And this summer, we're going to use those movies to learn English and study how to sound American.

Every video this summer is going to be a study English with movies video.

We'll pull scenes from the summer's hottest movies as well as favorite movies from years past.

It's amazing what we can discover by studying even a small bit of English dialogue.

We'll study how to understand movies, what makes Americans sound American, and of course,

any interesting vocabulary, phrasal `verbs, or idioms that come up in the scenes we study.

I call this kind of exercise a Ben Franklin exercise.

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Let's get started. First, the scene.

We need it to say, "Hello".

You're not hearing me.

It's not going to say-- Fix it.

Fix it? Yeah.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

In forty minutes? Fix it.

I can't.

Who's the person who can?

I'm the person who can, and I can't.

How bad are you saying?

It's pretty bad.

I don't know what that means.

It means the demo is more than likely going to crash.

You have to keep your voices down. Joel Pforzheimer is sitting out in the house.

Now the analysis.

We need it to say, "Hello".

What are our stressed words here? Our anchors in this sentence?

We need it to say, "Hello".

We need it to say, "Hello".

We need it to say, "Hello".

We need it to say, "Hello".

Need, say, our two verbs, and then the word 'hello'. We, it, and to, all a little bit lower in pitch, flatter,

it's the valleys compared to the mountains in this smoothly curved line of intonation.

We need it to say, "Hello".

We need it to say, "Hello".

We need it to say, "Hello".

Need it, the D comes between two vowels here, it's a flap linking those two words together.

And then we have an ending T and a beginning T. How's that pronounced?

Need it to-- need it to-- need it to--

Those two words link together with a single true T and as so often happens, the vowel in the word 'to'

reduces to the schwa, te, te.

We need it to say--

We need it to say--

We need it to say--

We need it to, we need it to. How does he pronounce the word 'hello'?

We need it to say, "Hello".

We need it to say, "Hello".

We need it to say, "Hello".

Hello , hello, really clearly, a schwa, an UH kind of sound rather than an EH kind of sound.

It can be pronounced either way, it is the unstressed syllable. He-he-hello or huh-huh-hello.

He does huh-huh-hello. Hello. Hello. So you have your choice there but when you're imitating him,

and try to do it the way he does it with the schwa, and don't forget this ends in an OH diphthong.

I find my students sometimes cut this off: hello oh-oh. Oh-oh-oh. A little bit more lip rounding.

"Hello".

You're not hearing me.

You're not hearing me. You're not hearing me. 'You're' and 'here', more stressed there.

Now 'you are', 'you're', or 'your' often gets reduced. It's said very quickly and it's pronounced: yer yer yer.

Flat in pitch. Now, he's not doing it flat in pitch. He's making it stressed but he's also sort of using

the reduced vowel. It's more like just the Y in the R sound, isn't it? So since it is stressed,

I would write that with the UR as in bird vowel. You're, you're not hearing me. How is the T pronounced?

You're not hearing me.

You're not hearing me.

You're not hearing me.

It's a stop T because the next word begins with a consonant. You're not hearing me.

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Back to the lesson.

You're not hearing me.

You're not hearing me.

You're not hearing me.

>> It's not going to say-- >> Fix it.

It's not going to say--

Now often we reduce 'going to' to 'gonna' he doesn't here, he stresses 'going', this is not what is going to

happen in the future, it's not-- 'It's' and 'not' lead up in pitch to that stressed syllable 'go', it's not going to say.

It's not going to say--

It's not going to say--

It's not going to say--

And again, we have a stop T in 'not' because the next word begins with a consonant.

The word 'to' is pronounced here as a flap T rather than a true T. Going to, going to, going to, going to, going to say.

So native speakers do this pretty frequently when the sound before is voiced and really frequently

when the sound before was a vowel or diphthong. Here, it's not a vowel or diphthong, it's the NG sound,

but that's a voiced consonant, and so he is making that more of a D sound or a flap T. It's not going to say--

It's not going to say--

It's not going to say--

>> It's not going to say-- >> Fix it.

And then Steve Jobs, the character playing Steve Jobs, cuts him off. Fix it.

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It's not going to say--

It's not going to say--

It's not going to say-- Fix it.

And then Steve Jobs, the character playing Steve Jobs, cuts him off. Fix it.

A two-word thought group, fix it, stress on the first syllable and the word 'it' just follows down in pitch,

following the line, the curve down from fix. Fix it. And a stop T.

Now, this time, it's a stop T because it's at the end of a thought group, and native speakers often do that.

Almost always, a T is a stop T when it's followed by a consonant, a word that begins the consonant,

when the T is not part of a cluster. But it's also very often a stop T at the end of a thought group. Fix it.

Fix it.

Fix it.

Fix it.

Notice Mr. Jobs holds on to the F consonant. Ffff. Puts more energy in it.

