跟读练习: American English Connected Reading | Complaining About the Road - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Hey, what's up?
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It's Alex.
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Today, let's talk about the connected sounds in the short text
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where you're complaining about the quality of the road in your town.
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Let's take a look.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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I live in a, live in a.
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So this i in in basically gets reduced, and the uh gets connected to in.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes.
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Care about bikes.
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That T in about turns into a glottal stop.
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Where they care about bikes a lot.
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That T in lot also turns into a glottal stop because it's the end of the sentence.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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The roads are wide and flat and they're paved smooth.
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The roads are wide and flat.
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So here the road sir, we don't write apostrophe re but we do take out
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that ah sound in our the roads are sir the roads are wide
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and flat now here wide and Flat if I say
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that really quickly you don't really hear any of the individual sounds in a Md
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and gets reduced to a single nasal release release n.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Now if I slow down a little bit I'll say widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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Widen flat.
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So I have a little bit of a hint of that vowel but that D is definitely gone.
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Widen flat and they're paved smooth. And there.
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So now I'm starting a section of the sentence with and so I'll say the eh vowel there. And there.
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I won't say the D though.
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And they're paved smooth.
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That D in paved gets reduced quite a bit before the S.
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And they're paved smooth.
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Paved smooth.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road.
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There's a lot of.
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There's a lot of space.
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So a lot of, you can just think of it as combining into a lot of.
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There's a lot of space.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road. On the. On the.
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We connect the N and the TH. On the. On the.
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My tongue goes between my teeth when I say on the instead of behind the teeth, which is what we normally do for an N sound.
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On the side of the road.
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Side the. Of the.
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There's no v in of anymore.
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Side the.
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Side the road.
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Space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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Road d-d-d.
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The word to gets reduced right here very, very much.
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Road to.
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Road to ride your bike.
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Now, ride your turns into ride j-er.
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The vowel in your changes.
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Ride j-er.
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And the consonant y-er turns into a j-er after this d.
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Ride your bike.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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The only thing I don't like.
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The only, yonly.
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I add a little yuh sound there.
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The only.
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The only thing I don't like.
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Don't, don't like.
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I have a glottal stop there for the T in don't.
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If I say it really quickly, I could say don't like.
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The only thing I don't like.
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Don't like.
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Don't like.
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And in that case, there's no glottal stop or T.
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It just goes don't like.
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However, if you say this a little slower, it sounds strange, because we're used to hearing no glottal stop, no T, only in very fast speech.
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So if you say don't like, don't like, and stretch it out and say it very slowly, it can sound a little bit strange.
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The only thing I don't like, or don't like, the only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails.
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Rocks and nails.
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So here we take off the D in and and reduce that first vowel.
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Rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Now here I'm stressing there are, there are.
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I don't, the only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are, there are on the road.
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I can never connect this into there-er.
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I can in other types of sentences, but in this sentence pattern, the only thing I don't like is how many blah blah blah there are.
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The only thing I know is how many blah blah blah there are.
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In this situation, I can never connect there-er.
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The only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are, there are, on the road.
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On the road.
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On the road.
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Seriously, it's crazy.
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There must be dozens of nails.
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There must be dozens of nails. Must be.
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There's no T there.
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Must be turns into must be.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads.
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Dozens of nails.
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Now that of nails could be of nails or a nails.
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You could reduce it and take out that v sound.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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The roads I ride on.
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ZI.
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Connect I to roads.
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Along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires.
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I've gotten.
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Gotten.
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I've gotten.
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There's a glottal stop there.
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Gotten.
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It's not a T.
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It's not gotten.
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It's gotten.
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I've gotten two flat tires.
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Flat tires.
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The T in flat and the T in tires connects together.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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Months is a difficult word for a lot of people to say.
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All you need to do is take out the TH.
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Months.
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Months.
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That's how we say it every day.
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Months.
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Two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, if ya. If ya.
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So here U turns into ya.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails.
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No way to, d, d.
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That too, when it's used as part of a verb, reduces down to d.
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There's no way to see the nails until it's too late.
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Late.
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We finally end with a glottal stop T.
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Late normally ends with a T, but at the end of the sentence, we turn it into a glottal stop.
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Too late.
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If you like this kind lesson, remember I've got even longer and even more detailed pronunciation lessons
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that break down all the different rules I've discovered in many years of research.
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These lessons are available at the links below and in the comments.
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I'll see you there.
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All right, now I'll read the whole thing slowly but still with all the natural connected speech rules.
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It sounds a little funny because these rules only ever happen in fast, natural speed speech, but you can still practice with the slower version.
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After that, I'll read it at a normal speed.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails until it's too late.
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Alright, here we go with normal speed.
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I live in a place where they care about bikes a lot.
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The roads are wide and flat and they're paved smooth.
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There's a lot of space on the side of the road to ride your bike.
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The only thing I don't like is how many rocks and nails there are on the road.
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Seriously, it's crazy.
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There must be dozens of nails along the roads I ride on.
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I've gotten two flat tires in two months riding here.
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If you ride fast, there's no way to see the nails until it's too late.

背景与情境

这段视频由讲者亚历克斯（Alex）呈现，他讨论了在日常生活中抱怨路况时，英语中的连音现象。这样的讨论不仅帮助学习者理解在真实交流中的发音习惯，也促进了他们对英语口语的灵活运用。通过观看此视频，学习者能够观察到如何在评论城市道路质量时，使语言更为流畅自然。

日常交流中的五个常用短语

  • I live in a place where they care about bikes.（我住的地方非常重视骑自行车。）
  • The roads are wide and flat.（这些道路宽阔而平坦。）
  • There's a lot of space on the side of the road.（马路旁有很多空间。）
  • They're paved smooth.（这些路面铺得很平滑。）
  • Care about bikes a lot.（非常关心自行车。）

逐步跟读指导

为了有效提高英语发音和口语表达能力，学习者可以采用以下逐步跟读的方法。通过这种方式，您不仅能提高自己的发音，还能增强与他人交流的自信心。

  1. 选择适合的句子：从视频中挑选出您觉得比较难的句子，例如：“The roads are wide and flat.”
  2. 慢速播放：初次观看时，先以慢速播放视频，注意发音的每一个细节，尤其是连音部分，比如“wide and flat”如何在快速说话中融为一体。
  3. 重复跟读：紧接着，尝试模仿视频中的发音，尽量做到与亚历克斯同步，同时注意口型及语调变化。
  4. 逐句练习：可以先从每个短语开始，每次集中练习一到两个短语，然后逐步累积整句，提升整体表达能力。
  5. 自我录音：最后，使用录音工具记录自己的跟读，回放并对比视频中的发音，以找出需要改进的地方。

通过这样的练习方法，您不仅能有效提高英语发音，还能增强自信心。记得多利用看YouTube学英语的资源，配合shadowspeak等技巧，努力实现语言飞跃！

什么是跟读法？

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