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in this video series you will learn how
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to pronounce the 100 most common words
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in american english
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i got this idea when i saw a couple of
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other videos on this topic and i was
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horrified at what i saw
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in those videos people were teaching the
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full pronunciation of these words like
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that
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have
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to
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so many of the 100 most common words are
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function words and they reduce it's
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completely unnatural to fully pronounce
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each word in american english
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let me show you what i mean
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this sentence is four words and each one
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of these words is in the 100 most common
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words list
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this
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is
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for
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work
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that's the full pronunciation of each of
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these words
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and if that's all you learn about the
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pronunciation then this is how you would
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pronounce that sentence
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this is for work
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this is for work well i don't want any
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of my students thinking that that is the
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correct way to pronounce that sentence
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it's not it's not natural
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this is for work
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this is for work
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is and for are not fully pronounced
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rhythm in american english is extremely
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important for capturing the character of
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the language for understanding americans
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when they speak and for sounding natural
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and being easily understood when you
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speak
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some syllables are long and some are
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very very short
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this contrast is the rhythm of american
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english
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in order to make those short syllables
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really short some words in american
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english some of the most common words
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reduce
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this means a sound changes or is dropped
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and everybody studying english should
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know these let's take our sentence again
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and talk about the real pronunciation of
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it
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this is for work
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two words are longer
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this
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work
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and two words are shorter is
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for
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this is for work
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this
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is for
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work
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so it's not is
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but
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is
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and it's not
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for
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but
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for
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this is for work
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rhythmic contrast
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so as we go through the 100 most common
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words in american english here we're
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going to talk about rhythm and
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reductions at the same time to make sure
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that you're learning the correct
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pronunciation not the full pronunciation
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which is rarely used in most function
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words
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okay let's start at the beginning the
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number one most common word in american
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english is
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the
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in a sentence it will become
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the
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the
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very fast with a schwa this is when the
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next word begins with a consonant for
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example
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the most
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the
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the most
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it's usually pronounced with an e vowel
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if the next word begins with the vowel
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or diphthong for example
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the other
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the most important thing about the
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pronunciation of this word is that it
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should be said very quickly
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the cat
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it should never be the cat
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the cat
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always the cat
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the the
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very fast
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the next word is be
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and i assume this means the verb to be
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conjugated
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i am you are
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he is she is it is
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we are they are
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the important thing to know about these
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pronunciations is that they will almost
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always be said in contraction
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i am becomes i'm
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i'm i'm
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said very quickly i'm
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sometimes you'll even hear it as just
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the m sound
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i'm sorry i'm sorry
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this is a natural pronunciation
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you are
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your
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reduces to
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your
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super fast
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basically no vowel
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you're you're
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you're gonna be okay
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you're you're
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very fast
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he is becomes
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he's
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he's
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she is is she's
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she's
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it is
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it's
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it's it's
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sometimes we reduce this even further we
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change a sound we drop the vowel
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we say just ts
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it's cool
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it's awesome
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have you ever heard that
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it's cool
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it's raining
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it's a common reduction
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we are
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we're
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becomes
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we're
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we're running late
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we're
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very fast
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they are
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there
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becomes
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very fast the vowel changes
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the
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they're okay
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word number three
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two
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almost never pronounced this way
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two we use a reduction the vowel changes
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to the schwa
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said very quickly and sometimes the true
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t at the beginning changes to more of a
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d sound or a flap t
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let's go to the beach
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go to the goda
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goda
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how is two being pronounced there
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a flap of the tongue and the schwa
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said very quickly goda
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go to the beach
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it's nothing like
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tu
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is it
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of
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again we don't fully pronounce this word
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it's not
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of it's
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of
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schwa
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very light v said very quickly and
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actually you'll often hear this word
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without the v then it's just the schwa
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and we pronounce it this way in phrases
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like kind of and
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sort of
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kinda
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sorta
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for example i'm kinda tired
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kinda kinda
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schwa
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very fast
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kinda
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okay we're only four words in but let's
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review
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i'm going to put up a sentence
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look at it
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find the reduction
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and then say the sentence with the
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reduction say that reduction very
