LIVE LESSON English Conversation Study
why do I have white hair I said I’m
aging and that person says oh no that
sounds bad these are the kinds of
conversations we have sometimes in chat
isn’t it what do you guys think I’m
thinking about dyeing my hair I used to
dye it I kept my streak in because I’ve
had my streak forever and then I stopped
dyeing the rest I’m thinking about
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little too gray a little too white for
my personal taste what do you think let
me know okay it’s wonderful to have you
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which I wear I’ve always been but I’m
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there but we were in a different
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makes all the difference sometimes
that’s all you need
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guys all here Oh someone says super chat
is not available in their region I
understand I know it’s not worldwide yet
sorry about that you know sometimes you
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YouTube is I have people from all over
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everywhere but it is absolutely amazing
to see so many of you guys here so many
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represented it’s awesome to have you
guys here so today I chose a special
video to share with you from the past
this one came out I think in 2017 and
we’re gonna watch it together we’re
gonna stop I’m gonna answer questions
that come in from chat so if you have
questions put them there I’m gonna try
to keep an eye on them all and we’ll
just see what sort of conversation this
video brings on it’s from oh my goodness
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guys my first super chat came in oh my
goodness you know what it’s in a name in
Arabic that I can’t pronounce I could
not read that kind of thing at all if it
was like the American English letters I
could stumble my way through it but from
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press the dollar sign it lets you do a
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okay thank you so much let me go ahead
and let’s get started with this video so
this is one that was shot back in 2017
it’s of me and my dad going for a hike
even I learned a new word when I was
making this video my dad used the word I
had never heard before alright let’s get
started with it let me make myself
smaller over here so I don’t block too
much the video put myself down in the
corner and let’s check it out in this
American English pronunciation video
we’ll go for a hike in Colorado my dad
and I discussed the hike and we’ll talk
about interesting pronunciations and
vocabulary words that come up in real
English conversation this hike is called
Chihuahua Gulch Chihuahua have you heard
this word before it’s a teeny tiny breed
of dog the spelling is pretty strange in
American English because this word comes
to us from Spanish the breed originated
in Mexico this hike is called Chihuahua
Gulch and it’s about seven miles
round-trip round-trip the opposite of
this phrase is one way so when you go
somewhere and come back
that’s roundtrip notice how the D is
dropped roundtrip we often drop the D
when it comes between two other
consonants round trip round trip it’s
about seven miles roundtrip and it goes
up about 1900 feet so yeah you go you
start off going uphill about thirty
minutes then you go through this long
Valley okay Jessica Medina from Peru
came back in San Francisco gave me a
shout out again thank you guys so much
for this it’s fun to have this little
extra interaction with you guys and as I
said all of this money is gonna go
towards some lighting I need a little
bit new some new lighting and my lights
aren’t that powerful I have a lot to
learn about lighting and then I have to
buy all the equipment for it
okay so isn’t my dad just the cute
sky I still appreciate his willingness
to be in all of these videos with me and
in that we just learned about dropping
the D in the phrase round trip now I
said something in this video I said it’s
very common to drop the D when it comes
between two consonants and yes that’s
sort of true but what I’ve realized is
maybe this stronger statement that I
should have said there is that it’s very
common to drop the D when it comes after
an N and before another consonant so
it’s not just between two consonants yes
that is true as well but this is
especially true after an n before
another consonant that is a very high
chance that we will drop that in and it
makes it easier to link together makes
it easier to say roundtrip also one
thing I didn’t point out but I should
have
Marko’s hitting me up with $4 thank you
so much I recognize you Marcus I think
you and I have been in touch through
comments before um thank you so much
so again if you guys are wondering about
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comment okay round trip the other thing
