think the highlight of the vacation so far is spending time with you, Rachel.33:41
  634. Oh, that's so sweet.33:44
  635. Okay, step right up here.33:45
  636. Oni, did you make that necklace?33:47
  637. Can you hold it up for me?33:51
  638. Another reduction of can.33:53
  639. Can.33:55
  640. Can you.33:55
  641. Can you.33:57
  642. Can you hold it up for me?33:58
  643. Can you hold it up for me?34:00
  644. Can you hold it up for me?34:01
  645. This?34:04
  646. Yeah.34:05
  647. It's really pretty.34:07
  648. It's really pretty.34:08
  649. A reduction of it to the TS sound.34:10
  650. It's really.34:14
  651. It's really.34:15
  652. It's really pretty.34:15
  653. It's really pretty.34:17
  654. It's really pretty.34:18
  655. Where'd you make that?34:19
  656. At the craft shop.34:21
  657. The craft shop?34:23
  658. Let me see.34:24
  659. Have you ever heard someone say lemmy?34:26
  660. I've dropped the T in let and connected it to me.34:28
  661. Lemmy.34:32
  662. Lemmy.34:32
  663. Let me see that.34:33
  664. Lemmy see.34:34
  665. Lemmy see.34:35
  666. Lemmy see.34:36
  667. What's it say?34:37
  668. Giggle.34:39
  669. Giggle.34:40
  670. Oh, it does say giggle.34:41
  671. That's a hard word.34:43
  672. It has those good sounds and a dark L.34:45
  673. Giggle.34:48
  674. Hey, Brad.34:50
  675. What are you doing?34:51
  676. I'm doing some advertising.34:52
  677. We're doing a little advertising, yeah?34:53
  678. Hey, Rach.34:55
  679. I love that shirt.34:57
  680. Where'd you get that?34:58
  681. Well, I made it.34:59
  682. Made it.35:00
  683. Linking ending consonant to beginning vowel.35:02
  684. Made it.35:05
  685. Well, I made it.35:06
  686. Well, I made it.35:07
  687. Well, I made it.35:08
  688. Oh, now what is this?35:09
  689. It says I love English and international phonetic alphabet.35:11
  690. Oh my gosh, that's so great.35:14
  691. Where can I get one?35:16
  692. Actually, you can get one right here.35:17
  693. Rachel's English dot com.35:19
  694. Yeah, do you want to be on our website, Brad?35:24
  695. Wanna.35:27
  696. Here I use the wanna reduction for want to.35:28
  697. Do you wanna?35:32
  698. Yeah, do you want to be on our website, Brad?35:33
  699. Yeah, do you want to be on our website, Brad?35:36
  700. Yeah, do you want to be on our website, Brad?35:38
  701. Kinda.35:41
  702. Kinda.35:42
  703. Here Brad reduced kind of to kinda.35:43
  704. So, the word of is pronounced with just the schwa, no consonant sound.35:47
  705. Kinda.35:53
  706. Kinda.35:54
  707. Kinda.35:56
  708. Kinda.35:57
  709. Okay, this is my cousin, Brad.35:58
  710. Hi.36:01
  711. Brad, B -R -A -D, it has the a as in bat vowel.36:02
  712. And remember, cousin, spelled with an s, pronounced ss, like a z.36:07
  713. Now it's game time.36:14
  714. Here we'll all tell the scorekeeper if we made our bet or not.36:16
  715. Made it.36:20
  716. Listen for how we all link those two words together.36:21
  717. Made it.36:25
  718. No gap.36:26
  719. Okay, who made it?36:27
  720. I made it.36:29
  721. Roberta.36:30
  722. I made it.36:31
  723. Rachel.36:33
  724. Oh, Rita.36:34
  725. I made it.36:35
  726. Cut me out.36:36
  727. Made it.36:39
  728. Made it.36:41
  729. Yes, I also made it.36:43
  730. Uncle Dale, did you make that fire?36:47
  731. I helped with it.36:50
  732. It's a nice looking fire.36:51
  733. Thanks.36:52
  734. Hey everybody, this is my Uncle Dale.36:53
  735. He lives in Texas.36:55
  736. Houston, Texas.36:58
  737. And from summer vacation, we're jumping into fall.36:59
  738. Hey guys, it's fall and I'm here with my friend Laura.37:04
  739. Hey.37:07
  740. You've probably seen some of our other baking videos.37:08
  741. Every fall I come up to Massachusetts where Laura lives.37:11
  742. And we make a variety of things.37:13
  743. One year we made a pumpkin pie, which we're making this year but not in a video.37:16
  744. But this year, we're going to focus on apple dumplings.37:20
  745. Not apple fritters.37:25
  746. So if you want to learn how to make apple dumplings, you should probably look it up because this is not really a recipe video, but this is a real37:26
  747. life English video where you get to study English conversation happening as it actually does.37:34
  748. So you're going to do the apples?37:40
  749. Yeah.37:42
  750. Okay.37:42
  751. I'll make the pastry.37:43
  752. As always, there are lots of reductions to study in American English.37:45
  753. Did you notice, gunna?37:50
  754. This is how Americans pronounce going to much of the time.37:53
  755. Listen again.37:58
  756. So you're going to do the apples?37:59
  757. So you're going to do the apples?38:01
  758. So you're going to do the apples?38:03
  759. Yeah.38:06
  760. Okay.38:06
  761. I'll make the pastry.38:07
  762. I used this reduction with another reduction, year.38:08
  763. The you are contraction, your, is reduced this way in a sentence.38:14
  764. Year.38:20
  765. You're gunna.38:21
  766. Repeat that.38:22
  767. You're gunna.38:25
  768. You're gunna.38:26
  769. Let's hear it again.38:28
  770. So you're gunna do the apples?38:30
  771. So you're gunna do the apples?38:32
  772. So you're gunna do the apples?38:34
  773. Yeah.38:36
  774. Okay.38:37
  775. I'll make the pastry.38:38
  776. The I will contraction, aisle, is often reduced.38:40
  777. Then it sounds more like all, all, I'll make.38:44
  778. Repeat that with me.38:49
  779. All.38:50
  780. I'll make.38:52
  781. Listen again.38:53
  782. I'll make the pastry.38:55
  783. I'll make the pastry.38:57
  784. I'll make the pastry.38:58
  785. Wait, is this a cup?39:01
  786. Yes.39:03
  787. It is.39:05
  788. You sure?39:06
  789. Yeah.39:07
  790. Okay.39:07
  791. I'm using this one.39:08
  792. Just, just let me see him.39:10
  793. A couple of things to notice about this sentence.39:12
  794. The T in the word just was dropped.39:16
  795. We often drop the T when it comes between two consonants as it does here.39:20
  796. Just let.39:26
  797. Just let.39:28
  798. Next, let me became lemmy.39:30
  799. The T was totally dropped.39:35
  800. The two words let me are often pronounced together this way.39:38
  801. Let me see.39:44
  802. Let me try.39:45
  803. Repeat that with me.39:47
  804. Lemmy.39:49
  805. Lemmy.39:51
  806. Lemmy see.39:52
  807. And finally the reduction of them to um.39:54
  808. This is another common reduction.39:59
  809. Repeat that with me.40:02
  810. Um.40:04
  811. Um.40:05
  812. I have a video on this reduction.40:07
  813. See it by clicking here or in the description below.40:10
  814. Let's do this sentence slowly together.40:14
  815. Just lemmy see him.40:19
  816. Just lemmy see him.40:23
  817. Just lemmy see him.40:27
  818. Listen again.40:30
  819. Just lemmy see him.40:32
  820. Just lemmy see him.40:33
  821. Just lemmy see him.40:34
  822. Yeah, they're the same.40:37
  823. The they are contraction.40:39
  824. They are can also be reduced rather than fully pronouncing they're it's the.40:43
  825. The TH sound and the R sound.40:51
  826. The.40:54
  827. Try that.40:55
  828. The.40:57
  829. They're the same.40:58
  830. Listen again.41:00
  831. Yeah, they're the same.41:02
  832. Yeah, they're the same.41:03
  833. Yeah, they're the same.41:04
  834. Okay, I just feel more comfortable using the one that says it's a cup.41:05
  835. Okay.41:09
  836. The word comfortable looks like it should have four syllables, but most Americans pronounce it with three.41:11
  837. I pronounced it comf -dur -ble.41:20
  838. I made a video on this word already.41:24
  839. You can see it by clicking here or in the description below.41:27
  840. Comf -dur -ble.41:32
  841. Listen again.41:35
  842. I just feel more comfortable.41:37
  843. I just feel more comfortable.41:38
  844. I just feel more comfortable using the one that says it's a cup.41:39
  845. Okay.41:43
  846. Now, Laura, for how many years did you train as a pastry chef?41:46
  847. 15.41:51
  848. Wow.41:52
  849. Yeah.41:53
  850. That's a lot of training.41:54
  851. Oh, wait, 15.41:55
  852. Mine's the 15 years that I didn't train.41:56
  853. Neither of us are professionals here.41:59
  854. No, I know it looks like we are.42:01
  855. With our methods.42:03
  856. Neither.42:06
  857. Neither.42:07
  858. This word can be pronounced both ways.42:09
  859. Sometimes people think one way is British and one way is American, but either one sounds just fine in American English.42:12
  860. Okay, where is the new flower?42:22
  861. In the back.42:26
  862. Here it is.42:27
  863. I had a fan write it and tell me that I don't follow the rules for the pronunciation of the word the.42:29
  864. Oh, really?42:36
  865. What are the rules?42:37
  866. Well, I noticed just then that I did not use it correctly.42:37
