{"id":173783,"date":"2015-05-05T07:18:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T11:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachel-smith-live.prev21.rmkr.net\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2024-03-29T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:41:53","slug":"craig-melvin-interview-broadcaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/craig-melvin-interview-broadcaster\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAIG MELVIN &#8212; Interview a Broadcaster!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Study conversational English in this interview with NBC Broadcaster Craig Melvin.\u00a0 See how even professionals use reductions and contractions all the time, and learn some new vocabulary and idioms.<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"entry-tags\">Tagged With: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/idioms\/\" rel=\"tag\">Idioms<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/interview-a-broadcaster\/\" rel=\"tag\">Interview a Broadcaster<\/a><\/span> <strong>YouTube blocked? <\/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=xGBrHbbNZkQ\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"CRAIG MELVIN -- Interview a Broadcaster! -- American English Pronunciation\" title=\"Play video &quot;CRAIG MELVIN -- Interview a Broadcaster! -- American English Pronunciation&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xGBrHbbNZkQ<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xGBrHbbNZkQ\" title=\"CRAIG MELVIN -- Interview a Broadcaster! -- American English Pronunciation\">CRAIG MELVIN &#8212; Interview a Broadcaster! &#8212; American English Pronunciation (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xGBrHbbNZkQ)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/p>\n<p><h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2><\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\" style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent1\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Hey guys. Welcome to the new Rachel&#8217;s English mini-series, Interview a Broadcaster!<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent2\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent3\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Hey guys. I&#8217;m here with Craig Melvin. Craig, tell me a little bit about what you do.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent4\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; I do YouTube.<br \/>&gt;&gt; No you don&#8217;t I do YouTube!<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent5\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Ah, I am a correspondent with NBC News, and an anchor with MSNBC,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent6\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s kind of what I do.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Awesome.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent7\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Yeah. Somedays it&#8217;s awesome.<br \/>&gt;&gt; And other days it&#8217;s really awesome.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent8\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Yes, yes. Because this is on the internet, I love it!<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent9\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; He loves it! I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re aware,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent10\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">but sometimes people call the standard American accent &#8216;broadcaster English&#8217;.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent11\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Really?<br \/>&gt;&gt; So&#8230;, Yeah.<br \/>&gt;&gt; I did not know that.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent12\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; So we&#8217;re sort of looking to the people who deliver the news<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent13\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to be examples of the standard American accent.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent14\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; No pressure.<br \/>&gt;&gt; No pressure at all.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent15\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Alright.<br \/>&gt;&gt; So, I&#8217;m curious, where did you grow up?<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent16\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Uh, South Carolina, a state not known for&#8212;<br \/>&gt;&gt; Right!<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent17\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; &#8212;language. We&#8217;ll just leave it at that.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Right, for the American accent.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent18\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Yes, but, I grew up in South Carolina.<\/span>,br&gt; <span id=\"STtranscriptContent19\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; So, did you grow up speaking the standard accent,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent20\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">or did you sort of have to change that as you went into this field?<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent21\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; I was blessed with a mother who was a school teacher, who, at a very young age,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent22\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">made sure that we understood how important it was to pronounce words correctly.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent23\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">And, this non-regional dialect.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Yep.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent24\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; So, this ambiguous dialect, it&#8217;s the same dialect I&#8217;ve always had because of her.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent25\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; That&#8217;s great, yeah.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Well, it&#8217;s helped professionally.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent26\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Now, when you&#8217;re preparing for the camera, how do you prepare a text?<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent27\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; It depends on the story. Um, and if there are words in the copy<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent28\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">that might prove themselves difficult,<br \/>&gt;&gt; Yeah?<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent29\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; I&#8217;ll go over it three times. Three times is generally my rule, for each script.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent30\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Read it aloud, three times. Um, because sometimes when you read something,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent31\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it may not seem very complicated. But when you say it out loud,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent32\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">you realize, oh, I&#8217;m going to trip up over this word.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent33\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Right. So you read it out loud when you&#8217;re practicing.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Yes, three times.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Okay.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent34\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Unless we&#8217;re pressed for time. If there&#8217;s breaking news, then it&#8217;s a dice roll.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent35\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Mr. Melvin used the idiom &#8216;dice roll&#8217;, also used as, roll the dice.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent36\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">This means to do something even if you&#8217;re not certain of the outcome, to take a chance.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent37\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">To have to read a text for the first time on air is definitely a dice roll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent38\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; If there&#8217;s breaking news, then it&#8217;s a dice roll.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent39\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; What is a word that you, sort of, shy away from?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent40\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Are there any words in American English that you still find difficult to pronounce?<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent41\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Oo. That&#8217;s a really good question. Yes. There are a couple.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent42\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Um, there&#8217;s one that I struggle with, regularly.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Is it &#8216;regularly&#8217;?<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent43\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; &#8216;Regularly&#8217; is one. If I see &#8216;regularly&#8217;, I frequently change it to &#8216;frequently&#8217;.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent44\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; So you change it!<br \/>&gt;&gt; Oh yeah. All the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent45\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&#8216;Regularly&#8217;. This is a tough word. It&#8217;s a four-syllable word with stress<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent46\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">on the first syllable. DA-da-da-da. Let&#8217;s practice just a few times slowed down.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent47\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Reg-u-lar-ly, regularly. Regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent48\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; So, and I also struggle with, and there&#8217;s no synonym for this one: rural.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent49\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Rural. I get questions about that.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Rural. R-U-R-A-L. It&#8217;s very difficult.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent50\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Rural.