Youtube daily report Jul 20 2017

Hi.

Welcome back to www.engvid.com.

I'm Adam, and in today's video I'm going to help you sound a little bit more like a native

English speaker and also to be able to understand native English speakers when they speak.

What I'm talking about more specifically is how to pronounce the preposition "of".

Now, I said: "off", although we almost never say "off".

The "f" hardly ever sounds like "f".

It sounds like a "v" when it's pronounced, but even more often we just drop it altogether

and just have an "a" sound or even just like a small apostrophe sound, like almost no sound

at all between the "of" and the word that comes after it.

Okay?

So most of the time it sounds like: "a" or "ov" with a "v" sound, not an "f" sound.

Now, they're very similar in the mouth where the lips and the tongue are, but we'll practice that.

So, what really depends on how to use it is what follows the "f", what the next word starts with.

Right?

If it's followed by a hard consonant, like a "t", or a "p", or a "d", or a "k" or whatever,

then we generally don't drop too much, but we leave the "of" or we have the "a".

So: "A lot of people" we say in native speed: "a lot 'people", "a lot 'people".

So you can either hear the "a" sound: "a lot a" or "a lot 'people", like you drop into

the "p", "'people", "a lot 'people". Okay?

Sometimes we can also just add the "v", so you can pronounce the "a" very hard...

Or, sorry, with "time", "a lotatime", "a lot 'time" could be, again, the apostrophe, almost

no sound or the "a" sound, 'or we could just use the "of": "a lot ov time", "a lot of time".

Okay?

Notice, also, that the last consonant goes into the vowel.

"A lotatime", "a lotatime", "tatime".

"A lot ov", "a lot ov time", "a lotovtime".

Okay?

So this is with the hard consonants.

Now, when it's followed by a "th", so when we...

For example, when we have "them", most native speakers will just drop the "th" altogether

and just say "em". Okay?

So: "so ma them", "so ma 'em".

So: "so ma them", "so ma vem" because the...

We drop the "th" and we take the "v" of the "of".

"Some of them", "so ma vem", "so ma vem", "so ma vem", "some of them".

If you want to keep the "th", drop the "v".

If you want to use the "v", drop the "th".

But generally we don't have them together.

"So ma them", "so ma vem".

Okay?

But when you have a word like "these", in "these" we don't generally drop the "th".

This is common with "them", not common with other words.

So, "so ma these" or "so mov these".

You have the "v" or you have the "a", but you keep the "th" in "these".

With "them" you can drop the "th"; with "these" you keep the "th".

"Some of these", "so ma these".

Okay?

Now: "one of the best", so here, again, we have the "th".

"One ov the best", notice if say "of" with a "v" not an "f".

We never pronounce the "f" or hardly ever pronounce the "f".

Okay.

"One of the best", "wa na the best", drop the "f", drop the "v" and keep the "a".

"Wa na", "one of", "wa na the best", and keep "the best".

Or if you want to use the "v", you keep the "wa", "nov", make it like blend into the next word.

The "n" goes into the "o", an ellipses it's called.

"Wa nov the best".

So you have the option "v" or "a".

Now, this is especially important when you're listening to native English speakers speak

at regular speed.

Native speakers don't even think about the "f", it's automatically dropped.

Sometimes they'll use the "v", sometimes they'll just use the "a".

Be prepared to listen to both.

Okay?

Let's look at a few more examples.

Okay, so now we're going to look at some other situations.

For example, when "of" is followed by an "h".

Now, again, for native speakers the "h" is a very weak sound so we...

Quite often we just drop it.

We just blend it into whatever came before and after. Right?

So: "Some of whom", now, if I'm speaking slowly and I'm trying to enunciate every word,

I would say: "Some of whom decided that..."

But in normal speed, fast English: "so ma voom", "so ma voom".

Right?

The "a"...

The "v" from the "of", there's the "o", there's the "v": "so ma voom", it blends together,

and the "h" is there but it's very soft and very weak so you don't really even hear it.

"So ma voom", "so ma voom".

Like, it's a little bit of an extra step but it's not really there.

You can almost drop it.

"A lot of help", "a law to vhelp".

Now, here you notice I didn't take it out because it's still there a little bit more.

Sorry.

"A law to vhelp", so I pronounced the "e" a little bit stronger to make up for the weak "h".

Okay?

And...

Sorry, notice also that the "tov", the "t-o-v" blends into each other and then the "v" goes

into the next word because of the "h".

So it's almost like a vowel sound.

"Get rid of him".

So somebody's at the door, I don't want to talk to him, just: "Get ri dovim".

Like, with "him" we quite often drop the "h".

Same as with "them".

"Them", you drop the "th".

With "him" we drop the "h".

So: "Get rid of him", "ri dovim".

It sounds like "dovim".

"Ri dovim", "get rid of him".

Now, the reason we're looking at all this is because when you watch movies or you speak

to a native speaker, they will speak like this, not like this.

And you need to understand that all they've done is they've basically taken the "of",

and just, you know, squished it.

They've used it as a bridge between words.

Okay?

So be able to recognize that.

Now, if it's followed by a vowel...

Okay, my red's almost done, here.

Let's go to blue.

Okay?

Now, followed by a vowel: "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", whatever.

"The rest of our day", "the rest of", I'm still using the "of" even if I'm speaking

slowly, "our day".

"Res tovar day".

Now, the "our", "ow", we just squeeze it to "a" now because we're making it quick, everything

blends in to each other.

"Res tovar day", "res tovar day".

You can almost think of it like a...

Like an apostrophe.

There's almost no "o" there even, "tovar".

"Res tovar day" in natural speed.

"100 percent of every donation goes to charity", "percen tovevry", "tovevry".

There's the "of", and the "t" from the "percent" blends into the "o", the "v" blends into the

"e", and then you have, like, it sounds like one word.

