{"id":1637,"date":"2015-05-03T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachel-smith-live.prev21.rmkr.net\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:14:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:14:54","slug":"pronounce-gonna-gotta-reduction-linking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/pronounce-gonna-gotta-reduction-linking\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pronounce &#8216;gonna&#8217; and &#8216;gotta&#8217;: Reduction and Linking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These are two of the most common reductions in American English. \u00a0Learn about linking them into the words in a phrase to smooth out your speech and sound natural.<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"entry-tags\">Tagged With: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/gonna\/\" rel=\"tag\">Gonna<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/gotta\/\" rel=\"tag\">Gotta<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/most-popular\/\" rel=\"tag\">Most Popular<\/a><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">YouTube blocked?<\/span> <\/strong><a href=\"#video\">Click here to see the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-stGMAQTibc\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"How to Pronounce &#039;gonna&#039; and &#039;gotta&#039;:  Reduction and Linking in American English\" title=\"Play video &quot;How to Pronounce &#039;gonna&#039; and &#039;gotta&#039;:  Reduction and Linking in American English&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-stGMAQTibc<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-stGMAQTibc\" title=\"How to Pronounce &#039;gonna&#039; and &#039;gotta&#039;:  Reduction and Linking in American English\">How to Pronounce &#039;gonna&#039; and &#039;gotta&#039;:  Reduction and Linking in American English (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-stGMAQTibc)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/p>\n<p><h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent17\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">In this American English pronunciation video, I&#8217;m going to make a steaming bowl of ramen noodles. Of course, we&#8217;ll also study pronunciation, and we&#8217;ll see a lot of reduction in action, like &#8216;gotta&#8217;, &#8216;gonna&#8217;, them, and can. Stay tuned, it&#8217;s going to be a blast. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent17\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">This video is actually not entirely about American English pronunciation. It&#8217;s by request from my mother because when I was with her over Christmas I was telling her how much I love to make ramen noodles. And she thought that was sort of gross. Did you notice? I made a flap T out of the T in &#8216;sort of&#8217;. This is because it comes after an R, before a vowel sound. Sort of. We&#8217;ll want to link the D to the next word, which begins with a vowel, sort of, sort of, so it sounds more <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent17\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">like one word than two separate units. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent18\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Sort of. Let&#8217;s listen again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent19\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Sort of gross. [3x] &#8211;ramen noodles. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent20\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">And she thought that was sort of gross.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent21\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I assured her it&#8217;s not gross. Not the way I <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent22\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">make it! So this video is for her: how I <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent23\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">make my ramen noodles. Now I was also <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent24\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">on vacation with my aunt. A-U-N-T. I know that <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent25\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">aunt is not the number one pronunciation for that <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent26\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">word. Most people pronounce it aunt. I use aunt. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent27\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So let&#8217;s look: mom, aunt, ramen. They all have <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent28\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">that AH vowel, but each one of those words spells <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent29\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the AH vowel differently. Ok, let&#8217;s get cooking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent30\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">First, I take the bowl that I&#8217;m going to eat my <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent31\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">ramen soup in. Fill it up. It&#8217;s got to be <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent32\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">kind of big. Do you remember in the Thanksgiving <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent33\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">video when we reduced I have got to to <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent34\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;ve gotta, or, I gotta? It&#8217;s happening here. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent35\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It has got to: I&#8217;m reducing it <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent36\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to It&#8217;s gotta, it&#8217;s gotta. Listen again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent37\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;s got to be kind of big. [3x]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent38\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Maybe leave about an inch at the top. I&#8217;m going <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent39\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to put it on high. Did you notice? I&#8217;m gonna. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent40\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;ve reduced I am going to to I&#8217;m gonna. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent41\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Of course, use of &#8216;gonna&#8217; is very prevalent <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent42\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">in everyday spoken American English. I&#8217;m gonna. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent43\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The first syllable has the G consonant, &#8216;uh&#8217; as <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent44\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">in &#8216;butter&#8217; vowel, a nice, clean N, and the <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent45\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">second syllable, the schwa. The first syllable <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent46\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">is stressed, gon-, and the second syllable <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent47\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">unstressed, -a. Gonna, gonna. Listen again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent48\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;m going to put it on high. [3x]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent49\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Oops. Wrong burner. You&#8217;d think I would know by now. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent50\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">OK. So. While that&#8217;s heating up, let&#8217;s talk about <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent51\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the vegetable situation. Come over here camera lady. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent52\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So I&#8217;m going to use mushrooms, I have some frozen <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent53\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">green beans, and carrots. Um, I love to use bok <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent54\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">choy but I don&#8217;t have any. I&#8217;m going to garnish <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent55\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">with a little cilantro. And you know what? <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent56\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;m remembering that in my freezer, I have some <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent57\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">chopped up onions that I already fried one time <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent58\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">when I made an absolutely ridiculous amount of fried <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent59\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">onions. So I&#8217;m actually going to chip off a <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent60\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">little bit of that to throw in as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent61\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Ok, so, I&#8217;m going to chop up my mushrooms. