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0:00I love Sweater Weather and the holidays
0:03today we're studying English by
0:05analyzing a scene from the TV show
0:08Friends what exactly makes American
0:10English sound American we'll look at the
0:13music of English what words might change
0:16in a full sentence first here's the
0:19scene we'll
0:22study hey look at this they lighting the
0:24big Christmas tree tonight um that
0:27paper's 2 weeks old
0:30all right who keeps leaving old
0:31newspapers in the
0:34trash I really wanted to take Kathy to
0:36this I can't believe I missed it hey you
0:38know at least you have somebody to miss
0:40that stuff with hate being alone this
0:43time of year next thing you know it'll
0:45be Valentine's Day then my birthday then
0:47bang before you know it they're lighting
0:49that damn tree again let's study the
0:52music of speech together I'm Rachel and
0:55I've been teaching the American accent
0:56here on YouTube for over 15 years get my
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1:11English now the
1:14analysis hey look at this hey hey pretty
1:18abrupt hey but I still feel an up down
1:21shape of stress there the volume's
1:23pretty high hey hey and he sort of cuts
1:26it off hey hey hey hey look at this look
1:32at this look at this one stress word
1:37there and it's the word this look at
1:40this look at this look at this look and
1:44at just lead up to it look at
1:47this this is really typical for American
1:50English words sort of Glide together and
1:53sometimes sounds even get
1:56dropped now let's look at what's
1:58happening to these sounds to make this
2:00phrase so smooth look at this look at
2:04this look at this look at this look at
2:07this so the first thing I noticed is I'm
2:10looking for the T here look at this and
2:14I find it's totally dropped this is not
2:17normal for at for at there's usually a
2:20stop T when it's followed by a consonant
2:23but here it's totally dropped
2:26look I would write that as awah look at
2:29this look at this and the schwas is
2:32linking right into the voiced
2:35th the word this then has the I vowel
2:39and an S this this and it has a curve up
2:43and down because it's a stress word this
2:47this so the word at just becomes a quick
2:50uh uh which is called the schah and it
2:53links into the next word look at this
2:56look at this look at this if I go back
2:58to the word look look here I'm looking
3:01for a k listening for a k let's see what
3:04we hear look at this look at this look
3:08at this I hear that being turned into a
3:10g l l l l l and that's sort of being
3:15used to link into the schw look look
3:18look look look at this look at this look
3:22at this look at this look at this the o
3:26o here makes the push vowel uh uh
3:31L look at
3:35this so all of those sounds really
3:39melting together very smoothly to become
3:42this one single phrase and even though
3:46it sounds nothing like look at this
3:50everyone who is a native speaker would
3:53understand this easily without trying
3:55hearing it just once look at this look
3:58at this look at this look at this try it
4:02as well yourself now and to really go
4:04for that smoothness so listen to it
4:07three times and then say it look at this
4:11look at this look at
4:15this look at this look at this look at
4:19this they're lighting the big Christmas
4:20tree tonight so now we have a pretty
4:22long sentence they are lighting the big
4:27Christmas tree tonight and of course
4:30it's not pronounced that way at all just
4:33like look at this it all Glides together
4:36smoothly some sounds change some
4:39syllables are longer and clearer those
4:41are stressed and others are very minimal
4:45very fast quiet let's first look for the
4:49stressed syllables in this phrase
4:51they're lighting the big Christmas tree
4:53tonight they're lighting the big
4:54Christmas tree tonight they're lighting
4:56the big Christmas tree tonight they're
4:57lighting
4:59so I hear a little bit of length and up
5:02down shape of stress on the firstable of
5:05lighting
5:06they're
5:09lighting they're lighting they're
5:11lighting they're lighting the big
5:13Christmas tree tonight they're lighting
5:16the big Christmas tree tonight so
5:20basically wherever there's a change in
5:22Pitch
5:24chismas tree tonight is where we have a
5:27stress Sy bable it's a little bit long
5:30and it has a change in Pitch usually it
5:32goes up and down like here sometimes it
5:35goes down and up but everything else is
5:37just falling away from that stressed
5:40syllable or leading up to it so here
5:44there is there there there there just
5:47starting to curve up head up for that
5:51peak of stress they're lighting they're
5:55lighting slow it down and smooth it out
