Learn English with Disney | ALADDIN – Transcript

00:04Fantastic point of view, no one to tell us no, of where to go, or see where we'll meet you for a minute.

00:20Oh yeah, Aladdin is definitely a classic. Even if you haven't watched the 1992 animation or the 2019 live action, which by the way, we made a lesson on that you can watch later. I'm sure that you have heard of or even sung the theme song that we've just seen.

00:36So today, we'll learn English pronunciation and vocabulary that you can actually use and that will help you to understand your favorite movies and TV series without getting lost, without missing the jokes, and without subtitles. So subscribe now by clicking the subscribe button and the bell down below.

00:55That way, you can continue having fun every week learning English with us. Aladdin is a poor mischievous boy who falls in love with Princess Jasmine.

01:11The daughter of the Sultan, Agrabah. The two meet while she is disguised as a commoner after running away from the palace and attempt to experience a life without the pressures of royalty. Whoa, watch your head there, oh be careful. Is this where you live?

01:27Yep, just me and Abu. Come and go as we please. That sounds fabulous. Well, it's not much, but it's got a great view. Now the palace looks pretty amazing, huh? Oh, it's wonderful.

01:43I wonder what it would be like to live there and have servants and valets. Oh sure, people who tell you where to go and how to dress. That's better than here. You're always scraping for food and ducking the guards. You're not free to make your own choices.

02:00Sometimes you feel so... You're just trapped. Watch your head there, oh be careful.

02:17When Aladdin tells Jasmine to watch her head, he's warning her to pay attention and be careful not to hit her head. When you want someone to be careful with something, you can use the collocation watch your plus now. For example, watch your step, walk carefully.

02:32Watch yourself, pay attention to how you're behaving. Watch your mouth, be careful with what you say. Check out how in this frozen scene, the guest was told to be careful when entering Arndale.

02:57If a person comes and goes as they please, they don't obey any rules or laws. They behave freely without caring about social conventions. To tell someone to do something as they please means they can do it in any way they like or prefer. Check out how Rumpelstiltskin uses that to say that by being an ogre, Shrek can destroy places

03:15and scare people the way he wants.

03:40I wonder is a way of expressing what you are thinking. It's similar to saying I think or I imagine.

04:02Aladdin lives in a place where he can see the Sultan's palace, so he imagines what life is like with certain and valets like the Sultan has. A Sultan is a leader in some Muslim countries, similar to a king in a monarchy. A valet here is a male servant that takes care of personal services for the employer.

04:19In some places, like in the US, it's quite commonly used to refer to the employees that park the customer's cars at a hotel or restaurant, or a hotel employee who performs more personalized services for customers. A servant is a person who serves others. Here it refers to the employees of the palace who take care of the chores, such as cleaning, cooking, and so on.

04:39It's important to mention that calling employee's servants can sound derogatory. May I have a word privately? This doesn't concern your servant. Sure, people who tell you where to go and how to dress.

04:55Alright, notice how she connects the words here. The T in 2 becomes a flap T and sounds like D, da da da. What happens is that the last E in where is silent. So when it connects with the flap T, you only hear the other sound, where to go, where to go.

05:14This same pattern repeats in this part of the famous theme song, the movie that we saw at the beginning. No one to tell us no, where to go. But you know what? Let's look at the full pronunciation of that part of the song. The first sentence is a whole new world.

05:31First, you need to know that the musicality of English comes from having syllables that are fully pronounced or stressed, and others that are weakened, unstressed. In the unstressed syllables, all sounds are reduced to a schwa sound that's mainly pronounced as uh, uh.

05:48That's what happens with the A in a hole, a hole, a hole. You must watch this lesson that Cassie made right after this one to learn more about the schwa sound. That too, a whole new world. Now the letters W and E and the word hole are silent.

06:05This means that the word only has three sounds. The H that sounds like a weak R in some languages, uh, uh, uh. O sounds like the O in soul. And the L is a dark L, so you need to roll your tongue like this. Uh, uh, a hole, a hole.

06:24Moving on, we have the word world, which is always a tricky one to get right. So first, you have the wook sound, and you link it with the rook sound. Imagine that there's no vowel in between them. Whore, whore, like in the word whore.

06:40Then you roll your tongue for a long dark L sound. Uh, whore, whore. Finally, the tip of your tongue comes to the front of your mouth for the D sound. World, world. Putting the entire sentence together, it sounds like this.

06:58A whole new world. Repeat after me. A whole new world. The next sentence is... A new fantastic point of view. What are the two words in this part that end with the same sound?

07:16A fantastic point of view. Did you get it? The words new and view end with the exact same sound. A long ooo sound, ooo.

07:34Another interesting thing is that both A's and fantastic have the exact same sound, an open eh. Now remember I told you about the schwa sound? Here we have it in the letter A again, in a new, a new. But the most interesting thing is the word of in point of view, also becomes a schwa.

07:55Then the f is actually pronounced with a w sound, of, of. Because of the way words are connected, we drop the t in point and connect it with of, and the w sound connects with the v from view.

08:11So what you hear is point of view, point of view, point of view. Putting it all together, it sounds like this. A new fantastic point of view. So far we have these two sentences. Repeat them after me. A whole new world.

08:28A new fantastic point of view. Pretty cool, isn't it? How are you doing so far? Before we continue, let us know down in the comments below if you'd like to see more pronunciation lessons like this one. The next sentence is, no one to tell us no.

08:48So tell and us are connected, and the words to and us become a schwa as well. So you hear, to tell us, to tell us. Repeat after me. To tell us. Finally we have, where to go or say where.