美式英语发音视频教程-元音EE、I（含语音文本）
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Session Eight
1. American English Vowels
2. Vowel EE
3. Vowel I
Hi, and welcome back. Again my name is Paul Gruber and this is the Pronunciation Workshops---Eighth Training Session. Today, we will begin to work on Vowel Sounds. I know that vowel sounds are often difficult for non-native speakers. One reason is that there are five vowel letters in English: A E I O and U. But there are around 15 vowel sounds and some vowels have as many as 10 different spellings. So that’s why it is so difficult. When some one learns English as a second language what they often do is substitute vowel sounds from their first language into their newly learned English. And when these vowel sounds are spoken incorrectly, it may often cause you to be misundrestood. That’ s why I need next few sessions. I’ ll be teaching you the correct way to pronunce American English Vowels.
Now, vowel sounds are made by slightly changing the Size, Shape and the Tension of the musles in your mouth, your tongue and your lips. A small change can produce an entirely different sound. Instead of giving you diagrams of tongue placement---how round your lips should be or how far you should open your mouth. I believe the best way to learn American vowels is by Ear Training. Ear Training is learning vowel sounds just by listening and then reproducing them on your own.
To help teach you the American vowel sounds, I’ ll separate them to two groups: front vowels and back vowels. When your tongue rises up in the front, it’ s a front vowel. When your tongue rises up in the back, it’ s a back vowel. Let’ s start by going over the basic front and back vowel sounds. My goal right now is to just have you hear the sounds. You do not need to memorize this.
First,front vowels. Listen carefully. Don’ t repeat. Just listen. These sounds move from whatI call high to low. Here we go.
EE
I
AE
EH
A
Notice with each of these vowels. My jaw is opening a little bit more and more. Let’ s do it again. Listen carefully. EE, i (which is a difficult one for many people) i, AE, EH, A. Now, this time I’ d like you to repeat. EE, i, AE, EH, A. EE, i, AE, EH, A. Now, I put them in word forms to make it a little bit easier. Repeat after me.
EE as in Heat
i as in Hit
AE as in Hate
EH as in Het (which is a nonsense word)
And A as in Hat
Heat, Hit, Hate, Het, Hat, Heat, Hit,Hate,Het,Hat.
Ok. Now let’ s do back vowels. Again, vowel sounds move from high to low. Here we go.
OO
Uh
Oh
Aw
Ah
Again.and notice how my jaw is opening on each one and also notice how my lips are coming forward all the way on the OO sound. You see? That OO. OO, Uh, Oh, Aw, Ah. Ok now repeat with me. OO, Uh, Oh, Aw, Ah, OO, Uh, Oh, Aw, Ah. Let’ s put these sounds into word forms.
OO as in Boot
Uh as in Book
Oh as in Boat
Aw as in Bought
Ah as in Bot (which is a nonsense word)
Boot, Book, Boat, Bought, Bot. Again . Boot, Book, Boat, Bought, Bot. Boo_, Boo_, Boa_, Bough_, Bo_.
Very good. Now, let’s go back a little bit to front vowels. I’ d like to address the EE sound in the word Heat and the i sound as in the word Hit. Most of the foreign speakers that I work with make many errors with these two sounds. And many times they’ re switched when the word should have an EE. It’s pronunced as an i. When it should have an i. It’s pronunced as an EE. Think of the sound EE as in Heat as being high up and i as in Hit. It’ s being a little bit lower. One hint that I would give you is when you’ re practising raise your eyebrows with EE words, like this Heat, and then lower your eyebrows and don’ t smile so much with i words, like Hit, Heat, Hit, like that. I put together some paired words with these two sounds. Listen, compare the vowel sounds and then repeat them back. Here we go.
Heat – Hit
Keen – Kin
Deal – Dill
Seek – Sick
Seen – Sin
Reap – Rip
Teal – Till
Bean –Been (Bean is high. I ate a bean. Been is low. I have been here.)
Let’ s talk about these last two words. Bean and Been. Most of the time in English when a word is spelled with double E. It’ s pronunced as EE like in the word FEED or SEEN or TEEN with the double E. However, in English, here is an exception. The word BEAN spelled B-E-A-N, which you eat is pronunced with the high EE sound, BEAN. However, this word B-E-E-N, spelled with the double E is pronunced with the low i sound. BEEN, like in the word Hit. Ok. Even though it’s spelled with the double E, it’s pronunced with the vowel sound i. So for example, this sentence reads I’ ve been buying beans. Ok? We’ ll be going over more of these this moment. But first, let’s look at some words with the EE sounds, remember smile and think high.
See
Me
Each
Even
Key
Green
Tree
Very
Happy
Softly
Mary
Busy
Finally
Country
Now, these sentences.
Speeding on the Freeway
Happily eating cheese
He and She
Skiing very Rapidly
Very good. Ok, now let’ s try this paragraph.
She sees a monkey eating honey.
We see a pony stealing money.
Who can he see?
It must be me!
Very good, Ok now let’ s work on the i vowel sound. The same sound as in the word Hit. Hit. Repeat after me.
Bit
Bill
Lift
Fizz
Kitchen
Build
Bigger
Chimp
Fifth
Listen
Business
Fist
Display
Filming
Live
Fish
Discuss
Fig
Fifty
Been
Ok, now let’ s go over these practice sentences which have both the EE sound and the i sound. Listen and repeat these sentences after me. I’ ll be putting my hand up high for every EE sound and lower it for every i sound. EE, i, like that. And also all the words with EE sounds are underlined. Here we go.
Thebeanshave been cooking since six o’clock.
Sit in thatseatby the window.
We ate ourmeal, by the mill.
Thesealwill live in the ocean.
Tim’steamgrinned afterseeingthegreen field.
Pip andPeteshipped thesheep cheaply.
Those bins are for Bill’sbeans.
Does Jim stillsteal Jill’sjeans?
The girls put concreteon Jill’ssneakers.
Pick cherriesat theirpeakor you willeatthe pits.
Very good. Now I know these vowels can be very tricky. It’ s probably a good idea to review this video a few times. Some of you may have noticed that you’ ve been mispronuncing many words incorrectly using wrong vowel sounds. For example, eariler we spoke about the pronunciation of the words Heat and Hit and how the sounds are often switched. So if you say “He hit the baseball and felt the heat.” I want you to realize that that’ s not right. What correct is He hit the baseball and felt the heat.
Ok, so keep on practicing. Believe me you’ ll eventually get very good at this. Thanks for watching. I’ m Paul Gruber for the Pronunciation Workshop and I’ ll see you at our next session.
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