{"id":298653,"date":"2024-05-14T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/?p=298653"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:57:21","slug":"american-english-accent-training-how-to-improve-your-english-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/american-english-accent-training-how-to-improve-your-english-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf0e American English Accent Training \ud83c\udf0eHow To Improve Your English Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this video I\u2019ll take a clip from a TV show and teach you how to use it as a full accent training lesson. You\u2019ll learn about reductions, placement and pitch: all the keys to speaking English more naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"entry-tags\">Tagged With: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/improve-your-english-speaking\/\" rel=\"tag\">Improve your English speaking<\/a><\/span> \u00a0 <strong>YouTube blocked? <\/strong><a href=\"#video\">Click here to see the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=onPxfu730KM\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"\ud83c\udf0e American English Accent Training \ud83c\udf0eHow To Improve Your English Speaking\" title=\"Play video &quot;\ud83c\udf0e American English Accent Training \ud83c\udf0eHow To Improve Your English Speaking&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=onPxfu730KM<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=onPxfu730KM\" title=\"\ud83c\udf0e American English Accent Training \ud83c\udf0eHow To Improve Your English Speaking\">\ud83c\udf0e American English Accent Training \ud83c\udf0eHow To Improve Your English Speaking (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=onPxfu730KM)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What\u2019s the second Sunday of every May in the US? Mother\u2019s day.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her birthday is the second weekend in May.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That\u2019s uh, Mother\u2019s day honey.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Today we\u2019re going to take this scene and we\u2019re going to study it for every detail of the American Accent. When we do full analyses like this, my students\u2019 listening skills skyrocket.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I\u2019m Rachel, and I\u2019ve been teaching the American accent on YouTube for over 15 years. Visit RachelsEnglish.com\/free to get my free course, the Top 3 ways to master the American Accent.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is the scene we\u2019ll study. This first time through, there is no closed captioning. How much can you understand?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Now for the analysis. Also, what TV show should I do this kind of an exercise with next? Let me know in the comments below.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kids, just came in to remind you to keep Saturday open.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kids, kids. He comes in, his pitch is a little bit high. Kids, kids. To me his throat seems kind of narrow, that&#8217;s how he gets that kind of sound kids, kids, kids. We&#8217;ve got the scoop down and up up, that&#8217;s what lets us know that he&#8217;s going to say more. That&#8217;s the intonation that says I&#8217;m not done it&#8217;s different than kids which is a little bit more of a statement. This is a little bit more of a continuation kind of intonation. Kids.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kids,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kids, just came in to remind you to keep Saturday open.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Oops we forgot the word in here didn&#8217;t we let&#8217;s write that in. Just came in and that&#8217;s got stress on it, just came in to remind you to keep Saturday open. So some stress on keep, keep and then Sat, definitely stress on the day of the week, Saturday open. So all of our stressed words are a little bit longer and have a change of pitch on their stressed syllable. Sa, it goes up a little bit and then down, Sat, Saturday open. I actually should have drawn the up down shape here because it&#8217;s the first syllable that&#8217;s stressed. But we want to think about this pitch change as being very smooth and we want to think about connecting each word.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Just came in to remind you to keep Saturday open.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That smoothness and linking is an important part of the American accent. So how do we get things so smooth? Let&#8217;s look at our linking.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Just came in to remind you\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Just came in. Just came in. So all of that just came as part of our rising intonation and notice the t is gone. Just came, just, just. I&#8217;m going to write this with the schwa, just, just, uh uh uh uh uh said very fast, very quickly and the t is dropped because it comes between two consonants and that&#8217;s really common. Just, first, last, all of these St cluster ending words linking into a consonant often has the t gone. Just came, just came, just came.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Just came in\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to remind you\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Just came in, just came in. So the word into is pronounced indu in regular English conversation quite a bit in conversational English, that&#8217;s the I as in Sit n and then in [flap] a D sound in the schwa. So in to becomes inda, inda, inda, inda. Try that. Inda.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">just came into&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And it&#8217;s very fast. Inda, inda. Just came into. Just came in to. So have your peak of stress.