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right now i'm at lake michigan on

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vacation

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well not right now my right now but

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you're right now as you see this in fact

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i'm so busy relaxing

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that i couldn't make a video this week

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but i thought ahead and i created a

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mashup two videos from past vacations

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where i teach english to you with my

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friends and family in beautiful michigan

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on vacation

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so won't you please come on vacation

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with me and study english pronunciation

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conversation and vocabulary

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this is my uncle frank

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hey uncle frank brings his boat every

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year so that we can try skiing did you

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notice the reductions of the word that

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and can

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these two function words will often

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reduce that becomes the

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with either a flap or stop t depending

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on the next sound

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and can when not the main verb in a

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sentence becomes

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so the weeknd so the weeknd so that we

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can try skiing

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try and skiing the two content words in

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this sentence are clearly much longer

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than so that we can so that we can so

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that we can

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these four function words are low in

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pitch and very fast listen again

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so that we can try skiing here so that

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we can try skiing here so that we can

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try skiing

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sure appreciate that uncle frank i'm

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glad to bring it glad to bring it here

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frank reduced the word to to the flap t

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and the schwa sound

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glad glad

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glad to bring it listen again i'm glad

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to bring it i'm glad to bring it i'm

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glad to bring it this boat is 17 years

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old and

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i was beginning to wonder earlier in the

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week if i was going to bring it back

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again here frank reduced the phrase

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going to to gonna a very common

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reduction in american english if i was

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gonna bring it back gonna gonna if i was

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gonna bring it back listen again

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i was beginning to wonder earlier in the

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week if i was gonna bring it back again

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if i was gonna bring it back again if i

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was gonna bring it back again but it

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seems like people are still kind of

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interested in skiing we love it

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love it

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did you hear how i connected the v sound

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to the word it

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one of the easiest ways to link an

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american english pronunciation is the

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case when one word ends in a consonant

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and the next word begins with a vowel or

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diphthong

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you can practice the connection between

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words by putting the ending consonant on

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the next word vit vit vit

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love it love it love it

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this will help to eliminate gaps between

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words

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in american english we want to link all

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the words in one thought group listen

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again we love it we love it we love it

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we'll see if it'll go a couple more

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years yeah i hope it does

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so jace

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are you going to go skiing today another

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gunner you going to go skiing today are

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you going to go skiing today are you

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going to go skiing today yeah i am have

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you been before no this is the first

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year yep are you nervous

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a little um

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yeah it might take a couple tries so

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don't be discouraged if it doesn't

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happen right away right away did you

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notice how i linked the ending t of

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right to the beginning vowel sound of

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away

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this means that the t comes between two

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vowels so it becomes a flap t or a d

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sound

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so right away sounds just like right

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away

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listen again if it doesn't happen right

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away if it doesn't happen right away if

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it doesn't happen right away okay okay

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okay

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okay

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meg are you gonna try skiing another

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gonna also notice i've reduced the word

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r to er er

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meg are you gonna try skiing meg are you

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gonna try skiing meg are you gonna try

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skiing i don't think so i tried it when

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i was 10 and i was traumatized because i

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fell and it hurt oh yeah i think i'm

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just going to stick to

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a bystander haley have you skied before

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i've done sit skiing before when i was

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like sick

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wait yeah what is that what is

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just like with right away we're

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connecting the ending t in what to the

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beginning vowel of the word is

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so the t turns into a flap t or d sound

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what is what is

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listen again what is that what is that

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what is that it's got the skis yeah

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there's like a chair in the middle and

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he's just really yeah

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i've never even heard of that heard of

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another linking consonant to vowel her

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dev heard of

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notice that i am reducing the word of to

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div div

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heard of

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i've never even heard of that i've never

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even heard of that i've never even heard

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of that i haven't either i've done it

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done it

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another great example of linking ending

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consonant to beginning vowel

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done it

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done it i've done it i've done it i've

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done it so i'm nervous to do this i

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think you'll be just fine

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i'm ready here haley reduced the

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contraction i'm to simply the m

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consonant i'm ready of course with that

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i'm ready listen again

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i'm ready i'm ready i'm ready

