bootz and katz, bootz and katz, bootz andkatz. what are you saying?boots and cats. i'm beatboxing for today's lesson. remember?oh. can we video it now?oh, um. no, i'm busy now. sorry, gotta go. well later then, right?ok guys. today's lesson is on the rhythm of englishand luckily we have some help. we have here inertia. we have premsy. we have omni. fantastic!english is a stress timed language. one. two. three. four. one. two. three. four.one and two and three and four. one and then two and then three and then four. one andthen a two and then a three and then a four.
the rhythm of english is different from manyother languages. in this lesson you'll learn how, and you'll learn some fun ways to improveyour listening and your pronunciation. most languages in the world count beats withsyllables. but not english. look what happens here.one two three four one and then a two and then a three and thena four. notice i'm saying more words the second timebut the rhythm stays the same. in english, we stress the words that carry the most meaningand we de-stress the words that don't. i've done it.done what? i've written a computer programme that cansay anything in english.
really? it can speak clearly?i think so. we're gonna be millionaires. wow! show me.tell me what to make it say. when i'm a millionaire, i'm gonna travelthe world. when-i-am-a-mil-li-on-aire-i-am-go-ing-to-tra-vel-the-world. are you sure it's english?it didn't sound like english, did it? no.i don't understand. it said every syllable clearly.i think that's the problem in most languages, when you want to be clear,you pronounce every syllable fully. but if you do that in english you could confuse yourlisteners. we're expecting you to stress the wordsthat carry, the most meaning, and de-stress
the rest.here's an example. do you remember when jay said this? which word did he stress?i've done it. notice he said' 'done' longer, louder andhigher in pitch. he stressed it. what about this sentence?we're going to be millionaires. wow! show me! the important word for understanding the meaninghere is millionaires. so it gets the stress. ok, now let's look at de-stressing and we'llplay a game. i'm going to say some words and you have to work out what words i'msaying. ready? andthena andthena andthena did you get them? do you know what i'm sayingjay? and he's a native speaker! ok, here they
are in a sentence. one and then a two andthen three and then a four. andthena andthena ok, here are some more words. ready? that'sthe,that'sthe, that's the. did you get them? here they are in a sentence.i think that's the problem. that'sthe. that's the problem. so thesounds of words change a lot when they're in a sentence.words get stressed or de-stressed. words that carry the most meaning get stressed. littlegrammar words usually don't get stressed. now something you should know. there is nolanguage which is always syllable timed or always stress timed. languages are alwaysa mixture. but they lean one way or another and english is generally stress-timed.we just think that way. we look for a beat
and we expect to hear important words formeaning on the beat. and it's like music because the beat canchange. if the beat stayed the same, we'd all be poets.close up of socks on the floor. cut to wider shot of me picking them up.jay, you need to put these socks in the wash. but they're black.so? black socks never get dirty, the longer youwear them the blacker they get sometimes i think i should wash them, butsomething inside me keeps saying not yet, not yet, not yet.black socks never get dirty, the longer you wear them the blacker they getsometimes i think i should wash them, but
something inside me keeps saying not yet.black socks never get dirty, the longer you something inside me keeps saying not yet.so how can you learn to stress time in english? poetry is great. and songs too and raps areterrific. so find some rhymes, and find some songs and clap and sing along. it's goingto be great for your pronunciation and your listening too.and another thing that's great for your english is watching our videos. make sureyou subscribe to our channel. bootz and katz, bootz and katz. bye guys.thank you so much. who was that? oh nobody.are we going to shoot the video now? oh we've already shot it.really?
yeah, the lesson's finished. bye everyone.see you all next week. but i can beatbox. boots and katz, boots andkatz
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