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">just came in to\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I actually want to change the way I wrote this stress. Just came in, just came in to. Now that I&#8217;m really focusing on that I&#8217;m feeling it just came in, that the pitch change goes up then down. In to, just came in to.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Just came in to\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">remind you.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In to remind. Then we have up down shape of stress on mind<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In to remind. And again that is a stressed syllable, the first syllable unstressed. Remind, remind. Probably I would write that with a schwa but I could also see it being written with the ih vowel like in sit unstressed. Remind. Now let&#8217;s look at what&#8217;s happening with the D.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Remind you\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Remind you. So<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ending d and the word u. This is a special case where we often get a sound that sounds like J which we write an IPA with these two symbols, remind you ju ju ju. So d plus y, you&#8217;re sometimes going to get this J sound. This is also really common t plus y gets a CH like what you, what you doing? Remind you, remind you, remind you.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Remind you\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to keep Saturday open.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Remind you to. You to. So again just like in \u2018in to\u2019, the word to became du. That\u2019s happening here as well. Mind you to. Think of your tongue as just being a flap for that sound. Remind you to, remind you to.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We changed sounds into flaps we combine sounds, we make words very fast, this is part of that important linking in American English. Remind you to, remind you to, remind you to.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">remind you to\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Very smooth. Doesn&#8217;t sound that much like remind you to. Remind you to. Just one important syllable there and it&#8217;s mine.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Remind you to\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Keep Saturday open.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Remind you to keep Sa. So keep, this is a stop consonant and he doesn&#8217;t say keep Saturday. We don&#8217;t release the p and then make the S, we just stop the air for the P, keep Saturday and then we go right into the S sound. Keep Saturday, keep Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Keep Saturday\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So it&#8217;s not key Saturday, it&#8217;s not smooth. Keep Sa. But we have a little bit of a stop there for the P, for the Stop quality of the P consonant. Keep Saturday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">keep Saturday\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Saturday. Satur, this T is a flap T also flap T is so common and it&#8217;s part of this smoothness in American English. It&#8217;s different than Saturday, Satur, Satur, which has that crisp stop and release. By turning that into a flap T we get a smoother sound and we make a t a flap T between two vowels. Satur, Satur Saturday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Saturday\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Keep Saturday open. You&#8217;re going to want to link right from the a diphthong into the O diphthong. Smooth, no break, Saturday open. You can think of a y sound is helping you connect those two words. That&#8217;s going to give us the smoothness that we want.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Keep Saturday open.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Wow, we have only studied one sentence and we&#8217;ve already learned so much about linking and reducing and changing sounds, all to get that smooth characteristic of American English.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Keep Saturday open.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What&#8217;s Saturday?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What\u2019s Saturday? What Saturday? One peak of stress, it&#8217;s on Sa, everything else leads up to it smoothly, what&#8217;s Saturday, and then falls away from it. So smooth. Another flap T, Satur, Satur, don&#8217;t put a real full vowel in here, it&#8217;s just schwa R and R takes over schwa, Satur. So it&#8217;s from that flap right into the r sound and it can help you to think about holding out the sounds before and after a flap T that can sort of help you focus on smoothing that out. Satur, satur, what Saturday?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What Saturday?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I also notice we have ending s beginning s and he doesn&#8217;t say what&#8217;s Saturday? He doesn&#8217;t give us two S&#8217;s but it&#8217;s what Saturday, what Saturday. One S connecting these two words. What&#8217;s Saturday?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What&#8217;s Saturday?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What\u2019s Saturday? It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So he repeats the exact same phrase the exact same way. What\u2019s Saturday? Going up and peeking on Sa, What Saturday? Again, flap T, again, schwa R. Saturday. Again, one S to link. What Saturday? What Saturday? Try that. And both of them are making just a pure W sound, what\u2019s, there&#8217;s none of this little H release that can sometimes happen. What\u2019s. That&#8217;s a little bit old-fashioned, it&#8217;s much more common now to just say whu, whu instead of whu, whu, what\u2019s Saturday?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What\u2019s Saturday?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday. So there&#8217;s no break. The a from Saturday links right into the i from it&#8217;s. Saturday? It&#8217;s your mother\u2019s, one stress syllable there and then another one on bir, birthday. And everything smooth, smooth pitch change, smooth links.