5:58and then as you you practice it that way
6:01you can really find the smoothness in
6:03the
6:04connection they are becomes their
6:07they're lighting they're lighting they
6:11lighting so so fast not they are not
6:15they but
6:17the that's an unstressed word said very
6:21quickly they're lighting they're
6:23lighting they're lighting they're
6:25lighting the big Christmas tree tonight
6:27the second half of lighting is also very
6:30fast and quick just like this unstressed
6:33they
6:34liing super minimal low and Pitch
6:37quieter notice this is a flap te here
6:40it's not lighting but it's lighting a
6:44flap of the tongue
6:46lighting they're lighting they're
6:49lighting try that they're lighting
6:52they're lighting
6:56they're they're let they're letting
6:59they're lighting the big Christmas tree
7:00tonight the big Christmas tree tonight
7:03the big Christmas tree tonight so just
7:06like they're lighting we have one peak
7:08of stress this one the phrase is a
7:11little bit longer so we have a little
7:12bit more of a buildup the
7:16big and then this stressed syllable
7:19[Music]
7:21Chris must tree a night and then four
7:24syllables falling away from that peak of
7:26stress the big the big so these two
7:29words say said very quickly the big the
7:31big the big do you hear how it's sort of
7:33quiet a little bit mumbly that's the way
7:36unstressed sybles might be in American
7:38English the big the big the big Chris
7:41then our stress syllable much clearer
7:43the big Christmas tree the big Christmas
7:45tree the big Christmas tree Christmas
7:47tree
7:49Christmas tree so the tea in Christmas
7:52almost always dropped
7:56Christmas also make sure this is awah
7:58Miss Miss it's not mass or mass but M
8:04Christmas Christmas tree tonight so the
8:08TR cluster tree is very often pronounced
8:12as a CH HR tree and that's what's
8:15Happening Here Christmas tree
8:18Christmas tree so not only are the
8:21sounds in American English important but
8:24the melody the connection is very
8:26important Christmas
8:29tree so as you imitate here make sure
8:32you're also imitating the melody
8:35Christmas tree Christmas tree Christmas
8:39tree Christmas tree this is something we
8:41really do in our free mini course so
8:43follow the link in the video description
8:46to sign up for that free mini course
8:48you'll have some audio that will help
8:49you train and get this rhythmic contrast
8:54this melody this music of English into
8:57your voice this will make you easier to
8:59understand understand when you're
9:00speaking English Christmas tree
9:03Christmas tree Christmas tree tonight
9:05tonight or some people pronounce it
9:08tonight but it should always be awah TT
9:11tonight here the t is not a t but again
9:14it's a flap D night D night D night D
9:17night and that first syllable as I said
9:20schah it looks like it should be to
9:22tonight but it's t tonight linked into a
9:26vowel it's night r r flapping the tea
9:30tree a night tree a night tree a night
9:34really smooth try that tree a night tree
9:37tonight tree tonight and then it ends
9:40with a stop te so we don't hear tonight
9:44that would be a true te that would be
9:45fully released but it's night night
9:49night an abrupt stop Tre T night tree
9:53tonight tree tonight Christmas tree
9:56tonight Christmas tree tonight Christmas
9:59tree tonight so one long phrase two
10:02peaks of stress everything very smooth
10:06lots of words pronounced unclearly with
10:09sounds changing a little bit mumbly
10:12lower in
10:13volume that's American English that
10:16contrast of clear and unclear that is
10:18American English Christmas tree tonight
10:21Christmas tree tonight Christmas tree
10:23tonight um um um our thinking vowel in
10:29American American English is the uh
10:30vowel uh
10:33um um um um that paper's two weeks old
10:39that paper's two weeks old so again two
10:44up down shapes of stress that
10:47papers two weeks
10:53old and the other words falling into the
10:57line let's look at the pronunciation of
11:00the
11:01word
11:05that that that that that that very fast
11:11stop T that that papers that papers so
11:16not that but that that twice as fast as
11:20you might want to make it that papers
11:22the apostrophe s
11:25here is the contraction is that paper is
11:29two weeks old that paper's two weeks old
11:33that paper's two weeks old that paper's
11:35two weeks old that papers two weeks old
11:41old you might find as you're working
11:44with the phrases as you're imitating
11:48that you don't want to have as much up
11:50down as she has it might feel strange
11:53but we need this this change in Pitch
11:57this contrast is what makes makes
11:59English really easy to understand it's
12:01what makes it clear so make sure you're
