2014-01-17
这套美音发音教程相当好，这已经是第二轮推送了，第一轮没有收全视频和文本的童鞋赶紧收哦！其实你会发现每天只要花半个小时来看视频和操练，顶多一个月你就能学完了。发音漂亮了，说英语也就有自信了！
想学美音，想说一口漂亮英语，赶紧学起来哦~
今天是第四课：
这个系列的美语视频教程非常好，能够清晰的看到发音者的口型。第四课的视频约19分钟。
Session Four
1. Consonant ‘F’
2. Consonant ‘V’
3. The Unvoiced ‘SH’ Sound
4. The Voiced ‘ZSH’ Sound
Hi, welcome back. Again my name is Paul Gruber and this is the Pronunciation Workshops---Fourth Training Session. I hope things have been going well. Today, we’ ll cover F and V sounds as well as SH and voiced SH sounds. Just a reminder all of the material covered in those videos are also printed in your training manual for pratising later on. Let’s get started.
In the last session, we talked about Air Friction with TH sounds [θ] that the sound is made with air friction. Well, today we’ re going to talk about Air Friction again, but this time it is with F and V sounds.
The F and V are paired consonants and they are both produced exactly the same way except the F sound is unvoiced and the V sound is voiced. They are both produced by contacting your upper teeth to your lower lip. It’ s sort of feels like your biting down on your lower lip /v/,like that. Now remember all the voicing means that your vocal chords here on your throat are vibrating and making a sound. So the F sound is unvoiced and sounds like this /f/ and the V sound is voiced, and sounds like this /v/. Correctly pronuncing these sounds will make your speech nuch clearer and you more intelligible, like the TH sounds from the last session. Fs and Vs are friction sounds and not that loud. So we stretch these sounds out a little bit, so they can be clearly heard. Let’s start by looking at the F sound in the word Foot. Now many foreign speakers may use the right positioning by biting down on their lower lip, but they still keep the F very short and they don’t creat air friction. Therefore , you do not hear the F clearly and it sounds like~. That’s no good. Let me show you what you need to do. First think of the word is having two beats: one- two. Hold the F sound for the first full beat. F---oot, like that. Do it again. F---oot. Do you see how long I’ m holding that F? Now I know that’s a little bit exaggerated, but you get the idea. You need to hear the air friction when practising. Try to give the F one beat F---oot. Let’s work with words beginning with the letter F. Here we go.
Find
Finally
Family
Freedom,with the strong R, freedom
Laugh, notice the gh combination in that word,laugh.
Telephone, notice the ph combination in that word, it’s also pronunced as an F
telephone, It’s the same thing in this next word
Symphony, this is a tricky one because you’ ve got the M sound followed by an F sound, symphony.
And the last word
Rough, notice the gh combinatin in that word,rough.
Let’s work on this paragraph.
Do you feel like a physical wreck?
Are you fed up with your feeling of fatigue?
Have you had enough of feeling rough?
Why don’t you fight fever with
Pharaoh’s Friend.
A medicine that is tough on Flu.
Very good. Ok now let’s talk about the V sound. First of all, like the F sound. Don’ t make the V sound too short. Let’s look at the word Vote, you’ ve got to stretch out the V. Like this.V---ote, V---ote. Are you hearing that long V sound. That’s what you should be doing. Now, depending on your native language, you may be replacing your V sounds for W sounds. Be careful not to do this. The word is not Wote, it’s Vote. Every V that you’ ll see in English is made with this lip-biting position./v//v//v/. When you say a V, it’s never WaWaWa. It’ s never a W sound. It’s always V---, V---ote, like that. Let’s practise some words with the V sounds, Here we go.
Vine
Oven
Evaluate
Voice
Travel
River,notice the strong R, River
Every
And now the ends of words
Glove
Alive
And Leave. This last word Leave is very different from the word Leaf , like from the tree, which has an unvoiced F
The word is leave,with voiced V.
Keep the voicing going throughout the whole word and voice the V. Leave, like that. If you stop the voicing at the end of the vowel /i/, then you’ ll be saying Leaf with an unvoiced F and the word we’ re trying to say is Leave with the voiced V. Ok, now let’s look at the paired words with F and V. You’ ll see here just by adding voicing, you can completely change the meaning of the word. Here we go.
Feel – Veal
Safe – Save
Fat – Vat
Fine – Vine
Face – Vase
Fan – Van
Foul – Vowel
Proof – Prove
Very good. Ok now we’ re going to work on listening exercises and ear-training. I’ m going to displace some words with V sounds, however, some words I’ ll be saying correctly and then some others are purposely saying incorrectly. I want you to listen carefully to my pronunciation and to the voicing of the V sounds and see whether or not you can tell if I’ m saying the words correctly or incorrectly. Here we go. Here’ s the first word.
Stove-- I cooked dinner on a hot stove. Was that correct? No. I should have said Stove/V/. I cooked dinner on a hot stove with a voiced V.
Next word, Five. There, four, five.Correct? Yes , I said Five with voiced V.
