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Today is the fourth video where we're using  the Friends new year's episode from season  

one to study English. They made a pact.  They broke the pact and now, we get to  

see them at the stroke of midnight. We're going  to study this scene and everything we can about  

American English pronunciation to figure out  what makes American English sound American.  

I make new videos every Tuesday to help you  speak faster and more natural English. You'll  

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First, our scene. In twenty seconds, it'll be midnight. 

And the moment of joy is upon us. Looks like that no date pact thing worked out.

Happy New Year! You know, I, uh, just thought I'd throw  

this out here, I'm no math whiz but I do believe  there are three girls and three guys right here. 

Oh, I don't feel like kissing anyone tonight. I can't kiss anyone. 

No. No. No. You can't kiss  Ross, that's your brother. 

Oh perfect, perfect. So now  everybody's getting kissed but me? 

Alright, somebody kiss me.  Somebody kiss me, it's midnight!

And now, the analysis. In twenty seconds, it'll  be midnight. So the first voice that we hear is  

Dick Clark on the television. He's doing  the countdown party from Times Square.  

And it's part of the tradition of the New  Year that you kiss somebody on the stroke of  

midnight. Is it the same way in your country?

So he puts a break here, breaking up this sentence  into two thought groups, and I'm going to go ahead  

We have stress on the first syllable of twenty,  and also on the first syllable of seconds. Um  

in twenty, I would say here it dips down and up.  In twenty seconds, and then on seconds, it does  

the scoop up and then down. Now we have a couple  interesting pronunciation things happening here.  

The word twenty, it's really common to drop the T.  That's because it comes after an N. And when the T  

comes after an N, that's a case where it might get  dropped. And in the word twenty, I would say it's  

You can definitely say it with a true T. Twenty.  

But that's way less common than just dropping the  T completely, twenty. Now on the word seconds,  

we have the EH as in bed vowel in our  stressed syllable. We have the schwa  

in our second syllable. Seconds, seconds,  seconds, and do you notice that D is dropped?  

Why? Well the D comes after an N, so when D  comes after an N, and before another consonant,  

here it's the weak ending Z sound, that's another  case where we'll probably drop the consonant,  

in this case, the D, so the N before T and D  can mean they're dropped. Almost always we'll  

drop the D between N and another consonant.  Seconds. Ndz, ndz, ndz, right from N into Z.

In twenty seconds, smoothly linked together,  

change in pitch happens without jumps. In  twenty seconds, try to do it that smoothly. 

It'll be midnight. It'll be mid-- going up to  that peak of stress on mid, midnight. And then  

the pitch comes back down. It'll be, 'it will'  becomes it'll, so it's the IH as in sit vowel,  

the apostrophe L, I would write that  schwa L, and the letter T is a flap  

between two vowel sounds. So here, it's between  two vowel sounds so that's a flap. In IPA,  

I write that with the D sound between vowels  but just know, it's a flap. It'll be midnight.    

Again smoothly connected, and the pitch  changes without abrupt stops or skips,  

uhhhh-- it'll be midnight. Midnight and we  have a stop T at the end of that thought group,  

which is a common pronunciation at the end of  a thought group, or when the next word begins  

with a consonant. Let's talk really quickly about  the D sound, it's not fully pronounced, it's not  

mid, midnight, dd-- but it's midnight, so  we put the tongue in position for the D,  

we vibrate the vocal chords, but then  we don't release dd-- an escape of air,  

we just go right into the next sound of the  N consonant. Midnight, midnight.

So Chandler, always the jokester, and the  moment of joy, sort of skips his pronunciation  

a little bit, but even though we have these big  changes, and the-- it's not and the, and the--  

The voice still carries. And the moment of--

  And the-- Do you notice the D is dropped? Look  

at that. After an N, before another consonant,  it's really common to drop the D in the word and.

even though he's making it stress. And,  he's making it longer, he still drops the D.  

It's the AA vowel plus N. Now when we have that  sequence. When you look it up in a dictionary,  

this is what it will say: aa, an, an, an, but  that's not how we actually pronounce it. The back  

of the tongue relaxes, so whenever AA is followed  by N or M, it's not pure. Aauhh-- We have an  

UH vowel, you can think of it as the schwa, or  the UH as in butter. Aauhh-- Aauhh-- and, and,  

so it's not pure, an-- back of the tongue relaxes.  And the-- now he takes the word the, and he puts  

the EE vowel. That's not usual, the rule is when  the next word begins with a consonant sound,  

you make it the schwa. You would make it EE if  the next word began with a vowel or diphthong,  

but in this case, he doesn't do it  that way. He pronounces it 'the'.

Moment of joy is upon us.  So we have a peak on moment,  

moment of joy is upon us. As well as another  peak on the stressed syllable of 'upon'.

Moment of-- hold on, moment of, moment of, what?  That T is dropped. Look guys, it comes after an N.  

Just like in twenty. Moment of, moment of, the  next word, the word of, begins with a vowel  

sound. So the T between two consonants we drop  that a lot. But with N, T, vowel or diphthong,  

we also might drop that. Like in the word  internet, center, twenty, or when we're linking  

into a word. Moment of. Lots of different  cases where we change our T pronunciations.  

And we're going to have some videos where  we study that in February and March of 2021.  

So keep your eyes out for those, lots  of good videos coming early next year.

mo-- it's the OH diphthong you do need a little  bit of lip rounding for that. Moment of joy, joy,  

that's the OY diphthong, need a little lip  rounding for that too. Everything links together  

really smoothly. There are no skips or breaks.

Oy is-- joy is-- these two words linked together,  

joy is-- IH smoothly right into IH, joy is, the  S in 'is' is a weak Z sound, but it links into  

upon, uh, uh, uh, uh, the first vowel there, the  schwa, is a, is a, is a, is a, is upon us. Upon  

us. Stressed syllable of pon-- you can think  of that as AH as in father or AW as in law.

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