12:04not going old but you're going old just
12:07like she does that paper's two weeks old
12:10that paper's two weeks old that paper's
12:13two weeks
12:16old that paper's 2 weeks old that
12:19paper's 2 weeks old that paper's 2 weeks
12:23old all right all right all right this
12:27word said so quickly just sort of a
12:29filler word all right all right little
12:33bit of a up down shape of stress on the
12:35second syllable stop T very AB abrupt
12:38stop all right all right no L I would
12:42think of that first syllable just being
12:43the schah uh uh uh all right all right
12:46all right all right all right all all
12:49right who keeps leaving old newspapers
12:51in the trash who keeps leaving two up
12:55down shapes of stress who keeps
13:01[Music]
13:03leaving who keeps leaving who keeps
13:06leaving who keeps
13:11leaving who keeps leaving old newspapers
13:13in the trash who keeps leaving old
13:17newspapers in the trash this phrase is
13:21interesting because we have two up down
13:23shapes of stress so we know that's a
13:25stress syllable but this is a question
13:29question he's giving it the question
13:31intonation which is pitch going up at
13:33the end and because of that instead of
13:36being trash with an up down shape of
13:39stress it's
13:41trash with a down up shape of stress in
13:45the trash in the trash in the trash
13:49newspapers and this stress syllable is
13:52also going down and up
13:55newspapers because it's the second half
13:57it's heading toward wordss the up shape
14:00of stress at the end who keeps leaving
14:04old newspapers in the
14:08trash who keeps leaving old newspapers
14:11in the trash who keeps leaving old
14:13newspapers in the trash who keeps
14:16leaving old newspapers in the trash when
14:18we have a question word like who what
14:21when where at the beginning of a
14:23question those are almost always
14:25stressed who who keeps leaving who keep
14:29keeps leaving who keeps leaving who
14:31keeps leaving old newspapers in the
14:33trash now let's talk about the word old
14:36it said quickly it's not stressed old
14:39old old I want to make sure you don't
14:41lift your tongue tip for this L this is
14:43a dark
14:46L that dark sound is made with the back
14:49of the tongue actually not the front the
14:52light L is made with the front of the
14:54tongue so keep your tongue tip down
14:56here oh
15:00and press the back of the tongue down
15:02and back a little bit try to shift it a
15:05little bit towards the back of your
15:07throat oh just the very back of your
15:10tongue oh that will help get that dark
15:13sound old old old old old old newspapers
15:18old newspapers so it's not old but old
15:22old old unstress said pretty quickly old
15:27old old news papers in the trash now
15:30let's look at our last three words here
15:32in the trash in
15:35the said very quickly not very clearly
15:38in the in the in the in the can you do
15:41that that quickly in the in the in the
15:44trash then trash is nice and long in the
15:47trash also the TR cluster again here CH
15:52HR just like in tree how that becomes
15:56tree trash is way more commonly
15:59pronounced trash with a CHR feel trash
16:05trash the trash the trash the
16:11trash I really wanted to take Kathy to
16:13this I really wanted to take Kathy to
16:17this okay we have two shapes of stress
16:20going up and down I
16:23really wanted to take
16:27Carey to this and everything else so so
16:31smooth just floating up or floating down
16:35now we've talked about T's quite a bit
16:38we had a stop T here we had a t dropped
16:42in the word at on the previous slide we
16:45have the T turning into a CH
16:48sound T is sort of an interesting sound
16:51we change it a lot in American English
16:54let's look at how these T's are
16:56pronounced we have 1 2 3 three four T
17:01sounds I really want to take Kathy to
17:03this I really want to take Kathy to this
17:06I really wanted to take Kathy to this
17:08wanted wanted no T there totally dropped
17:12that's pretty common the Ed ending here
17:16adds an extra quick little syllable id
17:18id wanted wanted wanted
17:21wanted I would think of this vowel as
17:24the uh as in butter vowel very relaxed
17:27uh uhw what wanted wanted
17:31wanted I really wanted I really wanted I
17:35really wanted all right let's look at
17:36this
17:38tea I really want to take Kathy I really
17:41want to take Kathy I really want to take
17:44Kathy I really wanted take I mean
17:48honestly I almost don't hear this word
17:51wanted take I almost just hear it going
17:55right into the word take but we can't
17:59think of this as being a quick schah so
18:01the word
18:03to just like in the word tonight you
18:07might want to pronounce this to but it's
18:09almost always reduced to the schw t t