that I didn’t say about that that I
maybe could have do you guys notice how
I’m saying the word trip do you notice
how it doesn’t really sound like a T
it’s not a true T in trip the TR cluster
it’s with with that cluster it’s much
more common to make that as CHR so we
don’t want to drop the R that would be
chip we still need the our trip round
trip drop the D change the T and that’s
gonna sound American round trip
different from one way round trip okay
guys let’s get back hello from Venezuela
we have a few more countries coming in
here we have Anna’s whele China Ryan
from China Egypt Indonesia Syria did you
guys know I traveled in Indonesia I
traveled there in 2008 2007 I can’t
remember exactly had a great time
someone says where are you from Rachel
I’m gonna just give the people in chat a
minute to see if you guys know where I’m
from I bet a lot of you do
there’s a delay so I’m gonna have to
wait and be patient
someone says Palestine India Armenia
Colombia Morocco Jordan Wow
they’re coming in so fast now Georgia I
don’t know the state of the country
probably the country it’s so fat I can’t
I can’t read it
I saw North Korea I see Taiwan I see
Alaska I’ve never been to Alaska I would
love to go sometime Marco’s Devon thank
you so much for your top chat I
appreciate that I appreciate that a lot
we’re gonna get you those lights Rachel
Marcus says I would love that
oh part of what’s intimidating is I even
have to like look it up and learn what
kind of lights I need in my studio I’ll
figure it out
I’ve got some good people who can help
me we I’m seeing Canada coming up here
in chat Nicaragua Somalia wonderful
Vietnam Chile someone’s from Mars Wow I
didn’t know they had YouTube on Mars
that’s awesome okay I’m gonna go ahead
and answer the question because I’m not
sure how long the delay is so far no one
has said where I’m from I’m from Florida
this is one of those words that a lot of
non-native speakers will make it three
syllables but most native speakers make
it two so we generally wouldn’t say
Florida we would say Florida Florida
Florida I chill I’m sure I’m butchering
your name thank you for the super chat
gonna shout you out
I see Jordan Libya Costa Rica Guatemala
wonderful you guys so beautiful it’s so
beautiful being here with you guys I
really appreciate that
someone says from Earth or maybe saying
I’m from Earth true I’m from Earth the
state of Florida Florida right now I
don’t live there anymore
but I have a lot of friends still there
I guess they are really seeing a lot of
kovat cases I hope that everyone there
is able to stay healthy
okay I’m gonna restart the video of my
dad let’s see what else my dad notice
how my dad really stretches out the word
long gotta make myself why does he do
that well knew what to really stress
words we make them longer and you might
do that especially with the word long
making it longer for dramatic purposes
long Valley that took a long time that
test was so long through this long
course
hmm do you know that word I didn’t
either
let’s find out what it means with a lot
of course and little lakes and little
scream Gor Gor sir these bushes the end
of the trees
did you understand what he said there he
called this road jeep Road so a jeep is
a really rugged vehicle that has a high
clearance that is a lot of room between
the ground and the bottom of a car you
would not be able to drive a regular car
on this road you’ve seen one you’ve seen
them all this is a phrase okay have you
guys ever heard that phrase let me make
myself big again have you heard the
phrase seen one seen em all you can do
that with something when you feel like
it’s not that exciting or that
interesting I Vader I make an example
about cities you’ve seen one you’ve seen
them all that’s a little bit of a
cynical take isn’t it if you feel like
you already know everything about it
because you’ve seen one like it my dad
was just I think preparing us for the
fact that we probably weren’t gonna make
it all the way to that lake and I was
probably feeling like oh man that feels
sad to miss it I wish we could hike that
far and I think he was saying that to
make me feel better
whoa I’m still small aren’t I there we
go sorry about that looking at this huge
white screen with a tiny Rachel that
no good someone says Rachel you have to
visit Columbia you know I would love to
and I have no idea when is the next time
that we’re gonna be able to travel
internationally I really hope that we’re
able to do something about this virus
hey Veronica giving me love from from
Peru because this virus is just making
it it’s really crazy what is it like
were you guys I know I haven’t read the
news too much lately so I don’t know a
ton about the current state of what’s
going on outside of the US I don’t even
know what’s happening with it
internationally maybe it’s getting less
bad in your country is it getting worse
in your country let me know in the
comments now I’m getting lots of hearts
I’m getting a heart from Egypt Mohammed