Leave—I’ m in a hurry, and I need to leave. Is that correct? No , it’s not Leaf with an unvoiced F. I should have said Leave with the voiced V sound.
Visa—She just received her international Visa. Correct? No , I said Fisa with an unvoiced F. I should have said Visa with voiced V.
Living—I am living in a house. Is that correct? Yes, the V is voiced. Living. That’s correct.
Ok, now repeat these phrases.
A famous athlete
A food vendor
The Foreign Service
Summer vacation
Vocabulary test
Over the rainbow
Our first victory
Harvard University
Husband and wife
Very well done
Good. Ok now repeat these sentences with me.
Her promotion in the firm was well deserved.
There was only one survivor on the island.
Steve noticed that the olive juice must have stained his sleeve.
The street vendor was selling souvenirs to tourists.
Dave gave me his car so that I could drive on New Year’s Eve.
There were several dents in the rear fender.
Tom placed several tomatoes from the vine into a basket.
Very good. Now we’ re talking about English so you know that there’s always an exception to everything. I would like to show you what I call the OF Exeception. Many foreign speakers make this mistake. Even though the word OF is spelled with an F, we pronunce the word OF with the voiced V. I know this sounds crazy, but it’ s true. For example, Statue OVVV Liberty. And notice how I connected the word OF with the word. Liberty of Liberty. You see OF is voiced. Here’ s another example. It’s made ovvv Glass or it’s made ovvv Wood. It’s not OF with unvoiced /f/. It’ s all voiced and it’s all connected. It’s made ovvv wood, like that.
Very good. Ok now let’s go on to something new. Let’s talk about SH sounds [?] and voiced SH sounds [?]. First, to make the SH sound, you bring your lips forward, keep them open, and leave your teeth slightly apart. Blow air through your teeth and produce the sound [?] . It’s an easy sound. What you may not know was that there are some words in English that are written with the letter S, but are pronunced with the SH sound. Words like Sugar and Sure. And to make things even more difficult. There are a couple of words that are spelled with CH and are also pronunced the [?] sound. Words like Chef and the city of Chicago. Ok, having said that let’s go over these words:
She
Sugar
Sure
Shadow
Sheep
Shirt
Shoe
Shape
Chicago
Chef
Very good. Ok now let’s do [?] sounds in the middle of words. You’ll notice that there are many different spellings for these sound, but the sound is always the same. Here we go.
Nation
Motion
Mission
Special
Reputation
Official
Machine
Fishing
Insurance
Sunshine
Ocean
Tissue
Addition
Subtraction
And now at the end of words.
Rush
Dish
Establish
Splash
Irish
Fresh
Finish
Very good.Ok, let’s do some sentences now.
The fishing trip was planned and we left to go to the ocean.
Was the chef ashamed to use the precious sugar?
Sharon gave a special performance.
He will be stationed in Washington, D.C, the nation’s capital.
She went to a fashion show after taking a shower.
She sells seashells by the seashore.
The social club was praised for their cooperation.
Now try this.
Joe’s weather machine shows a sharp drop in air pressure, especially offshore.
Ships in motion on the ocean should be sure to use caution.
Very good. Ok, now let’s work on the voiced SH sound [?]. To produce this sound, first make a [?] sound and then you add voicing [?] --[?]-, like that. [?]. Now, for some people this may take a little bit of practice, you should feel the vibrations right here in your throat [?]. Believe it or not. This is a very important sound in American English. Many none-native English speakers mispronunce the words with the sound, especially the words Usual and Uusual, which are very very common. If you were someone that pronunce the word Usual as ~(a wrong pronunciation). I’ m telling you you’ re not being understood. Let me show you how to pronunce the word Usual correctly. Break it up into three syllables. U-ZSHU-AL. That’ s second syllable ZSHU, the one with the underline needs to be voiced. Put your hand on your throat and feel for the vibration in the second syllable U-ZSHU-AL. Now, put it together U-ZSHU-AL, Usual, like that. Ok now try Usual, UN-U-ZSHU-AL, Unusual, like that. Very good. Now let’s practise some more words. It may help if you keep your hand right here on your throat to feel the vibrations. Here we go.
Vision
Visual
Conclusion
Asia
Version
Division
Casual
Television
Very good. Now there are only a few words that have the voiced [?]sound at the end. A few of these words are:
The color Beige.
The word Massage.
And the word Prestige.
Ok. Now that you’ re great at this. Let’s go over some sentences.
It’s not unusual for people to study division in Asia.
I usually use a measuring cup to measure erosion.
The beige walls were the usual color in the treasury building.
Very good, you’ ll find in your manual that there is a worksheet that you could list things that you would consider usual and things that you would consider to be unusual. For pratice, fill this list and read your answers out loud in full sentences. Like this:
It’s usually hot in the summer.
And it’s unusual for me to be late for an appointment.
Great. Well now it’ s time to go on practice. You may want to wait a day or two and then watch this training session again. You’ ll find that the things in this video again would probably be very helpful. Ok, have fun practising. I’ m Paul Gruber for the pronunciation workshop and I’ ll see you at our next session.
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