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美语听力与发音技巧 第2期 Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on how syllable stress can affect the meaning of words. Remenber that stressed syllables are said louder
美语听力与发音技巧 第5期(“h”音的略读) Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Today’s tip is on sound linking. Remember that although written English has spaces between eve
Welcome to Daily Tips on Learning English. Todays tip is on how different vowel lengths are used to differentiate words ending in voiced and voiceless consonants. Lets take an example. Theres something in my eyes. Theres something in my ice. The last
Welcome to daily tips on learning English. Todays tip is on sound linking. Although in written English, therere spaces between every word, in spoken English therere almost never (1)pauses between words. In order to understand spoken English, it is (2
Chapter 1 American Intonation The American Speech Music What to Do with Your Mouth to Sound American One of the main differences between the way an American talks and the way the rest of the world talks is that we don't really move our lips. (So, wh
A Few Words On Pronunciation I'd like to introduce you to the pronunciation guide outlines in the following chart. There aren't too many characters that are different from the standard alphabet, but just so you'll be familiar with them, look at the
[00:00.00]Review:Units 13-16 [00:05.59]1 Contrastve stress [00:10.92]Listen to this conversation. [00:14.76]Are you still OK for Tuesday? [00:19.80]Tuesday?I thought you said Thursday. [00:25.26]No.I definitely said Tuesday.I'm sure of it. [00:31.63]
pronunciation of the letter t. Of course the letter t is usually pounced t. But you may have noticed that in fluent speech, native speakers sometimes pronounced the t as d. That happens when the t comes between two voiced sounds. Do you know what sou
Every student of English has my sympathy in his struggles with the English articles. They are one of the most difficult parts of learning English. First of all, I urge you to do this. Listen to native speakers. When you listen, listen carefully, sinc
Exercise 8-3: Bit or Beat? We've discussed intonation in terms of new information, contrast, opinion, and negatives. As you heard on p. 3, Americans tend to stretch out certain one-syllable words but which ones? The answer is simple when a single syl
Exercise 4-11 : Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds with T This exercise is for the practice of the difference between words that end in either a vowel or a voiced consonant, which means that the vowel is lengthened or doubled. Therefore, these words are on a
Liaison Rule 3: Vowel Vowel When a word ending in a vowel sound is next to one beginning with a vowel sound, they are connected with a glide between the two vowels. A glide is either a slight y sound or a slight w sound. How do you know which one to
Chapter 1 American Intonation The American Speech Music What to Do with Your Mouth to Sound American One of the main differences between the way an American talks and the way the rest of the world talks is that we don't really move our lips. (So, whe
Exercise 1-55: Crossing Out Reduced Sounds Pause the CD and cross out any sound that is not clearly pronounced, including to, for, and, that, than, the, a, the soft , and unstressed syllables that do not have strong vowel sounds. Exercise 1-56: Readi
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The French are having a huge cultural row over some spelling changes the government's about to put into effect, particularly the elimination of the circumflex - the little hat-shaped accent that sits on certain v
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is writer Michael Erard, author of a new book called Um... MICHAEL ERARD: People who have studied speech patterns notice that there are really two groups of people: one
Improve Your English By Using Common Objects 搞定易混发音提高你的英语水平 From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Pronouncing English can be difficult. One reason is because English has some difficult sounds that are un
Exercise 1-56; Reading Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 29 Repeat the paragraph after me. Although you're get ting rid of the vowel sounds, you want tomaintain a strong intonation and let the sounds flow together. For the first reading of thisparagraph, it
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster we talk about regional changes in American English with University of Pennsylvania linguist William Labov [la-BOVE]. Imagine a situation like this: WILLIAM LABOV: Someone says 'gee
He's doing well. He hasn't had a drink in a month. 他干得不错,一个月滴酒不沾 Oh, good for him. I like him. 那好啊,我喜欢他 Oh, good, because he could use your help. 很好,因为他需要你帮忙 How? We're running him for G