飞飞鼠【视频】美式英语发音视频教程2（含语音文本）-英语口语

【视频】美式英语发音视频教程2（含语音文本）-英语口语

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Session Two
1. Voicing
2. Consonant pairs
3. Consonant S
4. Consonant Z Voicing
Hi, welcome back. Again my name is Paul Gruber and this is the Pronunciation Workshops---Second Session. I hope things have been going well since we last met. I would like to just mention again there are literarlly hundreds of languages around the world and every language has its own set of characteristics. What I’ ve done in this program is to address the most significant pronunciation errors made by most foreign speakers that you may find that not every lesson pertains to you individually pronunciation problem. If that’s the case黄岩洞 , well, that’s great cause you’ll get less to work on. But I hate you to miss out anything important. Therefore陈思妤 , I still do recommend that you watch all of the sessions in chronological order from the first session to the last session to get the most out of this program and latter on if you feel you meed more practice, review the sesions which you feel may need more attention.
Ok. Let’s get started with today’s session. In this video, we’re going to talk about Voicing. We’ll also talk about Consonant Pairs and what they are and then we’ll cover S sounds and Z sounds. Ok, here we go.
Voicing. You’re going to hear me say this word a lot and you need to understand what it is what I’m talking about. All speech sounds , all of them are either voiced or unvoiced. Now盖丽丽老公 , what did that mean? Well, first, let’s take a look at this video. It may look a little bit disgusting . Do you have any idea what it is. It’s look like something that is opening and closing. I’ll give you a hint. You’ve got pair of these and you use them when you speak. Any idea? Those were vocal chords. Vocal chords are those tiny muscles that are right here when your throat that vibrates quickly and creat sound and that sound is your voice that you can easily make you vocal chords vibrate by just saying AH. That’s it. That’s voicing. Voicing is when your cocal chords are vibrating,飞飞鼠 producing a sound, and you can feel the vibrations if you put your hand right here on your throat. Do this with me. Put your hand on your throat and now let’s loud say AH. Do you feel the vibration? Those your vocal chords vibrating. Now all vowel sounds are voiced A, Oh, OO, AE天外银龙 , EE. You can not produce a vowel sound without voicing it. Nothing would come out. You see? You need voicing. AH. So all vowels are voiced. Now颖武元天 , consonants are completely different story. Some consonants are voiced and some consonants are not voiced. And many consonants are what we call paired. So, let’s talk about Paired Consonants. Let’s look at the sound. The letter P makes /p//p//p/-- that’s the sound of the letter P. Are your vocal chords vibrating when you’re saying the sound?/p//p//p/.You feeling vibrations in your throat? No, your vocal chords now are not producing a sound so therefore the P sound is what we call unvoiced because there is no voicing. And this is the sign that I’m going to make when there’s no voicing.
So now let’s look at the same sound the P sound /p//p//p/. But this time we’ll add voicing by vibrating our vocal chords. Now we won’t change the thing with our mouth. We’ ll keep that the same, we’ ll just add voicing. So what happens to the P sound /p//p/---/b//b/. It becomes a B sound. Watch again. P—no voicing, /p//p//p/. /b/--B, voicing. /p/--/b/. You see that everything here stays the same. The only differences my vocal chords are either vibrating or they’re not vibrating. So we say the P sound and the B sound are Paired Consonants. They’re produced exactly the same way here in your mouth仙女豇豆红 , but the P sound has no voicing and the B sound /b//b/ does have voicing. Ok. Having said that再会打一字 , let’s look at another set of consonants. How about the letter T. What sound does that make? /t//t//t/. Is that voiced or unvoiced? /t//t//t/--It’s unvoiced. Your vocal chords are not vibrating. /t//t/. Now don’t change the thing with your mouth. Just take the same sound and add voicing. What does that T sound become?/t//t/---/d//d//d//d/---becomes a D sound. So we say that the T sound /t/ and the D sound /d/ are also Paired Consonants.
Ok. Now let’s look at the F sound /f/. We’re biting down on your lower lip---/f/. Is that a voiced sound or unvoiced sound? /f/---it’s unvoiced. Your vocal chords are not vibrationg. /f/. Now same sound but this time we add voicing. /f/---/v/. V. It becomes a V/v/. You see that? F/f/---no voicing. V---voicing./v/. So the F and V are also Paired Consonants.
