标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 3 Track 27

 

Exercise 5-2; Sounds Comparing L with T, D, and N    CD 3 Track 27 

Repeat after me, first down and then across.

T Look at group 3, B. This exercise has three functions:

1. Practice final els.

2. Review vowels¹ sounds.

3. Review the same words with the staircase.

Note Notice that each word has a tiny schwa after the el. This isto encourage your tongue to be in the right position to give your words a "finished" sound. Exaggeratethe final el and its otherwise inaudible schwa.

Y Repeat the last group of words.

Once you are comfortable with your tongue in this position, let it just languish² there while you continue vocalizing, which is what a native speaker does. VRepeat again: fillll, fullll, foollll, faillll, feellll,fuellll, furllll.

What Are All Those Extra Sounds I'm Hearing? 

I hope that you're askinga question like this about now. Putting all of those short little words on a staircase will reveal exactly how many extra sounds you have to put in to make it "sound right." For example, if you were to pronounce fail as [fal], the sound is too abbreviated³ for the American ear—we need to hear the full [fayələ].

1 vowels   

n.元音，元音字母( vowel的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants. 元音比辅音响亮。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Note the various sounds of vowels followed by r. 注意r跟随的各种元音的发音。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

2 languish   

vi.变得衰弱无力，失去活力，（植物等）凋萎

参考例句：

• Without the founder's drive and direction,the company gradually languished.没有了创始人的斗志与指引，公司逐渐走向没落。
• New products languish on the drawing board.新产品在计划阶段即告失败。

3 abbreviated   

adj. 简短的，省略的 动词abbreviate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He abbreviated so much that it was hard to understand his article. 他的文章缩写词使用太多，令人费解。
• The United States of America is commonly abbreviated to U.S.A.. 美利坚合众国常被缩略为U.S.A.。