it moves so fast you know I had a
student in my life class yesterday his
name was Muhammad Usman and he said that
he goes by his middle name and I thought
okay that sort of clear something up for
me because I’ve noticed that so many of
my students have the name Muhammad and
I’m there are different spellings and
probably slightly different
pronunciations but I’ve just thought man
so confusing isn’t it but now I know he
goes by his middle name Mexico
thank you Andres I’m so glad that you
liked my pronunciation lessons thank you
so much for that super chat
I appreciate it we’re gonna get we’re
gonna get those lights guys we’re gonna
get there eventually you guys are
helping me out Thank You Paraguay hello
China I guess you are using a VPN to
access thank you for putting in that
effort I know that that probably slows
down your internet connection a little
bit we have Mozambique in the chat ma’am
we just have so many people Veronica
says in Peru it’s awful people don’t
respect social distancing that is
actually an interesting point what is it
like where you are as far as the culture
around the rules are people feeling like
this is important and we need to do this
in the US it’s really a mixed bag have
you ever heard that phrase the
a mixed bag means a little bit of
everything
so I would say in the u.s. it’s a mixed
bag with people following the rules some
people I see are being very strict
they’re out walking their dog they might
not pass anybody but they’re still
wearing a mask other people seem to be
gathering in pretty large groups in the
parks and this kind of thing and not
wearing masks my brother-in-law is a
doctor and works in a nursing home
Charles thank you so much for the $2
contribution towards the Rachel’s
English lighting project I appreciate
you so my brother-in-law is a doctor and
he’s a doctor in a nursing home and
nursing homes have been really hard hit
and so he wears a lot of protective gear
but I think partly because of that his
family the people that he lives with
feel you know extra aware and so when
they go grocery shopping they wear the
face mask and the plastic shield over
the face in Texas Marcus Devon says it’s
really bad here I know I saw that there
was a really big uptick in cases in
Texas as well as Florida my brother
lives in Texas and we wanted to go visit
him he moved recently from a different
spot he was in Houston now he lives in a
smaller town north of Austin and we
really wanted to come visit him this
fall and now I think probably not we
probably can’t make that trip okay
someone Walmart dog says gorse is
sometimes found in the rough of golf
courses it’s like they’re custom-made to
entrap golf balls that’s interesting
maybe if I followed golf more I would
have known the word gorse but I didn’t
it was totally new to me sort of a rough
thick bush I can see how you wouldn’t
want to play golf around that all right
let’s keep going thank you guys everyone
for oh someone says the volumes low are
other people having problems with volume
this is the volume too low of course
because of the delay I’m not going to be
able to not going to be able to know for
too long to wait well I’m sorry I’ll try
to get my mouth even closer to the
microphone also maybe turn your volume
up all the way I know also check your
player sometimes the YouTube player
volume can be turned down even when the
volume on your computer is turned up so
maybe that could work ok let’s go back
see what my dad’s got to say about the
rest of this hike that we’re gonna do
you might use to say that something
isn’t special now the full grammatically
correct pronunciation of this phrase
would be if you’ve seen one you’ve seen
them all but that’s not how we pronounce
it we like to reduce things in American
English especially familiar words and
phrases and this is a familiar known
phrase you’ve seen one you’ve seen them
all we dropped the word if we reduce
you’ve to just yet and we reduce them to
um you seen seeing them you seen one you
seen them all
another scenario where you may use this
do you want to visit Paris nah I’m not
that into cities you’ve seen one you’ve
seen them all pretty similar a lot of
them okay Patricia and Costa Rica says
they are following the rules there and
they’ve only had 12 deaths that’s pretty
impressive
keep it up Costa Rica we got to tamp
this thing down George Alfonso thank you
so much for your super chat you asked
the question
why the word like is pronounced every so
often that’s a great question George we
have a lot of filler words and phrases
in English and like is one of them you
know is one of them I mean is one of
them these are things that we sort of
throw out often as we’re thinking as
we’re expressing ourselves the word like
does have some actual meanings though it
can mean a preference I like that but if
I say and then he was like and then she
was
like what I’m doing is it’s it’s like
saying it’s similar to saying what she
said so if I say and then she was like
no don’t don’t do that