There are many more consonants that are paired and we’ll get to those at another time. But for now, I’m going to to mention just one more. The S consonant, made with the air going through your front teeth. /s/. Any voicing going on with the sound /s/. No, the S sound is unvoiced./s/. What would be if you didn’t change the thing. You just add voicing. What would the S sound become. /s/---/z/. It will become a Z sound/z/. So S has no voicing /s/, Z has voicing/z/. So we say the S sound and Z sound are also Paired Consonants. And this brings us to what I would like to cover today---S sounds/s/, Z sounds /z/and how they work in terms of word endings. I find that most people who learn English as a second language do not use the proper voicing on /s/ and /z/ endings. So what happens is it can cause your speech to sound unclear and sometimes may cause you to be misunderstood. I’m going to show you three easy rules that will help you pronunce many of these words correctly.
This first rule is easy and this one I know you probably do already. Rule 1: If the last sound in a word is unvoiced, and you’re adding an S, well, then the S remains unvoiced, too. Let me explain that. Take the word Cup. Cup. It ends with the unvoiced P /p//p/Cup/p//p/or then if you add an S to the word Cupto make a plural. The S you add also remains unvoiced. So, for example都匀一中 , you have one cupor two cups. There’s no voicing at the end of that word. The S remains unvoiced. One cup. Two cups. That’s easy. You already do this. I’ll show you another word Cat. Catends with the unvoiced T/t//t/. One cat. Two cats. Again the S ending is unvoiced. Cats. This also goes for verbs like in the verb Break. I Break. Breakends with the unvoiced K sound/k//k/. There’s no voicing on that K. So when you put the word in the third person. He Breaks. The S you add also remains unvoiced. He breaks.
I stop(ends with the unvoiced P /p/). I stop. He stops./s/---unvoiced S. Stops. Now as I said you already follow this rule and there really isn’t anything you don’ t know.
But on rule No.2, now this one you probably do not do火影之伪鸣人 , So pay close attention to this rule. When adding an S to a word to make a plural. If a word ends with any of these sounds S Z SH CH or DG(J)as in Judge. Don’t worry. You really don’t need to memorize this. It will become automatic. When you add an S ending老虎田鸡, this time, we always add the ending IZZZZZ with the voiced Z. It doesn’t matter that it’s spelled with an S. It’s never S, unvoiced,邓佩仪 never. It’s always IZZZZZ with voiced Z. Ok. Do this with me. Put your hand on your throat, cause I want you to feel the vibration in your neck and say IZZZZZ. Feel that right here IZZZZZ. Ok, so let’s look at the word Page, for example, which ends in a voiced sound. One Page becomes Two Page with that voiced Z. Two Pages. It’s not Two Pages/s/,unvoiced,no. It’ s Two Pages /z/ with the voiced Z. Even though you spell the word like this, in American English you pronunce the word like this PAGEZZ. You’ re probably saying I never knew that. See what you’ re learning from me. Ok, let’s look at another word in the word BUS, for example特盟, BUS ends with an S sound /s/. BUS. So if you make a plural, you’ re going to add the ending IZZZZZ with the voiced Z. So we’ ve got One Bus or Two Buses. Buses. Two Buses. The last sound you hear is that voiced Z, Buses.
Next one. Lunch. Lunch ends with the CH sound[?]. So we’ve got One Lunch or Two Lunches. Lunches./IIIZ/. Very good. Let’s do some verbs. Raise. Meaning like to raise my hand. This word is a bit unusual because even though it is spelled with an S, it’ s pronunced with the voiced Z. So we say I Raise with the voiced Z ending. And he Raises. Raise. He Raises his hand. It’s voiced. Next one. Brush. Like to Brush our teeth. I Brush. He Brushes. Brushes. It’ s a voiced ending. Push. I Push. He Pushes. He pushes. Very good. By voicing these endings, your speech will become clearer, sharper and cleaner. Most likely you haven’ t noticed that American English spoken this way, but now as I pointed out listen forward when you hear people speak. To an a native listener, this makes a very big difference.