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent62\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;m going to try to be careful not to loose <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent63\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">any finger parts in the process. I&#8217;m not <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent64\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">exactly gifted in the kitchen. I <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent65\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">have lost finger parts in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent66\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Don&#8217;t make them too small. Did you notice? <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent67\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I reduced the word &#8216;them&#8217; to the schwa-M <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent68\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">sound: um, um. Because in this pronunciation the word <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent69\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&#8216;them&#8217; begins with a vowel, and the word before, <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent70\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&#8216;make&#8217;, ends with a K, I&#8217;m going to make sure that <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent71\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">those two words link and feel like one unit &#8212; make &#8217;em, <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent72\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">make &#8217;em &#8212; rather than two separate words. Listen again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent73\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Don&#8217;t make them too small [3x], because we are going <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent74\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to be eating this with chopsticks. It&#8217;s got to be <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent75\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">a grabbable size. Ok, I&#8217;m also going to put in a carrot. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent76\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Carrots, I like to cut them on the diagonal, because <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent77\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">again it makes them bigger. Did you notice? Two more <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent78\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">cases where the word &#8216;them&#8217; was reduced to &#8217;em. I <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent79\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">like to cut them on the diagonal, cut them, cut them. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent80\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">We&#8217;re taking the final letter of the word &#8216;cut&#8217;, we&#8217;re <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent81\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">attaching it to the word &#8217;em, &#8217;em, and because the <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent82\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">T now comes between two vowels, I turned <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent83\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">that T into a flap, or, a light D sound. Cut them, cut <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent84\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">them. Also, the phrase it makes them bigger, makes them <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent85\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">bigger. Again, &#8216;them&#8217; reduced to &#8217;em, &#8217;em. Also did you <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent86\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">notice, I reduced the word &#8216;because&#8217; to simply cuz, cuz. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent87\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The K, schwa, Z sound. Cuz it makes &#8217;em, cuz it makes &#8217;em. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent88\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">And, as usual, when you reduce something, you link it to <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent89\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the words that come around it. Cuz it, cuz it, <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent90\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">cuz it makes &#8217;em. The Z sound links to the next <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent91\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">word &#8216;it&#8217;. Listen to the phrases again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent92\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I like to cut them on the diagonal, because again it makes <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent93\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">them bigger, easier to grab with a chopstick. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent94\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Ok, so then I&#8217;m going to use the frozen green beans <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent95\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">from Trader Joe&#8217;s. And my frozen onion, which <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent96\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">actually, when I made it, I had fried in grease <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent97\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">from ground beef. What? She just gave me, <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent98\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">camera lady just gave me a face that was like that&#8217;s <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent99\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">gross. And you know what? It&#8217;s not gross. It just &#8212; <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent100\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it makes it more tasty. Ok. I&#8217;m guessing that the <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent101\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">water is boiling. So I&#8217;m now ready to head over <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent102\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to the pot. Just a quick note: did you see how <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent103\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">much the jaw dropped in the word &#8216;pot&#8217;? And you <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent104\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">can see a dark space in the mouth because the <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent105\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">tongue is pressed down in the back. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent106\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Just the way the AH vowel should be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent107\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;s not boiling. I need to be patient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent108\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So, to make my broth, I&#8217;m not just going to <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent109\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">use the packet that came with the ramen of <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent110\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">course. I will use some of it, but I&#8217;m going <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent111\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to supplement&#8212; Hey! Another &#8216;gonna&#8217;. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent112\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;m gonna supplement. I&#8217;m gonna supplement. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent113\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">But I&#8217;m going to supplement with fish sauce, <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent114\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">soy sauce, sugar, some fresh lemon, and probably <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent115\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">a little fresh pepper as well. It&#8217;s boiling. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent116\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">In goes the ramen. I give it just a few <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent117\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">seconds to start to break up. Even though these <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent118\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">are frozen, it&#8217;s ok to throw them right in. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent119\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Did you notice how quickly I said the word <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent120\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it&#8217;s? I reduced it by dropping the vowel <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent121\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">altogether, and attaching the TS sound to the <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent122\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">next word. Tsokay, tsokay. This was very fast of me, <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent123\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">quite casual. It&#8217;s ok to throw them right in. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent124\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">And now all the vegetable that we&#8217;ve chopped goes in. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent125\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Mmm, tasty. Break up the noodles a little bit. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent126\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Ok, I&#8217;m going to put in my sauce ingredients. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent127\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Little fish sauce, just a few drops. Little soy sauce, <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent128\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">just a few drops. Little sugar. That <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent129\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">wasn&#8217;t enough. There we go. Where did my ramen packet go? <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent130\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">There it is. And then maybe half of this. Ok. Lemon juice. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent131\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Oops, don&#8217;t want that seed to fall in. Ok, so there <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent132\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it is. I&#8217;m going to mix it up, I&#8217;m going to let it <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent133\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">go for not very long. Just maybe <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent134\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">two minutes before my next step.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent135\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">We&#8217;re going to put an egg in this guy. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent136\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Ok, so, I take my egg. Get it all nice <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent137\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and good and cracked. Can you see? Can you see? <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent138\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I reduced the word &#8216;can&#8217; to cn, cn. That&#8217;s <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent139\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">because, in this sentence, it&#8217;s a helping verb. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent140\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&#8216;See&#8217; is the main verb. Helping verbs will <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent141\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">usually be unstressed. And &#8216;can&#8217; likes to <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent142\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">reduce when it&#8217;s unstressed to cn: K <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent143\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">sound, schwa, N. Cn, Cn. Can you see? Listen again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent144\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Can you see? [x3] &#8212;in there?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent145\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Then, just split it open, dump it right in, <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent146\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">put on the lid, turn off the heat, boom!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent147\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So now I&#8217;m going to dump the ramen into <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent148\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">my bowl, and I have this little spoon <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent149\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">because I&#8217;m going to hold up the egg, <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent150\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">so that the egg doesn&#8217;t get crushed in the process. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent151\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So I dump it all. And now I&#8217;ll put the egg in. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent152\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">And now, if I want a runny yolk, I just <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent153\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">leave it as it is. If I want the yolk <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent154\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to be more cooked, then what I&#8217;ll do <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent155\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">is I&#8217;ll pick up some noodles and sort <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent156\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">of cover it. And that will cook it. So that <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent157\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">maybe when I&#8217;m half way through, or towards the <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent158\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">end of my bowl of ramen, I have a delicious <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent159\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">yolk that&#8217;s mostly cooked. Mmm, I love it. <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent160\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Ok, last thing, going to garnish with a little <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent161\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">bit of cilantro. Not a must, just because I <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent162\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">had it. And there you go, mom, auntie, a bowl of ramen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent163\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">As a thanks for being my camera lady, I&#8217;m going <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent164\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to let my friend Sara eat this delicious bowl of ramen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent165\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">What do you think Sara? <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent166\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; It&#8217;s delicious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent167\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I know I&#8217;m no master chef. And probably a lot <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent168\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">of my students can make a much better noodle <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent169\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">dish than I can. I&#8217;m obsessed with noodles right <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent170\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">now, so please send me your recipes! Post a <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent171\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">photo to my Facebook page, or maybe even post a <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent172\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">video of you making your noodle dish. I can&#8217;t <\/span><span id=\"STtranscriptContent173\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">wait to get some recipes! 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