In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to take a look at how this letter is pronounced.

在这段美式英语发音视频中，我们将看看这个字母的发音。

I often get emails from people asking questions like,

我经常收到一些人的电子邮件，他们问我，

'Why is the CH in CHICAGO pronounced differently than the CH in CHOICE?'

为什么Chicago中的“CH”和choice 中的“CH”发音不同。

SH vs. CH.

SH 对 CH。

And my answer is always, unfortunately, the sounds of American English do not correspond one-to-one with the letters of the alphabet.

我的回答是，很遗憾，英文字母与字母表中的字母发音并非一一对应。

To know for sure how a word is pronounced, you need to either hear a native speaker say the word,

为了确定一个单词的发音，你需要听一个以英语为母语的人说这个单词，

or look up the word in a dictionary that has the International Phonetic Alphabet transcription.

或者在有国际音标的词典中查找这个单词。

Let's look at the letter U.

我们来看看字母U。

In the word 'autumn', it is the schwa sound,

在单词“autumn”中，是schwa音。

uh, uh, autumn.

uh、uh，autumn。

In the word 'up', it is the UH vowel. Up.

在单词“up”中，是UH元音，up。

In the word 'union', it is the 'you' diphthong. Union.

在单词“union”中，是you双元音，union。

In the word 'bury', the EH vowel. Bury.

在单词“bury”中，是EH元音，bury。

In the word 'sugar', it is the UH vowel. Sugar.

在单词“sugar”中，是UH元音，sugar。

In the word 'flute', the 'oo' as in 'boo' vowel. Flute.

在单词“flute”中，oo是“boo”中的元音“oo”，flute。

In the word 'suite', it is the W sound. Suite.

在单词“suite”中，是W音，suite。

In the word 'minute', it is the IH vowel. Minute.

在单词“minute”中，是IH元音，minute。

So when you see this letter in a word, you can't make assumptions about how it is pronounced.

所以，你在一个单词中看到这个字母时，不能假设它的发音。

Look it up in a dictionary, or have a native speaker say the word to you.

查字典，或者让母语为英语的人给你念这个词。

That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.

这期节目就到这里了，谢谢你收看《瑞秋纯正美式发音》。

Don't stop there.

别停下来。

Have fun with my real-life English videos.

看看我的真实生活英语视频吧。

Or get more comfortable with the IPA in this play list.

或从这个播放列表中查看。

Learn about the online courses I offer, or check out my latest video.

了解一下我提供的在线课程，或查看最新的视频。