How native speakers pronounce “actually”

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I have an interest in education. Actually, what I find is, everybody has an interest in education. Don't you?

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

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I have an interest in education. Actually, what I find is, everybody has an interest in education. Don't you?

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

If you're at a dinner party, and you say you work in education -- actually, you're not often at dinner parties, frankly. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

When my son was four in England -- actually, he was four everywhere, to be honest. (Laughter)

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) Actually, we lived in a place called Snitterfield, just outside Stratford,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

and I just want to say a word about the transition. Actually, my son didn't want to come. I've got two kids; he's 21 now, my daughter's 16.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized. And I think we can't afford to go on that way.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

(Laughter) Actually, do you know that old philosophical thing, "If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody hears it, did it happen?"

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

It's the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts. And if you're wondering, somebody actually did the experiment where they cut off the olfactory sense of the squirrels,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

if it's not going to help. But actually, medical practice doesn't work that way. And it's not the doctor's fault,

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator — Tim Urban · TED

is sequential when you multitask what you're actually doing is juggling back and forth between activities

Slow Thinking

and initiate an autonomous patrol of the area. So that's cool, but why does it actually matter? Well I'm going to share with you a couple of stories.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

So SFPD knew that this happened, but they never actually caught anybody in the act. With the drone, they're able to get this asymmetric advantage.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

So there is a mountain of technology under the hood that makes this stuff work. Drones are deceptively small, but they're actually on par with self-driving cars and rocket ships

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

when and where you need it. But the key enabling technology is actually eyesight -- giving drones the same ability that people have

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

continuously in the background and doing useful work on our behalf. So what did we actually accomplish with this mission? On an autonomous patrol like this, we can inspect the infrastructure,

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

how we operate all of this infrastructure. But I actually think infrastructure is a pretty good way to describe what the drones themselves are becoming.

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

We also see them as toys and tools of entertainment. But there’s actually a very useful function for this technology: to go where people can’t,

The Invisible Infrastructure in the Sky | Adam Bry | TED · TED

here you are at the end of the course although it's not actually the end at all it's more like the start

Finish

As a culture, we have trivialized what is actually the defining decade of adulthood. Leonard Bernstein said that to achieve great things,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

In the Nusa Penida Hope Spot you can actually see the progression from a damaged reef after some time of care,

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

where it's cold, it's dark, it's high pressure, but it's where most of life on Earth actually exists. The merger of new technology and ancient wisdom.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

I told Emma the time to start picking your family is now. Now you may be thinking that 30 is actually a better time to settle down than 20, or even 25,

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

and ants. It's actually about technology and childhood.

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

This one might seem a little too absurdly self-indulgent, but it's actually a magic trick. You control how you're seen.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

between now and then, to actually achieve the life that you want to achieve. That's your North Star.

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED · TED

>> We agree in spirit 100% and that's where my question is actually. And we we we

How Screens Stole Childhood — and How to Get It Back | Jonathan Haidt | TED · TED

we may find that rejecting everything we've known about good relationships is the key to actually having one. I work with couples every day, and I help them through relational crises.

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

I didn't even start. I was actually a marketing manager for a Fortune 500 company. And I felt I was stuck;

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

I've forgotten a lot of details about how that conversation actually went, but I've never forgotten how that conversation made me feel.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

The contrast between my beliefs about how that would go and how it actually went was pretty sizable. And there ... in that gap

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

But when we recruited another sample of people and actually randomly assigned them in an experiment to either keep to themselves in solitude

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

or to try to connect with a person sitting next to them -- rather than just imagine it, to actually do it -- we found exactly the opposite results.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

wishing they hadn't come to this session today. But then when I actually put them into the experiments, in the conversation,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

they could give to their friend and then actually deliver that compliment to their friend, they leave their friend feeling more uplifted

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

would you spend reaching out to lift somebody up if you knew just how much good in that moment you could actually do? No research I've ever been involved with

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

if I got rejected, I could actually turn a "no" into a "yes," and the magic word is, "why."

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

Then one day -- and I also learned that I can actually say certain things and maximize my chance to get a yes.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

(Laughter) Well, I'm not sure that's a good thing, actually -- Actually, I'm pretty sure it's a bad thing.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

Well, I'm not sure that's a good thing, actually -- Actually, I'm pretty sure it's a bad thing. And he was like, "Oh" --

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

And because I mentioned, "Is that weird?", that means I wasn't weird. That means I was actually thinking just like him, seeing this as a weird thing.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

But I wanted to be an entrepreneur, so I didn't. But it has always been my dream to actually teach something. So I said, "What if I just ask

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

I said one. I’m just kidding -- it’s really impossible to actually calculate exactly -- Whoa!

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

Thank you, yeah. You keep those as souvenirs, actually. Please don’t throw them back the whole time.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

which, like Jupiter's moons, teaches us what we don't actually know. We're going to change gears here for a second.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

"Oh, neat, the ping-pong balls exploded." But what actually happened is so much cooler. Because as more and more of that nitrogen turned into a gas,

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

which, like Jupiter's moons, will teach us what we don't actually know. Now, I am a surgeon

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

about a 15-ton Jell-O pool you can actually belly flop onto. And in the process, I'm going to sneak in

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

as we engage the students in real science and engineering they actually care about. We're starting with grades three through eight.

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

But that's what it would be if we actually experienced it as mass casualties. We experience it, you know, this person’s mom,