(单词翻译:单击)
Right now, we're going to study English vowel sounds.
现在，我们要学习英语元音。
Why? Because you can get yourself into a lot of
为什么?因为在英语单词中
trouble by using the wrong vowel sound in English words…
使用错误的元音会给你带来很多麻烦……
So we need to fix that, right?
所以我们需要解决这个问题，对吧?
Okay, if you've watched my IPA introduction video
好的，如果你看过我的国际音标介绍视频，你就会知道这些符号的确切含义。
then you'll know exactly what all these symbols mean.
然后你就会确切地知道所有这些符号的意思。
This is the international phonetic alphabet
这是国际音标，
and I use it a lot
我经常用它
when I'm teaching pronunciation to my English students.
教英语学生发音。
If you don't know what they are that's okay.
如果你不知道它们是什么，没关系。
You just need to watch the video up there first.
你只需要先看看上面的视频。
Then you can watch this one!
然后你可以看这个!
That video will make this video much easier to understand!
那个视频会让这个视频更容易理解！
Okay, so these are all the English vowel sounds.
这些都是英语元音。
These are the ones are diphthongs which are also vowel sounds
这些是双元音，也是元音
but there is another video that I've made especially about diphthong sounds.
但我做过另一个关于双元音的视频。
You can watch it here.
你可以在这里观看。
So there are all of these English vowel sounds.
英语中有很多元音。
But only five English vowel letters:
但只有五个英语元音字母:
a e I o u
a e I o u
How does that work?
这是怎么做到的呢?
Let's use the letter E as an example
让我们以字母E为例
When you see the letter E in an English word,
当你看到一个英语单词的字母E,
it can be pronounced in a few different ways.
它可以发不同的音。
Short e as in egg
在egg里是短e
long eee as in she
在she里是长eee
Long with an accent as in café.
在café中带着音调的长音。
or the lazy schwa sound uh
或者在非重读音节的元音慢吞吞的uh
The sound is so lazy,
这发音太懒了，
uh like eleven eleven
就像在eleven中
So let's look at this group of English sounds.
让我们来看看这组英语发音。
Remember that their sounds not English letters.
记住他们的发音不是英文字母。
Now let's look at the first two sounds
现在让我们看看前两个发音
/i:/ and /i/.
/i:/ 和 /i/。
these Psalms caused a few problems English learners
这些诗篇给英语学习者带来了一些问题
/i:/ and /i/
/i:/ 和 /i/
Let's look at this example: beach
让我们看看这个例子: beach
it has the long vowel sound in this word
这个单词中有长元音
/i:/ beach
/i:/、beach
If you mispronounce this long vowel sound and use the short /i/ sound,
如果你把这个长元音发错了，用短的/i/发音，
you'll say bitch.
就会说成bitch
That's a rude word
那是个粗鲁的字眼
beach each.
注意beach each.
Here's another example
还有一个例子
sheet sheet
sheet sheet
It uses the long vowel sound but if you accidentally
它发长元音，但如果你不小心
use the short vowel sound you'll say shit.
发成短元音，就会说成shit。
That is also a really rude word!
这也是一个非常粗鲁的词!
So long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds are important in English.
所以长元音和短元音在英语中很重要。
The short sound is /i/ /i/.
短元音是/i/ /i/。
hit sing bit which disc
hit sing bit which disc
The long vowel sound is /i:/
长元音是/i:/
meat eat beach sheet believe
meat eat beach sheet believe
Next we have the vowel sound /u/.
接下来是元音/u/。
You'll hear that in words like
你会听到这样的单词
book cook sugar
book cook sugar
And then we have the longer sound /u:/
然后是长一点的/u:/
You'll hear this sound in words like
关于这个元音的单词有
you too shoe who computer.
you too shoe who computer.
Let's move on. It's also easy to confuse the
让我们继续。也会很容易混淆
/i/ vowel sound with the short /e/ vowel sound.
元音/i/和短元音/e/
/e/ egg ten left excellent
/e/ egg ten left excellent
Below that we have /æ/ /æ/
下面讲/æ/ /æ/
You'll hear this sound in words like
这些词中发这个元音
cat flat compact that
cat flat compact that
Let’s go through the middle now.
现在我们从中间穿过。
Next we have my favorite sound.
下面要讲我最喜欢的发音。
It's the laziest sound in English.
这是英语中最懒的发音。
It's also the most commonly heard sound in English.
它也是英语中最常听到的发音。
You'll hear it a lot.
你会经常听到。
/ə/ /ə/ today teacher the around
/ə/ /ə/ today teacher the around
then there's /ɜː/ /ɜː/
然后是/ɜː/ /ɜː/
as in her word first work bird.
发这个音的单词有her word first work bird。
Notice that the same English sound can be used for
请注意，相同的英语发音可以用于
all of those different letters.
所有这些不同的字母。
In that example all the words her work and first
在这个例子中，所有的单词her work 以及 first
use different letters but make the same sound.
使用不同的字母，但发出相同的声音。
That's why learning the IPA is going to help you
这就是为什么学习音标会帮助
pronounce English words better.
更好地读英语单词。
Then, we have the /ɔ:/ sound /ɔ:/
然后,我们是/ɔ:/
You can hear this word pronounced in
你可以在这些单词中听到这些发音
or four bought perform saw
or four bought perform saw
Underneath we move from the /æ/ sound to /ʌ/ /ʌ/
下面我们来看从/æ/到/ʌ/的发音
You can hear this sounded words like
你可以在这些词中听到这个发音
cup but butter truck
cup but butter truck
Then there's the /ɑː/ sound /ɑː/ /ɑː/
还有发音/ɑː/
as in far part and heart
发这个单词的音有far、part和heart
Then we have the /ɒ/ sound /ɒ/
接下来是发音/ɒ/
You can hear this sound in not on log God forgot
你可以在not on log God forgot这些单词中听到这个发音
So that's it for English vowel sound pronunciation today.
以上就是今天的英语元音发音。
Make sure you subscribe to my channel down here,
一定要在下面点击订阅，
so that you can get my next video which is all about.
这样你们就能看到我的下一个视频了。
English vowel sound pronunciation with diphthongs,
双元音的英语元音发音，
but right now I want you to go to my website and download the
但是现在我想让你们去我的网站下载
free worksheet that I've made just for this video lesson.
我为这个视频课做的免费的练习题。
So you can practice, practice, practice!
所以你可以练习，练习，练习!
The link to that worksheet is right in the comment section. just down here.
工作表的链接就在注释部分。就在这下面。
Or you can go to my website see you next time!
或者你可以去我的网站，下次见！