that’s the equivalent to saying and then
she said no don’t do that so it does
have a couple different meanings
preference what someone said or what
someone did or what someone seemed like
but then we also use it like as a filler
word like and some people like use it
like all the time for example so
certainly you don’t need to try to
imitate it as much as you may hear it in
the speech of certain Americans someone
says how do we learn vocabulary well I
actually have a video on where I give
some tips over how to pick up vocabulary
anywhere from reading to watching TV to
you know doing using specific resources
that are made just for that I think that
that can be a little tedious if you’re
learning like a hundred words for the
living room but then you’re not actively
using them they’re not gonna stick with
you that long I tend to think it’s a
little bit more useful to learn it in
the context that you’re in for example
learn the words of the things around you
and the the words that you use in a
regular basis on in your native language
learn how to describe your day in
English that way you’re using or your
job that way you’re learning and using
the words that you would really need
Marco’s Antonio thank you so much for
your super chat when I shout you out
you’re getting us closer to some new
lights here at the Rachel’s English
Academy okay guys let’s head back let’s
head back to the video hiking in
Colorado with my dad my parents are
there right now they said Ragnar Vikings
Oh glad alene here from the Philippines
first time here Oh welcome it’s
wonderful to have you I’ve been doing
some live streams this summer don’t do a
ton of them but I do make a new video
every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. in
Philadelphia time so check it out all
right let’s get back to the original
video for those of you that are popping
in that are new haven’t been here since
the beginning we’re watching a video
from 2017 it’s a real English video
where I’m hiking with my dad and I’ve
also for the first time ever in chat
have started something called live chat
sorry that’s not what it’s called it’s
called super chat and with that there’s
a dollar sign just below where you can
put a comment and if you choose one of
the levels it lets me see your comment
your comment stays up longer and as I’ve
said all of the money that comes in from
super chat is gonna go to a fund to buy
some new lighting if you’re noticing I
not using my green screen today and
that’s because ultimately the lights I
was trying to use were not quite strong
enough all right let’s continue on my
dad also reduced them to UM this is a
really common reduction just like in the
phrase you’ve seen one you’ve seen them
all a lot of them a lot of them practice
that with me out loud smoothly
connecting all the words a lot of them a
lot of them a lot of them are pretty
similar but you do have a great view you
can see a long way out over the a couple
of different mountain ranges a couple of
different mountain ranges my dad reduced
the word of to just the schwa okay hold
on everybody
is this better I had a couple people
saying the mic wasn’t working I realized
I wasn’t using this mic I was using
sorry if that was too loud I was using
my computer mic you know you do this a
million times you think you’re getting
really good at it and it turns out you
still forget things so hopefully this is
better
Jessica Medina has just house posted a
super chat please post videos about
glottal stops and syllabic nasals okay I
actually do have some on that I have the
video Oh
Hill says you are great thank you so I
do have a video on stops oops again I
have to make myself bigger I do have a
video on stops I have stop consonants
that one’s pretty old but then I also
have some on the T in particular and as
far as syllabic consonants nasals i do
have a video on syllabic consonants on
youtube if you do a search on Rachel’s
English
syllabic consonants you should get it
it’s I call it an advanced lesson and
yeah I talk there about how syllabic
consonants take over the R or sorry the
schwa and you’re right two of them are
nasal M and N and then we also have R
and L that can do that as well so I have
a video about that already made for you
so please check it out okay some people
are saying that the volume is better
wonderful and I apologize that my mic
level was so low to begin I guess I’m
just not a tech genius I need a team you
know I need a whole production team to
help me do this
they’re just kidding it’s going fine
thank you guys for letting me know
it’s the only way I would know otherwise
I never would have known so thank you so
much for letting me know in the chat
that you couldn’t hear me very well
okay thank you let’s get back to the
video uh a couple of we do this so much
in conversation especially with this
phrase a couple up a couple of different
mountain ranges and the lake itself is
probably probably this is how we
pronounce probably most of the time and
conversation you can do it too it
