标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 3 Track 41

 

Exercise 5-15: Shifting Your Voice Position      CD 3 Track 41

Pinch your nose closed and sayœ. You should feel a high vibration¹ in your nasal passages, as well as in your fingers. Now, continue holding your nose, and completely relax your throat—allow an ah sound to flow from deep in your chest. There should be no vibration in your nose at all. Go back and forth several times. Next, we practice flowing from one position to the other, so you can feel exactly when it changes from a nasal sound to a deep, richschwa. Remember how it was imitating a man's voice when you were little? Do that, pinch your nose, and repeat after me. Here, we will practice the same progression, but we will stick with the same sound, æ.

Nose  Throat  Chest

ãæ  •>  ãæ  •>  ãä  •>  ä  •>  ə  •>  ə

Nose  Throat  Chest

ãæ  •>  ãæ  •>  æ  •>  æ  •>  æ  •>  æ

As you will see in Chapter 12, there are three nasal consonants², m, n, and ng. These have non-nasal counterparts, m/b, n/d, ng/g. We're going to practice totally denasalizing your voice for a moment, which means turning the nasals intothe other consonants.We'll read the same sentence three times. The first will be quite nasal. The second will sound like you have a cold. The third will have appropriate nasal consonants, but denasalized vowels³. Repeat after me.

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Now that you have moved your voice out of your nose and down intoyour diaphragm, let s apply it. A Lät of Läng, Hät Wälks in the Gärden. John was not sorry whenthe boss called off the walks in the garden. Obviously,to him, it was awfully⁴ hot, and the walks were far too long. He had not thought that walking would havecaught on the way it did, and he fought the policy from the onset.

1 vibration   

n.颤动，振动；摆动

参考例句：

• There is so much vibration on a ship that one cannot write.船上的震动大得使人无法书写。
• The vibration of the window woke me up.窗子的震动把我惊醒了。

2 consonants   

n.辅音，子音( consonant的名词复数 )；辅音字母

参考例句：

• Consonants are frequently assimilated to neighboring consonants. 辅音往往被其邻近的辅音同化。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants. 元音比辅音响亮。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3 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

4 awfully   

adv.可怕地，非常地，极端地

参考例句：

• Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
• I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。