"100 percen tovevry", "tovevry", okay?

And then we have: "a lot of attention".

So we have "o", we have "e", we have "a".

"A lot of attention", "a lotava tention" all squeezed together.

And the "ov"-...

The "of" becomes "av".

"A lotava tention", "lotava", "lotava tention".

Okay?

Now, if you have a word that ends in "f" before the "of", that is pretty much the only time

you will hear the "f".

"Half of the class".

Oh, I guess not.

You'll hear this "f", "half of", "ha fov the class".

So maybe you never really hear the "f".

In some situations you will.

"Of course", that's pretty much the only time I can think of that you will hear the "f"

in "of".

"Of course", okay?

"Half of the class", "ha fov the", everything blends together.

So, again, the whole point of this is to be able to recognize what you're hearing from

native speakers when they're speaking quickly.

If you want to sound more like a native speaker, get used to squeezing that or changing it

to a "v", sometimes just dropping it off completely.

Okay?

And if you have any questions about this, of course, come to www.engvid.com.

You can ask me any questions.

Because this is a pronunciation lesson and you need to hear it more than see it on typed,

there's no quiz with this lesson, but please come and ask any questions you have at www.engvid.com.

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and I'll see you again real soon.

Okay? Bye-bye.

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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE SHOOTING

AND THE DEATH OF AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN BY THE NAME OF JUSTINE

DAMOND.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS STORY

EARLIER THIS WEEK, THE SHOOTING OCCURRED AFTER THIS WOMAN CALLED

THE COPS TO REPORT A POSSIBLE SEXUAL ASSAULT NEAR HER HOME, IN

THE ALLEY.

WHEN THE COPS ARRIVED SHE WENT TO GO TALK TO THEM,

WHEN SHE DID SO ALLEGEDLY THEY HEARD SOME NOISE THAT STARTLED

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DECIDED TO OPEN FIRE.

KEEP IN MIND THAT THE WOMAN WAS SPEAKING

TO THE COP ON THE DRIVER SIDE.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS, THE COP

OPENED FIRE AND SHOT THROUGH THE DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR.

ONE SHOT HIT

HER ABDOMEN AND KILLED HER.

IF YOU ARE A COP, AND YOU ARE THAT

EASILY STARTLED MAYBE YOU SHOULD RECONSIDER BEING A COP.

IF YOUR

FIRST IDEA IS TO OPEN FIRE, YOU ARE NOT THE RIGHT PERSON TO BE A

COP.

THE MAN THAT KILLED HER IS A ROOKIE COP.

HE GOT HIRED BACK

IN 2015.

THERE WERE A NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST HIM IN

A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

>> THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU START ASKING YOURSELF

WHEN THIS HAPPENS.

ARE THERE BODY CAMS?

THE BODY CAMERAS HAD

NOT BEEN ACTIVATED.

THERE ARE PROTOCOL THAT DEFINED WHEN THE

BODY CAM AND WHEN THE DASH CAM GET ACTIVATED.

THE DASH CAM IS

MORE AUTOMATED, LIKE WHEN YOU FLIP ON YOUR SIREN.

THE PROTOCOL

IS NOW ON THE POLICE OFFICERS, WHEN THEY FEEL IN DANGER THEY

WILL FLIP ON THE BODY CAM ON THEMSELVES, AND THEN GO TAKE THE

ACTION.

THESE SEEM LIKE RED FLAGS FOR ME.

THIS SEEMS LIKE WE

NEED TO RETHINK THE PROCESS BEHIND ALL OF THIS BECAUSE I

SELDOM ASK SOMEONE ñ BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT I WANT THE CAMERA TO

BE ON TO VINDICATE MYSELF, BUT THEN AGAIN ñ I WANT THE CAMERAS

TO BE ON ALL THE TIME.

I WANT TO GO AROUND THE PERSON WHO MIGHT

BE KEEPING SOMETHING SECRET.

WHY LEAVE IT UP TO CHANCE?

I KNOW

THAT I CAN SAY ñ HEY SIRI ñ IT HAS BEEN LISTENING TO ME.

THERE

ARE WAYS TO MAKE IT PRETAPED AND START PRE-RECORDING AND THEN

AFTERWARDS ACTIVATED AND MAKE SURE YOU SAVE THE TIME BEFORE.

SO OF BATTERY LIFE AND AN ISSUE.

THERE ARE A LOT OF PROCEDURAL

ISSUES THAT ARE COMING UP.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT ANSWERS WE ARE

GOING TO GET BECAUSE THOSE ANSWERS WOULD COME THROUGH

VIDEOTAPE WHICH WE DIDN'T HAVE, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT ON.

>>WHAT I FIND INTERESTING IS THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE

THEIR CAMERAS ON WHEN THEY ARE ON DUTY.

THIS IS A POLICY

IMPLEMENT IT AFTER ALL THESE CONTROVERSIAL SHOOTINGS TOOK

PLACE IN MINNEAPOLIS.

I FIND IT FASCINATING THAT YOU MIGHT MAKE

THE ARGUMENT THAT ONE COP FORGOT ñ BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TWO

COPS, NEITHER ONE OF THEM HAVE THEIR BODY CAM ON AND THERE WAS

NO FOOTAGE FROM THE DASH CAM.

ESSENTIALLY THERE IS NO EVIDENCE

OF WHAT REALLY OCCURRED.

PEOPLE ARE UNDERSTANDABLY FRUSTRATED AT

THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY, THE LACK OF DETAILS REGARDING WHAT

HAPPENED.

AN INNOCENT NONVIOLENT, LOVING, PASSIONATE

PERSON DIED THAT NIGHT AFTER THEY MADE THE MISTAKE OF CALLING

COPS TO REPORT A POSSIBLE SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE ALLEY.

