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last night i was teaching a live class

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every month i teach a live class to the

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students in my academy where i work with

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a student one-on-one and as i was

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teaching last night i just had this

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moment where i thought

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it's really about the basics and the

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foundation so in today's video i'm going

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to go over two things that came up in my

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live class working with a student who is

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struggling and we're going to talk about

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how you can apply that to yourself to

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your own language learning

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to help you speak english with more ease

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the first student i worked with was

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alice her native language is chinese

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and she said that there had been

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something early on in my academy that

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she didn't really understand she didn't

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feel comfortable doing it so she moved

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on

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and i realized what she was talking

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about was

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breaking up a word or sentence into its

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rhythm

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and i can see how that can be confusing

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but

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by not really understanding what we mean

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by rhythmic contrast in american english

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and just moving on she was never going

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to be able to really capture that

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quality of american english

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in that course i have a little video

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where i talk about

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why you need to break something down and

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i tell the story of when i was trying to

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learn how to do a double under jump rope

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move at the gym

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this is when you jump rope but each time

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you jump you do two rotations of the

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rope now i thought this was impossible

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that was me failing in trying to do this

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thing i was putting in an incredible

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amount of effort and working too hard

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my feet weren't light enough

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the way i got to start to get the right

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feeling and rhythm and touch in my body

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was when i started jumping rope

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without the rope

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now i've been having my students speak

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english without words for years so it

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was exciting to discover success in a

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similar situation

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in the next few lessons you're going to

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focus on speaking english without words

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so i have these exercises and you'll see

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them on my youtube channel too where we

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talk about the stress of a word let's

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take the word probably for example

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it's a three syllable word with first

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syllable stress so instead of practicing

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probably and trying to think about which

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syllable is stressed and which are

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unstressed and then also all of those

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sounds which i know are tricky

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i break it down to just the stress so

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instead of practicing probably i have my

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students practice

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really long up down shape and then two

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little dots

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let's take the word chinese

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let's take the phrase i don't know

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let's take the phrase happy

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dada so these are all things anything

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that's spoken in english we can break

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down to just the rhythm on any syllable

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i've chosen d and ah or the schwa for

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but when a student comes along whose

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native language is

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stress timed but is syllable timed like

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chinese where every syllable is the same

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length it can be really hard to think in

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this way long short

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short long what so i'll have students

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that will come to me and they'll say

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let's take the word happy for example

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and i get the stress the one is higher

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the intonation is higher the pitch is

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higher but the length is too much the

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same happy

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in american english we want happy

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so the last syllable isn't e but it's e

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and so getting students to focus on this

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and to shorten up those unstressed

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syllables is really important because it

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brings in this very natural american

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so when i learned that alice was not

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comfortable with da da da da

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da da da and these rhythms but moved on

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i stopped her i said you need to go back

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and work on this foundation for about a

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week

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all right when it's a two-sible word we

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only have two options we have

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like chinese and we have data like silly

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so i would just let me just hear you say

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da chinese let me just hear you say

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those two things

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two syllables yeah

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uh first stress

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second stress like the word chinese

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yes exactly do it again

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right and now make the first one even

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shorter

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right and now connect them right now

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you're doing d da and the length is

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right but i want to hear

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da i want to hear them yes exactly do it

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yes again

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right and now you can go do all the two

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syllable words that are like that

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chinese

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too often we rush to get on to the next

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thing and as adults we put of we put a

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lot of pressure on ourselves as we learn

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i think to learn quickly to achieve it

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to be done with it

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and when we're doing something with our

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body that's brand new that's not

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something that we're learning with our

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head and that takes time

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so right now we're going to practice

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some rhythmic patterns together how

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comfortable are they

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please do practice out loud here of

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course you can watch it and understand

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but can you do it with your own body

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money

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dada

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classy

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now you'll hear the exact same thing you

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do it with me out loud money

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dada

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dinner

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dada

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now you'll hear the exact same thing you

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do it with me out loud

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da dada

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now you'll hear the exact same thing you

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do it with me out loud

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company

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now you'll hear the exact same thing you

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do it with me out loud

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africa

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recommend now you'll hear the exact same

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thing you do it with me out loud

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engineer

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recommend

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thinking about stress this way can

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really help when you're working with a

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longer word that's more difficult

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because focusing on the stress helps you

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figure out how to simplify things for

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example the word regularly that is a

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tricky word

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you'll early you'll early you'll early

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when you know that you can take those

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final three syllables and simplify them

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so that you can say them more quickly it

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will definitely help

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then i met with a student named grace

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grace has been living in the u.s for

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quite some time and

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she's from brazil her native language is

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portuguese and she's really done so well

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with so much of mastering american

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english but there were some things that

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were still difficult for her and the

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thing that i wrote down as she was

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speaking that i just noticed

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as a flashing light the biggest issue

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with her sounds was

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the r sound no surprise it's extremely

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tricky for lots of people

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with her she was putting in so much

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effort

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and it makes sense when we learn how to

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do something we use our brain we

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understand it and then we apply that

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idea to what we're doing we try we put

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in effort to make it happen

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and what was happening was as she did

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that it's hard to do that so quickly in

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a word or in a sentence as she did that

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it brought in more tension it made it

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harder so she put in more effort to try

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to get that r sound and her r ended up

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sounding like this

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more stuck in the throat

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not a clean forward american feel

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now with an adult speaker i do often

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describe what's happening show them

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what's happening with photos and videos

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so that they understand how to make a

