American English Pronunciation Workbook

declarative intonation: practice


1.   whoa milk in twizzlers

2.   all the sound just rolls right up the wall

3.   he'll pour all the water that's left in that bucket

4.   uh we shared everything

5.   that's the most important thing that can be done

6.   to be really extreme right wing

7.   you cannot do this to the other person

8.   and they would take that number as gospel

9.   it's so dirty i wish they'd clean it up more

10.   oh hell i deserve a break i'm going out to lunch

11.   he'll need that someday I would never have done it

12.   and she got a divorce when i was three

13.   i'd have to think about that i really would

14.   those sores for i don't know how long

15.   city's got like four guys working

16.   is screw it up so badly that you have to start over

17.   and I I'm not saying they were perfect either

18.   and i had people waiting at a phone bank

19.   well i already think that's happening right now

20.   was smart enough to do it before i had kids

21.   I don't care who they are there isn't an honest one in it

22.   yknow they never ask for extra money

23.   overdosed him like twice in a day

24.   and that's what I suggest to everybody else

25.   a minority within czechoslovakia

26.   there won't be such a thing as a family

27.   wait till the generations start growing up

28.   it's like for some reason i didn't want to do that

29.   are like people who have cats and dogs

30.   and actually seeing things for what they are

31.   but i think the influence was not financial

32.   to moderate that stance

33.   goes against the first law of physics

34.   it and now i've really got resentment against him

35.   this friends mother and i grew up together

36.   sometimes i think politics are little bit dirty

37.   it is it was very much high school

38.   critical of of organized religion

39.   it doesn't really affect me personally

40.   no actually most of it most of it stayed

41.   so i took him downstairs and paddled him

42.   and you get as much justice as you can afford

43.   normal kids that goes away about age eight

44.   now one year i forgot to send it in so i went to the polls

45.   then you're really gonna get out of it what you need to

46.   and so we were dealing with all of this

47.   and i tell them writing is not an event

48.   whoa dude man look there's a tornado over there

49.   and every time i rewrote it it got better

50.   thing is one of those things were she just doesn't turn in her stuff

51.   and that's what religion is religion is faith

52.   ready for the change that was coming

53.   my boyfriend is is big in sports

54.   uh a quote beautiful child

55.   and then they start working on it and then they get it done

56.   i moved into a management position

57.   i've been home like three hours and now i'm just fuming

58.   also be changing in the future

59.   you try not to think too much while you're in there

60.   to he's gotta be in jail for five years yknow

61.   they're the ones that usually get lost in the shuffle

62.   oh he he's quite a smart fellow really

63.   but then we have all these this crime

64.   total destruction of our center cities

65.   yknow i see a liar i bring him out

66.   i walked out and uh it wasn't quietly

67.   this has eroded over time

68.   it was mostly like labor related

69.   permeate the entire society

70.   i was just brought up to be an honest person

71.   because she just didn't stay in school long enough

72.   the law it's how it's enforced

73.   one of my best friend's brother had died of it

74.   some wires are crossed up here or something

75.   people don't have the priorities they should

76.   so that's the most powerful thing I can do

77.   they really do learn best by example

78.   that are foster families that only want the money

79.   us kids through the day she could teach

80.   things the other kids come in already knowing

81.   even the arbitrator was an asshole

82.   i have one daughter thirty six years old

83.   and they're coming from so many different backgrounds

84.   from the time they're born until they're five

85.   i believe you turned in the wrong paper

86.   i feel like i'm not the one that makes him yell

87.   uh and so one vote does count

88.   may not know what that really means

89.   could have been charged with abuse in fact

90.   i wouldn't of i wouldn't of wasted my time

91.   to shift from there to another target

92.   let's see what you understand and have learned

93.   to make them work that off

94.   now it's our turn to deal with the issues

95.   if they're lucky they've got a loving grandparent

96.   through his brother was dating my best friend

97.   emma's sort of a timeless name

98.   yknow maybe they don't learn well by listening

99.   i just can't believe that i just think that's terrible

100.   uh german film from the twenties

101.   you're too busy thinking about the content

102.   or will go the exact opposite direction

103.   that there's no way that they can deny it

104.   even as a toddler he could do this he

105.   pretend like you're writing for an alien

106.   it's so against human nature

107.   they wouldn't cut me slack for nothing

108.   the issue right now is that there's nothing there

109.   that's that's basically my fear

110.   he could he just knew how to get around anything

111.   in general they're very concerned

112.   she didn't know how to read or write

113.   to adulthood is a tough time

114.   there are certain times in your life where you're gonna be fat

115.   and i don't believe that i think that's terrible


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