NOT ONLY

DID SOMEONE LOSE THEIR LIFE, THINK ABOUT WHAT KIND OF

MESSAGING THIS SENDS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY A LITTLE

SKEPTICAL ABOUT COPS.

ARE YOU GOING TO TRUST COPS?

THIS IS A

PERSONAL ANECDOTE, SO TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.

I REMEMBER

TWO YEARS AGO THERE WAS A HOMELESS WOMAN WHO VERY CLEARLY

HAD MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES RIGHT OUTSIDE MY BEDROOM WINDOW.

SHE

WAS COMPLETELY NAKED AND WAS SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HER

LUNGS.

SHE FOUND A HOSE AND JUST STARTED HOSING HERSELF OFF.

I

DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT CALLING THE COPS,

THEN I REALIZED I AM NOT GOING TO CALL THE COPS.

THIS IS COMING

FROM ME, AND I AM FROM A PLACE OF PRIVILEGE.YOU HEAR ABOUT

STORIES LIKE THIS AND IT MAKES YOU WONDER OR QUESTION WHETHER

CALLING THEM IS THE BEST SOLUTION FOR AN ISSUE LIKE THAT.

>> ALSO WHEN COPS COME IF THEY ARE DEALING WITH THAT SORT OF

SITUATION.

I FEEL LIKE THERE IS A LOT THAT KEEPS BEING SAID.

IN

THE SITUATION I REITERATE ALL THOSE THINGS.

I HEAR WHAT YOU

SAY ABOUT THE POLICE OFFICER WHO ñ HOW ARE YOU THAT EASILY

STARTLED?

IN THE FACT THAT IT TAKES DAYS FOR THIS KIND OF

INFORMATION TO COME OUT.

NOW THE ONLY INFORMATION WE HAVE IS

COMING FROM THAT POLICE OFFICER.

LUCKILY IT SEEMS THAT THE CHIEF

OF POLICE IS ORDERING AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION.

>> JUST TO BE CLEAR, THE OFFICER WHO OPENED FIRE IS REFUSING TO

TALK TO INVESTIGATORS.

THEY CANNOT COMPEL HIM OR FORCE HIM

TO SPEAK.

THE OTHER COP THAT WAS PRESENT DURING THAT ENCOUNTER,

THE DRIVER, HE IS SPEAKING TO AUTHORITIES AND HE IS THE ONE

WHO RELEASED THE STATEMENT REGARDING THE STARTLING NOISE.

WE WILL SEE HOW THIS CASE PLAYS OUT BUT PEOPLE ARE

UNDERSTANDABLY UPSET.

THERE NEEDS TO BE A LOT DONE TO REFORM

WHAT WE ARE SAYING WITH POLICE DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE

COUNTRY.

ONE OTHER QUICK THING, THE COP THAT KILLED HER HAS A

HISTORY OF COMPLAINTS EVEN THOUGH HE WAS HIRED BACK IN

2015.

APPARENTLY HE JOINED THE POLICE FORCE TO SERVE ñ HE

CURRENTLY HAS THREE COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST HIM WITH THE

CITY'S OFFICE OF POLICE CONDUCT REVIEW.

WE DON'T KNOW THE

DETAILS OF THOSE COMPLAINTS.

WE ALSO KNOW HE IS FACING A LAWSUIT

BY A WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE WAS TREATED POORLY BY HIM.

>> IF YOU SEE A PATTERN ñ MANY TIMES THERE ARE PATTERNS OF HOW

COPS HAVE PREVIOUS COMPLAINTS, SITUATIONS, OR QUESTIONABLE

INTOLERANCE IN THEIR RECORD.

ALL OF THESE THINGS YOU CAN TAKE

INTO ACCOUNT AND IT COMES BACK TO THE TOP. IS THIS THE ONLY

PROFESSION WHERE THE TOP DOESN'T HAVE ANY RESPONSIBILITY?

YOU

KNOW HUMAN BEINGS MAY GET RATTLED.

IF THAT IS THE CASE

MAYBE DON'T HAVE THEM WORK THE NEXT DAY OR MAYBE HAVE THEM ON

SOME OTHER KIND OF BEAT THE NEXT DAY.

MAYBE IT'S OFFICE JOBS FOR

A WHILE UNTIL YOU CALM YOUR ASS DOWN.

WHATEVER IT MAY BE, FIX

IT.

IF YOU WORK IN A RALPHS GROCERY STORE AND EVERY SHIFT

$20 IS MISSING, THERE IS A PATTERN AND YOU SHOULD BE TAKEN

OFF YOUR SHIFT SO THEY FIGURE IT OUT.

IF THIS GUY HAS A HISTORY

OF BEING RATTLED OR NOT ABLE TO HANDLE SITUATIONS ñ

THAT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS LOSING A COUPLE OF DOLLARS.

>> IN OTHER JOBS WHEN PEOPLE ARE UNDER AN OPEN INVESTIGATION THEY

ARE PULLED OFF DUTY.

I WOULD IMAGINE THAT WHEN YOU WORK A JOB

LIKE BEING A POLICE OFFICER, ALONG THE WAY PEOPLE ARE GOING

TO BE UPSET WITH YOU NO MATTER WHAT.

THERE WILL BE ERRONEOUS

CLAIMS MADE.

HAVE A WAY OF CLASSIFYING IT SO WE CAN NOT

HAVE SOMEONE OUT THERE WHEN A PATTERN MAY OR MAY NOT BE

ESTABLISHED.

I AM HEARTENED BY THIS INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION.

SO OFTEN IT SEEMS THAT A LOT OF POLICE OFFICERS HAVE SAID ñ SO

OFTEN IT IS PEOPLE WITHIN THE SAME DEPARTMENT THAT ARE

INVESTIGATED.

WHETHER IT'S A LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS

OR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

IT'S NICE TO HEAR THAT THE CHIEF OF

POLICE IS BRINGING IN SOMEONE ELSE TO CONDUCT AN INDEPENDENT

INVESTIGATION.