Ok, here comes the thrid rule. This one’ s easy. If a word ends with a vowel sound, all you do is add a voiced Z. It’s simple. Let’s look at the word Tree. The last sound you hear in that word is the vowel /EE/ and remember a vowel is always voiced. So the word ends in a voiced sound. Tree. So what you wanna do if you’ re going to add an S to word like this to make a plural is you continue the voicing throughout the whole word and add on a voiced Z. So here we go. You’ve got One Treeor Two Trees. It’s not Trees /s/ with the unvoiced S. It’s Tress /z/ with that voiced ending. You see that. Another example, the word Day. It ends with the voiced sound /e/沙漠雨蛙 , so you have One Dayor Two Days. It’s not Days/s/---unvoiced S. Days/z/, with voiced Z ending. Next one. Shoe. One shoe. Two shoes. Next is the verb Fly永乐仙道 , which ends with the voiced sound[а斯蒂庞克 ?]. So you’ ve got I Fly. He Flys.Keep that ending voiced. Flys. The last sound you hear in the word Game is the M sound /m/, which is a voiced consonant. So because of that, when you add an S, the S should also be voiced. One game. Two games. Games. Another word. Headends with the voiced D/d/, so we got One Heador Two Heads. Heads. It’s voiced. Two heads. Very good. Next word. Trainends with the voiced n. See that同福碗粥 ? So you’ ve got One Trainor Two Trains. Two Trainswith the voiced Z ending. Songends with the voiced NG sound, so if you make a plural, don’t forget to add a voiced Z ending. You’ ve got One Songor Two Songs. Two Songs.
Now what I just showed you take some practice to actually incorporate into your English. But I can tell you from pastexperiencethat most my clients were able tomaster these S and Z voiced endings in just a few weeks.
Ok, now for something else. As you know by now, English is a difficult and crazy language. All these words that I’m going to show you now are written with an S广合腐乳 , however, they’ re all pronunced with voiced Z. Why this is I have no idea, but this is how English is.
Here we go. The word Is. It’s not /Is/(unvoiced). It’s pronunced as if it were a Z/IZ/. Thisisgood. You hear that. Is. His. Same thing. It also has a voiced Z ending.HismomisMary.As. You pronunce it with voiced Z. Asthe phone ring. Was, whichis a very common word. It wasraining.These, voiced ending. Theseare my children. Those. Thoseare my books. Easy, again, the S is like a voiced Z. Easy. This is easy. Because政声人去后 , which is another common word. Because we were late.
Ok, now let’s do some practice with reading passages. Each of these has many voiced and unvoiced S and Z sounds. All of the unvoiced Z sounds you’ ll see are underlined. If you printed out the training manual using a color printer, you’ ll notice that the voiced Z sounds are all printed in red. This will help you visually see which sounds should be voiced. I’ m going o slow and exaggerate the sounds. You may just wanna listen to me first, then stop the video, practise on your own and then later on watch this video again and pratice with me. Whatever feels right to you. Now this first one has many voiced Z sounds. Here we go.
Anotherzippy,zappy, crazy day comesto a close. Aswezoom up to Joe’ssnoozezone,Zoe JonesofZodiacZoo plays with herzipper.
Very good. Next one.
Last week, Jim’sbrotherswere picked to represent their country in the Olympic Games. Two of the brotherswere swimmers, while the other two were long distance runners. All of the brotherswore glasses. These athletes worked hard at qualifying for the games and were hoping to come home with prizes. Since the brothersgo to the same university, they often take the same courses. This makes studying easier and givesthem more time to do other things.
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On Thursday, I had a very lazy day. I woke up early and first squeezed orangesinto juice. I then got dressed and watched the sunrise come up over the mountains. It was so beautiful that I took many pictureswith my camera and I used three rollsof film. After drinking two cups of coffee, I got dressed, left the house, and walked three mileshome.
Very good. Now another good way to practise these voiced S and Z endings is to do a naming activity. What you do is you just sit in your rome and out loud name everything you see. First in singular form, and then in plural form. For example, you look around and you say out loud One door, Two doors with the voiced Z ending. One table. Two tables. One computer. Two computers. One light. Twolights. Some of my clients found this to be very helpful. In addition, try listening for these voiced sounds when you hear native-borned Americans speak. It’s very good ear-training and that’ ll help you improve. Soon , slowly begin to put these sounds into your ownspeech. You’ ll find that by adding these voiced endings your English will sound cleaner and people will have an easier time understanding you. Believe me it’s going to really make an improvement.
Before we finish, I have one more suggestion that comes from clients who have taken this program. I think it’s really a good idea. If you can find a very small mirror and attach it maybe with some tape right onto the side of your computer monitor right next to the screen. By having a mirror right in front of you during our sessions you can easily read the text on the screen, watch my mouth and then look right into the mirror at your own mouth. You’ ll be able to compare your mouthwith what I’m doing. And you’ ll know whether you’ re forming your lips and tongue into the correct positions. Through imitation and following my instructions邓州信息港 , you’ ll be becoming closer to speaking with American accent. Well, that is for today. Relax. Have fun and practise what I’ ve shown you until next time. I’m Paul Gruber with Pronunciation Workshop and I’ ll see you on the next session.
这个系列的美语发音的视频教程非常好，能够清晰的看到发音者的口型。第二期的视频约22分钟东辉职校 。