[General] Some British accent in an interview video

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gookenhaim

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Hi. I am learning UK accent with this video but I can't hear some of the words...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvix8cJ_zc

at 6:56

When I finally woke up,
[zen? we?], this person here,
[whos? told? that? later]
[imagine that they tried to kill me
they woke up with my pony as well]

I couldn't hear the words in square brackets.
What does he say in those moments?
Thank you for your answer in advance!
 

jutfrank

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this person here was ... told me later that he ... he thought

quietly dying

do you remember you told me that
 

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I'm not sure it's a great idea to use either Prince Charles or Ant and Dec as models for pronunciation. You might want to choose someone whose accent is a bit more neutral.
 

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Whichever accent you choose to learn, pay particular attention to the way the words are stressed and left unstressed in connected speech -- the overall ebb and flow of emphasis and slurring.

There are uncountable ways to pronounce vowels and consonants, British, American, etc., etc. But native English speech of every kind tends to stress the same words in every sentence, and that's where foreign learners sound foreign longest.
 
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