SO OFTEN I HEAR THE INVESTIGATION HAPPENS, FEW

MONTHS HAVE PASSED, THEY WILL TRY TO SLIP IT IN ON A

FRIDAY THAT NOTHING WILL COME OF THIS.

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#Kante: Now we go again - Duration: 3:06.

Kante: Now we go again

For N'Golo Kante, the weeks and months ahead hold plenty that is familiar as well as aspects that will be new.

The winner of multiple player of the year awards last season has swapped Cobham for China as pre-season continues and that means the regular routine at this time of year of working on fundamental physical fitness and match sharpness.

Then the perennial quest at Chelsea to win trophies will commence, and on that front there will be a fresh target for the 26-year-old.

'We're looking forward to China and Singapore and preparing very well for the season,' Kante said as he considered this stage of pre-season.

'We are just at the beginning. It's quite hard work, we're running a lot. We need this for the season. To make sure we start the season at our best.

'Summer was good,' he reported. 'I stayed with my family and my friends, recharged my mind and body, enjoyed different things. I try to forget about football but when I go home people wanted to say "Congratulations".

'When I'm with my friends we like to play boules, tennis or Playstation, or just sometimes go to dinner. 'It was a very good season and I enjoyed it but we are starting a new season and we have to convince again.

'We are looking to do better and we know at a club like Chelsea a good season means to win titles. So we will try to win some titles. We will win what we can win. We will fight for everything.'.

That everything includes for the first time for Kante the chance to compete in the Champions League. 'I am looking forward to this competition,' he confirms. 'Until now I've just been looking at it on TV. I'm happy to have this chance.'.

Well before then though comes the second of three games we play against Arsenal in quick succession, with Saturday's game in Beijing, which is live and free to view online via Chelsea TV following on from the FA Cup final and preceding the Community Shield.

'The FA Cup final is finished now,' says Kante. 'Arsenal played well, better than us and they deserved the victory.

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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE SHOOTING

AND THE DEATH OF AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN BY THE NAME OF JUSTINE

DAMOND.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS STORY

EARLIER THIS WEEK, THE SHOOTING OCCURRED AFTER THIS WOMAN CALLED

THE COPS TO REPORT A POSSIBLE SEXUAL ASSAULT NEAR HER HOME, IN

THE ALLEY.

WHEN THE COPS ARRIVED SHE WENT TO GO TALK TO THEM,

WHEN SHE DID SO ALLEGEDLY THEY HEARD SOME NOISE THAT STARTLED

THEM AND THE COP IN THE PASSENGER SIDE OF THE VEHICLE

DECIDED TO OPEN FIRE.

KEEP IN MIND THAT THE WOMAN WAS SPEAKING

TO THE COP ON THE DRIVER SIDE.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS, THE COP

OPENED FIRE AND SHOT THROUGH THE DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR.

ONE SHOT HIT

HER ABDOMEN AND KILLED HER.

IF YOU ARE A COP, AND YOU ARE THAT

EASILY STARTLED MAYBE YOU SHOULD RECONSIDER BEING A COP.

IF YOUR

FIRST IDEA IS TO OPEN FIRE, YOU ARE NOT THE RIGHT PERSON TO BE A

COP.

THE MAN THAT KILLED HER IS A ROOKIE COP.

HE GOT HIRED BACK

IN 2015.

THERE WERE A NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST HIM IN

A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

>> THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU START ASKING YOURSELF

WHEN THIS HAPPENS.

ARE THERE BODY CAMS?

THE BODY CAMERAS HAD

NOT BEEN ACTIVATED.

THERE ARE PROTOCOL THAT DEFINED WHEN THE

BODY CAM AND WHEN THE DASH CAM GET ACTIVATED.

THE DASH CAM IS

MORE AUTOMATED, LIKE WHEN YOU FLIP ON YOUR SIREN.

THE PROTOCOL

IS NOW ON THE POLICE OFFICERS, WHEN THEY FEEL IN DANGER THEY

WILL FLIP ON THE BODY CAM ON THEMSELVES, AND THEN GO TAKE THE

ACTION.

THESE SEEM LIKE RED FLAGS FOR ME.

THIS SEEMS LIKE WE

NEED TO RETHINK THE PROCESS BEHIND ALL OF THIS BECAUSE I

SELDOM ASK SOMEONE ñ BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT I WANT THE CAMERA TO

BE ON TO VINDICATE MYSELF, BUT THEN AGAIN ñ I WANT THE CAMERAS

TO BE ON ALL THE TIME.

I WANT TO GO AROUND THE PERSON WHO MIGHT

BE KEEPING SOMETHING SECRET.

WHY LEAVE IT UP TO CHANCE?

I KNOW

THAT I CAN SAY ñ HEY SIRI ñ IT HAS BEEN LISTENING TO ME.

THERE

ARE WAYS TO MAKE IT PRETAPED AND START PRE-RECORDING AND THEN

AFTERWARDS ACTIVATED AND MAKE SURE YOU SAVE THE TIME BEFORE.

SO OF BATTERY LIFE AND AN ISSUE.

THERE ARE A LOT OF PROCEDURAL

ISSUES THAT ARE COMING UP.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT ANSWERS WE ARE

GOING TO GET BECAUSE THOSE ANSWERS WOULD COME THROUGH

VIDEOTAPE WHICH WE DIDN'T HAVE, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT ON.

>>WHAT I FIND INTERESTING IS THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE

THEIR CAMERAS ON WHEN THEY ARE ON DUTY.

THIS IS A POLICY

IMPLEMENT IT AFTER ALL THESE CONTROVERSIAL SHOOTINGS TOOK

PLACE IN MINNEAPOLIS.

