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  • >> Hey guys. It’s fall, and I’m here with my friend Laura.

  • >> Hey! >> Youve probably seen some of our other

  • baking videos. Every fall, I come up to Massachusetts, where Laura lives, and we make a variety of

  • things. One year we made a pumpkin pie, which were making this year, but not in the video.

  • But this year, were going to focus on apple dumplings. Not apple fritters. So, if you

  • want to learn how to make apple dumplings, you should probably look it up because this

  • is not really a recipe video. But this is a real life English video where you get to

  • study English conversation happening as it actually does.

  • >> So, youre going to do the apples? >> Yep.

  • >> Okay. I’ll make the pastry.

  • As always, there are lots of reductions to study in American English. Did you notice

  • gonna’? This is how Americans pronouncegoing tomuch of the time. Listen again.

  • >> So, youre going to do the apples? [3x] >> Yep.

  • >> Okay. I’ll make the pastry.

  • I used this reduction with another reduction, yer. Theyou arecontraction, youre,

  • is reduced this way in a sentence. Yer. Yer gonna. Repeat that. Yer gonna, yer gonna.

  • Let’s hear it again.

  • >> So, youre going to do the apples? [3x] >> Yep.

  • >> Okay. I’ll make the pastry.

  • The ‘I willcontraction, I’ll, is often reduced. Then it sounds more likeall’,

  • all. I’ll make. Repeat that with me. I’ll, I’ll make. Listen again.

  • >> I’ll make the pastry. [3x]

  • >> Wait. Is this a cup? >> Yes. It is.

  • >> You sure? >> Yep.

  • >> Okay.

  • >> I’m using this one, just… >> Wait. Just let me see them.

  • A couple of things to notice about this sentence: The T in the wordjustwas dropped.

  • We often drop the T when it comes between two consonants, as it does here. Juss-let,

  • juss-let. Next, ‘let mebecamelemme’. The T was totally dropped. The two wordslet

  • meare often pronounced together this way. Lemme see, lemme try. Repeat that with me.

  • Lemme, lemme, lemme see. And finally, the reduction ofthemtoum’. This

  • is another common reduction. Repeat that with me. Um, um. I have a video on this reduction.

  • See it by clicking here or in the description below. Let’s do the sentence slowly together:

  • Juss-lemme-see-um. [3x]. Listen again.

  • >> Just let me see them. [3x] >> Yeah, theyre the same.

  • Thethey arecontraction, theyre, can also be reduced. Rather than fully pronouncing

  • theyre’, it’s ‘thur’. The TH sound and the R sound. Thur. Try that. Thur,

  • theyre the same. Listen again.

  • >> Yeah, theyre the same. [3x] >> Okay?

  • >> I just feel more comfortable using the one that says it’s a cup.

  • >> Okay.

  • The wordcomfortablelooks like it should have four syllables, but most Americans pronounce

  • it with three. I pronounced it COMF-der-ble. I made a video on just this word already,

  • you can see it by clicking here or in the description below. COMF-der-ble. Listen again.

  • >> I just feel more comfortable [3x] using the one that says it’s a cup.

  • >> Okay.

  • >> Now Laura, for how many years did you train as a pastry chef?

  • >> Fifteen. >> Wow.

  • >> Yeah. >> That’s a lot of training.

  • >> Well, but, wait. Fifteen minus the fifteen years that I didn’t train.

  • >> Neither of us are professionals here. >> No.

  • >> I know it looks like we are with our methods.

  • Neither, neither, this word can be pronounced both ways. Sometimes people think one way

  • is British and one way is American, but either one sounds just fine in American English.

  • >> Okay. Where is the new flour? >> In the bag.

  • >> I had a fan write in and tell me that I don’t follow the rules for the pronunciation

  • of the wordthe’. >> Oh really? What are the rules?

  • >> Well, and I noticed just then that I did not use it correctly.

  • The rule is, if the word afterthebegins with a consonant sound, pronounce itthe’,

  • with the schwa vowel, uh, uh, the. If the word afterthebegins with a vowel or

  • diphthong, then pronounce itthe’, with the EE as in SHE vowel, ee, ee, the.

  • >> Um, the. It should be a schwa before, before a consonant. So, I said, “where’s the

  • new”, but I saidwhere’s theeee new”, and I saidtheee’, and youre really

  • only supposed to do that before vowels. But, since that person pointed it out, I noticed

  • that I do that quite a bit. >> So it’s not like it would be strange.

  • >> It’s not strange. Because no one has ever said, Rachel, shouldn’t that bethe’.

  • Like, no native speaker has ever noticed. >> Right. And I didn’t even think about

  • it when you just said it. >> No. No one thinks about it.

  • If you ever saythuhinstead ofthee’, people probably won’t notice. Also, make

  • sure to always keep this word short, whether it’s with the schwa or the EE vowel, the, the.