simplifies the word and makes it easier
to say try it now probably probably
probably okay how many of you guys do
that how many of you guys say probably
almost everyone does it at least some of
the time so try it on try it out young
West zero
oh I recognize you I know I know you’ve
been asking about this I know I remember
you from asking this in the past
so young West’s says super chats me lets
me see the chat better thank you so much
I appreciate that will the lights be
used to make more up close
slow-motion speech lessons love your
work they certainly can be because you
do have to have good lighting for that
so this person is referring to the
videos where I have a camera right at my
mouth and a camera kind of from the side
and I record myself and I’m able to it’s
really up close I’m able to then slow it
down in post-production so that you guys
can really study the way the mouth moves
I did a video on that sort of recently
on the word for and I’ve been doing some
vocabulary videos I’m doing one every
one or two months and I have the words
recorded for that as well what do you
guys think is that the kind of thing you
like I actually have some ideas of some
different kinds of videos I can do that
that use that kind of really up-close
footage for example what I’m sort of
talking about fast English and about all
of the simplifications that we do I’ve
noticed lately when I’m making my Ben
Franklin videos which if you’re
following my Tuesday videos on YouTube
you know I’m doing all of these analysis
videos of movie clips this summer and
I’ve noticed when I do that that I’m
often talking about this simplification
that has to happen and when I’m working
with a student in a live class I’m often
talking about the simplification taking
out extra movements and that that
simplifying helps us say them more
quickly helps our placement be lower is
just overall very beneficial that’s
something that I think could could be a
good thing to show with that up-close
slow-motion footage but I will say you
know the video I posted on a hundred
sentences with the word for that was
just that it was all about the
simplification it didn’t get seen that
many times so
that says to me people didn’t click on
as much people didn’t share it as much
so if you guys ever find a video of mine
that you love share it as far and wide
as you can because the more feedback it
gets the more the YouTube system is like
people like this video they show more
people and that’s sort of how I figure
out what kind of videos to make for you
guys I listen to your suggestions but of
course I also look at what videos did
people actually watch and you know watch
a lot of and that’s part of how I choose
what videos to make so if you have a
video and you love it share it as much
as you can but thank you so much for
that $5 contribution to my lighting fund
hoping to get some better stronger
lights up here in my studio itself is
probably 100 yards across and maybe 200
by 400 does anyone ever swim there I did
see somebody swim in there once listen
to the different ways we describe how
cold it is okay we’re gonna get to
describing how cold it is I saw in chat
someone asked a question about something
that would just happened in this video
when I was talking with my dad and we
were talking about the word vem and the
reduction of it to UM in the phrase he’s
seen one you seen him all seen them all
becoming seen them seen them all and
this person said what’s the difference
between them and him because with him we
also do a reduction where we drop the H
so then it also sounds like um so them
and him um can both have the exact same
reduction okay they do sound the same in
reduction and that’s okay because we
know by context what it means we only
use those kinds of pronouns when we’ve
already established the noun we’ve
already established the person like Paul
well then we know if we know we’re
talking about Paul we know it’s him but
I know that that can be tricky for some
people to think why would you have a
word or reduction that sounds the exact
same as
another one that’s just the way it is in
American English as crazy as it is but
those reductions sound the same and
using them sounds amazing
it sounds so natural so definitely try
to integrate those reductions into your
speech because it will make you sound
wonderful okay now let’s get back that
that Lake that Mountain Lake how cold is
it really cold ice cold very cold really
and very our words we use before
adjectives to say there’s a lot of
something really cold very cold a high
amount of coldness ice cold is another
great way to describe something being
very cold now this lake is not ice it’s
water it’s very cold water so describing
it as ice cold is an exaggeration
hyperbole I know it’s not actually ice I
know it’s just extremely cold water okay
thanks dad dad’s always teaching okay a
couple things that are coming up in chat
one person says how do you pronounce STS
like in the word scientists so the way
to do that is you can keep your just