I FIND IT FASCINATING THAT YOU MIGHT MAKE

THE ARGUMENT THAT ONE COP FORGOT ñ BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TWO

COPS, NEITHER ONE OF THEM HAVE THEIR BODY CAM ON AND THERE WAS

NO FOOTAGE FROM THE DASH CAM.

ESSENTIALLY THERE IS NO EVIDENCE

OF WHAT REALLY OCCURRED.

PEOPLE ARE UNDERSTANDABLY FRUSTRATED AT

THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY, THE LACK OF DETAILS REGARDING WHAT

HAPPENED.

AN INNOCENT NONVIOLENT, LOVING, PASSIONATE

PERSON DIED THAT NIGHT AFTER THEY MADE THE MISTAKE OF CALLING

COPS TO REPORT A POSSIBLE SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE ALLEY.

NOT ONLY

DID SOMEONE LOSE THEIR LIFE, THINK ABOUT WHAT KIND OF

MESSAGING THIS SENDS TO PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY A LITTLE

SKEPTICAL ABOUT COPS.

ARE YOU GOING TO TRUST COPS?

THIS IS A

PERSONAL ANECDOTE, SO TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.

I REMEMBER

TWO YEARS AGO THERE WAS A HOMELESS WOMAN WHO VERY CLEARLY

HAD MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES RIGHT OUTSIDE MY BEDROOM WINDOW.

SHE

WAS COMPLETELY NAKED AND WAS SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HER

LUNGS.

SHE FOUND A HOSE AND JUST STARTED HOSING HERSELF OFF.

I

DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT CALLING THE COPS,

THEN I REALIZED I AM NOT GOING TO CALL THE COPS.

THIS IS COMING

FROM ME, AND I AM FROM A PLACE OF PRIVILEGE.YOU HEAR ABOUT

STORIES LIKE THIS AND IT MAKES YOU WONDER OR QUESTION WHETHER

CALLING THEM IS THE BEST SOLUTION FOR AN ISSUE LIKE THAT.

>> ALSO WHEN COPS COME IF THEY ARE DEALING WITH THAT SORT OF

SITUATION.

I FEEL LIKE THERE IS A LOT THAT KEEPS BEING SAID.

IN

THE SITUATION I REITERATE ALL THOSE THINGS.

I HEAR WHAT YOU

SAY ABOUT THE POLICE OFFICER WHO ñ HOW ARE YOU THAT EASILY

STARTLED?

IN THE FACT THAT IT TAKES DAYS FOR THIS KIND OF

INFORMATION TO COME OUT.

NOW THE ONLY INFORMATION WE HAVE IS

COMING FROM THAT POLICE OFFICER.

LUCKILY IT SEEMS THAT THE CHIEF

OF POLICE IS ORDERING AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION.

>> JUST TO BE CLEAR, THE OFFICER WHO OPENED FIRE IS REFUSING TO

TALK TO INVESTIGATORS.

THEY CANNOT COMPEL HIM OR FORCE HIM

TO SPEAK.

THE OTHER COP THAT WAS PRESENT DURING THAT ENCOUNTER,

THE DRIVER, HE IS SPEAKING TO AUTHORITIES AND HE IS THE ONE

WHO RELEASED THE STATEMENT REGARDING THE STARTLING NOISE.

WE WILL SEE HOW THIS CASE PLAYS OUT BUT PEOPLE ARE

UNDERSTANDABLY UPSET.

THERE NEEDS TO BE A LOT DONE TO REFORM

WHAT WE ARE SAYING WITH POLICE DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE

COUNTRY.

ONE OTHER QUICK THING, THE COP THAT KILLED HER HAS A

HISTORY OF COMPLAINTS EVEN THOUGH HE WAS HIRED BACK IN

2015.

APPARENTLY HE JOINED THE POLICE FORCE TO SERVE ñ HE

CURRENTLY HAS THREE COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST HIM WITH THE

CITY'S OFFICE OF POLICE CONDUCT REVIEW.

WE DON'T KNOW THE

DETAILS OF THOSE COMPLAINTS.

WE ALSO KNOW HE IS FACING A LAWSUIT

BY A WOMAN WHO SAYS SHE WAS TREATED POORLY BY HIM.

>> IF YOU SEE A PATTERN ñ MANY TIMES THERE ARE PATTERNS OF HOW

COPS HAVE PREVIOUS COMPLAINTS, SITUATIONS, OR QUESTIONABLE

INTOLERANCE IN THEIR RECORD.

ALL OF THESE THINGS YOU CAN TAKE

INTO ACCOUNT AND IT COMES BACK TO THE TOP. IS THIS THE ONLY

PROFESSION WHERE THE TOP DOESN'T HAVE ANY RESPONSIBILITY?

YOU

KNOW HUMAN BEINGS MAY GET RATTLED.

IF THAT IS THE CASE

MAYBE DON'T HAVE THEM WORK THE NEXT DAY OR MAYBE HAVE THEM ON

SOME OTHER KIND OF BEAT THE NEXT DAY.

MAYBE IT'S OFFICE JOBS FOR

A WHILE UNTIL YOU CALM YOUR ASS DOWN.

WHATEVER IT MAY BE, FIX

IT.

IF YOU WORK IN A RALPHS GROCERY STORE AND EVERY SHIFT

$20 IS MISSING, THERE IS A PATTERN AND YOU SHOULD BE TAKEN

OFF YOUR SHIFT SO THEY FIGURE IT OUT.

IF THIS GUY HAS A HISTORY

OF BEING RATTLED OR NOT ABLE TO HANDLE SITUATIONS ñ

THAT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS LOSING A COUPLE OF DOLLARS.

>> IN OTHER JOBS WHEN PEOPLE ARE UNDER AN OPEN INVESTIGATION THEY

ARE PULLED OFF DUTY.

