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as an American, the dialogue in this scene doesn't seem fast at all to me. But when I listen to native Spanish speakers I feel like they're talking at the speed of light! It's really interesting to see it broken down like this!

As a native speaker of American English, I've always thought that English feels a lot slower than other languages. Weird.

I’m watching this as an American and native-English speaker and this is so fascinating to see how my speech patterns are actually broken down and explained!

As an American native English speaker I was waiting for the "fast speaking" when this is just normal for me. Then I remember that the target language usually feels faster to the learner. My husband who has English as a third language used to pick on me for talking like Rachel did, just smashing all the words together lol now he's speaking English like this after all these years!

My South Korean sister-in-law took English in school. She said she spoke very awkwardly and was far from conversational. She watched a lot of Friends and How I Met Your Mother while in University. When she came to LA for work she made a point to not live in K-Town where she was working but to live and socialize with a lot of people outside the recent immigrant community. She speaks amazing American English in a very fluid and natural way.

Crazy how in English we cut up words so much. Didn’t realize how many words we don’t pronounce in full or change the sound of a letter in that word speaking and writing are completely different.

I just realized how fast we Americans speak when I thought you were talking slow at the beginning and that the people on Friends were talking at a “normal” pace. Wow! This was cool!

Without your help, the non-native speaker like me will never hear this conversation clearly. It’s really hard. Thank you so much, the greatest english teacher 👩‍🏫

Born in the US and a native speaker I found this interesting. I never realize we spoke like this. Realize now that I do. My Mom taught English and would always tell me to slow down and pronounce my words properly. I now live in Europe and where the English that's spoken is more " British" sounded. So when I speak to Native English, they love my American accent but ask me often to slow or please repeat it again. Now I understand why LOL

This is fascinating. I'm a native English speaker and I have often been told by other native English speakers that I talk way too fast. I don't hear Rachel's speaking as fast, so I like to see it broken down in this way.

As a native-English speaker, I never really noticed that we talked fast like how some other languages do. When I was learning French (in school) our teacher made us memorize the spellings, and so when we would listen to recordings of people talking I couldn’t keep up and trying to figure out the stressed syllables was hard. I had better luck learning Farsi and Portuguese, but I think that was because I was taught it differently. :) this was a very interesting video to watch

I can not even imagine the amount of effort and work put on this kind of video. It is so detailed and carefuly analyzed that I'm feeling almost morally obligated to say "Thank you, Rachel!" out loud (and I really said) and write this comment to not botch my recently learned words and sentences by just passively watching this masterful class. :D

I love how American English sounds. It's challenging to learn from the outside but also really fun. It's distinctive & feels like it's evolving towards more efficient ways of speaking.

I'm recently practicing the American pronunciation because it's the one I like most, and I'm trying to pronounce every word and phrase as you pronounce them. I also watch a lot of shows in English and every time I find a way to pronounce certain words that I used to pronounce as a beginner, I write them down and try pronouncing them every day! I'd like to know if I’m missing something useful to learn how to pronounce well and faster. Thanks

This was fun to watch. I'm a Texan, and while we tend to speak slower than a lot of native English speakers from elsewhere, I try to be mindful of avoiding the notorious "Texas contractions" (like "y'all'd've" as in "you all would have" or "finna'," for which you might first have to explain what "fixing to" means anyway) when I'm talking to non native English speakers.

I watched this analysis last night, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. I love hearing my native accent and seeing it analyzed so thoroughly. I love how you explain it.

Okay so I’m a weirdo. I’m a native speaker but this is so damn interesting. Im sitting here comparing my speech to make sure I’ve been doing it right this whole time 😂

As an author, dialog Is important to me. I really enjoy your lessons because it makes me more aware even though I am 100% American.

I’m a native speaker and i always have great respect for anyone that learns English as their second or third language it is so difficult when we start dropping letters and combining words like gonna, and even when Rachel says “her boyfriend needs to keep his stapler in his desk drawer” ive heard a lot of other languages dont have similes or metaphors like we do or idioms so understanding context with jokes or insinuation is much harder to interpret as figurative or literal. Plus we say things “backwards” to most other languages.