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this is my cousin brooke

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brooke how are you enjoying your

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vacation i'm having a great time on my

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vacation

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what's the highlight of your vacation so

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far i think the highlight of the

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vacation so far is spending time with

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you rachel oh that's so sweet okay step

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right up here

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ani did you make that necklace

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can you hold it up for me another

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can you hold it up for me can you hold

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it up for me can you hold it up for me

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yeah

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it's really pretty it's really pretty a

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reduction of it's to the ts sound it's

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really it's really it's really pretty

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it's really pretty it's really pretty

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where'd you make that

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the craft shop

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let me see have you ever heard someone

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say lemmy i've dropped the t in let and

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connected it to me let me let me let me

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see that let me see let me see let me

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what's it say

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giggle oh it does say giggle that was

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sneaky that's a hard word

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that has those good sounds and a dark l

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giggle

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hey brad

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what are you doing doing some

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advertising we're doing a little

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advertising yeah hey rach i love that

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shirt where did you get that well i made

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it made it

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made it well i made it well i made it

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well i made it oh now what is this

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it says i love english an international

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phonetic alphabet oh my gosh that's so

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great where can i get one

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actually you can get one right here

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rachelsenglish.com

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yeah do you want to be on my website

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brett

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wanna here i use the wanna reduction for

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do you wanna yeah do you wanna be on our

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website brad yeah do you wanna be on our

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website brent yeah do you wanna be on

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our website brad

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kinda kinda here brad reduced kind of to

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kinda so the word of is pronounced with

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just the schwa

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no consonant sound kinda

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kinda okay this is my cousin brad

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brad

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b-r-a-d it has the a as in bat vowel

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and remember cousin spilled with an s

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now it's game time here we'll all tell

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the scorekeeper if we made our bet or

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not

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made it listen for how we all link those

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two words together

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made it no gap okay who made it

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i made it

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[Music]

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uncle dale did you make that fire

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i helped with it it's a nice looking

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fire

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hey everybody this is my uncle dale

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he lives in texas

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houston texas

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i hope that even with just these few

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snippets of conversation

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you've learned a bit about linking

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consonant to vowel and reductions

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they're an important part to the

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smoothness and the rhythm of american

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english

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and as you can see they're used all the

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time in conversation

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special thanks to my family for letting

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me videotape our vacation

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and if you didn't get enough don't worry

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we're all getting together again at

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christmas

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every year my extended family gets

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together for a week to play swim and

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have fun together

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first let's head to the beach

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hey reed you enjoying the beach yeah

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except for you got a face full of water

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let's talk about the phrase except for

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it's pretty common

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the t comes between two consonant sounds

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and in that case natives often drop the

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t sound i did

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also notice that i reduced the word for

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for fur

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except for

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except for you got

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except for you got except for you got

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except you got a face full of water yeah

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what happened tell me about it that

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figure i don't know well it got my nose

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that i would start choking oh no she

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started choking so glad she's all right

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this is the perfect day for him overcast

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and warm

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how did my mom pronounce the word and

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she reduced it to

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this is the perfect day for him overcast

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and warm overcast and warm overcast and

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this is how it's normally pronounced

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unless you want to stress the word and

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here my cousin stresses it

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what about standing up like gigi

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check this out she can pull here and

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stand up at the same time

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she can pull hair and stand up at the

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same time and

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fully pronounced

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she can pull here and stand up she can

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pull here and stand up she can pull here

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and stand up

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most of the time you'll want to reduce

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this

295
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just like my mom overcast and overcast

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and overcast and can you wave gina

297
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hi

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can you wave

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we reduce can when it's a helping verb

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that is not the main verb in a sentence

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wave is the main verb

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most of the time can is a helping verb

303
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can you wave

304
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listen again

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can you wave gina can you wave gina can

306
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you wave gina hi

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on this day it happened to be gina's

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first birthday we sang happy birthday to

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her do you know this song

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happy birthday to you

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happy birthday to you

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happy birthday dear gina

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happy birthday to you

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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lasagna is pretty good yeah not quite as

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good as marlicious but not bad right

318
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well pretty good

319
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we use this phrase a lot it means okay