I WOULD IMAGINE THAT WHEN YOU WORK A JOB

LIKE BEING A POLICE OFFICER, ALONG THE WAY PEOPLE ARE GOING

TO BE UPSET WITH YOU NO MATTER WHAT.

THERE WILL BE ERRONEOUS

CLAIMS MADE.

HAVE A WAY OF CLASSIFYING IT SO WE CAN NOT

HAVE SOMEONE OUT THERE WHEN A PATTERN MAY OR MAY NOT BE

ESTABLISHED.

I AM HEARTENED BY THIS INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION.

SO OFTEN IT SEEMS THAT A LOT OF POLICE OFFICERS HAVE SAID ñ SO

OFTEN IT IS PEOPLE WITHIN THE SAME DEPARTMENT THAT ARE

INVESTIGATED.

WHETHER IT'S A LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS

OR THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

IT'S NICE TO HEAR THAT THE CHIEF OF

POLICE IS BRINGING IN SOMEONE ELSE TO CONDUCT AN INDEPENDENT

INVESTIGATION.

SO OFTEN I HEAR THE INVESTIGATION HAPPENS, FEW

MONTHS HAVE PASSED, THEY WILL TRY TO SLIP IT IN ON A

FRIDAY THAT NOTHING WILL COME OF THIS.

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This simple word can make you sound more like a native speaker of English! - Duration: 9:07.

Hi.

Welcome back to www.engvid.com.

I'm Adam, and in today's video I'm going to help you sound a little bit more like a native

English speaker and also to be able to understand native English speakers when they speak.

What I'm talking about more specifically is how to pronounce the preposition "of".

Now, I said: "off", although we almost never say "off".

The "f" hardly ever sounds like "f".

It sounds like a "v" when it's pronounced, but even more often we just drop it altogether

and just have an "a" sound or even just like a small apostrophe sound, like almost no sound

at all between the "of" and the word that comes after it.

Okay?

So most of the time it sounds like: "a" or "ov" with a "v" sound, not an "f" sound.

Now, they're very similar in the mouth where the lips and the tongue are, but we'll practice that.

So, what really depends on how to use it is what follows the "f", what the next word starts with.

Right?

If it's followed by a hard consonant, like a "t", or a "p", or a "d", or a "k" or whatever,

then we generally don't drop too much, but we leave the "of" or we have the "a".

So: "A lot of people" we say in native speed: "a lot 'people", "a lot 'people".

So you can either hear the "a" sound: "a lot a" or "a lot 'people", like you drop into

the "p", "'people", "a lot 'people". Okay?

Sometimes we can also just add the "v", so you can pronounce the "a" very hard...

Or, sorry, with "time", "a lotatime", "a lot 'time" could be, again, the apostrophe, almost

no sound or the "a" sound, 'or we could just use the "of": "a lot ov time", "a lot of time".

Okay?

Notice, also, that the last consonant goes into the vowel.

"A lotatime", "a lotatime", "tatime".

"A lot ov", "a lot ov time", "a lotovtime".

Okay?

So this is with the hard consonants.

Now, when it's followed by a "th", so when we...

For example, when we have "them", most native speakers will just drop the "th" altogether

and just say "em". Okay?

So: "so ma them", "so ma 'em".

So: "so ma them", "so ma vem" because the...

We drop the "th" and we take the "v" of the "of".

"Some of them", "so ma vem", "so ma vem", "so ma vem", "some of them".

If you want to keep the "th", drop the "v".

If you want to use the "v", drop the "th".

But generally we don't have them together.

"So ma them", "so ma vem".

Okay?

But when you have a word like "these", in "these" we don't generally drop the "th".

This is common with "them", not common with other words.

So, "so ma these" or "so mov these".

You have the "v" or you have the "a", but you keep the "th" in "these".

With "them" you can drop the "th"; with "these" you keep the "th".

"Some of these", "so ma these".

Okay?

Now: "one of the best", so here, again, we have the "th".

"One ov the best", notice if say "of" with a "v" not an "f".

We never pronounce the "f" or hardly ever pronounce the "f".

Okay.

"One of the best", "wa na the best", drop the "f", drop the "v" and keep the "a".

"Wa na", "one of", "wa na the best", and keep "the best".

Or if you want to use the "v", you keep the "wa", "nov", make it like blend into the next word.

The "n" goes into the "o", an ellipses it's called.

"Wa nov the best".

So you have the option "v" or "a".

Now, this is especially important when you're listening to native English speakers speak

at regular speed.

Native speakers don't even think about the "f", it's automatically dropped.

Sometimes they'll use the "v", sometimes they'll just use the "a".

Be prepared to listen to both.

Okay?

Let's look at a few more examples.

Okay, so now we're going to look at some other situations.

For example, when "of" is followed by an "h".

Now, again, for native speakers the "h" is a very weak sound so we...

Quite often we just drop it.

We just blend it into whatever came before and after. Right?

So: "Some of whom", now, if I'm speaking slowly and I'm trying to enunciate every word,

I would say: "Some of whom decided that..."

But in normal speed, fast English: "so ma voom", "so ma voom".

Right?

The "a"...

The "v" from the "of", there's the "o", there's the "v": "so ma voom", it blends together,

and the "h" is there but it's very soft and very weak so you don't really even hear it.

"So ma voom", "so ma voom".

Like, it's a little bit of an extra step but it's not really there.

You can almost drop it.

"A lot of help", "a law to vhelp".

Now, here you notice I didn't take it out because it's still there a little bit more.

Sorry.

"A law to vhelp", so I pronounced the "e" a little bit stronger to make up for the weak "h".

Okay?

And...

Sorry, notice also that the "tov", the "t-o-v" blends into each other and then the "v" goes

into the next word because of the "h".

So it's almost like a vowel sound.

"Get rid of him".

So somebody's at the door, I don't want to talk to him, just: "Get ri dovim".

Like, with "him" we quite often drop the "h".

