Name: How do Americans Speak so Fast? | English Conversation
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How and why do Americans speak so quickly? And if you're studying English, how do you

keep up? Today, we're studying English with TV, the

series, 'Friends'. It's a scene from their New Year's Eve Party and we're going

to talk about all the tricks of spoken English that make up the music of English. The linking

between words, the stress and the melody. You'll understand how Americans speak so

fast, you'll improve your listening skills, and you'll be able to sound more natural

speaking English. Here's the scene: Monica and Chandler are dating and Joey is the only

one that knows. This scene is about a minute long and we're going to study everything

about the pronunciation. Here's the full scene.

What's the matter? We wanted to kiss at midnight, but nobody else

is going to, so, you know. Alright. I'll take care of it.

Huh muh muh muh... Thirty-three, Thirty-two, Thirty-one

Ross, Ross listen, who you kissing at midnight huh? Rachel or Phoebe?

What? Well, you got to kiss someone. Can't kiss

your sister. Oh who's going to kiss my sister?

Dude, dude who would you rather kiss your sister, me or Chandler?

Well, since I have that whole history with Rachel, I guess Phoebe.

Phoebs! Phoebs! Listen, Ross wants to kiss you at midnight.

It's so obvious. Why doesn't he just ask. Rach, Rach, listen, I'm going to kiss you at midnight.

What? Well, everyone's got to kiss someone, can't

So, who would you rather have kissing you, me or Chandler? Oh, good point.

Did you catch how 'or' was pronounced 'ur'? There are lots of changes like that

in spoken English. Here's the full analysis. What's the matter?

So this first sentence isn't too clear, is it? What's the matter? What's the matter?

What's the said really quickly and everything leads up to the stressed syllable 'ma',

What's the matter? And then comes down. So, very connected, very smooth, a little bit

breathy, 'What's the' becomes 'What's the'. What's the,What's the. Barely

a W sound at all. And this is a actually a word that can be shortened to ts. What's,

it's, that's and let's are all sometimes shortened to just the ts sound. Ts'the matter?

a little bit of schwa. What's the matter? Huh,huh,huh. What's the matter? But it's very

unclear isn't it? Definitely not “what's” fully pronounced.

The word 'the', this is unstressed word that begins with the voiced th just like this

that, these, those, those kind of all be pronounced with different kind of th. So, rather than

the tongue tip coming through the teeth, the tongue tip presses the backs of the teeth,

uhuhuh, and then pulls away, very quickly to make that schwa. The word 'the' is

this: the, the ,the, the. Said so quickly, low in pitch, low in volume, not too clear

because it's unstressed. Then our stressed syllable with the æ vowel, ma, ma, has that

change of direction, the pitch goes up then down and then a flap t into the schwa sharp

r sound, (flap) on the way down. Ahu. All one connected, utterance, it can actually just

feel like one word. No brakes, with the one stressed syllable ma.

So we have a couple of stressed syllables there that are a little bit longer. Ahuhauhhau, and that's

the way how American English works. We have stressed syllables, they usually have a curve

up and curve down. We wanted to kiss at midnight. So, three of those and the rest of the syllables

are a little bit lower in pitch, volume, now here he sort of whispering a little bit, he's

not saying it to the whole room, he only wants Joey to hear because the relationship is secret.

We wanted to kiss. We wanted. Do you hear

wanted, wanted. That t is dropped. That's the most common pronunciation of that word.

So, the ed ending here makes ih as in sit d when nt is followed by a vowel, it's really

common to drop that t. The word 'wanted', almost every time you hear an American say

that, they will not say the T. Even if it's in a business meeting, even if it's an important

speech, even in those formal cases, we don't usually say wanted. We almost always say wan-id, wan-id.

We wanted to kiss.I love when you hear that on a loop, how you really start to hear the

rhythm. Tadadadada. Tadadadada. Tadadadada. So those unstressed syllables probably, you're

not making them short enough. That's the main thing I work with on my students when

it comes to rhythm, shortening up unstressed syllables. We wanted to, nid to, nid to, nid

to. So id said really quickly then the word to reduces, it's a very quick true T and then

schwa. We wanted to.To, to. We wanted to kiss. Uhuhuh.

At midnight. How was the word 'at' pronounced?

I don't hear at, do you? At. That's the vowel in that word fully pronounced. But I

don't hear a, I hear schwa and then a really quick stop of air at midnight. That's the

stop T, at,at,at. So the word at, how do we make it faster? Change to vowel, make that

a stop T, at,at. It really does need to be that fast. At midnight, at midnight.

Notice the d in midnight is not released,

it's not mid, midnight, but midnight, mid-night. So, the d very fast, the vocal cords vibrate

And again a stop T. So, the T pronunciation is usually a stop t if it comes at the end

of a thought group or if it's followed by a word that begins with a consonant.

But nobody else is going to. But nobody else. So we have a little bit of stress, a little

bit of that up down melody on no and then a lot more on else but nobody else is going to

Going to, going also stressed, this one goes down and up. Usually they go up and down but

Little lift there, but nobody, do you notice that? Another stop t, next word begins with

a consonant. But nobody else. Okay, we need to talk about the dark L here. An L is a dark

L if it comes after the vowel or diphthong. So this is a one syllable word, the main sound

here, the vowel is the eh as is bed. So the L comes after that vowel so it's a dark

L. And for dark L, especially when the sound is a consonant, we don't lift the tongue

tip. So that's just made at the back of the tongue, uhl, el, uhl. Tongue tip is down.

If you lift your tongue tip here, else, else, else. It's an extra movement you don't

need. It's probably going to get in the way of making the dark sound. L, uhl,uhl, L, else.