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Exercise 11-10: Practical ApplicationU.S./Japan Trade Friction CD 4 Track47 Listen to the following excerpt, and compare the two versions. Forty years after the end of World War II, Japan and the U.S. are again engaged in conflict.Trade frictions, wh

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Exercise 11-9: Your Compound Nouns and Complex Verbs CD 4 Track 46 Using your compound nouns from Ex. 11-8, choose a verb and putit through all the changes.Remember that it helps to have a verb that startswith a vowel. Add explanatory words to round

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Exercise 8-2: Lax Vowels CD 4 Track 16 The lax vowels are produced in the throat and are actually quite similar to each other. Let's practicesome lax vowels. See also Chapter 11 to contrastwith tense vowels. Remember to double the vowelwhen the word

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Exercise 8-3; Bit or Beat? CD 4 Track 17 We've discussed intonation in terms of new information, contrast, opinion, and negatives. As youheard on p. 3, Americans tend to stretch out certain one-syllable words ... but which ones? Theanswer is simplewh

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Exercise 8-4: Bit or Beat? Bid orBead? CD 4 Track 18 Read each column down. Next, contrast the singleand double tense vowels with each other; and thesingle and double lax vowels with each other. Finally read all four across. 图片1 Note Bear in mind

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Exercise 8-5: Tense and Lax Vowel Exercise CD 4Track 19 Let's practice tense and lax vowels in context. The intonation is marked for you. When in doubt, tryto leave out the lax vowel rather than run the risk of overpronouncing it: l'p in place of lip

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Exercise 8-6: The Middle I List CD 4 Track 20 The letter I in the unstressed position devolves consistently into a schwa. Repeat. 图片1 图片2 图片3 图片4

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Exercise 8-7: Reduction Options CD 4 Track 21 In the following example, you will see how you can fully sound out a word (such as to), reduce itslightly, or do away with it altogether. 1. ... easier tū(w)ənderstand. 2. ... easier t(w)ənderstand. 3.

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Exercise 8-8: Finding Reduced Sounds CD 4 Track 22 Go through the paragraph that follows and find the three []'s and the five to seven [u]'s. Rememberthat your own speech style can increase the possibilities. With to before a vowel, you have a choice

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Exercise 8-10; Bker Wlsey's Ckbk CD 4 Track 24 Repeat after me. Booker Woolsey was a good cook. One day, he took a good look at his full schedule and decidedthat he could write a good cookbook. He knew that he could, and thought that he should, but h

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Exercise 8-11: A True Fool CD 4 Track 25 Repeat after me. A true fool will choose to drool in a pool to stay cool. Who knew that such fools were in theschools, used tools, and flewballoons? Louknewand now youdo, too. Intonation and Attitude There are

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Exercise 8-12: Nonverbal Intonation CD 4 Track 26 The top eight are the most common non-word communication sounds. They can all be nasalized ornot, and said with the mouth open or closed. Intonation is the important factor here. Repeat after me. 图片

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Chapter 9. V as in Victory CD 4 Track 27 When pronounced correctly, V shouldn't stand out too much. Its sound, although noticeable, issmall. As a result, people, depending on their native language, sometimes confuse V with B(Spanish, Japanese), with

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Exercise 9-1 : Mind Your Vees CD 4 Track 28 Repeat the following words and sounds after me. 图片1

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Exercise 9-2: The Vile VIP CD 4 Track29 Repeat after me, focusing on V and W. When revising his visitor's version of a plan for a very well-payed avenue, the VIP was advisedto reveal none of his motives. Eventually, however, the hapless visitor disco

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Exercise 9-3: Finding V Sounds CD 4 Track 30 Underline the five V sounds in this paragraph. The first one is marked for you. Don't forget of. Hello, my name is________________. I'm taking American Accent Training. There's a lot tolearn, but I hope to

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Exercise 8-9: How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck? CD 4 Track 23 How fast can you say: 图片1 In the following two exercises, we will practice the two vowel sounds separately.

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Chapter 11. Tense and Lax Vowels In this chapter, we tackle tense and lax vowels. This is the difference between [ā], tense, and [], lax,[ē], tense, and [i], lax. We will start with tense vowels. Exercise 11-1; Tense Vowels CD 4 Track 38 Don't pay

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Exercise 10-1 : When S Becomes Z CD 4 Track 31 Under Contrast, in the list that follows, notice how the voiced wordis drawn out and then repeat theword after me. Both voiced and unvoiced diphthongs have the underlying structure of the tone shift,or t

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Exercise 10-2: A Surly Sergeant Socked an Insolent Sailor CD 4 Track 32 Repeat the S sounds in the paragraph below. Sam, a surly sergeant from Cisco, Texas, saw a sailor sit silently on a small seat reserved foryoungsters. He stayed for several minut