Same as with "them".

"Them", you drop the "th".

With "him" we drop the "h".

So: "Get rid of him", "ri dovim".

It sounds like "dovim".

"Ri dovim", "get rid of him".

Now, the reason we're looking at all this is because when you watch movies or you speak

to a native speaker, they will speak like this, not like this.

And you need to understand that all they've done is they've basically taken the "of",

and just, you know, squished it.

They've used it as a bridge between words.

Okay?

So be able to recognize that.

Now, if it's followed by a vowel...

Okay, my red's almost done, here.

Let's go to blue.

Okay?

Now, followed by a vowel: "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", whatever.

"The rest of our day", "the rest of", I'm still using the "of" even if I'm speaking

slowly, "our day".

"Res tovar day".

Now, the "our", "ow", we just squeeze it to "a" now because we're making it quick, everything

blends in to each other.

"Res tovar day", "res tovar day".

You can almost think of it like a...

Like an apostrophe.

There's almost no "o" there even, "tovar".

"Res tovar day" in natural speed.

"100 percent of every donation goes to charity", "percen tovevry", "tovevry".

There's the "of", and the "t" from the "percent" blends into the "o", the "v" blends into the

"e", and then you have, like, it sounds like one word.

"100 percen tovevry", "tovevry", okay?

And then we have: "a lot of attention".

So we have "o", we have "e", we have "a".

"A lot of attention", "a lotava tention" all squeezed together.

And the "ov"-...

The "of" becomes "av".

"A lotava tention", "lotava", "lotava tention".

Okay?

Now, if you have a word that ends in "f" before the "of", that is pretty much the only time

you will hear the "f".

"Half of the class".

Oh, I guess not.

You'll hear this "f", "half of", "ha fov the class".

So maybe you never really hear the "f".

In some situations you will.

"Of course", that's pretty much the only time I can think of that you will hear the "f"

in "of".

"Of course", okay?

"Half of the class", "ha fov the", everything blends together.

So, again, the whole point of this is to be able to recognize what you're hearing from

native speakers when they're speaking quickly.

If you want to sound more like a native speaker, get used to squeezing that or changing it

to a "v", sometimes just dropping it off completely.

Okay?

And if you have any questions about this, of course, come to www.engvid.com.

You can ask me any questions.

Because this is a pronunciation lesson and you need to hear it more than see it on typed,

there's no quiz with this lesson, but please come and ask any questions you have at www.engvid.com.

If you like this lesson, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube

and I'll see you again real soon.

Okay? Bye-bye.

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This simple word can make you sound more like a native speaker of English! - Duration: 9:07.

Hi.

Welcome back to www.engvid.com.

I'm Adam, and in today's video I'm going to help you sound a little bit more like a native

English speaker and also to be able to understand native English speakers when they speak.

What I'm talking about more specifically is how to pronounce the preposition "of".

Now, I said: "off", although we almost never say "off".

The "f" hardly ever sounds like "f".

It sounds like a "v" when it's pronounced, but even more often we just drop it altogether

and just have an "a" sound or even just like a small apostrophe sound, like almost no sound

at all between the "of" and the word that comes after it.

Okay?

So most of the time it sounds like: "a" or "ov" with a "v" sound, not an "f" sound.

Now, they're very similar in the mouth where the lips and the tongue are, but we'll practice that.

So, what really depends on how to use it is what follows the "f", what the next word starts with.

Right?

If it's followed by a hard consonant, like a "t", or a "p", or a "d", or a "k" or whatever,

then we generally don't drop too much, but we leave the "of" or we have the "a".

So: "A lot of people" we say in native speed: "a lot 'people", "a lot 'people".

So you can either hear the "a" sound: "a lot a" or "a lot 'people", like you drop into

the "p", "'people", "a lot 'people". Okay?

Sometimes we can also just add the "v", so you can pronounce the "a" very hard...

Or, sorry, with "time", "a lotatime", "a lot 'time" could be, again, the apostrophe, almost

no sound or the "a" sound, 'or we could just use the "of": "a lot ov time", "a lot of time".

Okay?

Notice, also, that the last consonant goes into the vowel.

"A lotatime", "a lotatime", "tatime".

"A lot ov", "a lot ov time", "a lotovtime".

Okay?

So this is with the hard consonants.

Now, when it's followed by a "th", so when we...

For example, when we have "them", most native speakers will just drop the "th" altogether

and just say "em". Okay?

So: "so ma them", "so ma 'em".

So: "so ma them", "so ma vem" because the...

We drop the "th" and we take the "v" of the "of".

"Some of them", "so ma vem", "so ma vem", "so ma vem", "some of them".

If you want to keep the "th", drop the "v".

If you want to use the "v", drop the "th".

But generally we don't have them together.

"So ma them", "so ma vem".

Okay?

But when you have a word like "these", in "these" we don't generally drop the "th".

This is common with "them", not common with other words.

So, "so ma these" or "so mov these".

You have the "v" or you have the "a", but you keep the "th" in "these".

With "them" you can drop the "th"; with "these" you keep the "th".

"Some of these", "so ma these".

Okay?

Now: "one of the best", so here, again, we have the "th".

"One ov the best", notice if say "of" with a "v" not an "f".

We never pronounce the "f" or hardly ever pronounce the "f".

Okay.

"One of the best", "wa na the best", drop the "f", drop the "v" and keep the "a".

"Wa na", "one of", "wa na the best", and keep "the best".

Or if you want to use the "v", you keep the "wa", "nov", make it like blend into the next word.

The "n" goes into the "o", an ellipses it's called.

"Wa nov the best".

So you have the option "v" or "a".

Now, this is especially important when you're listening to native English speakers speak

at regular speed.

Native speakers don't even think about the "f", it's automatically dropped.

Sometimes they'll use the "v", sometimes they'll just use the "a".