18:12tonight now when the sound before is a d
18:15like it is here it's pretty common to
18:17drop the T Al together and just link the
18:20schah onto the D wanted wanted to I
18:24really wanted to wanted to I really
18:27wanted to take Kathy
18:29I really wanted to take cath I really
18:31wanted to take Cathy here the schwat is
18:34so so fast I almost don't even hear it
18:36when it a take it's just a little bit
18:38sloppy right one more clear
18:43but these two unstress sybles just way
18:46less clear want to take Kathy want to
18:49take Kathy want to take Kathy take Kathy
18:52take Kathy so this T here is a true tea
18:56t
18:59where we get that crisp
19:02release and that's because it starts a
19:04stressed syllable a t followed by a
19:08vowel or diff thong that starts a
19:10stressed syllable is always going to be
19:12a true te take take Kathy take Kathy
19:17take Kathy to this Kathy to this C
19:21that's the a as in bat vowel
19:24Cathy tongue tip through the teeth for
19:27this unvoiced th
19:32cathed now again the word to not
19:34pronounced
19:36to the vowel is the
19:39schah and the t is actually a flap T
19:42linking the ending e vowel of Cathy into
19:46the schah Cathy Cathy
19:51cath Cathy to this cath this Cathy this
19:56Cathy this
20:01I really wanted to take Kathy to this I
20:02can't believe I missed it I can't
20:04believe I missed it I can't believe I
20:09missed it two peaks of stress there I
20:13can't
20:14believe I
20:17miss it the I vowel of missed is our
20:21biggest up down shape of stress now
20:23remember we want that pitch change me
20:27not me
20:29but
20:31more missed it I missed it I can't
20:34believe I missed it I can't believe I
20:36missed it I can't believe I missed it
20:39the Ed ending in Mist makes a t sound M
20:45it and this te is a stop te it's not
20:48released that would be miss it t t but
20:54ending T's we almost always make those
20:56stop T's I missed it
20:59I missed it I missed it I missed it I
21:03can't believe I can't believe I can't
21:05believe so this T also a stop little
21:09tiny lift there I can't believe I
21:12can't I can't believe I can't believe I
21:16can't believe I can't
21:20believe I really wanted to take Kathy to
21:22this I can't believe I missed it hey you
21:24know at least you have somebody to miss
21:26that stuff with hey hey up down shape of
21:30stress as always hey a pitch change for
21:34our stressed syllables hey hey hey hey
21:39you know you know you know you know okay
21:42so this little two-word phrase a filler
21:44phrase pretty common in American English
21:47said so quickly the first word youu is
21:51often pronounced Y which is exactly
21:54what's happening here you know you know
21:56and it links right into the n consonant
21:59you know you know so don't pronounce
22:02that too clearly you know but rather you
22:05know you know just sort of thrown out
22:09you know you know you know you know at
22:13least you have somebody to miss that
22:14stuff with the word at in the phrase at
22:18least would be pronounced it it schah
22:22stop te and I don't really hear it at
22:24all here but at least I pretty much just
22:27hear least
22:29so even though I know it's there because
22:30grammatically that's what's correct I
22:32don't really hear it that's how much
22:34it's reduced you know at least you know
22:37at least you know at least you have
22:39somebody to miss that stuff with have
22:42somebody to miss that stuff with so our
22:45two verbs are our stressed words here
22:47everything else is either leading up to
22:49or falling away from it have somebody to
22:52miss that stuff with have somebody to
22:55miss that stuff with have somebody to
22:58miss that stuff with I'm trying to hear
23:00the tea here I think I would write that
23:03as a very very light true tea least you
23:07least you least you that's not too clear
23:10is it let me write that a little bit
23:13better got to be able to read my
23:15handwriting for it to be clear right but
23:18it's soft it's not
23:19least but it's least
23:22you least you least you least you
23:26have least you have least you have at
23:29least you have somebody to miss that
23:31stuff with have somebody to have
23:34somebody to so have much longer much
23:37clearer somebody to said really quickly
23:42somebody somebody somebody and we don't
23:45have the pitch variation right have we
23:48have a lot of pitch variation up and
23:52down somebody to unstressed much flatter
23:55somebody to somebody to somebody
23:59somebody somebody somebody and again the
24:02word two
24:04pronounced flap
24:06T somebody somebody somebody somebody
24:11somebody somebody to miss that stuff
24:14with Miss that stuff with I'm going to
24:17say there's a little bit of up down
24:19shape stress here as well miss that
24:22stuff with so that stuff
