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My name's Ethan and I'm in your real life English fluency coach.

This week I have a lesson with one of the TV series that is considered to be one of the best of all time.

That is breaking bad.

A lot of you have actually requested this particular scene.

It is very iconic where the main character waltz transforms from being an innocent high school teacher toe where we really see him as a criminal.

If you have not already seen the Siri's, this will be a great introduction that I really highly recommend that you watch it at some point.

And if you already know it, why not go back and revisit it to practice your English?

So you're going to learn a ton of great expressions today.

Let's jump into this lesson with breaking bad.

I've said it before.

If you are in danger, we go to the police so I don't want to hear about.

Please do not say that lightly.

I know what it could do to this family, but if it's the only real choice we have if It's either that or you getting shot when you open your front door warrior about You're not some hardened criminal, Walt.

You're in over your head.

That's what we tell them.

That's the truth is not the truth.

Of course it is.

A schoolteacher.

Cancer desperate for money.

We're done roped into working, unable to even quit.

You told me that yourself, Walt.

Just thinking.

Walt, please, Let's both of us stop trying to justify this whole thing and admit you're in danger.

Who were you talking to right now?

Who is it you think you see?

Do you know how much I make a year?

I mean, even if I told you you wouldn't believe it.

You know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work.

A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up disappears.

It ceases to exist without may Know you clearly.

I don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in.

I am not in danger, Skyler.

I am the danger.

Ah, guy opens his store and get shot.

You think out of me?

No.

I am the one who knocks.

Oh, Yeah, I hope you enjoyed that clip.

And now it's time to begin today's lesson.

Now I have a dynamite pronunciation tip.

I'm going to give you a quick lesson on the extremely common American native tendency to pronounce the word to as duck.

So, for example, in this two minute scene alone, we saw four examples of this.

Go ahead and watch.

Listen and repeat.

If you are in danger way we go to the police.

I know what it could do to this family.

I know what you do to this family.

I know what it could do to this family.

Let's both of us stop trying to justify this whole thing.

Stop trying to justify You know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?

Stop going into work.

Stop going into work.

So what's happening here?

First of all, natives and especially Americans tend to pronounce the t sound like a soft D which is called a flap or an American tea.

For example.

The word better and water are pronounced as better and water.

The general, but not complete rule is that the flap t happens when the T sound is surrounded by vow sounds and the previous syllable is stressed.

For example, the T sound and better and water has bell sounds on both sides of the tea, and both are stressed on the first syllable better and water.

This can also happen with a tea at the start or end of the word, and as we see in today's scene, it is very common for natives.

Pronounce, too, as a quick duck when preceded by a stressed vowel sound.

For example, go to the police natives pronounce as coated.

Police Police repeat after me Goethe, Goethe Due to this family natives pronounce as I know what it could do to this family do to this family.

Repeat after me duda duda.

But the final two examples completely break the oversimplified T between two vowel sounds.

Flap T roll.

In fact, the valve before the tea doesn't need to be a vow.

It is often in our n or l.

Listen, repeat the falling examples in which the flap T is preceded by an end sound.

Stop trying to justify natives pronounce as stop trying to justify Stop, Just repeat after me tryingto tryingto remember the I.

N.

G and words like trying and going are off to reduce to try and and go in and spoken English to stop going to work.

Name is pronounced as stop going into work going.

Repeat after me goingto going toe.

All right, I hope that powerful pronunciation tip opened your mind to American pronunciation.

And now let's jump into the vocabulary lesson.

If you are in danger, we go to the police.

I always you not say that lightly asks.

Say something lightly.

If you ask or say something lightly, you say it in a way that is not serious.

This is more commonly used in the negative, as in the case.

In this scene example, she told her ex to stop calling her, and obviously she didn't say that lightly.

If it's either that or you getting shot when you open your front door, you to shoot, get shot.

In this case, to shoot means to shoot a gun, which is conjugated as shoot shot shot in the past and past participle.

But to get shot is to be shot by the gun.

You're not some hardened criminal Walt hardened literally to become more hard, as opposed to become more soft But in this case, it's used to describe someone who no longer gets upset or shock.

