12. American Intonation: What They Don’t Teach You In School
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What Are You Going to Do?
Five words can be shorter than one word with one syllable. How? Let's look at the next example. What are you going to do? The do is the verb here. And that's the word that I'm going to stress. Okay? Stress Check. Now notice what happens. There is merges with the glass. The glass on becomes the, the. The and and th connect the. Last some, the. okay, so we kind of like took these three words and squeezed them into one utterance. So you get a sentence that is a perfect balance between the high and the low glasses on the between the long and the short glasses.
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