24:26flatter not quite as l L not quite as
24:29long as Miss and with and that ending th
24:34unvoiced tongue tip comes through miss
24:37that stuff with Miss that stuff with
24:41Miss that stuff with and we can see that
24:44in her mouth we can see her tongue tip
24:46come through the
24:47teeth
24:49with
24:52with
24:54with Miss that stuff with that stuff
24:58that stuff
24:59flat stop tea not released that stuff
25:04that stuff that stuff that stuff that
25:09stuff with looking at this next phrase
25:12without having listened to it yet I'm
25:14just going to guess that hate has a lot
25:18of stress that word has a lot of emotion
25:20in it it's a strong word and I bet it
25:24has a bunch of up down
25:26shape hate being alone this time of year
25:29hate being alone this time of year hate
25:32being alone this time of year
25:35hate hate being alone this time of year
25:38definitely it's the loudest I would say
25:40the pitch is the highest has the most
25:43contrast
25:44hate hate being alone a little bit of
25:49stress there this time of year a little
25:52bit of stress there hate being alone
25:54this time of year hate being alone this
25:57time of year
25:58hate being alone this time of year so
26:01here I felt like she dropped the word at
26:04and here I feel like she's dropping the
26:06word I hate being alone we know it's
26:09there we know it's what she means
26:11grammatically but I don't hear it hate
26:13being alone now look at this it's not
26:16hate being alone even though the word is
26:18stressed the t is still a stop te
26:21because the next word begins with a
26:23consonant hate being hate being that
26:27little abrupt stop hate being that is
26:31the stop te hate
26:33being hate being hate being hate being
26:37alone this time of year being alone this
26:39time being alone this time being alone
26:42this time pretty different then hate
26:45hate so much more volume and emotion in
26:48that word being alone this time being
26:50alone this time much flatter in Pitch
26:53said much more
26:55quickly being so the NG consonant links
27:00right into the schah of alone being
27:04alone this time this vo th unstressed
27:10word though tongue tip doesn't have to
27:11come through L this
27:17time the S links right into a light true
27:21[Music]
27:24T the word of time
27:29becomes just the
27:32schah linking into the M Tim Tim time of
27:36year time of year being alone this time
27:39of year being alone this time of year
27:42being alone this time of year this time
27:44of year this time of year and like we
27:47said a little bit of up down shape of
27:49stress on the word year now year versus
27:55ear this word can be tricky especially
27:58for my Spanish speakers look it up here
28:01on YouTube I have a video year versus
28:04ear that I hope will help you hear this
28:07why Glide consonant sound in the word
28:10year hate being alone hate being alone
28:14hate being
28:17alone this time of year this time of
28:21year this time of
28:26year hate being alone this time time of
28:28year hate being alone this time of year
28:31hate being alone this time of year next
28:33thing you know it'll be Valentine's Day
28:36next thing it'll be Valentine's Day okay
28:40so Val has so much stress she sort of
28:43holds on to the beginning consonant a
28:45little bit v v that makes the stress
28:49even clearer next thing you know it will
28:53be wow all of those words said extremely
28:57quickly
28:59next thing you know it'll be next thing
29:00you know it'll be next thing you know
29:02it'll be next thing you know it'll be
29:04next thing you know it'll be so the word
29:06next said very unclearly next thing you
29:09know I hear the ks cluster of the X but
29:13that's kind of it I hardly hear the a
29:15vowel don't really hear the N the T
29:18would be dropped here because it's
29:20linking into a word that begins with a
29:26consonant know next thing you know next
29:29thing you know you know becomes you you
29:31know you know you know thing you know
29:33thing you know thing you know so the NG
29:35consonant of thing linking right into
29:38the
29:39why of you
29:42thing thing know thing you know thing
29:44you know that links right into the N
29:47consonant for the word no and it's flat
29:51unclear thing know thing you know thing
29:53you know thing you know you have to
29:55simplify your mouth movements a lot to
29:57say it this quickly and that will help
30:00relax into the sounds and let the
30:02placement be a little bit lower thing
30:04you know thing you know if you've never
30:06heard the word placement look up my
30:08video actually I have a playlist on
30:10placement that's going to really help
30:12you out that lower placement will help
30:14you sound more natural speaking English