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Now, I&#8217;m noticing a pattern. With &#8216;regularly&#8217; and &#8216;rural&#8217;,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent51\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I think you&#8217;re having issues with R&#8217;s and L&#8217;s maybe.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Yes. I have always<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent52\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">struggled with the R.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Uh-huh.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent53\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; And I don&#8217;t know why. Can you help me?<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent54\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; I can.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Rrr-.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent55\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Rural. Another really tough word! Let&#8217;s practice it slowed down. Rur-al. Rur-al.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent56\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; What&#8217;s your favorite word in American English?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent57\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">And, maybe, why?<br \/>&gt;&gt; Oo. My favorite word?<br \/>&gt;&gt; Yeah.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent58\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Oh, that&#8217;s a good one. Favorite word. I&#8212;there are a couple that I enjoy.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent59\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Let&#8217;s hear them.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Now some of these are just crutch words that I use.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent60\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Uh, cool. &#8216;Cool&#8217; is a crutch word.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Yeah.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent61\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; But I&#8212;because &#8216;cool&#8217; is one of those words it can be a noun,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent62\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it can be an adjective, you can say &#8216;Cool!&#8217; or &#8216;eh, cool.&#8217;<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent63\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Right. Yeah, yeah.<br \/>&gt;&gt; You know? It&#8217;s a multi-purpose word.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Yeah.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent64\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; So I enjoy &#8216;cool&#8217;. And another word that I&#8217;ve always\u2026well, that&#8217;s a proper noun.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent65\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;s not really a word, it&#8217;s a name.<br \/>&gt;&gt; It still counts.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent66\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Betty Jo.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Betty Jo.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent67\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Betty Jo. &gt;&gt; Who&#8217;s this?<br \/>&gt;&gt; That&#8217;s my mother.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Ok.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent68\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Betty Jo. Notice that we have a double T there. But, it represents one sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent69\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and that&#8217;s the Flap T, because it&#8217;s not starting a stressed syllable,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent70\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and there&#8217;s a vowel before and a vowel after. Betty, Betty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent71\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Her name&#8217;s Betty. Um, why am I telling this story on the internet? Her name&#8217;s Betty,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent72\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and, again, from South Carolina. When you grow up in South Carolina, it&#8217;s like Ella May,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent73\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Betty Jo. So, she grew up like a country girl, was Betty Jo. She grew up and she dropped<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent74\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the middle name. And I found out when I was, like,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent75\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">22-23.<br \/>&gt;&gt; Oh, so she was like &#8216;Just call me Betty&#8217;.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent76\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Right. And when I found out that it was really Betty Jo, I use &#8216;Betty Jo&#8217; sometimes<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent77\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">as, obviously my mother, Betty Jo, but sometimes, my brother and I, if we&#8217;re, like,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent78\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">just messing around, we&#8217;ll be like &#8220;That&#8217;s so Betty Jo.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent79\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Messing around. In this case, it means to play around, a relaxed<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent80\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">not serious interaction with someone. Notice Mr. Melvin made the NG an N sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent81\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">messin&#8217;, messin&#8217;, messin&#8217; around. Native speakers do this sometimes with -ing words.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent82\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Another common example, doin&#8217;. What are you doin&#8217;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent83\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Sometimes, if my brother and I, if we&#8217;re, like, just messing around,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent84\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">we&#8217;ll be like &#8220;That&#8217;s so Betty Jo.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent85\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; I bet she loves that.<br \/>&gt;&gt; That was so inside baseball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent86\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&#8216;That&#8217;s so inside baseball&#8217;. I&#8217;d never heard this phrase before, I had to look it up.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent87\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So, thanks to Mr. Melvin for teaching me a new metaphor.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent88\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Basically, it means inside information that isn&#8217;t pertinent to the general public.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent89\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">In this case, information about Mr. Melvin&#8217;s family.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent90\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Inside baseball, DA-da-DA-da. Inside baseball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent91\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; So inside baseball. But those are the two.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent92\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Awesome. Well, Craig, thank you so much for joining us<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent93\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Thank you. I hope I did not bore your YouTube fans.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent94\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; I think they&#8217;ll love it.<br \/>&gt;&gt; This is a really cool thing you do.<\/span><br \/><span id=\"STtranscriptContent95\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Thank you.<br \/>&gt;&gt; See what I did there?<br \/>&gt;&gt; Cool!<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent96\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">He used the word &#8216;cool&#8217; in a sentence.<br \/>&gt;&gt; There you go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent97\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Follow Mr. Melvin on Twitter and check out his segments on TV<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent98\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">or online for a great example of American English pronunciation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent99\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&gt;&gt; Alright, guys, that&#8217;s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel&#8217;s English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent100\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Special thanks to Patrick of Patrick JMT who manned the camera for this shoot.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent101\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Check out his YouTube channel for excellent math tutorials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"STtranscriptContent102\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Check out all the videos in the Interview a Broadcaster series by clicking here,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent103\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">or on the link in the video description below.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"video\"><\/a><strong>Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-173783-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/07f1c47b71c75472a3cc-b7eea9689205a6672fd1aa00be922d89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/312%20-%20CRAIG%20MELVIN%20--%20Interview%20a%20Broadcaster%20--%20American%20English%20Pronunciation.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/07f1c47b71c75472a3cc-b7eea9689205a6672fd1aa00be922d89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/312%20-%20CRAIG%20MELVIN%20--%20Interview%20a%20Broadcaster%20--%20American%20English%20Pronunciation.mp4\">https:\/\/07f1c47b71c75472a3cc-b7eea9689205a6672fd1aa00be922d89.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com\/312%20-%20CRAIG%20MELVIN%20--%20Interview%20a%20Broadcaster%20--%20American%20English%20Pronunciation.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study conversational English in this interview with NBC Broadcaster Craig Melvin.\u00a0 See how even professionals use reductions and contractions all the time, and learn some new vocabulary and idioms. 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