make an S first of all everyone hold out
an S okay so keep that position and then
all you do is you lift not the tip of
the tongue but the part just behind the
tip to the roof of the mouth and that
cuts off the air so I can do that
without moving my tongue tip my tongue
tip just stays in s and then the part
just behind it lifts so quickly for that
stop that makes the T so that’s the SD
clusters I actually do have a video on
that on youtube you can check it out
also someone asked what’s up with the
podcast why did we stop making it so
yeah back in 2017 I think my
husband and I did a podcast we shot we
recorded 25 episodes so fun we went
through all sorts of things like the
rules about vowels diphthongs T
pronunciations all of the different
pronunciations idioms we had just
conversation studies we had some where
we talked about our experiences
traveling and being non native speakers
in another country and what we did to
cope with that it was really fun if you
haven’t checked it out it’s still there
you can find it 25 great episodes on
itunes or let’s see I don’t think I put
them in Spotify but I may have but
wherever you go to get your podcasts the
Rachel’s English podcast there check it
out and you know if you leave a if you
review it and leave a comment I do still
read those I would like to restart it
the reason why we stopped was because I
became pregnant with our second son and
I knew that I was gonna have to do less
work rather than more and I thought that
was one thing that I should stop doing
when I was making my choices I
definitely didn’t want to stop my
youtube channel the podcast was more of
an experiment and so it felt like the
thing to go
having said that maybe when our children
are in school we can restart it or
sometime when we just feel like things
have settled down right now things are
very crazy here of course with kovat 19
and daycares being closed they’ve just
reopened but we’re waiting because we
want to visit some family and we want to
keep ourselves as isolated as possible
before we see family this summer so life
just feels really crazy now I’m trying
to get everything done with a two small
children home all day every day someone
says boy or girl I have two boys one is
four years old and one is one year old
now they’re both so sweet my
one-year-old turns 2 in September you
know if you have instagram you can
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you haven’t already there I’m Rachel’s
underscore English all right let’s head
back I don’t even remember what we were
looking at I just know that I would love
to go on a hike like this again it’s so
pretty this is just you can’t design a
better day there’s not much wind hardly
any clouds cool but not cold this time
of year another example of reducing the
word of to just the schwa in natural
conversation this time of year yellow
and these bushes I mean they would be
green I love the view sweeping views and
we have seen wildlife along here yeah
just a couple hundred yards down once
there were four moose moose
these animals are fairly rare to see in
the wild one other time when I was in
Colorado we saw one click here or in the
video description to see that video
there were four moose grazing right by
the path further down yet we saw herd of
maybe ten or fifteen antelope often see
deer you often see my dad reduced you to
okay we’re gonna take another little
break oh we just got another one
Constantine from Russia thanks for
helping with the AE you are so welcome
thank you for that super chat if you’re
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little bit easier Thank You Constantine
I appreciate you okay so someone from
Burundi had a question here in the chat
about you know I can understand movies
but when it’s time for me to speak I
lose everything and I forget I was just
emailing someone in my Academy today
about this a couple of things I really
recommend you recording yourself and
this can help you know even if you don’t
ever have an opportunity to speak
English you can still record yourself at
night before you go to bed take five
minutes out of your day and do this
quick exercise you record yourself for
20 seconds talking about something about
your day your life your work
hobbies family things that interest you
a movie you’ve seen whatever you talk
about it in English then you go back and
you listen to the recording and you
think okay what was I trying to say here
what could I not express you take the
time to write it down to figure it out
maybe you have to look something up to
figure out the white the right way to
express that but you write it down you
learn it and then you take that sentence
or that phrase or whatever it was and
you say it 20 times 30 times maybe in
your 10 20 seconds of recording you find
two things like that that you learn that
you work out that’s enough
if you do that most days every day and
you’re really learning how to express a
couple of things that’s gonna add up
