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Vocabulary: Parties and Labor Day - American English Pronunciation - YouTube
Channel: Rachel's English
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Hello Rachel's English fans! Today we are
going to go over vocabulary for parties, specifically,
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for a grilling/Labor Day party, which is what
I went to just this past weekend. Labor Day
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is the first Monday in September in America,
and it is a holiday. So, most people are lucky
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enough to have that day off, and therefore
have a three day weekend.
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First, Labor Day. Labor Day begins with the
L consonant sound, ll, tongue tip up behind
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the teeth. Ll, ll, lay, lay, the 'ay' as in
'say' diphthong, Labor. The second syllable,
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unaccented, will be lower in pitch, lower
in volume, Labor, Labor, with the B consonant
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sound and the schwa/R sound: br, br. Labor,
Labor. Day, with the D consonant sound and
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the 'ay' as in 'say' diphthong, watch how
the tongue moves between those two sounds:
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Day, Day. Labor Day.
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Show them a good, old fashioned, American
back yard. It's pretty typical to grill out
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in one's back yard. Back yard. The B consonant
sound followed by the 'aa' as in 'bat' vowel
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sound. Ba-aa, jaw drops quite a bit, tongue
is raised a little bit there in the back.
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Baa-aa-k. To make the K sound, the back of
the tongue reaches up, kk and pulls away,
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kk, to release and make that sound. Back yard.
The Y consonant sound followed by the 'ah'
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as in 'father' sound. Ya, ya-rd. The R consonant
sound and the D sound. Yard, yard. I've noticed
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recently with some of my students: when they
have the 'ah' as in 'father' vowel followed
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by the R consonant sound, that they tend to
make it one sound: rr, rr. Make sure your
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jaw drops, ya-, ah, at the beginning, so you
get that good ah vowel sound. Yarr, before
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moving into the r sound. Yard. Back yard.
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And here we have the grill.
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Grill begins with the G consonant
sound, gg, gg, the R consonant
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sound, gr, gr, so it is a G-R consonant blend.
Gg, the back of the tongue is raised and it
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releases while the vocal cords are making
noise. Gg, gg, rr, gr. To make the R sound,
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the tongue has to move up in the middle. Gr,
rr, and press against the insides of the top
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teeth. Gr, gr. The ih sound is next, gri-,
gri-ll. And finally, the dark L. Uhl, and
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the tongue tip moves, finishing, ll, just
behind the top teeth. Grill, grill.
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The meat. We had ribs, pork, and chicken.
Actually, I believe that was not pork, it
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was lamb. At any rate, this is what we had,
and it was especially delicious. The ribs
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actually had been made before and frozen.
My friend who is a chef assures me that the
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best way to cook ribs is actually to cook
them twice. He says it's the only real way
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to get them juicy. Anyway, I do wish we'd
had some fresh vegetables to put on the grill.
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Corn on the cob and zucchini are among my
favorites.
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Ribs begin with the R consonant sound, rr,
rr, lips will be in a circle there to make
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that beginning sound. Ri-, opening into the
'ih' as in 'sit' vowel sound, ri-. And finally,
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the B consonant sound followed by the Z sound.
Ribs, ribs. The plural here is pronounced
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as a Z because the final sound on the word
rib is B, which is voiced, bb, bb, and the
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voiced consonant will be followed by the Z
sound in plural form. Ribs, ribs.
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Chicken begins with the
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ch CH sound, ch, opening into the 'ih' as
in 'sit' vowel sound, chi-, chi-kk. K consonant
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sound, where the tongue reaches up, chick,
chick-en. And the schwa sound followed by
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the N consonant sound. Chicken. The first
syllable here is stressed. Chicken. So the
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second syllable, unstressed, will be lower
in pitch and lower in volume, also shorter.
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Chicken, chicken.
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While we were all waiting on the meat to be
ready, we had some smaller, lighter food before
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hand, we call those appetizers. Chips and
dip are a very popular American appetizer
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to have at a party. Appetizers. Notice the
first syllable is stressed. Appetizers. The
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third syllable has a secondary stress, meaning,
it will come out of the line a little bit,
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but it's not as high or as loud as the first
syllable. Appetizers. The 'aa' vowel sound
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begins the word. Appe-. The P consonant sound
followed by the schwa. Appe-ti: the T consonant
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sound followed by the 'ai' as in 'buy' diphthong.
Appeti-, ti-, appeti-zers. The Z consonant
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sound, schwa-R sound, and the Z consonant
sound. Appetizers.
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Chips begins with the ch consonant sound,
ch, chi, the 'ih' as in 'sit' vowel sound.
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Chi-, chi-ps, ps. The P consonant sound with
the S sound. Chips. So the lips have to come
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together, pp, ps, for the P, and the open,
ss, while the teeth remain together to make
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the S. Chips, ps, chips. The word 'and' will
be reduced here. It is a function word, therefore
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not as important as the two nouns that surround
it. Chips nn, nn, so it will be pronounced
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just with the N sound, chips-n-. Dip: the
D consonant sound, the 'ih' as in 'sit', and
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the P consonant. Dip, dip, chips and dip.
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Not a great lowercase A, but here is an apple
pie that I made. Apple pie begins with the
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'aa' as in 'bat' vowel sound. Apple, pp, pp,
the P consonant sound followed by the schwa
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and the dark L sound. -ple, -ple, apple. Apple.
I'm sure you notice it's the first syllable
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that's stressed. Apple pie. The P consonant
sound and the 'ai' as in 'buy' diphthong.
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Apple pie. Yummy yummy, serving it up.
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This is part of an idiom, as American as apple
pie. What does this idiom mean? Well, apple
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pie we sort of think of as being an American
invention. We associate it with American holidays
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such as the 4th of July, summer, it feels
like a very American thing. So if you say,
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she's as American as apple pie, that means
she is very American: perhaps very patriotic
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or just your typical American girl. That's
it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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