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Study English | American English Pronunciation | What Makes American English Sound AMERICAN?
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Today is the third video this December where we're using the Friends Christmas episode,
The One Where Rachel Quits Her Job to study English.
Last week, she had a job interview.
Now in this episode, she's gotten the job and it's her last day working at the coffee shop.
We're going to study this scene and everything we can about American English pronunciation
to figure out what makes American English sound American.
Here's the scene.
There you go. Enjoy.
>> Should I tell her I ordered tea? >> No.
Excuse me, everyone.
Uh, this is my last night working here.
And, uh, I just wanted to say that I made some really good friends here.
And, uh, it's just time to move on.
As of this moment, I will never have to make coffee again.
And now let's do the analysis together.
There you go.
Okay our first thought group here is three words long.
What is the stress?
What's the most stressed word?
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
The stress is all going up towards the peak.
The energy peaks out on the word go that has the O diphthong.
You will need some lip rounding for that.
There you, going up and pitch, going up in energy and volume,
there you go and then the up-down shape on the stressed syllable
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
Try to do that. Try to do it really smoothly connected with that peak of stress on go.
You'll listen to it three times then there will be a little pause for you to try it.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go.
There you go. Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Enjoy. Second syllable stress.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
So, the context here, this is Rachel's last shift.
The end of her last shift.
She did get a job in the video that we studied last week.
This section of the episode
she had just had an interview where she didn't feel like she did very well,
but she did get the job
and so this is her last shift and she knows that she has a job to go on to.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
>> Should I tell her I ordered tea? >> No.
Okay Chandler didn't actually order coffee.
What is the stress of his question here?
Should I tell her I ordered tea?
Should I tell her I ordered tea?
Should I tell her I ordered tea?
Should I tell her, the verb, should I tell her I ordered tea, tea and the pitch goes up.
It's a yes/no question.
Those are our two most stressed syllables there.
Should I,
the word should. I would say is I would write that with a SCHWA should, should, should I, should I.
The D is a flap sound because it comes between two vowels or diphthongs.
The L is silent here, so it comes between the SCHWA and the I diphthong.
So, it says should I, should I, da, da, da, da, da.
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