  867. The rule is if the word after the begins with a consonant sound, pronounce it the with the schwa vowel.42:41
  868. Uh, uh, the.42:51
  869. If the word after the begins with a vowel or diphthong, then pronounce it the with the e as in she vowel.42:53
  870. E, e, the.43:03
  871. The, it should be a schwa before a consonant.43:06
  872. So I said where's the new.43:11
  873. But I said where's the new?43:13
  874. And I said the.43:15
  875. Oh.43:16
  876. I'm not only supposed to do that before vowels, but since that person pointed out, I noticed that I.43:16
  877. You do that quite a bit.43:22
  878. So it's not like it would be strange.43:24
  879. It's not strange because no one has ever said Rachel.43:26
  880. Shouldn't that be the like no native speaker has ever noticed.43:30
  881. And I didn't even think about it when you just said it.43:34
  882. No one thinks about it.43:36
  883. If you ever say the instead of the people probably won't notice.43:37
  884. Also, make sure to always keep this word short, whether it's with the schwa or the e vowel.43:43
  885. The.43:51
  886. The.43:53
  887. This is a very large bag of flour.43:54
  888. Okay.43:57
  889. Now I'm just curious how much of it can I spill?43:57
  890. I'm guessing quite a bit.44:02
  891. We have a vacuum.44:06
  892. Okay.44:07
  893. Oh crap.44:08
  894. Crap.44:10
  895. This is a word you can use when you mess something up.44:11
  896. To mess something up is an idiom meaning to do something the wrong way or to cause an outcome other than what you intended.44:15
  897. I turned left instead of right.44:26
  898. I messed up.44:28
  899. Crap is like a cuss word, but less offensive.44:30
  900. Still, you don't want to use it in a professional setting and some people might be offended by it.44:34
  901. I think it's fine to use in a casual setting among friends.44:40
  902. Crap.44:45
  903. Crap.44:46
  904. This is the less offensive version of the word shit.44:48
  905. Oh crap.44:52
  906. Oh crap.44:54
  907. Oh crap.44:56
  908. What was the article in that Mark was reading about trans fats?44:58
  909. I don't know.45:03
  910. The Atlantic?45:04
  911. I don't think so.45:05
  912. He's been on this kick for a while, so okay.45:06
  913. Let's go back and study the phrase I don't know.45:10
  914. I don't know.45:14
  915. Notice how Laura dropped the T all together.45:16
  916. I don't know.45:20
  917. I don't know.45:22
  918. In the phrase I don't think so, there was a little break in the sound before think.45:23
  919. I don't think so.45:30
  920. The sign of a stop T.45:32
  921. But in I don't know.45:35
  922. There was no stop, no T at all.45:38
  923. This is a common pronunciation of this phrase.45:40
  924. I don't know.45:44
  925. I don't know.45:47
  926. Listen again.45:48
  927. I don't know.45:50
  928. I don't know.45:52
  929. I don't know.45:53
  930. The Atlantic?45:55
  931. I don't think so.45:56
  932. He's been on this kick for a while, so okay.45:57
  933. I like how you just use the idiom to be on a kick.46:01
  934. The idiom to be on a kick means to be enthusiastic about something for a period of time.46:03
  935. I'm on a yoga kick means I don't typically do a lot of yoga, but recently I've done it a lot and enjoy it.46:11
  936. Or you could say I'm on a salad kick.46:21
  937. I've been eating a lot of salad lately.46:25
  938. Here Mark is on a trans fat kick.46:28
  939. He's careful not to eat trans fats.46:32
  940. Listen again.46:35
  941. He's been on this kick for a while, so he's been on this kick for a while, so he's been on this kick for a while, so okay.46:37
  942. I think you're...46:44
  943. Oh whoops.46:45
  944. Before I said crap when I messed up.46:48
  945. Here I said whoops, which just like oops, is an exclamation for recognizing a mistake.46:51
  946. This term is not offensive in any way and can be used in any context.47:01
  947. Oh whoops.47:06
  948. With the same vowel as book or could.47:08
  949. Whoops.47:13
  950. Whoops.47:14
  951. Listen again.47:16
  952. Oh whoops.47:17
  953. Oh whoops.47:19
  954. Oh whoops.47:21
  955. How's it going Laura?47:23
  956. It's going.47:25
  957. Last half.47:25
  958. Nice.47:27
  959. And we're done.47:31
  960. Look at those beauties.47:32
  961. So Laura you're working on the sauce.47:35
  962. Another you are your reduction.47:37
  963. I dropped the NG sound and made an N sound on the end of working.47:41
  964. So Laura you're working on the sauce.47:48
  965. So Laura you're working on the sauce.47:51
  966. So Laura you're working on the sauce.47:53
  967. Working.47:56
  968. Working.47:57
  969. Native speakers do this quite a bit, especially with the most common ING verbs.47:59
  970. But I do caution my students against overuse.48:06
  971. Pronounce ING words with the NG sound most of the time.48:11
  972. So Laura you're working on the sauce.48:16
  973. Yeah it's a syrup for the top of the dumplings.48:18
  974. A little butter in there.48:23
  975. A lot of sugar.48:26
  976. So I'm rolling the pastry and then we'll put an apple inside.48:29
  977. Another reduction of a contraction.48:35
  978. We will.48:38
  979. We'll.48:39
  980. Pronounce this as will in a sentence.48:41
  981. It's faster than we'll.48:45
  982. And we want an unstressed word like this to be very fast.48:48
  983. Will.48:53
  984. Repeat that with me.48:54
  985. Will.48:56
  986. Will.48:57
  987. And then we'll put an apple.48:59
  988. And then we'll put an apple.49:00
  989. And then we'll put an apple inside.49:02
  990. They're not as pretty as they're supposed to be.49:06
  991. But I think the flavor will be just as good.49:10
  992. As you listen to the next section, listen for all the reductions and to N or N.49:15
  993. No D sound.49:25
  994. This is how we usually say this word in a sentence.49:28
  995. Cinnamon and sugar.49:32
  996. Then an apple half.49:37
  997. And then more cinnamon and sugar.49:41
  998. And then fold it up.49:45
  999. It's a little sticky.49:47
  1000. It's been a half hour.49:57
  1001. It has reduces to its.50:00
  1002. How was it pronounced in that sentence?50:04
  1003. It's been a half hour.50:07
  1004. It's been a half hour.50:09
  1005. It's been a half hour.50:10
  1006. Simply the TS cluster.50:13
  1007. It's been.50:16
  1008. It's been.50:17
  1009. Repeat that with me.50:18
  1010. It's been.50:20
  1011. It's been a half hour.50:21
  1012. It's, that's, and what's all reduced to the TS cluster.50:24
  1013. Check out the video I made on this topic by clicking here or in the description below.50:30
  1014. It's been a half hour.50:36
  1015. Oh wow.50:41
  1016. Bubbling.50:42
  1017. Oh my God.50:45
  1018. Those look good.50:46
  1019. I've never made this before.50:47
  1020. Wow.50:49
  1021. Yummy.50:51
  1022. Real.50:52
  1023. Sure smells good.50:56
  1024. It tastes just like apple pie.51:03
  1025. Mm -hmm.51:04
  1026. Really good.51:06
  1027. Thanks guys.51:07
  1028. All right, Laura.51:09
  1029. Thank you so much for helping me make this video.51:12
  1030. You're welcome.51:14
  1031. And until next year with Laura at our baking weekend, that's it guys and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.51:15
  1032. We'll keep going with food.51:23
  1033. In this one you'll meet my uncle John.51:25
  1034. In this American English pronunciation video, my uncle John is going to teach you how to make a peach melva.51:28
  1035. In this scene, my uncle is going to be listing things.51:36
  1036. He's going to be giving steps.51:39
  1037. Listen to how he introduces each step.51:41
  1038. Well to make peach melva, you make a raspberry current sauce.51:45
  1039. That's what this is.51:50
  1040. And you start with the current sauce, and then you add some peaches.51:52
  1041. And then if you want ice cream, you add some ice cream.52:03
  1042. Was that vanilla?52:09
  1043. Yep, vanilla.52:10
  1044. And then a little more sauce.52:12
  1045. Another layer, huh?52:15
  1046. Ooh.52:17
  1047. Two more peaches.52:18
  1048. Wow, many layers.52:19
  1049. A little whipped cream.52:23
  1050. Ooh.52:25
  1051. Voila.52:28
  1052. A lot of and, and, and then.52:29
  1053. Let's look at the pronunciation.52:33
  1054. Well to make peach melva, you make a raspberry current sauce.52:36
  1055. That's what this is.52:42
  1056. And you start with the...52:44
  1057. And you start, in, in.52:46
  1058. The word and reduced, in.52:49
  1059. Schwa, in.52:52
  1060. And you start, and you start, and you start with the current sauce, voilem.52:54
  1061. Bonus reduction, the word at, at the, at the, at the bottom.53:01
  1062. At the quick schwa stop tea.53:07
  1063. Current sauce, voilem, voilem, voilem.53:11
  1064. And then you add.53:17
  1065. And then you add.53:18
  1066. And then, and then.53:20