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quickly here's one sentence
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i am remember becomes
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i'm
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how quickly can you make that first word
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i'm running late
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i'm running late try it is just the m
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sound
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i'm running
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i'm running
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i'm running late
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sorry guys i'm running late
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so natural
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when you learn the reductions in
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american english and you start to really
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use them in your speech you gain a
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native feeling
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also understanding americans becomes
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easier because you can start to identify
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the reductions
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one more for you to try out loud right
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now
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i want you to try reducing the word to
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look at it think about it
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now try it out loud
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i know how to do it
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how to how to
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i'm making that with the flap t and the
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schwa are you
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try it again
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howda
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i know how to do it
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all right we'll keep going with number
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five
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and
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and another word that we rarely fully
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pronounce there are a couple of
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different ways to reduce this we'll
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start with the full pronunciation and
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we'll reduce from there
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a vowel followed by n consonant
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the tongue is lifted in the back for a
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ah
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then relaxes before the end
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so it's not a pure a
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the first reduction is just dropping the
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d
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and
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an
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and i think it'll be okay
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and and i and i
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no d just the n into the next word
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and i think it'll be okay
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another reduction more common is just to
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say the n sound
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and i think it'll be okay
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just straight from the end into the next
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word
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nai
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and i think it'll be okay
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cookies and cream
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salt and pepper
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black and white up and down left and
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right
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all of these i'm just making a quick n
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sound linking the two words
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up and down
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number six okay we're actually going to
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do 6 and 32 together because they're
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related
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they're the articles a and
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an
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now we don't say a and and we say
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and
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schwa
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very fast very little movement of the
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mouth
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a coffee
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an example an an
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number seven
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in
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we don't drop or change a sound here we
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don't reduce but it is still unstressed
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this mean it should be really short less
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clear
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instead of saying
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in
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we would say
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in
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he's in love in
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she's in a hurry
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in in
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so be careful that it's not
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in
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that sounds stressed it's
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in
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number eight
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that
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you know what i realize i already have a
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video for a lot of these reductions i
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have a video on the pronunciation of
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that and how we really pronounce it in a
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sentence
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so i'll give a brief description here
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but i'll also link to that and other
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related reduction videos in the video
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description
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that is a word that can be used lots of
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different ways in american english and
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in some cases in many cases we reduce
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the vowel from
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a
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to the schwa so
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that becomes
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the
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now the ending t the pronunciation of
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that sound depends on the beginning of
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the next word
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if the next word begins with a vowel or
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diphthong it's a flap t
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that i
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that did if the next word begins with a
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consonant then it's a stop t
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that she that that
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that she
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i know it's a little confusing check out
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my video on the word that for a longer
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explanation and more examples but just
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note that we often don't pronounce this
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word
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that we often reduce it so it has the
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schwa
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number nine
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the verb have
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just like the verb be
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this will often be used as a contraction
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in spoken english which is already a
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reduction
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we're already changing sounds for that
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i have becomes i've
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i've i've i've
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i've been wanting to see that i've i've
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you have becomes you've
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he has becomes
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he's
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he's he's
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you've
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he's been waiting
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he's
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here's something interesting the
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pronunciation of the has contraction
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with he and she
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it's pronounced as a z
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he's he's been he's been she's she's
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she's
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but with it
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it's
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it's been raining then it's an s sound
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it's
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he's
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z
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it's
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s
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we have becomes weave
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we've we've
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and they have becomes they've
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which sounds like
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they've
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when it's unstressed
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number 10 the pronoun i
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usually said very quickly it's not i
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but
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i
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i think so i i i think i
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if you're speaking really quickly you
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can maybe even get away with something
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more like ah
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rather than i
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i think so
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i think so
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when it said so quickly you can't really
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tell if i'm doing the full diphthong i
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or not
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wow okay we just did the 10 most common
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words in english and none of them are
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fully pronounced
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they're all words that are unstressed or
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reduce
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interesting
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keep your eyes out
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that's an idiom that means to look for
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something we expect it will be coming in
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the future so keep your eyes out for
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future videos in this series where we'll
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go over the rest of the words on this
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list here's the playlist and as i create
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new videos i will add them there
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when will we find our first stressed
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word in the 100 most common words of
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american english
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we'll have to find out
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that's it and thanks so much for using
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rachel's english
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