23/12/23 Rachel English – Studying American Accents (CODA) 📺

ordered two beers.
I thought it was so cool.
I thought it was
I thought it was
The first three words here are pretty flat and quite fast.
I thought it was so cool.
And then we have our up down shape of stress.
On our two final words.
So cool.
So “I thought it was”, pronounced quickly.
I thought it was so cool.
I thought it was so cool.
I thought it was
I thought it was
So a couple of things.
I thought it
Linking that with a flap T is gonna help
with that smoothness.
And of course, this is a stop T.
There’s no T release.
it was
it was
The word ‘was’
said with the schwa Z.
But really, you can think of there being no vowel.
was
was