  1067. And, and, and again, the word and reduced.53:23
  1068. And then you add, and then you add, and then you add some peaches.53:27
  1069. And then.53:35
  1070. And then, and then.53:36
  1071. Again schwa, in.53:39
  1072. And then.53:42
  1073. And then, and then, and then.53:43
  1074. And then, you want ice cream, you add some ice cream.53:45
  1075. Is that vanilla?53:50
  1076. Yep, vanilla.53:52
  1077. And then a little more sauce.53:54
  1078. And then, and then.53:56
  1079. And then a little more sauce.53:58
  1080. Another and reduction.54:00
  1081. And then a little more sauce.54:02
  1082. And then a little more sauce.54:04
  1083. And then a little more sauce.54:06
  1084. Notice the word little is pronounced with a flap T.54:08
  1085. little.54:12
  1086. Little.54:12
  1087. Little.54:13
  1088. This is a tricky word and I do have a video on how to pronounce this word.54:14
  1089. So check the description below or click here.54:19
  1090. And then a little more sauce.54:23
  1091. Another layer.54:25
  1092. Two more peaches.54:28
  1093. Wow, many layers.54:29
  1094. A little whipped cream.54:33
  1095. Voila.54:38
  1096. Voila.54:40
  1097. Voila is a French word but we do use it sometimes in American English.54:41
  1098. Voila or voila.54:47
  1099. And when we use it in American English, the pronunciation is changed a little bit so it fits in more with American sounds.54:50
  1100. Voila.54:58
  1101. Voila.55:00
  1102. With that lower American placement.55:01
  1103. And it means there it is, here it is.55:03
  1104. And you might say that when you're finished with something and you're showing it to people.55:06
  1105. Voila.55:12
  1106. Or as some Americans may pronounce it, voila.55:13
  1107. Voila.55:16
  1108. And what's the name in French?55:17
  1109. Peshmelba.55:20
  1110. Voila.55:22
  1111. Wow, look at that.55:24
  1112. I had a Peshmelba at Rick's Cafe in Morocco that was to die for.55:27
  1113. That was to die for.55:33
  1114. Okay, to die for.55:35
  1115. This is an idiom we use when something is just exceptional.55:37
  1116. So good.55:43
  1117. We use it a lot with food, tastes.55:44
  1118. Oh it was to die for.55:48
  1119. It was so delicious.55:50
  1120. Was to die for.55:52
  1121. Was to die for.55:53
  1122. Was to die for.55:54
  1123. Now she does not reduce the word to.55:55
  1124. To die for.55:59
  1125. She is clearly pronouncing each word, stressing it, bringing even more emotion in so that we understand just how good this Peshmelba was.56:00
  1126. And you can reduce that word to.56:14
  1127. To die for.56:18
  1128. To die for.56:19
  1129. We usually reduce the word for, but we don't here because it's going to be the final word in the thought.56:20
  1130. So we don't want to reduce it to for, like we so often do in conversation.56:27
  1131. Leave it for.56:33
  1132. To die for.56:35
  1133. Was to die for.56:36
  1134. Oh really?56:38
  1135. It was wonderful.56:38
  1136. Yeah.56:40
  1137. Is that what gave you the idea to make it?56:41
  1138. Is that what gave you?56:43
  1139. Is that what gave you?56:44
  1140. Notice I dropped the TH in that and connected it to the word before.56:46
  1141. Is that?56:52
  1142. Is that?56:52
  1143. Is that what gave you?56:53
  1144. Is that what gave you the idea to make it?56:54
  1145. No, we've been making it from a long time.56:57
  1146. Okay, well, there you go Teresa.56:59
  1147. He made a monster.57:02
  1148. He made a monster.57:04
  1149. What do I mean by that?57:06
  1150. We can use the word monster to mean really big.57:08
  1151. Have you ever heard of a monster truck?57:12
  1152. When I say he made a monster, I mean he made a very big portion of Peshmelba.57:14
  1153. He made a monster.57:20
  1154. Let me see.57:21
  1155. You want that one?57:23
  1156. Yep.57:24
  1157. Thank you.57:25
  1158. In Casablanca in the movie, there is a fixed cafe and people kept coming to Morocco.57:27
  1159. And, and, there's another word and reduced.57:34
  1160. The D is dropped.57:39
  1161. We almost never say the D in the word and.57:41
  1162. And, and, and, people kept coming to Morocco.57:45
  1163. Coming to Morocco.57:49
  1164. To Morocco.57:51
  1165. The word to reduced.57:52
  1166. Coming to Morocco.57:54
  1167. Coming to Morocco.57:55
  1168. Coming to Morocco.57:57
  1169. Coming to Morocco.57:58
  1170. Coming to Morocco and asking for Rick's cafe.58:00
  1171. There's another and reduction.58:02
  1172. And asking.58:04
  1173. And asking.58:05
  1174. And asking.58:06
  1175. And asking.58:07
  1176. And asking for Rick's cafe.58:08
  1177. In Casablanca.58:09
  1178. But Casablanca was filmed in the United States.58:10
  1179. So a rich American woman decided she was going to make her Rick's cafe.58:13
  1180. She was going to make.58:17
  1181. She was going to make.58:19
  1182. Going to reduced to gunna.58:20
  1183. She was going to make.58:23
  1184. She was going to make.58:24
  1185. She was going to make.58:25
  1186. She was going to make a Rick's cafe.58:26
  1187. And it's very nice.58:28
  1188. Oh really?58:30
  1189. Oh it's great.58:31
  1190. That's fun.58:32
  1191. Maybe a few more peaches.58:34
  1192. Hello pork.58:36
  1193. Actually no, no more peaches.58:37
  1194. Actually, actually.58:39
  1195. This word is supposed to be pronounced with the C -H sound, actually.58:41
  1196. And four syllables, actually.58:46
  1197. But you will notice that very often the C -H sound is changed to the S -H sound.58:51
  1198. This is because we often drop the T when it comes between two other consonants.58:57
  1199. So the C -H sound changes to the S -H sound.59:02
  1200. Actually, actually.59:06
  1201. So I'm reducing it to three syllables.59:09
  1202. This is a common and an easier pronunciation.59:11
  1203. I encourage you to try it.59:14
  1204. Act -shul -ly.59:15
  1205. So the middle syllable is the S -H sound and then the dark L -shul -shul -shul.59:20
  1206. Actually, actually.59:27
  1207. Actually, no, actually, no, actually, no, no more peaches.59:29
  1208. No more peaches.59:32
  1209. Just a little more sauce and then a little cream.59:33
  1210. Little, little, little.59:36
  1211. That word's popping up a lot in this conversation.59:38
  1212. A little more, a little less, a little bit.59:41
  1213. Just a little more sauce and then a little cream.59:44
  1214. I'm getting pretty bossy here, aren't I?59:47
  1215. Pretty with a flap T.59:49
  1216. I'm getting pretty bossy.59:51
  1217. What does that mean to be bossy?59:53
  1218. Notice I'm not saying please or thank you.59:55
  1219. I'm just telling him what to do.59:58
  1220. That's pretty bossy.60:00
  1221. That's pretty rude.60:02
  1222. Luckily, I noticed I was doing it.60:03
  1223. I'm getting pretty bossy here, aren't I?60:06
  1224. Everyone, this man right here is my cousin Kent.60:09
  1225. His daughter, Louisa.60:12
  1226. And you've met Stoney before.60:15
  1227. Kent, do you have anything you want to say?60:17
  1228. Voila.60:20
  1229. You just want to make faces.60:21
  1230. Want to make faces.60:24
  1231. Want to reduced to wanna.60:25
  1232. You just want to make faces.60:28
  1233. Also the word just.60:31
  1234. I dropped the T there.60:33
  1235. Why?60:34
  1236. Because it came between two other consonants.60:35
  1237. Just want to.60:39
  1238. Just wanna.60:42
  1239. Dropping that T between two other consonants makes a smoother transition between sounds and we love connected speech in American English.60:44
  1240. You just want to make faces.60:53
  1241. Thank you so much, John.60:58
  1242. You're welcome.61:00
  1243. That looks amazing.61:01
  1244. Delicious.61:05
  1245. Thanks so much to my family for being in this video.61:06
  1246. If you're interested in making a peach melba, I noticed my good friend Hilah over at Hilah Cooking has a recipe.61:10
  1247. Click here or see the description below.61:18
  1248. And now let's travel.61:21
  1249. Today we'll study some travel vocabulary phrases together as you come with me for a weekend at the Standard Hotel in New York City.61:24
  1250. You'll learn phrases and vocabulary that you might use at a hotel like amenities or incidentals.61:31
  1251. We'll order room service together and enjoy some amazing views.61:38
  1252. First let's check in.61:43
  1253. Hi, I booked online.61:45
  1254. Rachel Smith.61:48
  1255. And then about an hour after I booked, I booked an upgrade.61:50
  1256. I'm using the verb here to book.61:53
  1257. I'm sure you're very familiar with the noun version of this word, book.61:55
  1258. But it's also a verb, which means to reserve something.61:59
  1259. I booked a hotel room.62:02
  1260. You could also book a table at a restaurant.62:03
  1261. This means you've made a reservation.62:06