This is my biggest struggle in French. I'm forever asking people to slow down lol. It's hard to understand when you can't pick the words out. Trying to isolate the individual words from a blur that sounds like one word is so hard. It's fascinating to see it in English. I personally think I have particular difficulty because I was only taught formal grammatically correct French. That's stupid. No one says, "Veux tu aller avec moi?" They say "Viens avec moi?" No one asks, "Comment vous appelez-vous?" They ask, "Quel est votre nom?" School French is so stuck in my brain when I worked started an internship in France the girl who was training me was constantly like, "TU. Tu Tu tu. Pas vous. Je ne suis pas ton prof!" Like I know! I'm sorry! It's embedded in there so deep! I automatically use vous because in class you rarely spoke to your classmates, even though French was enforced, you spoke to the teacher at least 90% of the time because talking wasn't allowed in class lol. So you only ever really said what they wanted you to say, answered a question, read, etc. all in formal, grammatically perfect and conversationally useless French. The only time it was helpful was in speaking to the clients because I came off very respectful lol.

Is there a channel like this for Spanish or Italian? How to speak it "naturally" and "quickly" like native speakers may? Thank you all!

Wow! This is exacty the kind of analysis we need to be able to understand native speakers. Thank you! Much appreciated

At school in my country, we were taught to pronounce each word properly by memorizing spelling. So when I talk, I talk to make sure to pronounce properly. I usually listen to NPR and audio books for proper pronunciations. When I watch friends, even they talk fast, I hear it properly. Now I m watching your channel and start learning to undo my training and learn to speak more naturally. Wish I had a teacher like you earlier in my life. But glad to find you. Thank you so much.

And all of this is underlying the many grammatical ways that English has become increasingly efficient. I've often thought about all the features of other languages that English has simplified, or discarded all together. Things like gendered nouns, and highly complicated systems of verb conjugation.

This is the teacher that everyone needs in order to sound fluently and natural. Thank you Rachel thanks to you I was able to get the fluent that I have now and keep going improving it 💪🏻

THIS IS SO COOL. Native American English over here - I would have never realized the reductions. I see the difficulty however - learning Spain Spanish vs other dialects have similar issues and I struggled with conversations

I'm guessing this could be considered fast speech for non-native English speakers. But I'm a gay Puerto Rican from inner-city Chicago sooo this would be considered slow to me, hahaha

I'm a native American speaker but this was still fascinating. My relatives in Montana turn every word ending in 'ing' to just an 'in'... needin' ridin', etc. I come home with their accent for a bit. It's a real exaggeration over there. Also, just a great analysis of Rachel (actress) making her lines sound like a real person speaking and not written english.

It’s insane how deep this, it makes something I understand seem so overwhelmingly complex 🤯

Experienced this when I went to the US the first time. I was helping someone else who can't speak English to talk to the cashier. The cashier was asking if she wanted a shopping bag, and she spoke so fast I almost couldn't catch what she was saying. Years after, I didn't notice that I ended up emulating that speed in my speech as well.

When you're learning a new language and you happen to hear native speakers conversing it seems as if they are speaking very rapidly. When I was learning French and had gotten to the point that I thought I was fairly proficient, our teacher played a French travelogue video of French speakers speaking to each other at a normal conversational speed. It was so fast that I really had to struggle to keep up.

Little months ago I began to follow this channel,I am getting lesson for improve my pronunciation. So I see how essencial is to know the stress words and unstress words.Thank you very much for the lessons,have been help me a lot.

This video is amazing! I'm a non-native English speaker, and my teacher recommended me to search your channel. I'm so grateful, with your videos I've learned a lot and I thing that now I pronounce better as well as hear people without asking them to repeat it over and over again. Thank you! ❤️

I'm watching Rachel's English teach me English by using Rachel speaking English. Native speaker here. Just love your channel.

This is fascinating. I’m an American English speaker and never analyzed exactly how we talk 🤯😂 it’s so confusing for someone trying to learn! Dropping all these letters and sounds and the intonation changes…just whoa. Are these complexities common in all types of accents?