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but not great

321
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how are you

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pretty good

323
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how was the movie pretty good

324
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what do you notice about the

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pronunciation

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lasagna is pretty good pretty pretty

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that's a flap t

328
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not a true tea pretty

329
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but a flap t

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pretty

331
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this is the american english

332
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pronunciation i write it with a d but

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depending on your native language it may

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sound like an r to you just flap the

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tongue against the roof of the mouth

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without stopping the air

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pretty

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lasagna's pretty good lasagna is pretty

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good lasagna is pretty good pretty good

340
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with the uh as in push vowel my uncle

341
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makes it very clear

342
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see if you can imitate him pretty good

343
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pretty good pretty good

344
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pretty good

345
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you want to go watch the tennis game

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wanna want two

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shifting to

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wanna in conversation

349
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you wanna go watch

350
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listen again

351
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you wanna go watch the tennis game you

352
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wanna go watch the tennis game you wanna

353
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go watch the tennis game

354
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what about a fifth club

355
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my family loves to play tennis on

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vacation

357
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very few of us are any good at it

358
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these are the fans out for the big match

359
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these are the fans

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did you notice how my dad reduced the

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word r

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these are these are

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this is how we pronounce r it just

364
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sounds like an extra syllable at the end

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of the word before

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these are

367
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these are the fans

368
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listen again these are the fans these

369
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are the fans these are the fans out for

370
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the big match

371
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don't go easy on them ernie

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easy on them

373
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what do you notice about the word him

374
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no h

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we pronounce him this way a lot

376
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just like r

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when it's reduced

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think of adding an extra syllable to the

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end of the word before it

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autum autumn

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easy on them

382
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listen again don't go easy on him ernie

383
00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:02.959
don't go easy on him ernie don't go easy

384
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on him ernie

385
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let me go check on him

386
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here's another hem reduction

387
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check on them

388
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on them on them on them

389
00:15:14.959 --> 00:15:16.399
listen again

390
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check on him check on him check on him

391
00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.959
um wait when did you meet gg in colorado

392
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when did you meet

393
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did you did you

394
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did you

395
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would you could you

396
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should you

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all common two word phrases

398
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we often make the y sound a j sound when

399
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it comes after d

400
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d

401
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did you

402
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listen again

403
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when did you meet gigi when did you meet

404
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gigi when did you meet gigi in colorado

405
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when was that

406
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we were out there to ski in march okay

407
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anybody want to hit a few with my

408
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partner anybody want to hit a few

409
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did you hear that in the background

410
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wanna

411
00:16:00.160 --> 00:16:01.519
listen again

412
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anybody want to hit a fuel anybody want

413
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to hit a fuel anybody want to hit a few

414
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with my partner yeah i will

415
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i'll warm him up i'll warm him up

416
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again dropping the h in him

417
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warm them

418
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mormon

419
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i'll warm him up

420
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i'll warm him up

421
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i'll warm him up

422
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can you grab it nice oh oh

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oh that's what she thinks of your hat

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thinks of your hat

425
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you'll notice that we sometimes drop the

426
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v sound in of we just use the schwa

427
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think sir

428
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thinks of your hat

429
00:16:38.959 --> 00:16:41.360
listen again she thinks to your hat she

430
00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:42.880
thinks to your hat she thinks of your

431
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hat

432
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who's this

433
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is

434
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whacker in the head

435
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did you notice the dropped h in her

436
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just like with him

437
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whacker whacker

438
00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:06.160
listen again

439
00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.240
don't wrap her in the head don't wrap

440
00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:10.000
her in the head don't wrap her in the

441
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head

442
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that one

443
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man it's such a nice evening

444
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perfect temperature slight breeze

445
00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:29.280
beautiful sun that it is

446
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listen to how i talk about the weather

447
00:17:31.919 --> 00:17:34.559
man it's such a nice evening

448
00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:37.039
perfect temperature slight breeze

449
00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:39.600
beautiful sun that it is

450
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perfect temperature

451
00:17:41.280 --> 00:17:43.440
notice i only make one tea

452
00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:46.080
perfect temperature so you can think of