Buy something because they've gotten used to experiencing bad things.

Hardened criminal is a common coal occassion, but this is also said as to become hard into something example.

As a police officer, he's become hard into a lot of things other people would find disturbing.

You are in over your head.

That's what we tell them to be or get in over your head.

To be or get involved in a situation that is too difficult for you literally to be in over your head is when things accumulate above the level of your height, such as the deep part of the pool.

Or in this picture, which communicates the literal and figurative meeting example.

I'm in over my head with this project.

I shouldn't have waited until the last minute to start it.

All right.

Now it's your turn to put it into practice.

So take a moment to press pause and comment below an example with the expression to be in over one's head.

We will correct many of your responses.

Take a moment to do that and then we'll jump back into the lesson.

A schoolteacher cancer desperate for money, were roped into working, unable to even quit rope someone into doing something to involuntarily persuade or trick someone into doing something literally.

To rope in is to tie something or somebody up.

As this guy is literally roped into playing with his wife and daughter, she is saying, Walter was wrote into or involuntarily persuaded into getting involved in criminal activities he otherwise would have stayed away from.

Example, my sister roped me into watching, breaking that to other similar and more common ways to express his meaning.

Our to talk someone into doing something to trick someone into doing something.

The verbs and those expressions, talk and trick, say, the way someone is persuaded into doing something rope as in to rope someone into doing something communicates persuasion in a bit more of a forceful way to be unable to do something be unable to do something is the negative form of be able to do something to be able usually equals can and to be unable usually equals can't as opposed to Cannes to be able to often communicates with more emphasis that someone has the freedom or opportunity to do something.

Example.

If you're able to finish work before nine, come have dinner with us.

We were unable to leave sooner Quit.

Two.

Stop doing something or to leave a job school career, etcetera.

Example.

When did you quit smoking?

You know how much I make you.

How much I make a year make is often used as a synonym of earn when talking about the amount of money you received for your work.

Example.

We made $1000 last week selling hot dogs, a business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes Belly up disappears.

It ceases to exist without me, a business that could be listed on the NASDAQ If something is listed somewhere, it is included in a list as a name number, et cetera, or, in this case, as a business name on the NASDAQ, a stock exchange market where the biggest companies in the world trade their stocks.

A business goes belly up.

When a company or business goes belly up, it can't produce enough money to keep existing.

The origin of this expression is that belly is another word for stomach, and when a fish dies, and flutes of the top of the fish tank with its belly up.

Other ways to say this are to go bankrupt and to go out of business.

Example.

My uncle's business almost went belly up during the recession to cease, to do something to stop, happening, to end.

Example.

If the business ceases to make money, it'll go belly up.

No, you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you, in clue someone in to give someone information so that they understand something example.

Anyone clue me in about the change of plans.

I am the one who knocks.

I am the one who knocks.

To knock in this case means to hit a surface and make a noise, often with your knuckles and to knock is how we notify somebody that were at their front door.

Wallace's responding to what his wife said at the beginning, fearing that somebody might knock at their front door and shoot them.

He's saying that he is the one they should fear if he knocks on their door.

I've said it before.

If you are in danger, we go to the police, so I don't want to hear about?

Please do not say that lightly.

I know what it could do to this family.

But if it's the only real choice we have, if it's either that or you getting shot when you open your front door warrior about you're not some hardened criminal, Walt, you're in over your head.

That's what we tell them.

That's the truth.

Is not the truth.

Of course it is a schoolteacher.

Cancer desperate for money.

We're done roped into working, unable to even quit.

You told me that yourself, Walt.

Just thinking.

Walt, please, Let's both of us stop trying to justify this whole thing and admit you're in danger.

Who were you talking to right now?

Who is it you think you see?

Do you know how much I make a year?

I mean, even if I told you you wouldn't believe it.

You know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work?

A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up disappears.

It ceases to exist without may Know you clearly I don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in.

I am not in danger, Skyler.

I am the danger.

Ah, guy opens his door and get shot.

You think that of me now?

I am the one who knocks Help!

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