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We're studying English with  TV, and Ross is freaking out. 

Okay, so I'm going to be the only one  standing there alone when the ball drops? 

It's New Year's Eve and he doesn't have  a date. We're going to do an in-depth  

analysis of this scene from Friends to  study English and the characteristics  

of American English and the American  accent. Studying like this can help  

you increase your listening comprehension  and confidence speaking English. You'll get  

fast English. And we'll have fun talking about  the culture of New Year's in the United States  

as we go. I make new videos every Tuesday to  help you speak faster, more natural English,  

you'll even be watching TV without subtitles. If  you like this video or you learned something new,  

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We've already studied two scenes from this  episode where the six friends make a pact  

to spend New Year's eve together, no  dates. But that's not how it works out.  

Let's watch the full scene that we'll study today. Tell me something. What does the phrase  

'no date pact' mean to you? Look, I'm sorry, okay? It's  

just that Chandler, has somebody, and Phoebe  has somebody, I thought I'd asked Fun Bobby! 

Fun Bobby? Your ex-boyfriend, Fun Bobby? Yeah! 

Okay, so on our no date evening, three  of you now are going to have dates. 

Sorry! Paolo's catching an earlier flight. 

Oh, come on! We'll have, we'll have a big  party and no one will know who's with whom.

Ross is so upset he's talking over Rachel's  last phrase: who's with whom? Who's with who,  

who's with whom, which one do you use? When?  Don't worry, we'll go over when to use who and  

whom later in this video. In a moment, we'll do  the analysis. First, I want to make sure you know  

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the series and blow up your vocabulary  this January. Now, let's do that analysis.

Tell me something. Tell me  something. Stress on tell. Tell me something.  

And then some more on some as well. We have a  true T starting tell, that's because it starts  

a stressed syllable. This L is a dark L and you  do not need to lift your tongue tip there. The  

next sound is a consonant and Americans wouldn't  lift their tongue tip there. They would say tell,  

uhl, that's the dark L, it's made with the back  of the tongue, so not the tip. Leave the tip down.  

Tell me. Tell me. So right from that dark sound  into the M, with the lips closing. Tell me  

something. Something, something, first syllable  stress, and he doesn't say something. He says  

somethin, somethin, somethin, he changes the NG  sound to just an N sound. Somethin. This TH is an  

unvoiced TH and the tongue tip does have to come  through the teeth for that. Tell me something.

What does the phrase 'no date pact' mean to you?

What does the phrase 'no date pact'-- what  does the phrase-- so in the first part of  

this sentence we have most of our stress on  what. What does the phrase-- and then the  

other three words just come in on the downward  shape of that pitch. What does the phrase,  

what-- do you notice that's a stop T because  the next word begins with a consonant.  

What does the phrase did you learn that this word  is pronounced does? That's true when it's fully  

pronounced, but it's often reduced like here,  and here it's not does, but it's: dzz, dzz,  

and it links smoothly into the next word.  Does the, does the, does the, does the.   

So 'what' is stressed, it has more length and up  down shape. What does the, does the, does the.  

These two words are said more quickly and  they're flatter. What does the phrase,  

In the word 'phrase' the letter S makes the  Z sound. That's a weak sound at the end,  

so it's not phrase, but it's also not phrase,  

an S, it's got less air. Phrase,  phrase, phrase. What does the phrase--

No date pact. All of these words  have a bit of a stressed feel. No  

date pact mean to you? So he's making  this phrase clear. No date pact.  

A little bit almost of a lift between each  word: da da da, rather than no date pact,  

it's not that linked together. No  date pact. Making each word more clear.

Even though he is making it more clear  and separating the words a little bit,  

he does still make this a stop T. He doesn't  say no date pact, no date, he says no date--

Ending KT sound cluster, I'm trying  to decide if I think I hear the T,  

i'm not totally sure I think it is  probably weakly released. Date pact, pact.

three words mean has the most stress. Mean  to, mean to, the word to, it just comes in  

on the way down from the peak of  stress of mean. Mean to, mean to.

And it's reduced, isn't it? It's not to you,  but it's to you, to you. The vowel there  

changes to the schwa. To you. It is a true T.  That can be reduced as well, but here, it's not.  

Mean to you? You, you. A little  bit of that up down shape.

So a pact is a promise, but it's  almost even stronger than a promise.  

You're really committing to doing  something when you make a pact.

No date pact mean to you? Look, I'm sorry, okay?

Look, i'm sorry, the word look, said really  quickly, it's flat, it's not stressed. Look, look,  

look, look, look, you might not even recognize  that as the word look. You might also hear listen.  

Look, listen. Said at the beginning of a phrase  like this. She's probably already said that she's  

sorry, she's probably already apologized for this,  but he's really upset about it. So he's bringing  

up the fact that she made a pact here. It wasn't  just a minor commitment, she really committed.

I'm sorry, okay? Really smooth linking there. I'm  sorry, okay? No breaks, no skips in the voice,  

just smooth connection. The M linking right  into the S, ms, ms, I'm sorry. Sorry with the AH  

as in father vowel plus R. Make sure you  let your jaw drop and have some space before  

you make the R. So-- oh-- sor-- sorry. I'm  sorry, okay? The ending EE vowel, unstressed,  

links right into the OH diphthong with no break.  Sorry, okay? And then the pitch goes up again.

It's just that Chandler has somebody, and Phoebe  has somebody, I thought I'd ask Fun Bobby.

It's just that Chandler has somebody-- So her  pitch goes up here because she's listing things  

and when we list things, our pitch goes up at  the end of each one. Chandler has somebody,  

Phoebe has somebody, I thought I'd ask Fun Bobby.

So when we get here, I bet we'll  see that the intonation goes down.

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