My mind doesn't yet think faster than my mouth speaks. If my mouth moves very fast for 2 seconds then it will soon shut down for 2 seconds while my brain searches and combines the next words. Still, Rachel's dialogue breakdown/analysis is so useful that my ears are getting familiar with fast-talking speakers. By any means I needed to learn the method first, then my organs can catch up with it. Someday I will be simultaneously handling my ears, mouth, and brain, hopefully.

These videos help me a lot in teaching pronunciation and helping my ESL students working on listening and speaking! I often take times to show them some of this stuff I learn from you when they read aloud.

Please keep in mind that these sitcoms are speeded up in postproduction - this is common technique to make the movie-sitcom "less boring". So it is not real-life speed.

I do public speaking from time to time. When I write my notes I write the accents in as well. So the listener knows when to pay attention. I'll be sharing this with a friend who is learning English 🙏🏽 I've been explaining examples as they arise... I am sure it helps that I studied shorthand when I was 17. I learned what we call Short Forms, commonly used expressions where people mash certain words together. Such as, "They are going ..." using only a shorthand (th-r-g'ing)

Me- an American with English as my native language - still watching this and repeating things to see if I speak like this. Honestly never felt like I spoke fast until I started repeating Rachel’s words and realizing I didn’t pronounce half of what i’m saying. Plus the weird fate that just happened where I just turned on friends and this exact episode & scene was on

I´m teacher of Spanish and Literature , you are a beautiful native speaker *_* love your videos, i´m beginner my english isn´t perfect , it takes perseverance to learn another language my best wishes . I´m from Chile.

What amazing work, for the past four and a half yrs I have been following Rachel's English somehow she’s transformed the way I speak today in terms of pronunciation and intimidation of an American accent. Thank you.

Masterful! 👍 Thank you Rachel for these useful pronanciation tips! 🙋‍♂️ I think that "Friends" is one of the best TV comedies for learning spoken US English 👏 I've watched the TV-show twice 😄 I even sometimes explain my friends and co-workers some English vocab using quotes from the series 🙂

Oh YOU’RE Rachel. I couldn’t believe someone made a whole channel about one friends character speaking. I was so confused

This is great! I learned English as an 18 year old and l remember really struggling at restaurants when they recited the specials because of all the mumbling. Now I’m learning German and really taking care to listen to native speakers rather than learn just through text because of this exact reason. Thanks so much!!

Thank you Rachel so much, I subscribed now, this is exactly the kind of lesson I need to practise, and learn. Bravo!

I speak english as my first language, but the contrast between your instruction and the speech in the clip was fascinating. I don't know why this was in my recommended, but I can tell you are a great and passionate teacher.

yet another great lesson! really helpful for non-native speakers and learners. thank you, Rachel!

A small detail: the word "stapler" is so charged, that the stress is accompanied by a gesture 12:07, a non verbal clue that the word is important. It's the core of the juice gossip, after all. Edit, the same gesture is repeated for "desk drawer", marking the both words of the innuendo.

This lady’s an OG and it’s amazing to see she’s still succeeding in youtube

Native English speaker who's training to teach American English abroad! These videos are incredibly helpful so that I can learn to explain the hows and whys of a language to someone who hasn't grown up with it (SO different from being an English teacher IN AMERICA, what I was actually trained to do!).

Thank u so much since I started whatching this channel my friends are telling me your accent has improved how did u do that! I was so amazed thank u. I am obsessed with your channel, your channel is the cream of the crop ❤️💯 greetings from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿🤗✊🏼

Thank you so much Teacher Rachel , Happy new year 🎉 😘

I am a big fan your videos, so keep making. They speak so fast i don't understand, but when you explain how to pronounce very clear and make me understand it, i really enjoy it.

This lesson is a masterpiece Thank you for all of this wonderful work

Realy the best way to study, Thank you Rache!!

Gosh. This is incredible. I’m learning Korean and this kind of breakdown for that language would be super helpful! Dear native Korean speaker somewhere on the Internet, jump on that and I’ll be there so fast.

Hi Rachel, this is the best way to learn every tiny detail about native speakers when they speak really fast and those linking and reductions or the rhythm and pitches are really important to help us in understanding and speaking I really appreciate your time and videos, have a great holiday

You are my number one English teacher on KZfaq, you really deserve more support, hope you hit the 5 million subscribers soon

Thank you both Rachel and Rachel Green for these kind of videos. Hope one day I'll sound more native

I really like this kind of video it helps me a lot with my pronunciation. thank you Rachel !!!