over time okay and it especially works
for you if you’re talking about things
that you would normally talk about the
problem sometimes with learning English
from a textbook or even a video is it’s
a topic that’s not really relevant to
you but when you’re using your own
content as the basis for your lesson
then you know it’s something that you
need to be able to say because you’ve
tried it once already and I think that’s
a better way to help you remember and
learn and of course finding a practice
partner online
is always gonna be a good thing okay
some other questions coming through in
chat someone says how do you pronounce
this statement shut her up and get her
out of here
I heard it in a movie I forgot how to
link the words so shut her up
probably they did it dropping the h
reduction you don’t always have to but
it’s pretty common shutter shutter and
with get her would be get her get her
get her so on both of those cases when
we drop the are the T now comes between
two vowels becomes a flap T so rather
than shut her it becomes shutter and
rather than get her it becomes get her
get her
isn’t that funny if you don’t know about
these reductions it’s like what on earth
is happening me thank you so much nee
Titus gave me some money there in the
super chat King Young says please
pronounce oh that’s not what I thought
it was high or hyaluronic acid you know
honestly I would have to look that up um
and that’s actually a great point
sometimes when I’m reading I don’t know
what that acid is that is not something
that your average person knows or says
or uses so sometimes when I’m reading
something specialized or even just
reading a book with that has some
vocabulary words that I don’t know as
you know in this video my dad used a
word that I didn’t know the word gorse
when that happens I also have to look up
words so there because English is not
phonetic if a native speaker sees a word
for the first time that they don’t
recognize they don’t know how to
pronounce it I don’t know how to
pronounce that without looking it up I
would say hyaluronic would maybe be my
guess but my stress could be wrong my
choice for one of the vowel sounds could
be wrong
consonants more or less we would know
but vowel sounds can be very different
the letters can represent many different
vowels and so that’s why we have to look
it up and know
that’s why knowing the International
phonetic alphabet helps because when you
look up a word because you can’t tell
just by the letters then it will give
you the phonetic spelling and then it’s
like okay that’s what it is I got it but
isn’t that funny guys even I have to
look up the pronunciation of words I
don’t know and so there’s nothing wrong
for you having to do that I mean how
else are you gonna know when you’re
learning a new word I always tell people
you know when you’re learning a new word
a vocabulary word or whatever you can’t
just read it and memorize the
pronunciation of the meaning you have to
go learn the pronunciation and you have
to say it out loud a ton of times
otherwise you’re learning words that
you’re not confident using and that you
may not recognize in a conversation so
you’ve got to learn the pronunciation
when you learn the word it’s worth the
extra step trust me because then it
becomes the word that you can really use
otherwise it’s a word that you’re not
quite sure if you say it will people
understand you no one wants that alright
let’s keep going
changing the vowel to the schwa this is
also a common reduction why do we do
this because in American English the
contrast between stressed and unstressed
syllables is really important so if we
can make unstressed syllables even
shorter by changing something then we do
that you often see we often see deer up
here and then on the rocks you can see
marmots sometime and pìkô
which are little tiny animals like a
squeak how many times have you done this
hike probably five or six probably
there’s another probably - probably
reduction probably five or six okay and
to me it’s the most scenic hike around
here especially in September
scenic this is a great word you can use
to describe a beautiful landscape scenic
scenic to me it’s the most scenic hike
around here especially in September
because the Aspen are turning yellow and
a lot of these bushes are turning red
and in June July
it’s just the water is too high you’d
have to take off your shoes and put on
sandals and just wade through so usually
we wait till August or September to do
this
wade this is what you do when you’re
walking through water so you’re not
swimming you’re walking like through a
creek if the water is too deep then you
can’t wait you have to swim take off
your shoes and put on sandals and just
wade through here is David walking over
the creek that dad okay Kevin notice the
word prolly the reduction prolly
probably five or six that’s another way
we reduced the word probably which we
talked about already earlier in this
video probably becoming prob Lee but
also prolly with an OB we do that too