  1262. You could book a venue for your wedding or a concert venue could book an act or a band.62:09
  1263. The bar around the corner booked my friend's band for Friday.62:15
  1264. Here, OO makes the uh as in push vowel.62:19
  1265. Book, uh, book.62:23
  1266. So both the noun book and the verb book are pronounced exactly the same.62:26
  1267. Hi, um, I booked online.62:32
  1268. Uh, Rachel Smith.62:35
  1269. And then about an hour after I booked, I booked an upgrade.62:36
  1270. I used the term upgrade.62:40
  1271. This means to improve on something, to get a higher quality.62:42
  1272. For example, if you've had your cell phone for a while and it's a bit slow, you might want to get an upgrade.62:46
  1273. Here I'm using it as a noun.62:51
  1274. On a flight, you might be upgraded from an economy to a first class seat.62:53
  1275. Here I'm using it as a verb.62:58
  1276. Upgrade.63:00
  1277. In this case, I booked a hotel room and then the system asked me if I wanted to upgrade.63:00
  1278. The offer seemed like a good deal to me, so I did upgrade.63:06
  1279. I paid a bit more money for a bigger, better room.63:10
  1280. And then about an hour after I booked, I booked an upgrade.63:13
  1281. Because it sounded very enticing what was being offered.63:17
  1282. Do you see how pregnant I am here?63:23
  1283. I'm eight months pregnant.63:25
  1284. And this was the last weekend that my doctor said that I could travel away from home.63:26
  1285. So we took stony to my in -laws, that is David's parents, and took this short trip.63:31
  1286. In the US, you might hear people call this a baby moon.63:36
  1287. That is a relaxing trip you take before it's harder to travel because you have a baby.63:40
  1288. This is related to the term honeymoon, which is a trip you take alone with your partner right after you get married.63:46
  1289. You booked for a water view deluxe catering, right?63:53
  1290. Yes, self -facing.63:56
  1291. Here we're using some terms that you might use when describing a room.63:57
  1292. We booked a king, which means it has a king -sized bed in it.64:01
  1293. King and California king are the two largest -sized beds.64:05
  1294. She used the term water view.64:10
  1295. This simply means what you can see from your room.64:12
  1296. You might have city view, park view, water view, ocean view, garden view, street view.64:16
  1297. This hotel is close to the Hudson River.64:23
  1298. I used the term south -facing.64:26
  1299. This means when you're in your room looking out the window, which direction are you looking?64:29
  1300. I knew I wanted to be south -facing because just north of the hotel are some taller buildings.64:33
  1301. I didn't want to look directly at another building, so I upgraded to a south -facing room.64:38
  1302. You might also see a room described as a corner room, which of course means you're on the corner of the building, and you might get views in two different64:43
  1303. directions.64:51
  1304. So you booked for a water view deluxe king, correct?64:51
  1305. Yes, south -facing.64:56
  1306. She's not here if I could just see a former ID and a credit card for the rest of the house.64:58
  1307. Sure.65:03
  1308. When checking into a hotel, there's a good chance that they'll ask for a form of ID like she did.65:03
  1309. That would be something official with your picture and name on it like a driver's license or passport.65:09
  1310. ID is short for identification.65:14
  1311. They'll also usually want a credit card from you so they can make charges to the room if you damage or take anything.65:17
  1312. Yep.65:24
  1313. I'm sure if I could just see a former ID and a credit card for the rest of the house.65:24
  1314. Sure.65:29
  1315. So I see that initially you put a deposit down for the room, so we would just leave the card for incidentals.65:29
  1316. Okay, no problem.65:35
  1317. Incidentals.65:37
  1318. This is a word they use for anything in addition to the cost of the room.65:38
  1319. For example, if you eat or drink from the mini bar in your room, they'll keep track of that and charge it to your card after you leave.65:41
  1320. So we would just leave the card for incidentals.65:48
  1321. Okay, no problem.65:50
  1322. And it doesn't, it's not ready yet by chance, is it?65:53
  1323. It is.65:58
  1324. Oh, perfect.65:58
  1325. She asks, have you stayed here before?65:59
  1326. Oh no, I've not.66:02
  1327. It's been on my bucket list.66:02
  1328. Bucket list.66:04
  1329. Have you heard this term before?66:05
  1330. It means something you want to do within your lifetime.66:07
  1331. For example, visiting Paris is on my bucket list.66:10
  1332. Oh no, I've not.66:14
  1333. It's been on my bucket list.66:15
  1334. So I'm glad that it's happening.66:16
  1335. Just launch it out.66:18
  1336. Yes.66:19
  1337. Just initial here, here, and a signature there, and if you could just add this gentleman's name right.66:20
  1338. Sure.66:24
  1339. There might be something you have to initial or sign when checking into a hotel.66:25
  1340. Initial, of course, means you just put RS instead of your whole signature, Rachel Smith.66:29
  1341. Just initial here, here, and a signature there, and if you could just add this gentleman's name right.66:34
  1342. Sure.66:39
  1343. We finish checking in and head up to our room.66:39
  1344. Room number 814, we have a card as a key.66:42
  1345. Very dark elevator.66:47
  1346. See, this is why I didn't want to be north facing.66:52
  1347. It's because then you're just looking at a building.66:55
  1348. North facing, south facing.66:59
  1349. It can be very handy to know the details of the room you want when booking a hotel.67:01
  1350. Let's go find the room.67:06
  1351. There's the river.67:07
  1352. And there's the city.67:09
  1353. And there's the highline.67:19
  1354. How cool is that?67:21
  1355. The Highline is a park in NYC that was built on top of an abandoned raised train line.67:24
  1356. I'll also talk about the Whitney, which is an art museum.67:30
  1357. That's the Whitney right there.67:33
  1358. Have you ever been to the Whitney, David, the new one?67:35
  1359. Yeah.67:37
  1360. And that's their little rooftop spot there.67:39
  1361. Maybe we should go.67:41
  1362. They have pay -as -you -wish entrance on Friday evenings.67:43
  1363. All right, well, let's settle in.67:49
  1364. Settle in is a phrase that means to unpack, to get comfortable, to arrange your things in a new place.67:52
  1365. After a big move, it can take some time to settle in.67:58
  1366. Whenever we stay somewhere, even if it's just for a night or two, I like to spend some time settling in when we first arrive to make this stay more68:01
  1367. comfortable.68:09
  1368. All right, well, let's settle in.68:10
  1369. That night, our friend Renee dropped by and we ordered room service.68:12
  1370. Generally, you can reach the front desk by pressing zero.68:16
  1371. The front desk is there in the lobby where we checked in.68:20
  1372. You can call them with your needs and questions.68:23
  1373. Room service is for the restaurant in the hotel that can make and bring food to your room.68:26
  1374. Good evening, good services.68:31
  1375. Hi, is this where I call to place a room service order?68:33
  1376. Please hold on.68:37
  1377. Thank you.68:38
  1378. It was the front desk, not room service.68:42
  1379. Thank you for calling room service.68:46
  1380. This is Yuli.68:47
  1381. How can I help you?68:48
  1382. Hi, I'm in room 814.68:49
  1383. And I'd like to order two orders of fries.68:50
  1384. Okay.68:55
  1385. And does that come with ketchup?68:56
  1386. Yeah.68:58
  1387. Okay.68:59
  1388. And also two orders of a good pickle.69:00
  1389. Okay.69:03
  1390. Did you want anything to drink with us?69:05
  1391. Um, anyone thirsty?69:08
  1392. No, I think we're good.69:10
  1393. If you ask someone if they want something or offer them something and they say, I'm good or we're good, that's like saying, no, thank you.69:12
  1394. That person does not want it.69:21
  1395. Anyone thirsty?69:23
  1396. No, I think we're good.69:24
  1397. They told me it would be a 30 minute wait.69:26
  1398. Okay.69:29
  1399. I am eight months pregnant if that helps boost me forward.69:29
  1400. Okay, not a problem.69:33
  1401. Okay, I'm just kidding.69:34
  1402. Thank you.69:35
  1403. Bye.69:36
  1404. I mean, I'm not kidding.69:38
  1405. I am eight months pregnant if that makes a difference.69:39
  1406. Luckily the food came quickly.69:43
  1407. Wow, that's a lot of fries.69:45
  1408. That is a lot of fries.69:46
  1409. Ooh, I didn't expect them to be so little.69:48
  1410. I think I could have gotten by with one order.69:50
  1411. Nope.69:52
  1412. No?69:53
  1413. No.69:54
  1414. So glad we have two.69:54
  1415. Mini mayonnaise.69:56
