Name: 英会話の勉強。 トムとハクエンの紹介 - アメリカ英語 (English Conversation Study: Introducing Tom and HaQuyen - American English)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:41:38.000Z
Duration: 14 min 38 s
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You asked for it. So in this American English pronunciation video, we’re going to do a

Ben Franklin exercise where we take real American English conversation and analyze the American

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accent to improve listening comprehension and pronunciation skills.

First, let’s listen to the whole conversation.

T: How are you? T: Nice to meet you, too.

T: I don’t think so. HQ: No, not, not in person. But you’ve told

me about him. R: Okay. It seems like you have because I’ve

known both of you for so long, but … T: Yeah.

R: Never overlapped. T: Yeah, well, it’s about time!

Did you notice how the second syllable of ‘HaQuyen’ and the syllable ‘Tom’ were

the most stressed? They had that up-down shape. Especially ‘Tom’, which came down in pitch

We want this shape in our stressed syllables. The two words ‘this is’ were flatter and

Both words, ‘hi’, ‘hi’, ‘hi’, had that up-down shape. Hi. Hi.

These two phrases happened at the same time. HaQuyen said, “Nice to meet you.” What’s

the most stressed word there? HQ: Nice to meet you. [2x]

‘Meet’. ‘Nice’ also had some stress, a little longer. Nice to meet you. The word

‘to’ was reduced. Rather than the OO vowel, we have the schwa. Nice to, to, to.

Nice to meet you. What did you notice about the pronunciation of this T?

It was a Stop T. Meet you. There was no release of the T sound.

Tom’s phrase, “How are you?” How are you?

He stressed the word ‘are’. How are you?

You’ll also hear this with the word ‘you’ stressed. How are you?

It was the loudest and clearest of the sentence.

He, like HaQuyen, also reduced the word ‘to’ to the schwa. To, nice to, nice to meet you.

Also, again like HaQuyen, he made a Stop T here. He did not release the T sound.

T: Nice to meet you, too. [2x] R: Have you guys met before?

I put a little break here, between ‘guys’ and ‘met’, while I thought about what

Did you notice my pronunciation of T? A Stop T.

We tend to make T’s Stop T’s when the next word begins with a consonant. Or, when

the word is at the end of a thought or sentence.

R: Met before? [2x] R: Have you guys met before?

What do you notice about the intonation of the sentence? How does it end?

That’s because this is a yes/no question. A question that can be answered with yes or

no goes up in pitch at the end. Other questions, and statements, go down in pitch.

I don’t think so, I don’t think so. Again, there was a clear stop in sound here. I don’t

I don’t think so. The words were not connected. I don’t, I don’t, I don’t think. I don’t

think so. ‘Think’ was the most stressed word there. I don’t think so. Feel your

energy to towards it and then away from it in the sentence. I don’t think so.

T: I don’t think so. HQ: No, not, not in person.

The first ‘not’ was a Stop T, as HaQuyen did not continue. Not, not. Not in person.

The second T, though, was a Flap T because it links two vowels together. The AH vowel,

and the IH as in SIT vowel. Most Americans will make the T between vowels a Flap T, which

sounds like a D between vowels. Not in [3x]. Not in person.

‘Person’ is a two-syllable word. Which syllable is stressed?

The first syllable. PER-son. The second syllable doesn’t really have a vowel in it. It’s

the schwa sound. But when the schwa is followed by N, you don’t need to try to make a separate

HQ: Not in person [2x], but you’ve told me about him.

It’s a Stop T, but you’ve, but you’ve. What’s the most stressed, the most clear

It’s the verb ‘told’. But you’ve told me about him. The sentence peaks with that word.

HaQuyen dropped the H in ‘him’. We do this often with the words ‘him’, ‘he’,

‘his’, ‘her’, for example. Also, ‘have’ and ‘had’.

Now the T comes between two vowels. What’s that going to be? A Flap T. About him, about

him. Just flap the tongue on the roof of the mouth.

HQ: But you’ve told me about him. [2x] R: Okay.

I didn’t really pronounce the OH diphthong here, it was more like a schwa, okay, okay.

‘-Kay’ had the shape of a stressed syllable. Okay.

In the first part of this sentence, what is the most clear, the most stressed syllable?

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英会話の勉強。トムとハクエンの紹介 - アメリカ英語 (English Conversation Study: Introducing Tom and HaQuyen - American English)

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英会話の勉強。 トムとハクエンの紹介 - アメリカ英語 (English Conversation Study: Introducing Tom and HaQuyen - American English)

pronunciation

phrase

accent

comprehension

英会話の勉強。トムとハクエンの紹介 - アメリカ英語 (English Conversation Study: Introducing Tom and HaQuyen - American English)