By exaggerating the beginning sound or holding on to the beginning sound of a word,

it makes the stress even more stressed. It's even more intense. Fix it.

Fix it.

Fix it.

Fix it.

Now, the letter X can be pronounced two different ways. It's either the KS cluster, unvoiced,

or the GZ cluster, voiced. How is it pronounced?

Fix it.

Fix it.

Fix it.

KS. In the word 'fix', it is the KS cluster, and that S sound links right into the IH vowel, very smooth. Fix it.

Fix it.

Fix it.

Fix it.

Now, we're getting a lot of energy in the voice. These two men do not see eye to eye on what's happening,

and Steve Jobs is used to having his way. The other character is feeling a little bit desperate,

I think, and his pitch is getting higher.

You're not hearing me.

It's not going to say-- Fix it.

You're not hearing me.

It's not going to say-- Fix it.

You're not hearing me.

It's not going to say-- Fix it.

You're not hearing me. You're not hearing me. It's not going to say-- Uuuhhh--

All of that is a higher pitch than just normal conversational English.

And I think this happens often in other languages as well when people are in a heated discussion,

a discussion with a lot of emotion, that the pitch can creep up and up.

So think about that and try to imitate that when you're working with the audio that goes with this lesson.

You're not hearing me.

It's not going to say-- Fix it.

You're not hearing me.

It's not going to say-- Fix it.

You're not hearing me.

It's not going to say-- Fix it.

Fix it? Yeah.

Fix it? Fix it? Okay, his F isn't as strong, he's not stressing it as much. Now he's going: fix it?

The intonation is different. Steve Jobs made it a statement. He was demanding it.

This guy is asking it as a question. You want me to fix it?

Fix it?

Fix it?

Fix it?

So two-word thought group. Totally different shape here. The one was a command the other is a questioning

of that command. Still a stop T. Still links together smoothly. Fix it?

Fix it?

Fix it?

Fix it? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Little up-down shape, a single word in a thought group, shape of stress. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love it. He is so casually throwing this out there. Yeah, I want you to fix it. He's not understanding what

would go into fixing it, and that fixing it is impossible. He is not accepting that as the outcome.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ha. Ha. Ha. In forty minutes?

Okay. So then the character has this great laugh. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Ha. Ha. Ha. In forty minutes?

Ha. Ha. Ha. In forty minutes?

Ha. Ha. Ha. In forty minutes?

In forty minutes? He can't believe it. He has an incredulous tone. It's not gonna happen.

In 40 minutes? For-- minutes? And then the pitch goes up at the end because again, it's a question.

He's saying: you want me to fix it in 40 minutes? I noticed the word 'in' which is unstressed,

was said really quickly and I didn't really hear the N. In forty? In forty? Do you hear it?

In forty minutes?

In forty minutes?

In forty minutes?

Not very clear. The T in 'forty' is a flap T, it does follow the rules that comes after an R

and before a vowel or diphthong. So we usually make that a flap T. Forty. Forty minutes?

In forty minutes?

In forty minutes?

In forty minutes? Fix it.

Fix it. Okay, we're giving another command. The intonation goes down. Fix it. At the end.

That is a statement. And again, a stop T.

Fix it. Fix it.

Fix it. I can't.

I can't.

I can't. Stress on the word 'can't' and he does release this into a true T.

If you've been watching many of my Ben Franklin analysis videos, then you know that

in the N apostrophe T contraction, we often don't release that into a true T. But here, he does. Very clear. I can't.

He is stressing that word. It is not possible.

I can't.

I can't.

I can't.

Who's the person who can?

What's the stress of Steve Jobs' next line?

Who's the person who can?

Who's the person who can?

Who's the person who can?

Who's the person who can? Who's, per--, can, more stressed. 'The' and 'who' less stressed,

lower in pitch, but still smoothly connected into the line. Who's the person who can?

Who's the person who can?

Who's the person who can?

Who's the person who can?

Can fix it. So if he had said: who's the person who can fix it? Then maybe he would have reduced 'can' but it's...

'Fix' and 'it' are not in the sentence here, they're implied, but 'can' is the only verb and so the vowel is not reduced.

It remains the AA as in bat vowel. Can. When that's followed by N, we add an extra sound, sort of

like the schwa, the UH as in butter vowel, before the N. It's the back of the tongue relaxing. Can. Can.

Who's the person who can?

Who's the person who can?

Who's the person who can?

I'm the person who can.

I'm the person who can.

They're doing a lot of talking over each other, aren't they? One person is not finishing before the next person starts.

And how does he stress this sentence?

I'm the person who can.

I'm the person who can.

I'm the person who can.

I'm the person who can. 'I'm' is often not stressed but here, it's the important part of the sentence.

I'm the person who can.

I'm the person who can.