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sound like the r sound where you can't

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see much because of the tongue position

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and the mouth position so with adults i

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do give this kind of information but

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then sometimes that means you try too

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much to use your head to make it happen

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so with grace i decided to do something

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that was mimicking more the way a child

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what we did is we said you've got to

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throw out everything you know brainwash

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yourself you know nothing about r you've

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never heard of it

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it's a brand new concept to you you

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can't see a photo of how it's made i'm

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not going to describe to you how it's

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made your only resource for

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understanding the sound

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is hearing it

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so i'm going to say it and then you

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repeat it and as you're repeating it you

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just try to match that sound use your

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ear to match the sound what am i hearing

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is it like what rachel did

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if so good if not what can i change rely

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on what you're hearing and turning that

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into your voice rather than relying on

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what you know and trying to make your

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sound out of that

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focus less on what your tongue is doing

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and to focus a ton on the sound so

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i'm just going to make an r sound and i

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want you to close your eyes

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and just try to find that sound with

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your mouth try to match my sound so i'm

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gonna do it for about two seconds then

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you do it for about two seconds then i'm

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gonna do it and we're just gonna go back

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and forth for it several times

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and just see what you can find don't

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think about what you're doing with your

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tongue think about the sound and

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matching the sound okay

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okay so a couple things are happening

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it's actually starting pretty good and

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then you're kind of doing this with your

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job i'm trying to move yeah yeah and

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actually that is that is making it less

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so i asked her what are you doing and

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she said well i started making the sound

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and then i thought about how i needed to

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make it more forward

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that was the problem

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she started thinking about how it needed

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to be and sometimes we just need to shut

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that off so it's important as an adult

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to learn everything about the sound and

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understand that and practice it with

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that way some but then it's also really

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important sometimes to just let that go

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and learn as a child learns when it

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comes to brand new sounds

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and when she did that

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when she brainwashed herself into

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thinking she knew nothing about the

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sound and she could only rely on trying

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to match my sound

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something beautiful happened she looked

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so much more relaxed the sound was way

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more accurate and the sound was also

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more relaxed it just looked easier it

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looked like this is something that you

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can reproduce and work into your speech

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and i think that actually what's going

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to work better for you with this sound

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because you have so much brain knowledge

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and so much effort and you've said you

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know it's my r is a problem like you

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already have all of these ideas about

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would be just let them go so we're going

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to do it again

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and and

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if you notice your mind saying oh my

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gosh okay i need to i need to move my

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jaw out or something just like try just

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try to

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let the thought come and go and i'm just

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gonna do it and have you do it back okay

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okay so all three of those were way

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better than any are that you did

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previously and i will say they looked

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very relaxed

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they looked much less

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effortful

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so now you and me we're going to do it

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just like i did with grace in my class

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okay

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so we're going to take the r

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brainwash yourself right now you know

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nothing about how the r sound is made

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you've never seen a picture of the

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tongue position you've never heard me

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describe what should be happening with

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the tongue or the lips or the jaw you

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know nothing it's a brand new sound how

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exciting

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so the way you're going to make it is

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you're going to hear me do it and then

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you're going to do it and if it's not

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right don't worry because in a couple

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seconds i'm gonna do it again you'll

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have the chance to listen again and then

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you'll try again

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how are you feeling is your mind still

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trying to come in tell you how to do it

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try to let that go say okay mind i love

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you you're so helpful for now i'm going

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to put you aside i'm going to listen to

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my body instead so you're taking your

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ear

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your ear is taking what it hears and it

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is telling your mouth what to do to make

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that sound as you're making a sound your

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ear can tell if something's not quite

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the same and it will tell your body what

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slight adjustment to make and this is

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how we navigate and find the right sound

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okay

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so let's try it

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three times no let's say five times i'm

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gonna hold out the r for a few seconds

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then you do it then i do it then you do

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it don't judge yourself because that

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really doesn't matter just keep going

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forward hearing it and trying it okay

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let's do it

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er

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um

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and the last time

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what's happening are you finding a more

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relaxed sound i'm actually feeling very

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relaxed just thinking about how relaxed

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you are

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working on this sound

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so it's about the basics taking yourself

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back to the foundation

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so with the first student it was about

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the foundation of rhythm getting rid of

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sounds and words and just working on

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rhythm with the second student it was

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about getting back to the basics the

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foundation of learning the way a child

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would learn

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now i've built a whole academy around

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training materials so

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that's a sign that i don't think

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that adults can learn exclusively by

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listening i think they do need some help

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some guidance and a lot of training

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the other thing that i worked with grace

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on was how she felt about her r

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here's what i said

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because it is harder to change that

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habit when we think i'm so stressed

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about this i'm so self-conscious about

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it it's such a problem for me that does

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i think make it harder to break the

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habit so we want to do like the good

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work of breaking the habit but we also

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want to do the important work of

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addressing what are we saying to

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ourselves about our habit and is it like

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slowing us down from meeting our goal so

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i think that

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maybe working on both of those things on

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the r

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will help will help release you a little

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bit because i definitely see that

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tension in that effort that's going into

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making the r and sometimes speaking in

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general not always

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so you have to take care of yourself and

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watch how you

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talk about yourself and your ability

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because if it's not supportive of what

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you're trying to do then it's going to

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slow you down and i know it sounds kind

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of cheesy to say that but it's true and

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i've seen it happen and to help my

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students make the fastest best progress

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i've learned that i also need to take

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care of how they see themselves and

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that's also something i do in the

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