Be prepared to listen to both.

Okay?

Let's look at a few more examples.

Okay, so now we're going to look at some other situations.

For example, when "of" is followed by an "h".

Now, again, for native speakers the "h" is a very weak sound so we...

Quite often we just drop it.

We just blend it into whatever came before and after. Right?

So: "Some of whom", now, if I'm speaking slowly and I'm trying to enunciate every word,

I would say: "Some of whom decided that..."

But in normal speed, fast English: "so ma voom", "so ma voom".

Right?

The "a"...

The "v" from the "of", there's the "o", there's the "v": "so ma voom", it blends together,

and the "h" is there but it's very soft and very weak so you don't really even hear it.

"So ma voom", "so ma voom".

Like, it's a little bit of an extra step but it's not really there.

You can almost drop it.

"A lot of help", "a law to vhelp".

Now, here you notice I didn't take it out because it's still there a little bit more.

Sorry.

"A law to vhelp", so I pronounced the "e" a little bit stronger to make up for the weak "h".

Okay?

And...

Sorry, notice also that the "tov", the "t-o-v" blends into each other and then the "v" goes

into the next word because of the "h".

So it's almost like a vowel sound.

"Get rid of him".

So somebody's at the door, I don't want to talk to him, just: "Get ri dovim".

Like, with "him" we quite often drop the "h".

Same as with "them".

"Them", you drop the "th".

With "him" we drop the "h".

So: "Get rid of him", "ri dovim".

It sounds like "dovim".

"Ri dovim", "get rid of him".

Now, the reason we're looking at all this is because when you watch movies or you speak

to a native speaker, they will speak like this, not like this.

And you need to understand that all they've done is they've basically taken the "of",

and just, you know, squished it.

They've used it as a bridge between words.

Okay?

So be able to recognize that.

Now, if it's followed by a vowel...

Okay, my red's almost done, here.

Let's go to blue.

Okay?

Now, followed by a vowel: "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", whatever.

"The rest of our day", "the rest of", I'm still using the "of" even if I'm speaking

slowly, "our day".

"Res tovar day".

Now, the "our", "ow", we just squeeze it to "a" now because we're making it quick, everything

blends in to each other.

"Res tovar day", "res tovar day".

You can almost think of it like a...

Like an apostrophe.

There's almost no "o" there even, "tovar".

"Res tovar day" in natural speed.

"100 percent of every donation goes to charity", "percen tovevry", "tovevry".

There's the "of", and the "t" from the "percent" blends into the "o", the "v" blends into the

"e", and then you have, like, it sounds like one word.

"100 percen tovevry", "tovevry", okay?

And then we have: "a lot of attention".

So we have "o", we have "e", we have "a".

"A lot of attention", "a lotava tention" all squeezed together.

And the "ov"-...

The "of" becomes "av".

"A lotava tention", "lotava", "lotava tention".

Okay?

Now, if you have a word that ends in "f" before the "of", that is pretty much the only time

you will hear the "f".

"Half of the class".

Oh, I guess not.

You'll hear this "f", "half of", "ha fov the class".

So maybe you never really hear the "f".

In some situations you will.

"Of course", that's pretty much the only time I can think of that you will hear the "f"

in "of".

"Of course", okay?

"Half of the class", "ha fov the", everything blends together.

So, again, the whole point of this is to be able to recognize what you're hearing from

native speakers when they're speaking quickly.

If you want to sound more like a native speaker, get used to squeezing that or changing it

to a "v", sometimes just dropping it off completely.

Okay?

And if you have any questions about this, of course, come to www.engvid.com.

You can ask me any questions.

Because this is a pronunciation lesson and you need to hear it more than see it on typed,

there's no quiz with this lesson, but please come and ask any questions you have at www.engvid.com.

If you like this lesson, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube

and I'll see you again real soon.

Okay? Bye-bye.

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[ENG SUB] [YH Living Journal #6] Hyungseob & Euiwoong Rehearsal - Duration: 2:32.

[La Da Dee #6]

[June 30, 2017. Before going to the rehearsal]

[Look over here] Hyungsub!

[Hyungsub and Euiwoong are diligently taking selfies]

It's cute.

[Show me!] [Show us the cute picture!]

It shows characters too~

[It's cute, right?]

[Satisfied]

[What's happening here today?]

[It's early in the morning, so his voice is calm] Before the final concert, I'm here at the salon.

[How do you feel?] I went to school in the morning

and I feel very fresh. [Fresh]

[You two slept for too long for you guys to be fresh] I don't remember...

[So happy][I don't know what you're talking about][You don't remember?]

[Telling the truth] A bit... I think I fell asleep for a little bit.

[Hyungsub? Are you listening?]

[Giggling][I don't know anything about this]

[So confident] I'm not sure if I fell asleep...

[Can't rebut] [So we prepared some evidence!]

[It's you] [Elegantly has his eyes closed]

[Pressing his lips together]

[Dozing off]

[Dozing off]

[Dozing off]

[Are you okay?...]

[What???] I'm not sure if I fell asleep!

Everyone knows, except for you.

[Heungchit-poong!]

[Is there a special gesture that you prepared for the concert?]

[Fumbling] I prepared two gestures. (Satisfied)

I'm going to do this gesture

and this gesture.

I think this is enough.

I think I can show everything with this gesture.

[Goal they'll face for the concert] This is the last concert we'll have,

so we'll do it with no disappointments.

- Fighting! - Fighting!

I'll make it burn up in white flames!

I'll make it burn up in black flames!

- Black. - I'm going to make it white.

I think it'll be fun. I'm looking forward to it!

- I've never been on this huge stage before... - That's right.

We're trainees, so we've never done a concert.

[Nodding]

I'm looking forward to it, [Nodding]

nervous, [Nodding] and I want to see everyone. [Nodding]

Look forward to it!

Bye~