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What&#8217;s Saturday? It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So don&#8217;t put a break here if you&#8217;re going to be imitating this audio because he doesn&#8217;t. What\u2019s Saturday? It\u2019s. Again you might feel like you go through a y consonant to help you link Saturday it&#8217;s.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What&#8217;s Saturday? It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s. It&#8217;s your. Do you hear how the word your is not pronounced your but it&#8217;s reduced, it&#8217;s your. The vowel changes to the schwa which we&#8217;ve already said R takes over the schwa so you can just think of there as being two sounds Y and R, your, your. This is not a word that has a pitch change, it&#8217;s just a smooth little quick word that is part the whole line. It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We have two tricky sounds here. Two different th&#8217;s. The th in mother&#8217;s is vv, voiced, the th in birthday is f unvoiced. These symbols I&#8217;m using are the International Phonetic Alphabet and it&#8217;s a way of using symbols to write sounds that&#8217;s different from the symbols you use to write words.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So it&#8217;s worth familiarizing yourself with the symbols and the sounds of American English and I have some playlists on the International Phonetic Alphabet and American English so you can look those up.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A common replacement is to make a z muzes or a d mudes, try to just keep that th,th,th,th as a th tongue tip against the backs of the teeth. Also birthday, it&#8217;s pretty common to make that an S try not to do that. F, f, f, tongue tip through the teeth. And keep in mind the word \u2018birthday\u2019, we have first syllable stress and it&#8217;s all R, it&#8217;s the r vowel consonant combination so it&#8217;s not B it&#8217;s nothing like that, it&#8217;s straight to R, BR, so make sure your lips are having that R position, BR right after the B. Birthday, birthday.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Birthday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No. I love this, she holds it out. No. She&#8217;s got sort of an interesting intonation there. No.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her birthday is the second weekend in May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her. She holds out the word \u2018her\u2019 a little bit but I just want to point out that it&#8217;s the r sound that&#8217;s being held. Her. Again, it&#8217;s the r vowel constant combination just think of it as a single R sound it&#8217;s not her but her, right from H and R. Her.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">birthday is the second weekend in May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her birthday is the second weekend in May. So she says that pretty quickly but we still have our long syllables there. Birthday is the second weekend in May. And then one more little up down shape. So again, birthday, no vowel, just an R sound held out, birth, birthday, tongue tip has to come through for that unvoiced th. Birthday is the, linking a vowel to vowel in this case, a diphthong to vowel, it&#8217;s the a diphthong. Birthday is. Linking into the I vowel for is and you might think of a why to help you connect birthday is. Birthday is the. So is and the said quickly, no skip or breaks, just part of that same line. Birthday is the. Try that. Birthday is the.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">birthday is the\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">second weekend in May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Second weekend in. Second, so we have syllable stress on se. Second, second syllable very fast. K schwa ND, kund, kund, kund. Not Cond or conned or Coned. Second, second weekend in May.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Second weekend in May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Second weekend. I actually should have written that with a little bit of a up down shape on week. Weekend, weekend. It&#8217;s a little bit longer, a little stressed, second weekend in May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Second weekend in May.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The D in second is sometimes dropped especially when the next word begins with a consonant. I don&#8217;t really hear much of a d, you can think of it as being second weekend, you can, I think of the N just linking directly into the W.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Second weekend in May.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Weekend in May. Again, so smooth n right into M no break. Weekend in May.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">weekend in May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Depending on the consonant combinations in your own language, some of these links might be tricky but in American English we really want to practice on our links vowel to vowel, vowel to consonant, consonant to consonant. In May. In May.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Linking gets us smoothness and smoothness is the characteristic of American English.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in May.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s Day honey.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That\u2019s uh. That\u2019s uh. Okay, so we have up down shape of stress for that. That\u2019s uh, then we have the thinking vowel, in American English that&#8217;s the uh vowel like in butter like in us. That&#8217;s uh.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That&#8217;s uh,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mother&#8217;s Day honey.