  1416. All the best to go with the mini ketchup.69:58
  1417. Mini ketchup and then two good pickles.70:01
  1418. Okay, what did you think of yours?70:04
  1419. I think I'm at an eight out of 10.70:06
  1420. I think I'm going to give it a six or seven.70:08
  1421. Oh, so low.70:10
  1422. Do you do this too?70:12
  1423. We rated how much we liked the pickle on a scale of one to 10.70:13
  1424. One is always the lowest and 10 the highest.70:17
  1425. The very best of the best.70:20
  1426. So I didn't love the pickle.70:23
  1427. Still, there's something very luxurious about eating French fries in your hotel room at 1030 at night.70:25
  1428. Many hotels have an ice machine.70:31
  1429. This one was labeled an ice dispenser.70:33
  1430. So almost every hotel room in America has an ice bucket that you can take to the machine to fill up.70:35
  1431. This one also had tongs to serve ice into glasses.70:42
  1432. David and I had such a relaxing stay here enjoying slow days.70:46
  1433. Before we leave, let's go over a few more words and phrases that might be useful to you as you travel, as you stay in hotels.70:51
  1434. First, when you check into hotel, you'll find the front desk in the lobby and you can probably find a luggage cart there to help you get all your luggage70:58
  1435. to your room.71:08
  1436. The opposite of checking in is checking out.71:09
  1437. Check out, of course, is when you leave the hotel room and you give back your key.71:12
  1438. Two phrasal verbs for your travel vocabulary.71:16
  1439. Check in, check out.71:19
  1440. Here, I called the front desk to ask what time check out was.71:21
  1441. I also had to report an issue about the room.71:25
  1442. Good.71:29
  1443. Hi, Freddie.71:30
  1444. I am wondering what time check out is tomorrow morning.71:32
  1445. It's at 12pm.71:35
  1446. Okay, perfect.71:36
  1447. My other question is I'm in room 814 and the drain to the bathtub doesn't seem to close all the way.71:38
  1448. Okay, I'm about it.71:47
  1449. Let me put someone up here.71:48
  1450. Is that okay?71:48
  1451. That's great.71:49
  1452. We're actually going to head out in a minute.71:50
  1453. Is it okay if we're not here?71:51
  1454. That's definitely yes.71:52
  1455. Okay.71:53
  1456. Thank you so much.71:54
  1457. I used the phrasal verb head out.71:55
  1458. This means to leave.71:58
  1459. We were just getting ready to leave our room for a walk.72:00
  1460. Head out.72:03
  1461. That's great.72:04
  1462. We're actually going to head out in a minute.72:05
  1463. Is it okay if we're not here?72:06
  1464. That's definitely yes.72:08
  1465. Okay.72:09
  1466. Thank you so much.72:09
  1467. We don't even need to try to get a late check out because check out's noon.72:10
  1468. That's perfect.72:14
  1469. This particular hotel does have a mini bar.72:15
  1470. So, that is a place where they're going to have some food and snacks for you.72:18
  1471. They have some glasses for us.72:24
  1472. Nice.72:26
  1473. And there's also a refrigerator.72:27
  1474. Mini bar usually refers to a refrigerator.72:29
  1475. Refrigerator.72:32
  1476. And this one is fully stocked.72:33
  1477. That means it came with all sorts of goodies ready for us.72:35
  1478. Now, usually if you eat or drink what comes here in the hotel, it's quite expensive.72:40
  1479. Much more expensive than just running out and buying it yourself.72:47
  1480. Another neat thing that this particular hotel room has is a shower bath room.72:51
  1481. So, it's this whole room floor to ceiling.72:59
  1482. It doesn't matter if you get the whole thing wet.73:02
  1483. A big bathtub.73:04
  1484. And then there are some flats that look out into the room so you can still see the view as you take your shower.73:06
  1485. This hotel room also has a safe.73:13
  1486. Many, many hotel rooms do so you can put passports or money, valuables, whatever in the safe when you leave.73:17
  1487. One thing that people are often interested in when choosing a hotel is the list of amenities.73:27
  1488. Amenities would be things like a gym or a pool or room service.73:34
  1489. Other things that you get in addition to your room or special things that you might get in your room.73:39
  1490. Many hotels come with a little card like this.73:46
  1491. This one says Privacy Please and you hang this on your doorknob to let them know I don't want anyone to come in and work on my room.73:49
  1492. Or on the other side, I do want someone to come in, change out my towels for clean towels, maybe vacuum.73:57
  1493. So this card says Privacy Please but you might also see Do Not Disturb.74:04
  1494. Thank you guys for traveling with me to New York City this weekend.74:11
  1495. I also have a video that I made on travel phrases that you may use when checking in at an airport.74:15
  1496. Be sure to check that out.74:20
  1497. Are there other travel vocabulary or phrases videos that you'd like to see?74:22
  1498. Please let me know in the comments below.74:26
  1499. Big thanks to David and Renee for being in this video with me.74:29
  1500. And now let's go on a road trip together.74:33
  1501. Today we'll study phrases and idioms and we'll do a little listening comprehension quiz as we study conversation that came up on a road trip I took with my two74:36
  1502. kids, my husband, and our friend Steve.74:46
  1503. Did everybody buckle up?74:54
  1504. Yep.74:57
  1505. Steve?74:57
  1506. I did buckle up.74:58
  1507. Buckle up.75:00
  1508. That's a phrasal verb that means to put on your seat belt.75:01
  1509. I noticed with my kids' car seats, sometimes I use the phrase buckle in.75:04
  1510. Hold still so I can buckle you in.75:09
  1511. Then I'll buckle up.75:11
  1512. Did everybody buckle up?75:12
  1513. Yep.75:15
  1514. Steve?75:15
  1515. I did buckle up.75:15
  1516. Buckle up.75:18
  1517. Buckle down.75:19
  1518. The meaning of the phrase buckle down is completely unrelated.75:20
  1519. It means to really focus on something, to work hard on it.75:24
  1520. I need to buckle down and study for this exam.75:27
  1521. I don't feel like doing my homework.75:31
  1522. Just buckle down and get it done.75:33
  1523. Now, about four minutes into the car ride, Stoney started asking if he could watch a video.75:36
  1524. He knows he gets to watch one with his headphones when Sawyer needs to take his nap to help keep the car quiet.75:42
  1525. The next 20 seconds of video won't have subtitles, so see if you can understand what we're saying.75:49
  1526. There's going to be a one -question quiz at the end of the 20 seconds.75:54
  1527. How long is the car ride?75:59
  1528. You can watch after lunch.76:01
  1529. No.76:04
  1530. What?76:05
  1531. After lunch and the car.76:05
  1532. Yes, after lunch we're still going to be in the car.76:07
  1533. It's a long car ride.76:09
  1534. Because it's a really long trip, Stoney, how many miles do you know, David?76:11
  1535. 271, that's all.76:16
  1536. So 271 miles.76:17
  1537. That's why we're going to still be driving after lunch.76:18
  1538. Okay, do you know the answer?76:22
  1539. How long is the car ride?76:23
  1540. David said it once more clearly, and then I repeated it less clearly.76:25
  1541. I said it faster.76:30
  1542. 271, that's all.76:32
  1543. So 271 miles.76:33
  1544. That's why we're going to still be driving after lunch.76:34
  1545. 271 miles.76:39
  1546. Oh, I hope this slowdown doesn't last too long.76:41
  1547. One thing you hope you never have on a road trip with two small children is a delay.76:44
  1548. I hope you don't hit many delays.76:49
  1549. The GPS says that it's clear sailing, knock on wood.76:52
  1550. It'll stay that way.76:57
  1551. Okay.76:59
  1552. Clear sailing, knock on wood, guys.77:00
  1553. David used two phrases there, clear sailing and knock on wood.77:03
  1554. Clear sailing.77:07
  1555. We use this not just with sailing, but also driving to mean nothing in the way, no obstacles, nothing to delay us on a trip.77:08
  1556. But we also use it in general to mean no problems or obstacles with the situation.77:16
  1557. It doesn't just have to be transportation.77:22
  1558. It could be something like completing a project.77:25
  1559. For example, now that we got the new budget approved, it should be clear sailing to finish the project.77:28
  1560. That is, we foresee no problems, no issues, and no obstacles arising.77:34
  1561. The other phrase he used was knock on wood.77:40
  1562. Both of these phrases are really common.77:42
  1563. Have you heard them before?77:44
  1564. Knock on wood is a superstitious expression.77:46
  1565. If you comment out loud on something that's going well, you might say, knock on wood as a way to say, and I hope things keep going well.77:49
  1566. I hope my having mentioned it doesn't mean it ends.77:58
