美语听力与发音技巧听力原文.docx

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美语听力与发音技巧听力原文

美语听力与发音技巧第1期

WelcometoDailytipsonLearningEnglish.Today'stipisondistinguishing“can”and“cannot”inspokenAmericanEnglish.

“Cannot”isusuallycontractedto“can't”.SomanylearnersofEnglishassumethatinordertodistinguishbetween“can”and“can't”,onemustlistenforthefinal“t”sound/t/.Andwhenspeaking,onemustpronouncefinal‘t’sound/t/clearly.However,thisisnotinfacthownativespeakersdistinguish“can”and“can't”.Peopledonotsay‘I`candriveacar,butIcan’tdriveamotorcycle.’Peoplesay‘Ican`driveacar',butI`can'tdriveamotorcycle.’Thedifferencebetween“can”and“can't”isinstress.“Can”isnotstressed,theverbafteritis.“Can't”isstressed.Theverbafteritisnot.

Alsosince‘can’isnotstressed,thevowelisreducedto/a/,so“can”isactuallypronounced“can”.Listentoanotherexample.“I`can'tgoonSaturday,butIcan`goonSunday.”Didyouhearthe't'sound?

Didyounoticethedifferencewordsbeingstressed?

Listeningagain.“I`can'tgoonSaturday,butIcan`goonSunday.”Ifyouwanttounderstandwhethersomeoneissayinghecanorcan'tdosomething,youhavetobelisteningforastressed“can't”oraverbstressedafter“can”.Whatdoesthismean?

“Ican`speakJapanese,butI`can'tspeakTaiwanese.”That'sright,IcanspeakJapanese,butIcannotspeakTaiwanese.Whenyouarespeakingitisveryimportantthatyoufollowthisruletoo.WhenlearnersofEnglishsayI`canhelpyou,nativespeakersoftenunsurewhatismeantbecauseofimproperstress.Soremember,youcanstress“can't”,butyou`can'tstress“can”.

美语听力与发音技巧第2期

WelcometoDailyTipsonLearningEnglish.Today’stipisonhowsyllablestresscanaffectthemeaningofwords.

Rememberthatstressedsyllablesaresaidlouderandarelengthened,andunstressedsyllablesarepronouncedmoresoftly,andoftenhavethevowelsoundsreduced.

Sometimes,thisdifferencecanbethedifferencebetweenaverbandanoun,oranadjective.

Thereareatleast14pairsofwordsinwhichsyllablestressalonemakesthisdifference.Someexamplesinclude`addict,a`ddict,`convict,con`vict,`perfect,per`fect.Eachtimethesecondsyllableisstressed,thewordisaverb.Whenthefirstsyllableisstressed,thewordiseitheranounoranadjective.Let’slooksomeexamplesmoreclosely.`Permit,per`mit,a`permitisanoun,itisapieceofpaperwhichauthorizesyoutodosomething.Forinstance,afishing`permitallowsyoutogofishing.Per`mitisaverb.Itmeanstoallow.Forinstence,fishingisn’tper`mittedherewithouta`permit.

Anotherexampleis`perfect,per`fect.`Perfectisanadjective.Itmeans100%correct,nomistakesorerrors.Theverbisper`fect,itmeanstomakesomethingperfect.Forexample,“Iwanttoper`fectmyEnglish”means“IwanttomakemyEnglishperfect”.Makesureyoustresstherightsyllable.Itcanbethedifferecebetweendifferentpartsofspeech.Thishasbeentoday’sdailytip.Tillthen,tomorrow,foranothertiponlearningEnglish.

美语听力与发音技巧第3期（清浊辅音结尾对元音的影响）

WelcometoDailyTipsonLearningEnglish.Today’stipisonhowdifferentvowellengthsareusedtodifferentiatewordsendinginvoicedandvoicelessconsonants.

Let’stakeanexample.There’ssomethinginmyeyes.There’ssomethinginmyice.Thelastwordsintheexamples,eyesandicedifferin2ways.Onedifferenceisthewordeyesendwiththesound“z”,andiceendwiththesound“s”.Theotherdifferenceinthepronunciationof“eyes”and“ice”ishowthevowelsound“ai”ispronounced.Intheword“eyes”,itislonger.Intheword“ice”,itisveryshort.

Listentotheexamplesagain,andnotethatthefinalconsonantsoundisnotasclearasthedifferenceinthelengthofthevowel.There’ssomethinginmyeyes.There’ssomethinginmyice.Listenagain.There’ssomethinginmyeyes.There’ssomethinginmyice.Listentosomeotherexamplesofwordsthatareidenticalexceptforthefinalconsonantsandthevowellength.Cap,cab,plate,played,seat,seed.Today’stipistopaymoreattentiontothelengthofvowels,asthisdifferenceisveryimportantindistinguishingsomewords.Tillthen,tomorrow,toanothertiponlearningEnglish.

Unit4

WelcometodailytipsonlearningEnglish.Today’stipisonsoundlinking.

AlthoughinwrittenEnglish,there’respacesbetweeneveryword,inspokenEnglishthere’realwaysnever

（1）pausesbetweenwords.InordertounderstandspokenEnglish,itis

（2）essentialtounderstandhowthislinkingisdone.Todaylet’s（3）concentrateonthemostcommonsoundlinkingsituation.Wheneverawordendinginaconsonantsoundisfollowedbyawordbeginningwithavowelsound,theconsonantsoundislinkedtothevowelsoundasiftheywerepartofthesameword.