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mother&#8217;s Day. So in that two-word phrase that two-word concept, Mother&#8217;s Day, we&#8217;ve got stress on the first syllable. Mother&#8217;s Day honey.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mother&#8217;s Day honey.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In both of these cases the letter O makes the uh vowel like an us like in butter. Mother&#8217;s Day honey. Uh, uh.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mother&#8217;s day honey.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t think so.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yeah, this girl cracks me up. Okay, I don&#8217;t think so. One stressed word in that forward phrase so everything is leading up to it or falling away from it. I don&#8217;t think so. Let&#8217;s look at how we&#8217;re linking together for smoothness.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t think so.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t think. N apostrophe T, this is an interesting contraction. We&#8217;ve got several pronunciations of it in American English, they all have to do with changing the sounds for more smoothness. And here, we&#8217;re dropping the T sound all together. I don&#8217;t think. The N is linking right into that unvoiced th. Don&#8217;t think. There&#8217;s no stop, there&#8217;s no separation, there&#8217;s no tt, true T release. So it&#8217;s a nice smooth connection.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t think so.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t think so. A really, really, really light release of the K, I think as it transitions down into the s for so. Now keep in mind with the O diphthong, you are going to want a little bit of lip rounding, we don&#8217;t want so, we want so, so, some relaxed rounding in the lips.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t think so.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t think that this is the year.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t think this is the year. Okay, so let&#8217;s look at our stress. We definitely have year at the end. Year. I just don&#8217;t think that this is a. This is his own opinion so he&#8217;s stressing I and the rest of the words, wow, so fast, a little sloppy, so many th\u2019s in there, let&#8217;s look at this.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t think that this is the year\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The first thing, let&#8217;s look at the St ending of just, the next word begins with a consonant, now I&#8217;ve said in that case, it&#8217;s very often that we would drop the T. Let&#8217;s listen.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t. I just don&#8217;t. Yep, T is dropped. Also, the vowel in just hardly there, I would write that as a as a schwa. Just, just, just, just, just. So the whole word \u2018just\u2019 becomes just, just, just. So fast.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Let&#8217;s look at the N apostrophe T contraction.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Up here I felt that she dropped it completely. What do we think is happening here? It&#8217;s followed by the same word, so the same exact initial sound.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Okay it&#8217;s so fast it is hard to tell, but I&#8217;m going to say I think I&#8217;m hearing a little tiny lift, don&#8217;t think, don&#8217;t think, and that little tiny lift or break is another one of the ways we pronounce an apostrophe T, I just don&#8217;t think, don&#8217;t think, don&#8217;t think, so I&#8217;m going to write that as a little stop. Then we have, well let&#8217;s look at our K. Do we hear that?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t think that&#8212;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Not really. Think that. The n in the word think is actually the NG consonant which is written in the International Phonetic Alphabet with this symbol. Think that, think that, think that, think that, think that. I&#8217;m just really not hearing much of a K. I mean, I&#8217;m just going to put that in parenthesis.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don\u2019t think that\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don\u2019t think that this is the&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Think that this is the, think that this is the, think that this the. Think that this. So, stop T at the end of that, that this, that this, that this. It&#8217;s not t, but it&#8217;s also not the this, the this, the this. There&#8217;s just a little tiny lift. The this, the, the, the, the. You probably noticed I&#8217;m not saying the, I&#8217;m not saying the a vowel. The a vowel in that actually changes to the schwa. So many, so many sounds and words change to have schwa in them. So many sounds change to the schwa in reductions, that this, that this is the, that this is the, that this is the. So that this is the becomes that this is the, that this is the, that this is the. You have to really simplify your jaw movement, your tongue movement. All of these THs, that, this, the, they&#8217;re all the voiced th and they&#8217;re all beginning and unstressed word. This is a case where sort of special. The tongue tip does not have to come through the teeth but it can quickly press the backs of the teeth. That&#8217;s how we can say these faster. That this is the, that this is the, that this is the. Try that.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That this is the\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Notice there&#8217;s not a lot of volume in my voice. That this is the. There&#8217;s almost no pitch change. That this is the, because they&#8217;re all unstressed. I have more volume, I have more pitch change on year. That this is the, that this is the year. In fact, the four words that this is the take about as much time as the one word year. That this is the year.