美式英语发音视频教程-元音O、AE（含语音文本）
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Session Nine
1. Vowel O
2. Vowel AE
Hi, and welcome back. Again my name is Paul Gruber and this is the Pronunciation Workshops---Nineth Training Session. I hope things have been going well. Today we would be addressing the Ohand the AE vowel sounds. Also, most foreign speakers do not know how to correctly pronunce the 50 American States. In fact, many times when none-native speakers try to name the states, they’ re noteven closeto how they’ re supposed to sound. Therefore in today’ s session, I’ m going to show you how to correctly pronunce all 50 of the United States. Hopefully this willcome in veryhandy.
Let’ s get started . let’ s begin with the American O sound. Many foreign speakers do not pronunce the American O correctly and very often the O sounds like an AH. So, for example, the word Open sounds like Apen and there’ s no such word that people may not understand you. So let me teach you how to properly pronunce the O. First thing that I’d like to talk about is what I call the Hidden W. I have found this to be the best way to teach foreign speakers how to pronunce the O sound correctly. When an American speaker makes an O, we end the vowel with a small “w” sound. Watch this. O---www.OOO. You notice how my lips are all the way forward and the front of my lips are opening and closing like the front of atrumpt. Owww. You hear that little w sound in there like wo wo wo. That’ s what you need to make a good O sound. Owowowo. It’s a little hidden w at the very end.
Now another way you can approach this is to bring your lips forward, use a strong w and say the word We, like that. Now, put an O in front of it and connect the two. O-Wee. Now , you’ ve done that. Now just drop the EE vowel. O-W and you got a perfect O sound O-W. So now when you wanna say this word Open you’ re not saying Apen with an AH. You’ re using that hidden w. You’ re bringing your lips forward and you’ re saying Owpen. Owpen, like that. So let’ s practise some of those words with the O sound. Repeat after me. Let’s start with Open.
Open
Oatmeal
Blown
Bold
Owner
Phone
Cold
Robe(Remenber to bring your lips forward on that R,robe ,very good)
Coach
Rotate
Loan
Slow
Road
Roam
Now let’ s do some sentences.
How did you know that?
I don’t know where the hole is on the coat.
Does Joe know how to drive on the road?
I need to blow my nose when I have a cold.
Has it ever snowed in Rhode Island?
Ok,now try this.
Cold winds will slowly blow snow over most of Ohio.
This low is no joke. So folks, don’t go out without coats!
Very good. Now, I wanna tell you about two words that you’ re probably saying wrong. And these words are Woke and Won’ t. Most foreign speakers mispronunce these two words. Instead of saying Woke, when they say it sounds like Walk. So instead of saying I just woke up. It sounds like I just walk up and that is not good. And instead of saying the word Won’ t. It sounds like they’ re saying Want. So instead of saying I won’ t go. It sounds like they’ re saying I want go. So it sounds like you want go when you actually saying you won’ t go. So listen carefully because I’ m about to give you great information on how to say these words correctly and you’ re not going to learn this anywhere else. Here we go. If you were riding a horse and you want the horse to stop or to slow down. If you rememberword taughtto say Whoa, Whoa, right? Now watch my mouth when I say that Whoaw. There’s a W sound at the beginning of that but there’ s also a hidden w sound atthe end. Whoawand my mouth is also very forward and tight. Whoaw. Whoaw.Whoaw.Whoaw. Right? Say with me, Whoaw. That is exactly the sound you need to make to say the words Woke and Won’t correctly. So here’ s what you do is to say the word Woke. First, say Whoawwith the w sound at the beginning and the end and then you just add theK sound /k/. Whoaw+K, like that. Put it together and you’ ve got WhoawkWhoawk. I just woke up, like that. Very good. Now Won’ t. First say Whoawwith the w sound at the beginning and at the end and then you add nt Whoawnt. Now you put it together. Whoa + nt . I won’ t go, like that, won’ t. Let’ s practise these exercises comparing the words Want, Woke and Won’ t.
I want the ball.
I won’t give you the ball.
She wants to sleep.
She woke up.
He wants to buy a car.
He won’t buy a car.
They want to speak with you.
He won’t speak with you.
Very good. Ok, now let’ s work on A sounds. If you listen carefully, you will hear that this sound is a combination of two vowel sounds. You start with an A and then you glide up to an E. A—E, A—E. Notice how my mouth also closes a little bit at the end of the vowel A—E. And notice it’ s not[]as in Egg. It’s not the[]sound. It’s A-E A-E, as in Age. Think high. It’ s a high vowel. Ok, let’ s go over some of these words. Here we go.
Age
Aid
Eight
Able
Chain
Date
Eighteen
Fake
Lazy
Made
Baby
Gain
Change
Gave
Nation
Day
Paper
Angel
Basic
Face
Ok, now let’s try these sentences.
The ape gave the trainer a cane.
David began shaving when he was eighteen.
The rainbow appeared when daylight changed.
The baby snake lived in a painted cage.
My neighbors basement was changed from blue to beige.
Hey, take away the strain! Weigh the gains of a great break with Lazy
Day Vacations. Lines are open eight till late. They aim to make your day!
Very good. You know by improving you O and A vowel sounds. It will really make a huge difference in your speech and people will have a much easier time understanding you.
Ok, now for something new. How to pronunce the names of the 50 American States. Many of my clients have often asked me to help them out and provide them with correct pronunciation. So I thought this may be helpful for you as well. The names of many States are difficult to pronunce, especially the ones with R and L sounds in them.
When saying then, if you say an R. Don’ t forget to use strong R sounds and if say an L, don’ t forget to use strong L sounds with your tongue tip rising up in the front, right behind your teeth. L, like that. Ok? You’ ll notice that there’ s a line under the syllable in each State which receives the most stress to make it a little bit easier for you to pronunce. Ok, let’ s go. These States are in alphabetical order. Repeat after me.
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
NewHampshire
NewJersey
NewMexico
NewYork
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
RhodeIsland
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Very good. Now as you know, the United States is a large country and each state is unique and has a lot to offer. If you haven’ t done much traveling yet in the United States, I hope someday you’ ll get to see how beautiful this country really is. Well, that’ s it for today. Now, go on practise and please feel free to review today’ s session again if you like. Thank you for watching. I’ m Paul Gruber for the Pronunciation Workshop and I’ ll see you at our next session. Goodbye!
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。本期视频约15分钟。