  1567. For example, hey Rachel, how's the baby sleeping?78:01
  1568. He sleeps through the night, knock on wood.78:05
  1569. I have run out of gas more than once on a road trip.78:08
  1570. Actually, years ago, I made a video on another road trip where I did run out of gas.78:11
  1571. I'll link to that video at the end of this video.78:16
  1572. There's a lot to learn about American English in that lesson.78:19
  1573. David and I have also run out of gas on a road trip before.78:22
  1574. Run out is a phrasal verb with more than one meaning.78:26
  1575. It can mean to do an errand that won't take very long.78:29
  1576. Can you run out and get some milk?78:32
  1577. Or, I'm going to run out and pick up the kids from school.78:34
  1578. But it also means to deplete something, to have nothing left.78:37
  1579. I ran out of time.78:42
  1580. I couldn't finish the test.78:44
  1581. We ran out of gas on the highway.78:45
  1582. So now I pay more attention to how much gas we have.78:48
  1583. How we doing on gas?78:51
  1584. Just over three quarters.78:54
  1585. Okay.78:55
  1586. How we doing on?78:56
  1587. I dropped the word R there.78:58
  1588. This is somewhat common in casual English after how?79:00
  1589. How you doing?79:04
  1590. How we doing on gas?79:05
  1591. How we doing on gas?79:06
  1592. How we doing on gas?79:08
  1593. Have you ever taken a road trip with two small kids?79:10
  1594. So, Soonie's asking when we're getting out of the car.79:13
  1595. How long have you been in the car?79:15
  1596. We've been in the car for about 12 minutes.79:17
  1597. 10?79:19
  1598. 10 minutes.79:20
  1599. We have about five hours.79:21
  1600. Five hours?79:23
  1601. Yeah.79:25
  1602. So we have three hundred minutes.79:26
  1603. After, are we there yet?79:28
  1604. Maybe the most common thing a kid says on a road trip is, I'm hungry.79:31
  1605. I gotta eat lunch in here.79:37
  1606. We'll probably eat lunch somewhere outside the car.79:39
  1607. Where are we gonna eat?79:44
  1608. Because I'm very hungry.79:46
  1609. You're very hungry?79:48
  1610. Well, you'll probably, we're probably not gonna eat for about an hour.79:49
  1611. And that will be a quick, quick bite.79:53
  1612. So we can get back on the road.79:56
  1613. Quick bite.79:58
  1614. Have you ever heard the word bite?79:59
  1615. To mean meal or snack.80:01
  1616. A bite is singular.80:02
  1617. It's a noun.80:06
  1618. Mmm, this is so good.80:08
  1619. Do you want a bite?80:10
  1620. It's also sometimes a verb.80:12
  1621. I have to tell my one year old, don't bite me.80:14
  1622. But we also use it to mean food in general.80:17
  1623. I said it'll be a quick bite so we can get back on the road.80:20
  1624. A quick bite, a meal that you hope doesn't take long.80:24
  1625. I'm going to grab a quick bite and then stop by.80:28
  1626. You might also hear in the phrase, a bite to eat.80:31
  1627. Hmm, it's almost lunchtime.80:35
  1628. Do you want to get a bite to eat?80:37
  1629. I don't mean one bite of food, of course.80:38
  1630. I mean a meal.80:40
  1631. David, remember we were in Italy and you couldn't figure out the gas pump.80:42
  1632. What was the deal with that?80:49
  1633. It's just different from what we're used to and you finally finally some other guy pulled up to fill up the video.80:51
  1634. Yeah, you had a video on me.80:58
  1635. But I don't remember what was so different.80:59
  1636. I don't either, but we should take the camera out when we fill up and explain how it works.81:01
  1637. Because that's intimidating, I feel like.81:08
  1638. When you're in another country, you're not totally sure how something like that works.81:09
  1639. Yeah.81:14
  1640. Okay, so a quick rundown about getting gas in the U .S.81:15
  1641. Rundown, one word, this is a noun.81:20
  1642. It means an analysis, a summary.81:22
  1643. As two words, it's a phrasal verb with various meanings.81:25
  1644. But I said, let's do a quick rundown about getting gas in the U .S.81:28
  1645. Let's do a quick summary.81:32
  1646. There are two kinds, self and full.81:34
  1647. Self means you pump your own gas and full means someone else pumps your gas for you and you don't have to get out of your car.81:37
  1648. It's short for full service and the gas pumps will be marked self or full.81:45
  1649. Now almost everywhere in the U .S.81:51
  1650. is self serve except for New Jersey, where it's all full and also some spots in Oregon and a few towns elsewhere.81:53
  1651. If you're at a self serve spot and you use a credit or debit card, you just insert it, you'll usually have to enter your zip code, select the grade82:00
  1652. that is the quality or purity of the gas you're using and sometimes you have to flip up part of the pump.82:09
  1653. If you're paying cash, you usually have to do that before you start pumping.82:15
  1654. So you'll find the cash here inside, tell them how much you want and what is your pump number.82:19
  1655. You can say something like $20 on four.82:25
  1656. Now when you're on a long road trip, there's a chance you're going to have to stop for food.82:28
  1657. We found a service plaza.82:34
  1658. That's something that caters only to people coming on and off the highway and the idea is that it's faster than getting off at an exit and driving to a82:36
  1659. restaurant.82:44
  1660. But it's pretty easy to get pretty terrible food there.82:44
  1661. Oh, your beans and rice are good?82:48
  1662. How's your burrito?82:51
  1663. Honestly, the first bite was really bland.82:52
  1664. Oh no, okay.82:54
  1665. Bland.82:56
  1666. That is tasteless, not flavorful, not very good.82:57
  1667. You can also use this to describe a person.83:01
  1668. He's got a bland personality.83:04
  1669. That means he's not very interesting, pretty boring.83:06
  1670. Luckily, I made Sawyer some really tasty corn puree so he was happy.83:09
  1671. Now if we're not eating food, often we're talking about food.83:15
  1672. We tried to go to Loco Pez last night and it was so on fire.83:19
  1673. I don't know, but it was something.83:25
  1674. They were slammed.83:28
  1675. Yeah.83:29
  1676. So we had to bail and we went to Cedar Point, which was totally empty.83:31
  1677. Did you enjoy it?83:39
  1678. It was okay.83:41
  1679. I didn't think it would.83:42
  1680. We were not blown away, were we, babe?83:43
  1681. What's that?83:46
  1682. We weren't blown away, were we?83:46
  1683. I wasn't.83:48
  1684. Loco Pez.83:49
  1685. That's a local restaurant in Philadelphia, Mexican -inspired food, Spanish -inspired name with the old American twist and pronunciation.83:51
  1686. Did you hear some of the words we used to describe this restaurant?83:59
  1687. And it was so on fire.84:04
  1688. On fire.84:07
  1689. No, the restaurant was not burning down.84:08
  1690. It was very, very busy, very popular.84:11
  1691. We can use this term to mean really good.84:14
  1692. Maybe you're at a family wedding and your uncle is dancing all night.84:16
  1693. He's got great moves.84:20
  1694. You could say, he's on fire.84:21
  1695. You could say this in sports too, basketball.84:24
  1696. Someone just keeps making shot after shot.84:27
  1697. You could say, she's on fire.84:29
  1698. We tried to go to Loco Pez last night and it was so on fire.84:31
  1699. It was like a dollar.84:37
  1700. I don't know, but it was something.84:39
  1701. They were slammed.84:40
  1702. David said they were slammed.84:42
  1703. So that means really busy.84:45
  1704. Actually, you may have already learned that in a video I did earlier this month on ways to say you're busy.84:47
  1705. That was one of the terms we learned, slammed.84:53
  1706. So we had to bail.84:56
  1707. I said we had to bail.85:00
  1708. That means we had to give up.85:02
  1709. We had to do something different than what was planned.85:04
  1710. We were going to eat there, but it was so busy, we had to bail and go somewhere else.85:06
  1711. And we went to Cedar Point, which was totally empty.85:11
  1712. It was okay.85:17
  1713. I didn't think it would.85:19
  1714. We were not blown away.85:20
  1715. Were we there?85:21
  1716. What's that?85:22
  1717. We were blown away.85:23
  1718. Were we?85:24
  1719. I wasn't.85:25
  1720. And the place we went, we were not blown away.85:26
  1721. Blown away is a good thing.85:30
  1722. You get blown away by something that exceeds expectation.85:31
  1723. Just dropped off our friend, gonna head home the final three minutes of the drive.85:37
  1724. Went well.85:43
  1725. Everyone's in one piece.85:45
  1726. No blown out tires.85:46
  1727. One tipped camera, however.85:49
  1728. What's that?85:54
  1729. What's her name?85:54
  1730. What is her name?85:55
  1731. If you can't think of someone's name, you can call her what's her name.85:59
