Name: ENGLISH CONVERSATION: In-Depth Conversation Analysis｜Rachel's English (Rachel's English) (ENGLISH CONVERSATION: In-Depth Conversation Analysis | Rachel’s English)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:50:36.000Z
Duration: 23 min 55 s
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You've told me one of your favorite  exercises is a Ben Franklin exercise,

where we study everything about  American English pronunciation,

to help you improve your listening comprehension and understand how to sound more American.

So today, we're going to do a Ben Franklin exercise on a monologue about going out to dinner.

First, we'll listen to the full monologue,  then there will be an in-depth analysis after that.

You study everything about stress,  reductions, and linking.

There will be a listen and repeat section.

This is where you get to practice out loud  and see if you can imitate what I've done.

Tonight, David and I are going out to  dinner with two friends, a double-date.

We both got sitters and we got a  reservation at Park at six forty-five.

They have the best French onion soup I've ever had.

I don't know how long it takes them to  make it, but it's worth every minute.

It's going to be so great to enjoy a nice  meal catching up with these friends.

Tonight David and I are going out to  dinner with two friends, a double date.

Tonight David and I are going out to dinner.

I stress that, the time, when this was gonna happen.

David and I, a little bit longer, going out to  dinner, go, a little bit longer,

din, a little bit longer, with two friends, two, I stressed that, I bring the pitch of my voice up,

two friends, friends, a little bit longer.

Tonight David and I are going out to  dinner with two friends.

And the rest of the words are said pretty quickly.

Please notice the word 'tonight' is  pronounced with a schwa in the first syllable.

So many people pronounce that: to-- tonight, today, tomorrow, but they're all: te, te, just the T and the schwa.

The second T is a stop T because it's followed by a word that begins with a consonant, that would be David.

Now whenever we have two things that were putting together with 'and', it's very common

to reduce the word 'and' which I did, I  changed, the vowel to the schwa and we drop the D.

And then the N links right into the next  word which is the AI as in buy diphthong.

I'm going to put a little bit more length on 'out' as well.

So here we have two Ts and I combined  those with just one true T.

We use the schwa instead of the OO  vowel so it's not 'to' it's 'te'.

Are going out to dinner with two friends.

Now here, TWO is pronounced with the  OO vowel and this word never reduces,

unlike this word which is pronounced with the OO vowel, which almost always reduces.

So it's actually the schwa instead of the OO vowel.

So we have the word 'a' with a schwa, a, a, a double date.

And in this thought group, these three words are very linked together.

We have an unstressed syllable, then a stressed syllable, then an unstressed syllable, and a stressed syllable.

Both and sit are the most stressed word there.

that's short for a babysitter, someone to watch our kids.

Because the next word begins with a consonant.

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