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  • In the US, summer is for sand, sun, and blockbuster movies. And this summer, we're going to use

  • those movies to learn English and study how to sound American.

  • Every video this summer is going to be a study English with movies video.

  • We'll pull scenes from the summer's hottest movies, as well as favorite movies from years past.

  • It's amazing what we can discover by studying even a small bit of English dialogue.

  • We'll study how to understand movies,

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

  • verbs or idioms that come up in the scenes we study.

  • I call this kind of exercise a Ben Franklin Exercise.

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

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  • Let's get started. First, the scene.

  • You want to get personal.

  • Where were you born?

  • Huntsville, Alabama. But technically, I don't remember that part.

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  • Been riding a desk for the past six years, trying to figure out where future enemies

  • are coming from. Never occurred to me they would be coming from above.

  • Now the analysis.

  • You want to get personal.

  • I love this sentence because there's such

  • contrast between the stressed and unstressed syllables and words. He really stresses the

  • word 'you' at the beginning.

  • You want to get personal.

  • You want to get personal.

  • You want to get personal.

  • You want to get personal. And in the stressed syllable of 'per', the first syllable is also

  • stressed, but the three words 'want to get' are all much lower in pitch, much less clear,

  • flatter than the 'you', up-down shape, higher pitch of the stressed word 'you'.

  • You want to get personal.

  • You want to get personal.

  • You want to get personal.

  • Listen to just 'want to get'.

  • Want to get--

  • Want to get-- want to get-- want to get-- Much less clear than 'you'. Now listen to

  • the word 'you' with 'want to get' together, stressed and then unstressed.

  • You want to get--

  • A big difference there in the quality of those stressed versus unstressed syllables. We have

  • a reduction. 'want to' becomes 'wanna'.

  • Want to get-- want to get-- want to get--

  • And the word 'get' has a Stop T because the next word begins with a consonant.

  • Get, get, get, get, want to get, want to get.

  • Want to get-- want to get-- want to get personal.

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  • Okay, let's get back to the analysis.

  • You want to get personal.

  • Then the unstressed syllables, son--, al--, both said really quickly, those both have

  • the schwa, and in both of these cases, they're followed by a syllabic consonant, that means

  • the consonant takes over the schwa. We don't make a separate vowel sound. So we go right

  • from S into N. Sn, sn, sn-- person, person. And then right from N into L, without making

  • any kind of vowel sound. Nal, nal, nal, nal.

  • Now, this is a Dark L, which does have a vowel-like quality.

  • You want to get personal.

  • You want to get personal.

  • You want to get personal.

  • You want to get personal.

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

  • Now, here is how Americans make the L in this case. It's a Dark L, it's at the end of a

  • thought group, it doesn't link into anything. We make that without lifting the tongue tip.

  • Can you do that too? We make the Dark L with the back part of the tongue. Uhl, uhl. Back

  • part of the tongue presses down a little bit, uhl, uhl, while the tongue tip stays forward.

  • I find that most of my students are so heavily trained in lifting their tongue tip, that it's

  • a very difficult habit to break. I want to challenge you to do this. Per-so-nal--

  • uhl-- your tongue is lifted for the N, bring it back down, nal-- uhl-- and use the back

  • of the tongue to make the dark sound for the Dark L.

  • Personal.

  • Where were you born?

  • She's speaking quickly here without much emotion, very straight faced. Where were you born?

  • Where and born, both are stressed words there.

  • Where were you born?

  • Where were you born?

  • Where were you born?

  • Where were you born? They both have that up-down shape, were you--

  • on the other hand, are much flatter, much faster. Were you, were you, were you.

  • The word 'born' this would be written with the AW as in law vowel, followed by R. When these

  • two sounds come together in the same syllable, like here, the AW as in law vowel is not pure.

  • It's not AW but it's owh. My lips round more, the tongue pulls back a little bit, born,

  • born. Where were you born?

  • Where were you born?

  • Where were you born?

  • Where were you born?

  • Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.

  • So this is a longer thought group. He says: Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't

  • remember that part. No brakes. If it's no brakes, then that means it's one thought group.

  • So I've written in here with Huntsville Alabama, on this slide, and on the next slide, is the

  • second half of the thought group, but he didn't actually put a break there.

  • Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.

  • Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.

  • Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.

  • The stress of these multi-syllable words, we have huntsville, first syllable stress,

  • Alabama, so the most stressed syllable is bam--, and the first level has a little secondary

  • stress, so I would put the primary stress marker there, secondary stress marker there.

  • The other two A's are schwas. Actually, just a few weeks ago on the channel, I made a video

  • of how to go over the pronunciation of the 50 states and their capitals, we talked about

  • the four A's in this word. Click here or in the video description to check out that video

  • that goes over the pronunciation of the 50 states.

  • Huntsville, Alabama

  • Huntsville, Alabama

  • Huntsville, Alabama but technically, I don't remember that part.

  • But technically, I don't remember that part. Our stressed syllables, very clear, but tech--

  • but technically, I don't remember that part. Those have higher pitch, they have the up-down

  • shape, that curve. The rest is a little bit flatter. It's either leading up to a peak,

  • or falling away from a peak.

  • But tech-- but, but--

  • But technically, I don't remember that part.

  • But technically, I don't remember that part.

  • But technically, I don't remember that part.

  • Now we have an ending T, and a beginning T. Those will combine into a single sound, one

  • true T, but technically, but technically.

  • But technically, but technically, but technically.

  • He's pronouncing this word as three syllables, first syllable stress, tech-- and the ch here

  • makes a hard K sound. Tech-nic-- the C here makes a hard K sound. Tech-nic-lly-- and then

  • he's not pronouncing this at all, just an LY ending then. Tech-nic-lly-- technically.

  • Technically.

  • Technically, I don't remember that part.

  • And all of these words linked together really smoothly. Technically, I don't re--

  • Okay what's happening with the N apostrophe T contraction? We have lots of different ways

  • we pronounce that. And in this particular case, I think I'm actually hearing the whole

  • thing dropped. Doh remember-- doh, doh. So we have the D consonant, oh diphthong, and

  • then I hear that linking right on to the next sound, which is the R.

  • I don't remember that part.

  • I don't remember that part.

  • I don't remember that part.

  • Now, it doesn't sound like 'do' because 'do' has different sounds. It has the D consonant,

  • and the oo vowel. So the fact that we have this oh diphthong, that's how we know it's

  • the negative. Doh-- don't remember. Don't remember. But I actually, I definitely don't

  • hear the T. For a second, I listened to it on a loop, I was asking myself: do I hear

  • a light quick N? I don't think I really do. I think it's just dropped. Don't remember.

  • Don't remember. Don't remember. Don't remember. Doh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Just the OH diphthong

  • right into the R. Isn't it crazy? We can pronounce this contraction without the N apostrophe

  • T at all, without the part that makes it a negative. But I still hear it as that word

  • because of the OH diphthong.

  • I don't remember that part.

  • I don't remember that part.

  • I don't remember that part.

  • Are you pronouncing this word? Remember? Try to pronounce it with the schwa. Remember, re-re-re,

  • remember

  • remember,

  • I want you to listen to just the last three words. Remember that part.

  • Remember that part.

  • Kind of mumbly, it's at the end of the thought group, it's losing the vocal energy, and when