isn’t that funny my dad does it I do it
someone asked where is the most standard
neutral accent in America is in New York
is it Washington good question we do
have regional accents here in the US for
sure I’ve heard that the standard accent
is also called
the Midwestern accent is also called
broadcaster English certainly there are
lots of places in the US where most
people speak the standard accent
anywhere from west coast to East Coast
in the south there are also lots of
people that use the standard accent in
New England also but there more than
other places probably you’ll get
stronger regional accents the southern
accent is pretty clear and distinct the
New England accent as well but really a
lot of people in a lot of places would
speak the standard accent I grew up in
Florida pretty far south but I speak a
standard accent my parents do they were
from the Midwest
everyone in my family speaks one and
they live all over California to Georgia
to Colorado to Minnesota so good
question and that would be my answer to
that all right let’s head back to my dad
let my dad finish up this lesson we’ve
got just a few minutes left in the
in Colorado video says you have to wade
through when the water is higher we
didn’t make it to the top yeah but we
got to a good turning around point and
we had a fantastic view we had lunch
looking out down the Long Valley
couldn’t have been better
couldn’t have been better a word here is
being reduced to just the schwa what
word is it we noticed before that the
word of reduces to just the schwa but
here it’s the word have yes the word
have can be changed to just the schwa
sound uh in conversation especially
after could couldn’t should shouldn’t
would wouldn’t I’ve actually seen native
speakers mess this up and right should
of instead of should have it makes sense
because of and have can both produce to
the same single sound the schwa shoulda
but if this sound is following could
couldn’t should shouldn’t would wouldn’t
the word is definitely have and reducing
have to just the schwa after these words
will help your English sound natural
practice couldn’t uh could nah notice
I’m dropping the T in the contraction
this is how native speakers will say
this phrase couldn’t uh couldn’t uh
special thanks to my dad for being in
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that so pretty oh I would love to be
back there we’re thinking about going in
September but I just I don’t think the
timings gonna be right for a trip like
that I think with the virus it’s still
gonna be we’re gonna want to stay closer
to home so that was that lesson with my
dad I do hope I get to see him at some
point this summer thank you guys for
joining me here with it’s um
interesting things came up in chat thank
you for all of your questions
also huge thanks whoa someone’s at my
door I forgot to mute my phone let’s do
it now
special huge thanks to everyone who
super chatted me today as I said all of
that money is gonna go towards the fun
to try to get some more powerful lights
here in my home studio but it was great
to see you guys and please do check out
my video from Tuesday and check out my
video next Tuesday what I’m doing is a
big summer series we’re doing 13 videos
and they’re all scenes from movies I had
so much fun making these when I do a
bunch of this kind of analysis together
I just feel like I continue to learn and
be energized by what the English
language is like what we do with it how
we use it to express ourselves and spoke
in English so make sure you’re watching
those videos this summer what’s special
about what I’m doing this summer
as I’m doing an audio training portion
after each analysis and so you not only
get to learn and have everything pointed
out in the first half of the video but
then you get the opportunity to try to
practice it and I have some slow motion
audio I have regular pace audio and all
of this helps you at whatever level
you’re at to do the repetition and the
practicing and that’s what starts to
really change your habit and then you
can have fun with you know pretending to
be in the movie try on the role do the
scene find a friend do it with the scene
okay young Wes says make more up close
lessons Rachel love you I get it I get
it it’s it’s it’s all my radar do you
guys know that idiom if something’s on
your radar
then it means something that you’re
aware of you’re gonna think of keep
track of or you could say whoa that was
not even on my radar and that’s like I
didn’t even know about that never heard
about it all right guys I’m gonna wrap
it up here
wonderful to see you guys thank you for
being here thank you for showing so much
love in the chat I appreciate you guys
so much and right now
doing another livestream on Friday of
next week but it is the day where we
would observe the fourth of July so I’m
not sure I’m not a hundred percent sure
if I’m going to be doing it it depends
on if I’m able to work a full day that
day or if I am needed to help with other
things with the family