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That this is the year\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to be doing\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To be doing. He does a tiny little pause here, holds out his NG sound a little bit. To be doing, to be doing, to be doing. So the word \u2018to\u2019 pronounced with a true t, tt and the schwa. Tt, tt, tt, to be, to be, to be, and those are both flap.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To be doing\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They don&#8217;t have a big pitch change like year. To be, to be, to be doing. Then we have that pitch change on do. To be do and again to be doing all smoothly connected. To be doing.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to be doing\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The word doing has D consonant, u vowel and then the I as in Sit ng ending. Sometimes it&#8217;s hard for students to connect two vowel sounds like U and I and it helps to connect them by thinking of a quick glide consonant in this case it would be w. Doing. That can really help students smooth out those connections. Doing, doing.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Doing\u2014<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">something big.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To be doing something big. Something big, something. All kind of leading up to just the one stress word big something big. I as in sit vowel falling down in pitch at the end, unvoiced th. Something, something. Something big.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Something big.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It&#8217;s not something, some. It&#8217;s not stressed, it&#8217;s something, something. I would write that s schwa n. Some, some. Something big.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Something big.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To be doing something big. So we have two up down shapes of stress there. To be doing something big and everything is connected so smoothly.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to be doing something big\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I love this show. It is funny, I do recommend you check it out but for now let&#8217;s listen to this whole conversation one more time.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kids, just came in to remind you to keep Saturday open.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What\u2019s Saturday?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What&#8217;s Saturday? It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No. Her birthday is the second weekend in May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That&#8217;s uh, a Mother&#8217;s day honey.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t think so.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t think that this is the year to be doing something big.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Now let&#8217;s put in a little training for you. You&#8217;re going to hear each part of each phrase three times in a row, think about the analysis that we&#8217;ve just done, you&#8217;ll hear it three times. Each time you hear it there will be a pause for you to repeat it.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kids,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It will get easier, your mouth will start to relax around these sounds, it&#8217;s going to be amazing.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So do, do this out loud, don&#8217;t skip the training. It&#8217;s going to really help you learn how to simplify your mouth movements and link things together. Now, at first it may be incredibly hard and frustrating, stick with it, do this training part of the video twice today, twice tomorrow and for an entire week. It will get easier, your mouth will start to relax around these sounds, it&#8217;s going to be amazing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kids,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Just came in to&#8211;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">remind you to\u2014\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">keep Saturday open.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What&#8217;s Saturday?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her birthday is the&#8211;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">second weekend in May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That&#8217;s uh,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mother&#8217;s Day honey.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t think so.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t think that this is the year&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to be doing something big.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I love this show, it is funny. I do recommend you check it out. But for now let&#8217;s listen to this whole conversation one more time.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kids, just came in to remind you to keep Saturday open.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What\u2019s Saturday?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What&#8217;s Saturday? It&#8217;s your mother&#8217;s birthday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No. Her birthday is the second weekend in May.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That&#8217;s uh, a Mother&#8217;s Day honey.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t think so.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I just don&#8217;t think that this is the year to be doing something big.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">So much to learn in one scene. If you want to practice working with audio training for a video like this, check out my free course the top three ways to master the American accent at Rachels english.com\/free.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Keep your learning going now with this video and don&#8217;t forget to subscribe with notifications on I love being your English teacher and your American accent coach. 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