30:17next thing you know next thing you know
30:19next thing you know it'll be Valentine's
30:21Day it will becomes it it it it so let
30:25me just write that out in IPA the
30:28International Phonetic
30:30Alphabet it as in sit flap T
30:34schah dark L it'll it it'll it it it
30:39it'll it'll it'll it'll it'll it'll be
30:41it'll be it'll be it'll be what'll be
30:45what'll be Valentine's Day Valentine's
30:48Day this is a true te this syllable has
30:51secondary stress Valentine's Day
30:59Valentine's Day Valentine's Day
31:03Valentine's Day then my birthday then my
31:06birthday then my
31:10unstressed said very quickly then my
31:12then my then my then my birthday and
31:16then we have up down shape of
31:19stress on the first syllable of birthday
31:22this word is tricky it's the IR
31:26vowel
31:29B not B
31:33bir and then again that tricky Uno th
31:37tongue has to come through the teeth
31:41Birthday
31:43birth day so you want this up down shape
31:47on
31:48the sound bur B
31:53birthday birthday birthday birthday then
31:58bang I love this then bang then bang so
32:03we're really seeing here the contrast
32:06between an unstress then then then it's
32:10flat it's short bang then this is much
32:14louder higher in Pitch up down shape of
32:19stress this would be written in IPA B
32:23sound a vowel NG consonant but a gets
32:29changed by this ending consonant and
32:32it's more like a
32:34[Laughter]
32:36b bang bang B bang then bang then bang
32:44before you know it before you know it
32:46before you know it we're going down and
32:50then up here no it no is our stressed
32:55word the word before she she's sort of
32:58dropping the first syllable for you for
33:00you for you for you for for for you for
33:04you for you for you flat simple the word
33:08u reduced just like it was up here to Y
33:13it happens down here as well yeah for
33:15you for you for you for you know it
33:20know it those two words Glide together
33:24very smoothly we've got the O diff thong
33:28gliding into the I vowel of course we
33:31have a stop T there
33:34no and you can think of going through
33:36the Glide consonant W to connect those
33:39two words
33:43no what before you know before you know
33:47before you know what they're lighting
33:48that damn tree again they're lighting
33:50that they're lighten that peak of stress
33:55on light
33:58now she turns the ngg ending into just
34:02an N ending lighten light light making
34:08that a stop te lighten lighten they're
34:11lighten before you know it they're
34:13lightting the damn tree again they are
34:16there there there
34:18there unstressed low in Pitch they're
34:22lightting they're light they're light
34:25they're lighting that damn tree again
34:27they're they're lighting that they're
34:29lightting that the word that just Falls
34:32away from the stressed syllable lie it's
34:35got a stop te lighten that lighten that
34:39they're lighten that they're lighten
34:41that they're lighten that damn tree
34:43again damn tree again now damn
34:47definitely has stress our adjective damn
34:51tree again and so does the noun tree
34:54damn tree those are both longer they
34:58both have the
34:59uh shape of stress
35:03damn
35:04tree the n in dam is silent the TR R
35:08becomes a
35:09CHR Dam
35:13Tre again and then the word again just
35:16Falls away from the stress syllable tree
35:21tree so the word tree ends in the E
35:24vowel the word again begins with a schah
35:29tree and in order to connect these two
35:32words you can think of going through the
35:34Glide consonant the Y sound
35:37[Music]
35:38tree again tree again damn tree again
35:44damn damn so much smoothness here we're
35:48really seeing the contrast and Pitch
35:51we're really seeing the contrast in
35:53stressed syllables versus unstressed
35:55syllables so many key pronunciations to
35:59notice all of these things come together
36:02to make the character of American
36:04English these things like the Rhythm the
36:08pitch the change in louder and quieter
36:12syllables these things are actually more
36:14important than individual sounds for the
36:17overall feeling of American English damn
36:21Tre again
36:22damn
36:24damn let's listen to this whole
36:26conversation one more time
36:29hey look at this they're lighting the
36:30big Christmas tree tonight um that
36:32paper's 2 weeks
36:34old all right who keeps leaving old
36:37newspapers in the
36:40trash I really wanted to take Kathy to
36:42this I can't believe I missed it hey you
36:44know at least you have somebody to miss
36:46that stuff with hate being alone this
36:48time of year next thing you know it'll
36:50be Valentine's Day then my birthday then
36:53bang before you know it they're lighting
36:55that damn tree
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