  1732. Notice I'm dropping the H there.86:04
  1733. What's her name?86:05
  1734. Or what's his name?86:07
  1735. Again, dropping the H, what's his what's his name?86:09
  1736. What's her name?86:13
  1737. What's his name?86:15
  1738. Who's that?86:17
  1739. What's her name?86:18
  1740. What is her name?86:18
  1741. We made it.86:23
  1742. Good road trip, everybody.86:24
  1743. Yay.86:25
  1744. Two more conversations now.86:26
  1745. Come as I do a workday on a farm.86:28
  1746. In this American English pronunciation video, you're going to come to a workday at this beautiful farm.86:31
  1747. We'll also study pronunciation of the letter T using kinder and the reduction of the words because and to.86:38
  1748. In this video, we're going to take a look at some stop T endings.86:49
  1749. When a word ends in a T, that's not a part of a consonant cluster.86:54
  1750. That T will often be a stop.86:59
  1751. For example, the word out will often be out, out.87:02
  1752. But when that word is followed by another word that begins with a vowel, it will often be a flap T because now it comes between two vowels when linked87:08
  1753. together.87:17
  1754. So for example, in the phrase out of, out of, that T will go from being a stop in the word out to being a flap in the phrase out87:18
  1755. of.87:29
  1756. These are general guidelines.87:30
  1757. You will hear people clearly pronounce the full true T at the end of the word out sometimes.87:33
  1758. It all depends on the habit of the speaker and how clearly the speaker is enunciating.87:40
  1759. What is the assignment today?87:46
  1760. What is flap T?87:48
  1761. Listen again.87:51
  1762. What is the assignment today?87:52
  1763. What is the assignment today?87:54
  1764. What is the assignment today?87:55
  1765. Oh, you can pull up some landscape fabric.87:58
  1766. Or take this, break this down.88:01
  1767. Uh huh.88:03
  1768. Or carry some wood or the trees.88:03
  1769. Okay.88:08
  1770. Or help take the structure down.88:09
  1771. Okay.88:11
  1772. Great.88:13
  1773. Snip some herbs.88:14
  1774. Snip some herbs.88:15
  1775. That sounds like the most fun out of everything that you just said.88:16
  1776. Did you notice how I dropped the T sound in the phrase just said sometimes will drop the T when it comes between two other consonant sounds.88:19
  1777. For example, the word exact, we will say an ending true T there.88:29
  1778. But when we add L Y, it's not uncommon to drop the T.88:34
  1779. Exactly.88:39
  1780. Exactly.88:40
  1781. Just said.88:41
  1782. Listen again.88:43
  1783. Everything that you just said, everything that you just said, everything that you just said.88:44
  1784. Hi, Michelle.88:49
  1785. Hi, Rachel.88:51
  1786. What project are you working on there?88:51
  1787. Tearing this down.88:53
  1788. And destroying it.88:56
  1789. You're doing a good job.88:57
  1790. Thanks.88:59
  1791. Kind of fun.88:59
  1792. You should join it.89:00
  1793. I should help instead of videotape, right?89:01
  1794. It's okay.89:04
  1795. We're doing a pretty good job.89:05
  1796. Did you notice how Michelle said kind of she reduced the word of to just the schwa vowel and attached it to the word kind.89:07
  1797. Kind of kind of listen again.89:16
  1798. For the record, I didn't only make a video.89:23
  1799. I did also help.89:27
  1800. Michelle, let me help you with that.89:31
  1801. Hey, thanks, Rachel.89:34
  1802. Wait, it looks like I'm really doing something.89:37
  1803. Yeah.89:40
  1804. It's a good thing I've been working out lately.89:43
  1805. Working out.89:46
  1806. Stop T.89:47
  1807. Working out lately.89:48
  1808. Listen again.89:50
  1809. Working out lately.89:52
  1810. Working out lately.89:53
  1811. Working out lately.89:54
  1812. Edgar is documenting me documenting.90:00
  1813. You're documenting me.90:04
  1814. There's a meta documentary going on there.90:06
  1815. Notice how Quinn leaves off the teeth and documentary.90:09
  1816. Do you know why you're doing that?90:13
  1817. Why am I doing it?90:14
  1818. Am I reducing it?90:15
  1819. Well, it's T is a weird letter and sometimes after N, we do drop it like in words like center.90:16
  1820. We'll say center.90:21
  1821. Interview.90:23
  1822. Interview.90:24
  1823. Interview.90:25
  1824. Documentary.90:26
  1825. Documentary.90:27
  1826. Exactly.90:28
  1827. Rachel, why'd you take off your hat and jacket?90:30
  1828. Because I got hot.90:32
  1829. Did you notice how I reduced the word because to cause, cause, cause I got hot?90:33
  1830. Listen again.90:41
  1831. Cause I got hot.90:43
  1832. Cause I got hot.90:44
  1833. Cause I got hot.90:46
  1834. Also, did you notice that stop T?90:47
  1835. Hot.90:51
  1836. Hot.90:52
  1837. Cause I got hot.90:53
  1838. Cause I got hot.90:55
  1839. Cause I got hot.90:56
  1840. Do you remember that awesome video I made on hot back in the summer?90:58
  1841. Uh, no, I don't.91:01
  1842. You actually don't need to respond.91:04
  1843. I'm going to put a link to it then.91:05
  1844. How can I help Rachel?91:08
  1845. Well, we're about to need to take all of the plants that have grown on this out.91:10
  1846. Did you notice how I said about to and I reduced the word to to the true T and the schwa sound.91:16
  1847. The reason why I didn't make it a flap T is because the word before ended in a T.91:24
  1848. So in this case, when we reduce the word to, we need to keep the true T about to about to.91:29
  1849. Listen again.91:37
  1850. We're about to need to take, we're about to need to take, we're about to need to take all of the plants that have grown on this out.91:39
  1851. Edgar, how much time did we save you by coming to the workday?91:48
  1852. Saved at least a month.91:51
  1853. Oh wow.91:53
  1854. That's great.91:54
  1855. Great.91:56
  1856. There I released the T, making the ending T a true T sound.91:57
  1857. Listen again.92:02
  1858. That's great.92:03
  1859. That's great.92:04
  1860. That's great.92:06
  1861. What are you going to do with that extra month?92:07
  1862. I think I'll work some more.92:09
  1863. Get other stuff done.92:11
  1864. Get other stuff done.92:12
  1865. Thanks for having us out.92:14
  1866. Out.92:15
  1867. There I made the ending T a stop T.92:16
  1868. Listen again.92:19
  1869. Thanks for having us out.92:20
  1870. Thanks for having us out.92:22
  1871. Thanks for having us out.92:23
  1872. Yeah, thank you for coming.92:24
  1873. You guys were great.92:25
  1874. Our pleasure.92:26
  1875. Ready?92:27
  1876. That's it and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.92:29
  1877. He was quiet for the whole take.92:35
  1878. I can hardly believe it.92:42
  1879. Thank you.92:43
  1880. In this one, I'm making some Vietnamese food with friends and you'll see a lot of contractions.92:45
  1881. In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to learn some Vietnamese cooking and you're going to study contraction of the verb to be.92:51
  1882. One thing to note about these contractions is that no extra syllable is added.93:01
  1883. We'll go over the pronunciations.93:07
  1884. You'll notice that some of them have two different pronunciations.93:08
  1885. That's because there can be a reduced pronunciation.93:12
  1886. I do recommend that you use the reduced pronunciation.93:15
  1887. Anytime you can make a short word shorter, it's going to add better rhythmic contrast to your speech.93:19
  1888. So I am, I'm, I'm, you are.93:26
  1889. This can be your or better yet.93:31
  1890. Let's reduce it.93:34
  1891. Your, your, your.93:35
  1892. Notice how quick it is.93:37
  1893. When we reduce it, it's going to be very, very fast and it must be linked to the next word.93:39
  1894. We are can be where or we're or better yet, work, work, work, reduced.93:44
  1895. They are can be there or reduced, th, th, th.93:55
  1896. He is, she is, it is.94:02
  1897. This will become he's, she's, it's.94:06
  1898. Notice that the s in it's is pronounced as an s sound unvoiced.94:09
  1899. That's because the sound before is the t also an unvoiced sound.94:15
  1900. It's, it's.94:19
  1901. However, the s in he's and she's is a z sound.94:21
  1902. That's voiced because the sound before a vowel was voiced.94:25
  1903. He's, she's, it's.94:30
  1904. T s can be a tough sound and I do have a video on how to make that sound.94:33
  1905. So let's take a look at some contractions in everyday conversation.94:38
  1906. All right, so after you you're going to slice the cucumber into your rounds and then you're going to flatten the rounds and slice them lengthwise again to make it94:42
  1907. into nice julienne.94:50
  1908. Did you notice the contraction of you are to your, your, your gonna.94:51
  1909. Listen again.94:58