  • >> This is a very large bag of flour. Okay. Now, I’m just curious, how much of it can

  • I spill. I’m guessing quite a bit. >> We have a vacuum.

  • >> Okay. Oh, crap.

  • Crap. This is a word you can use when you mess something up. To mess something up is

  • an idiom meaning, to do something the wrong way, or to cause an outcome other than what

  • you intended. I turned left instead of right --- I messed up. ‘Crapis like a cuss

  • word, but less offensive. Still, you don’t want to use it in a professional setting,

  • and some people might be offended by it. I think it’s fine to use in a casual setting

  • among friends. Crap, crap. This is the less offensive version of the wordshit’.

  • >> Oh, crap. [3x]

  • >> What was the article in that Mark was reading about trans fats?

  • >> I don’t know. >> The Atlantic?

  • >> I don’t think so. He’s been on this kick for a while, so.

  • >> Oh, okay.

  • Let’s go back and study the phrase “I don’t know.” Notice how Laura dropped

  • the T altogether: I don’t know. I don’t know. In the phrase ‘I don’t think so’,

  • there was a little break in the sound beforethink’, I don’t think so, the sign

  • of a Stop T. But in ‘I don’t know’, there was no stop, no T at all. This is a

  • common pronunciation of this phrase. I don’t know. I don’t know. Listen again.

  • >> I don’t know [3x]. >> The Atlantic?

  • >> I don’t think so. He’s been on this kick for a while, so.

  • >> Oh, okay. >> I like how you just used the idiomto

  • be on a kick’.

  • The idiom to be on a kick means to be enthusiastic about something for a period of time. "I’m

  • on a yoga kick" means, I don’t typically do a lot of yoga, but recently I’ve

  • done it a lot and enjoy it. Or you could say, I’m on a salad kick. I’ve been eating

  • a lot of salad lately. Here, Mark is on a trans fat kick. He’s careful not to eat

  • trans fats. Listen again.

  • >> He’s been on this kick for a while, so. [3x]

  • >> Oh, okay.

  • >> Oh, whoops.

  • Before, I saidcrapwhen I messed up. Here, I saidwhoops’ , which, just like

  • oops’, is an exclamation for recognizing a mistake. This term is not offensive in any

  • way, and can be used in any context. Oh, whoops, with the same vowel asbookorcould’.

  • Whoops, whoops. Listen again.

  • >> Oh, whoops. [3x]

  • >> How’s it going, Laur? >> It’s going. Last half.

  • >> Nice.

  • >> And were done. Look at those beauties.

  • >> So Laura, youre working on the sauce?

  • Anotheryou areyer reduction. I dropped the NG sound and made an N sound on the end

  • ofworking’.

  • >> So Laura, youre working on the sauce? [3x]

  • Workin, working. Native speakers do this quite a bit, especially with the most common ING

  • verbs, but I do caution my students against overuse. Pronounce ING words with the NG sound

  • most of the time.

  • >> So Laura, youre working on the sauce? >> Yeah. It’s a syrup for the top of the

  • dumplings. >> Syrup.

  • >> A little butter in there. A lot of sugar.

  • >> So I’m rolling the pastry. And then well put an apple inside.

  • Another reduction of a contraction, we well. Well. Pronounce this aswulin a

  • sentence. It’s faster thanwell’. And we want an unstressed word like this to

  • be very fast, wul. Repeat that with me, wul, wul.

  • >> And then well put an apple [3x] inside. I’m … theyre not as pretty as theyre

  • supposed to be. But, I think the flavor will be just as good.

  • As you listen to the next section, listen for all the reductionsandtonn

  • oran’. No D sound. This is how we usually say this word in a sentence.

  • >> Cinnamon and sugar. Then an apple half. And then more cinnamon and sugar. And then

  • fold it up. It’s a little sticky.

  • >> It’s been a half hour.

  • It hasreduces toit’s’. How was it pronounced in that sentence?

  • >> It’s been a half hour. [3x]

  • Simply the TS cluster. Ts been, ts been. Repeat that with me. Ts been. Ts been a half hour.

  • It’s, that’s, and what’s, all reduce to the TS cluster. Check out the video I made

  • on this topic by clicking here or in the description below.

  • >> It’s been a half hour. Oh wow! >> Bubbling.

  • >> Oh my god. Those look good! I’ve never made this before. Wow. Yummy.

  • >> For real.

  • >> Sure smells good. Mm. It tastes just like apple pie.

  • >> Mm-hmm. >> Really good. Thanks guys. Alright, Laura!

  • Thank you so much for helping me make this video.

  • >> Youre welcome. >> And, until next year, with Laura, at our

  • baking weekend, that’s it guys, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.

>> Hey guys. It’s fall, and I’m here with my friend Laura.

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