I was interested in this even as a native english speaker, and at the fast part, I remembered I’d been watching almost every video at 2x speed, including this one! 😅

There's also plenty of invented words... one that I feel that has been popping up more, lately, is "I'mma". "I'mma grab that real quick" instead of "I'm going to grab that real quick." It's a complex language and people are figuring out ways to shorten it, both the written and spoken sides. Seems like every day there's some new shortcut that people come up with.

I'm a native English speaker (American), and I must admit, I don't always understand everything people say when they talk quickly :) So don't get discouraged if you don't as well

Rachel, thanks for sharing such a beautiful comedy episode to teach us how to pronounce some words and drop some letters in certain words in a way that keeps us following through🌹❤️

My brain at 4am while I’m trying to sleep: “Blair frgadder glasses”

It's kinda hard to control the touge to do that linking things but this video obviously make it so much clearly for me❤❤

Hi Rachel!I am new to your lessons.I am big on this lesson,it is so good.And it also helps to understand natives and tv series,so thanks!

the best english teacher in the world thank you so much

Thanks to both Rachel

Loved it Rachel!! It's amazing how clear the dialogue is after your explanation! Thank you!!!

It's cool that you teach all expressions without fussy.

you are much more powerful than dictionary. I hope i can talk more with american

I actually learn more english from the series. They’re very easy to understand because they speak everyday conversation.

I love this lesson format

There's a great way of learning American accent... I'm very lucky that I found you Rachel. You're so smart and brilliant. 😍

you speak so clearly! i bet this is so helpful for english second language people

This channel is wonderful and is what I have searched for till now.

Man the schwa really is the Swiss Army knife of English vowel sounds.

Thanks Rachel you brought this kind of videos because I like this kind of videos I learn pronunciation, linking, reductions this types of videos. Thanks

Terrific lesson for my resolution to help me in watching movies and speaking fluently.Thanks.

This is super interesting! It's also helping me figure out why I have such a hard time understanding people who are not native American-English speakers (I work on the phones with worldwide customers). Some people get really close, but others... their inflections are so off that I can tell they're speaking English, but I just can't understand what they're saying. This video has made me realize just how important all the stresses are when we're talking!

Thank you so much Rachel, it's mesmerizing to discover your channel few days ago. It's really useful to analyze English this way ♥️

Thank you so much Rachel! 💓

Thanks. Very useful information and teaching method!!

I did not notice she speak so fast until you analysis this. English is truly an amazing language.

I love this analysis video. I learnt a lot from your previous videos and expecting more to come. Please keep making analysis videos like this. God bless.

I adore it with a friend, spectacular class

Incredible pronunciation analysis lessons. Great clip. I really appreciate for your clarification. Keep up your amazing work! Good luck, Rachel! And, of course, Season’s greeting!

Apart from the you excellent breakdown of this episode , I am also liking you sense of humor on this particular episode

You are definitely the best and most original teaching real american spoken english.

Oh finally 😍😍😍 welcome back 😘❤️ n thanks for updating this playlist 😍😍😍😍

This reminds me of my linguistic class as an English major. Thanks for the lesson😂

This is really interesting because I have never really thought about how much speaking a language changes from how it’s written. It explains a lot of the pacing differences with people learning the language. Even thinking about how speaking English in Australia and in America differs. If you are speaking fast it can sound like completely different things.

I couldn't help watching the whole lesson cause I was soooo motivated to sound like a native speaker! Thanks ! make this type of lessons more 💜💜💜💜

I do love this movie! I know all the characters by heart, watch it thousands of times! Thank you very much teacher Rachel! P.s. my son gives me some tips on how to comment, i only learn English by your videos!

Find this funny, because as an Irish English speaker, I perceive American English, especially in the clip, it seemed to me like Rachel was speaking particularly clearly 😂 But obviously, for anyone who's first language isn't English, it's not the same thing

you made last year so special for me .it is greatest wish that this coming year be special for you.

Happy New Year, Rachel, wish you and your family all the best~!