  1910. All right, Annie.94:59
  1911. So after you peel the cucumber, you're gonna slice the cucumber into your rounds and then you're gonna flatten the rounds and slice them lengthwise again to make it into95:00
  1912. the tenacious julienne.95:08
  1913. How's the sequin?95:09
  1914. It looks good, it looks good, it's good.95:10
  1915. How's this?95:12
  1916. How's, how's, z, z, z with a z sound.95:13
  1917. It's good.95:18
  1918. It is, it's, it's with that T -S sound.95:19
  1919. Listen again.95:26
  1920. How's the sequin?95:28
  1921. It looks good, it looks good, it's good.95:29
  1922. Well, if we look at the way Mark's chopping his mushrooms, we can see that he's doing quite a good job of it.95:31
  1923. Thanks, sequin.95:37
  1924. Mark's, Mark's.95:40
  1925. The last sound of Mark's name is the K sound, unvoiced.95:41
  1926. So the apostrophe S is also unvoiced.95:46
  1927. Ks, ks, marks, marks.95:50
  1928. We also heard he's, where the apostrophe S is a z sound.95:55
  1929. He's, he's, he's doing.96:00
  1930. Listen again.96:03
  1931. Well, if we look at the way Mark's chopping his mushrooms, we can see that he's doing quite a good job of it.96:05
  1932. Thanks, sequin.96:11
  1933. That's because she's a good teacher.96:12
  1934. Here, Natalie, speaking of Haquen, said that's, that's, that's because with the T -S sound, she's, she's a good teacher.96:15
  1935. She's a, she's a, where the apostrophe S is a z sound.96:27
  1936. Listen again.96:32
  1937. That's because she's a good teacher.96:33
  1938. Well, I'm gonna dice up this cucumber as I was instructed.96:36
  1939. I'm gonna keep dicing the mushrooms.96:41
  1940. Here, both Annie and Mark said, I'm gonna.96:45
  1941. So they have contracted I am and also reduced going to, to gonna, I'm gonna.96:49
  1942. Notice how I'm is the most stressed syllable in that fragment, I'm gonna.96:57
  1943. That's because going is a helping verb here, not the main verb.97:03
  1944. The main verb is stressed.97:07
  1945. For example, Annie said, I'm gonna dice.97:10
  1946. I'm gonna dice, stressing dice.97:14
  1947. Listen again.97:18
  1948. Well, I'm gonna dice up this cucumber as I was instructed.97:19
  1949. I'm gonna keep dicing the mushrooms.97:24
  1950. Hey, Annie, what in the news is gonna be ready?97:28
  1951. They're gonna be ready in about 10 minutes.97:30
  1952. They're gonna.97:33
  1953. Did you notice how Annie reduced there to they're, they're, they're, they're gonna.97:34
  1954. They're gonna be ready.97:41
  1955. Listen again.97:43
  1956. Hey, Annie, what in the news is gonna be ready?97:45
  1957. They're gonna be ready in about 10 minutes.97:47
  1958. I think we're all set with the basil.97:49
  1959. Thanks, Laurie.97:51
  1960. We're all set.97:53
  1961. Did you hear Laurie's reduction of we're to were, were, were.97:54
  1962. We're all set.98:00
  1963. All set is a common idiom meaning ready or not in need of anything.98:02
  1964. Here she is saying the basil is ready for the dish.98:08
  1965. I use it often at a restaurant, for example, when a waiter asks if there's anything more I need.98:12
  1966. Nope, I'm all set, I'll say.98:18
  1967. Listen again.98:21
  1968. I think we're all set with the basil.98:22
  1969. Thanks, Laurie.98:24
  1970. I love Hakuen.98:25
  1971. She's such an effective teacher.98:26
  1972. That's true.98:28
  1973. Hakuen, thanks so much for teaching us how to make all this amazing food.98:29
  1974. Thanks for coming and joining me to eat all this wonderful food.98:32
  1975. Anytime.98:35
  1976. We will eat your food anytime.98:36
  1977. Yes, we will.98:38
  1978. Love it.98:38
  1979. She's, she's, she's such with the apostrophe S pronounced as a Z.98:41
  1980. That's, that's true with the T -S sound.98:47
  1981. Listen again.98:51
  1982. I love Hakuen.98:52
  1983. She's such an effective teacher.98:53
  1984. That's true.98:55
  1985. Hakuen, thanks so much for teaching us how to make all this amazing food.98:56
  1986. Thanks for coming and joining me to eat all this wonderful food.98:59
  1987. Yes.99:02
  1988. Anytime.99:02
  1989. We will eat your food anytime.99:03
  1990. Yes, we will.99:05
  1991. Love it.99:06
  1992. I'm crushing it over here, as you may be able to see.99:07
  1993. He's crushing it.99:11
  1994. I'm adding noodles.99:12
  1995. I'm adding tofu.99:15
  1996. I'm waiting for shrimp.99:17
  1997. I'm adding beansprouts.99:19
  1998. I'm.99:22
  1999. Lots of I'm in this clip.99:23
  2000. Also, Mark used the idiom to crush, meaning he thinks he's doing an excellent job of making a summer role.99:26
  2001. There are lots of different ways to use the word crush.99:35
  2002. For example, to say you have a crush on someone means you like that person.99:38
  2003. You have romantic interest in that person.99:43
  2004. Let's listen again to all these I'm contractions.99:47
  2005. I'm crushing it over here, as you may be able to see.99:51
  2006. He's crushing it.99:54
  2007. I'm adding noodles.99:56
  2008. I'm adding tofu.99:59
  2009. I'm waiting for shrimp.100:01
  2010. I'm adding beansprouts.100:03
  2011. That chicken's looking good.100:06
  2012. All right.100:07
  2013. That chicken's looking good.100:08
  2014. Natalie contracted chicken is to chickens.100:10
  2015. That chicken's looking good.100:14
  2016. And it was good.100:16
  2017. It was delicious.100:18
  2018. Listen again.100:20
  2019. That chicken's looking good.100:21
  2020. All right.100:23
  2021. There is no onion in there.100:23
  2022. I love onions.100:26
  2023. Wait, where's the onion?100:28
  2024. Go into the oil.100:29
  2025. Oh, spring onion.100:30
  2026. There's no onion in there.100:31
  2027. Where's the onion?100:34
  2028. There's, where's.100:36
  2029. Both of these words end in the R sound, a voiced consonant.100:38
  2030. So the apostrophe S is a Z sound.100:43
  2031. There's, there's, where's, where's.100:46
  2032. There's no onion.100:50
  2033. Where's the onion?100:52
  2034. Listen again.100:54
  2035. There is no onion in there.100:55
  2036. I love onions.100:58
  2037. Wait, where's the onion?101:00
  2038. Go into the oil.101:01
  2039. Oh, spring onion.101:02
  2040. Annie, hold it up.101:03
  2041. Is, look at that.101:05
  2042. That's absolute perfection.101:06
  2043. It does look great.101:08
  2044. You've got to love Annie's enthusiasm.101:10
  2045. That's absolute perfection.101:13
  2046. That's, that's again with the TS sound.101:16
  2047. Listen again.101:21
  2048. Annie, hold it up.101:22
  2049. Is, look at that.101:23
  2050. That's absolute perfection.101:25
  2051. It does look great.101:26
  2052. Oh God, my dogs are barking.101:28
  2053. Why is that, Hillary?101:30
  2054. We've been walking around all day.101:31
  2055. Not to mention all the dancing you did last night.101:33
  2056. It was amazing.101:36
  2057. My dogs are barking.101:37
  2058. This is a great idiom to mean your feet are tired.101:39
  2059. My dogs are barking.101:43
  2060. Notice how the word R is reduced to er, er, er.101:45
  2061. My dogs are, my dogs are, my dogs are barking.101:50
  2062. Notice also the I -N -G is pronounced as an I -N.101:54
  2063. My dogs are barking instead of dogs are barking.101:59
  2064. You may find this happening sometimes with certain phrases or idioms.102:04
  2065. Listen again.102:08
  2066. Oh God, my dogs are barking.102:10
  2067. Why is that, Hillary?102:12
  2068. We've been walking around all day.102:13
  2069. Not to mention all the dancing you did last night.102:15
  2070. It was amazing.102:17
  2071. I hope this has made you more aware of just how often we use this kind of contraction.102:18
  2072. Watch this video a time or two.102:24
  2073. Then watch an American TV show or movie and see if you can notice these two B contractions.102:27
  2074. Write them down as you watch and practice the phrases.102:34
  2075. Using contractions will really help your speech sound more natural.102:38
  2076. That's it.102:43
  2077. And thanks so much for using Rachel's English.102:44
  2078. Guys, that was fantastic.102:49
  2079. Which one of these conversations was your favorite?102:51
  2080. Let me know in the comments below.102:54
  2081. I love sharing my life with you, sharing the English language with you.102:56
  2082. Be sure to subscribe with notifications on so you never miss a lesson.103:01
  2083. I love being your English teacher.103:05
  2084. That's it and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.103:07

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Débit
191 mots par minute — plus rapide que 53% du catalogue
Niveau CECRL
B1
Formes réduites ici
gonna ×52, kinda ×7, wanna ×5, gotta
Mots à connaître
skied, subscribed, consonants, caters, descriptive, apostrophe
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