453
00:17:46.080 --> 00:17:48.320
dropping the t imperfect

454
00:17:48.320 --> 00:17:50.000
because you have one beginning the next

455
00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:53.039
word perfect temperature

456
00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.119
also i make temperature

457
00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:57.720
just three syllables

458
00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.359
temperature

459
00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:02.000
this is an easier pronunciation

460
00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:03.600
temperature

461
00:18:03.600 --> 00:18:05.359
perfect temperature

462
00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:07.440
perfect temperature perfect temperature

463
00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:10.240
perfect temperature slight breeze slight

464
00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:11.440
breeze

465
00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:15.039
i made the tea in slight a stop t

466
00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:16.720
because the next word begins with a

467
00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:18.000
consonant

468
00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.240
slight breeze

469
00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:23.119
slight breeze a slight breeze or slight

470
00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.359
breeze or slight breeze

471
00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:26.640
beautiful sun

472
00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.240
beautiful sun the t in beautiful is a

473
00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:32.400
flap t because it comes between two

474
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vowels

475
00:18:33.600 --> 00:18:34.960
beautiful

476
00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:36.320
beautiful sun

477
00:18:36.320 --> 00:18:37.679
beautiful sun

478
00:18:37.679 --> 00:18:39.760
beautiful sun man it's such a nice

479
00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:41.840
evening

480
00:18:41.840 --> 00:18:43.919
temperature slight breeze

481
00:18:43.919 --> 00:18:46.480
beautiful sun that it is that's going

482
00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.960
out like sort of fun

483
00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:50.320
except for that i don't want to have to

484
00:18:50.320 --> 00:18:51.600
go forever

485
00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:53.280
except for

486
00:18:53.280 --> 00:18:55.440
did you hear that phrase again

487
00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:56.960
except for that

488
00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:59.919
i reduced except to just

489
00:18:59.919 --> 00:19:00.960
sep

490
00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:02.880
without releasing the p

491
00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:06.240
i also reduced four and that

492
00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:07.119
the

493
00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.480
had the schwa and a stop t

494
00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.200
except for that except for that

495
00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:14.960
listen again

496
00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:17.440
except for the except for the except for

497
00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.600
that i don't want to have to go forever

498
00:19:19.600 --> 00:19:22.240
wanna another wanna i don't wanna have

499
00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:23.600
to i don't wanna have to i don't want to

500
00:19:23.600 --> 00:19:25.520
have to go forever i don't have to drive

501
00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:27.919
very far

502
00:19:31.840 --> 00:19:34.000
do you want a color

503
00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:35.039
wanna

504
00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:36.720
want a color

505
00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:38.960
did you

506
00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.440
dropped h in him

507
00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:55.359
move him

508
00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:56.480
move him

509
00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:58.480
should we move them should we move them

510
00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.000
should we move them

511
00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.760
no yeah

512
00:20:01.760 --> 00:20:02.480
no

513
00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:04.320
no tell them no

514
00:20:04.320 --> 00:20:05.600
tell them no

515
00:20:05.600 --> 00:20:08.799
my aunt is dropping the th in them

516
00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:10.720
tell him tell him

517
00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:13.200
this sounds just like him when the h is

518
00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:15.440
dropped um um

519
00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:17.119
move him

520
00:20:17.119 --> 00:20:18.320
tell him

521
00:20:18.320 --> 00:20:20.400
they sound the same when they're reduced

522
00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:21.760
that's okay

523
00:20:21.760 --> 00:20:25.520
tell him no tell him no tell him no

524
00:20:25.520 --> 00:20:28.240
it's all right

525
00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.039
we also went skiing when i get tired

526
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this is how i end

527
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[Music]

528
00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:47.599
david is a little less graceful

529
00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:51.600
what a fun week i had with my family

530
00:20:51.600 --> 00:20:52.960
playing games

531
00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:53.919
swimming

532
00:20:53.919 --> 00:20:56.159
they're special people and i can't wait

533
00:20:56.159 --> 00:20:57.840
to see them again

534
00:20:57.840 --> 00:21:00.640
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535
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540
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541
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[Laughter]

542
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thank you so much for vacationing with

543
00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:21.520
me i love sharing my life with you keep

544
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