Let’slookatsomeexamples.I’dlikeanotherbowlofrice,please.First,notethatalthoughthere’resixwordsinthesentence,allthewordsarelinkedtogetherwithoutpause.Listenagain.I’dlikeanotherbowlofrice,please.Nowlistentohowthewords“like”and“another”arelinked.“Likeanother”,“like-another”.“Like”endsinaconsonantsound,and“another”beginswithavowelsound.Sothe“k”from“like”islinkedtothe“a”from“another”toproduce“kanother”.Listentotheexamplesentenceagain.I’dlikeanotherbowlofrice,please.Inthesentencethereisanotherexampleofaconsonantbeinglinkedtoavowel.Abowlof,abowl-of.Itsoundslikethatyou’resayingtheword“love”.Here’sanotherexample.I’dloveabowlofrice.I’dloveabowlofrice.ThissoundlinkingisprobablythebiggestproblemforlearnersofEnglishwhentheytrytounderstandnativespeaker’stalking.We’lltalkmoreaboutsoundlinkinginfuturedailytips,asthisisanextremelyimportfeatureofspokenEnglish.Today’stipistolinkconsonantstovowelswhichcomeafterthem.Tillthen,tomorrow,foranotherdailytip.

美语听力与发音技巧第5期（“h”音的略读）

WelcometoDailyTipsonLearningEnglish.Today’stipisonsoundlinking.

RememberthatalthoughwrittenEnglishhasspacesbetweeneveryword,spokenEnglishdoesn’thavepausesaftereveryword.Asamatteroffact,longstringsofwordsarealllinkedtogether.Anditisthislinking,whichoftenmakesitdifficultforlearnersofEnglishtounderstandnativespeaker’stalking.Today’stipistonoticehowthe“h”soundisoftendroppedinpersonalpronounssuchas“he”,“him”,“his”and“her”.Andwhenitisdropped,whatisleftisavowelsound,andthevowelsoundisalwayslinkedtotheprecedingword.

Let’slookatanexample.Giveherabook.Giv-erabook.Noticehowthe“h”isdroppedandhow“giveher”become“giv-er”.Lookatanotherexample.Tellhimtoaskher.Tell-imtoask-er.Didyounoticethat“tellhim”became“tell-im”and“askher”became“ask-er”?

ThishappensveryfrequentlyinspokenEnglish,especiallywhen“he”followsanauxiliaryverb.Forexample,“whatwillhedo?

”becomes“Whatwill-ido?

”“Wherewillhego?

”becomes“Wherewill-igo?

”“Whenwillhecome?

”becomes“Whenwill-icome?

”“Whowillhemeet?

”becomes“Whowill-imeet?

”“Howwillheknow?

”becomes“Howwill-iknow?

”“Hashegone?

”becomes“Has-igone?

”“Hadhedoneitbefore?

”becomes“Had-idoneitbefore?

”“Musthego?

”becomes“Must-igo?

”“Canhedoit?

”becomes“Can-idoit?

”“Shouldheleave?

”becomes“Should-Ileave?

”it’simportanttoaccustomyourselftothedropped“h”soundinsoundlinking.Thishasbeentoday’sdailytip.TuneintomorrowforanothertiponlearningEnglish.

美语听力与发音技巧第6期（辅音连续）

WelcometoDailyTipsonLearningEnglish.Today’stipisonsoundlinking.

When2identicalorsimilarconsonantsareinarow,mostsoundsarenotpronounced.Forexample,stopPeter.“stop”endsinthesound“p”,and“Peter”beginsinthesamesound.Togetherthewordsarelinkedas“sto-peter”.Thewordsaren’tpronouncedstopPeter.Topronouncetwoidenticalsoundsoneafteranother,wouldsoundlikesomeonestuttering.Englishwordsarealwayslinkedsmoothly.Similarbutnotidenticalsoundssuchasvoicedandvoicelesspairsofconsonantsarealsolinkedinthisway.Forexample,it’sabigcake.“big”beginsinthesound“g”,cakebeginswiththesound“k”.“k”and“g”differonlyinthat“k”isvoicelessand“g”isvoiced.Whentheyarenexttoeachotherinaphrasethey’relinkedsmoothlybynotaspirating（吸气）orpronouncingfullythefirstofthe2sounds.ListencarefullyasIreadtheexampleagain.It’sabigcake.Noticehowthefirstsound“g”isnotreleased.Ifthepairofsoundsisreversed,likein“Ilikegoats.”itisthe“k”soundwhichisnotpronounced.Listenclosely.Ilikegoats.Ilikegoats.

There’re8pairsofconsonantsthatdifferonlyinthepresenceorlackofvocalcordvibration.ListenasIgiveoneexampleofsoundlinkingforeachpair.

v,f:

IloveFrance.

δ,θ:

Let’sbathethreetimes.

z,s:

SheisSusan.

з,∫:

Thegarageshouldbecleaned.

dз,t∫:

Hehasahugechin.

b,p:

Putthecapbackon.

d,t:

Dadtoldme.

k,g:

IlikeGavin.（?

）

Itisimportanttoincludethistypeofsoundlinkinginyourspeechifyouwanttoachievefluency.ItisalsoimportanttobeawareofhowthislinkingaffectshowspokenEnglishsounds.Otherwiseyoumaynotunderstandnativespeaker’sspeech.Thishasbeentoday’sdailytip.TuneintomorrowforanotheronlearningEnglish.

美语听力与发音技巧第7期（冠词“a”）

WelcometoDailyTipsonLearningEnglish.Today’stipisonusingoromittingtheEnglisharticle“a”correctly.

There’snosinglerulethatexplainshowtochoosewhetheryoushoulduse“a”,use“the”ornotuseanyarticleatall.Sometimesthere’sonlyonecorrectchoice,andinothercases,differentchoiceschangethemeaningofthesentence.Todaylet’sdiscussthemostfrequentlyoccurringdifferencesbetweenusingthe