跟读练习: American English Connected Reading | IELTS Topic: Describe an Important Crop in Your Country - 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 I'd like to look at the connected sounds in a short piece answering the question, describe an important food in your country.
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Let's take a look.
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In the US, I would say corn is the most important crop.
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In the US, to connect in the, we just use the th tongue position when we say na, in the.
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In the US, I would say, I would, would, would.
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So that vowel in would, would, it becomes very, very short.
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It becomes would, would, I would, I would.
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And now I'm not changing this to I'd.
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We could change this to I'd and say, I'd say corn is the most important crop.
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But in a more formal context, I would write the word would, and I would say the word would in a spoken answer.
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I would say, I would say, so listen to how the d sound at the end of would changes into the s.
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I would say, I would say, I would say corn is the most important crop.
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Corn is the most important.
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Mostim, mostim.
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So when we have an st ending, we almost always just keep the T if the next sound is a vowel.
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So I in important is a vowel, so we'll say most important.
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But now think about the glottal stop in important.
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Important.
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We actually have important.
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Important.
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In the middle of the word, there's a glottal stop.
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And then, because the next word is crop, we have a second glottal stop.
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Most important crop.
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Important crop.
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Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years before Europeans arrived.
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Native Americans, the Americans, just connect those sounds together,
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Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years.
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Thousands of years.
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We can take off the in of and just say thousands of years,
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thousands of years, thousands of years.
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I know the word thousands is a hard word, but there's no sound changes here.
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It's pronounced just like it's spelled thousands of years before Europeans arrived, before Europeans arrived, and now,
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And now we're gonna take out the D in AND and just say the AND.
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And now everyone in the world, everyone in the world eats corn sometimes.
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Everyone in the.. connect in the again.
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In the world eats corn sometimes.
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We make oil and sugar out of corn.
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We make goil and sugar.
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So connect make oil.
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Make goil, make goil and sugar and sugar, take out the d and and, out of corn.
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So here we'll connect out to of and so it's almost like it's written O-U-T-T-A.
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It is like that.
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Outta, outta, people write that if they're writing informally.
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In a more formal written answer you would never write O-U-T-T-A
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but you see it sometimes in comics or depictions of very casual speech in writing.
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So outta corn, we make oil and sugar out of corn and we use it to feed lots of animals too.
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And we, we take out the duh in and, and we use, we use, connect the two vowels here, and we use it to,
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use it to, connect the two T sounds, it too, and change the vowel in to.
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We use it to feed lots of animals too.
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Lots of animals, lots of animals too.
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Because animal starts with a vowel, we say lots of animals, lots of animals.
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I could say lots of animals instead of lots of animals, but that sounds a little bit too informal for this kind of answer.
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Corner, something made from corn.
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Corner, connect or to the previous word and reduce the vowel.
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Corner, corner, something made from corn.
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Also from gets a very, very light vowel.
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Made from, from, from corn or something made from corn is in a lot of foods people don't even realize.
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Is in a lot of foods.
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Here, a lot of foods, a lot of foods.
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You can think of it as the two F sounds are connecting
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or you can just think that the of word is connecting to lot.
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A lot of, just like out of before.
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A lot of foods people don't even realize.
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People don't even realize.
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Here we're going to take out the T in DON'T and say DON'T EVEN.
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DON'T EVEN REALIZE.
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In the US, I would say corn is the most important crop.
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Native Americans were growing corn thousands of years before Europeans arrived, and now everyone in the world eats corn sometimes.
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We make oil and sugar out of corn, and we use it to feed lots of animals too.
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Corn, or something made from corn, is in a lot of foods people don't even realize.
为何通过此视频练习口语？
通过观看和模仿这段视频，您将可以锻炼自己的英语口语能力。讲述与“国家的重要作物”相关的内容将使您对美国文化有更深入的了解，同时提升语言表达的自信心。通过这种方法，您能够更自然地掌握连读和音变技巧，从而在实际对话中更加流利。深度练习后，您会发现自己在日常交流中越来越得心应手。
语法与表达在语境中
- 使用 "I would say"：讲者使用了这个表达式来引入自己的观点，这是一种常见的礼貌用语，适合在正式场合使用。
- 名词短语 "the most important crop"：这一结构在描述时能有效突出重点，强调“最重要”的概念。
- 动名词 "growing corn"：使用动名词形式来描述过去的行为，使语言更具流畅感。
- 短语 "out of corn"：讲者用此短语来介绍玉米的多种用途，展示了如何将单一事物与多个概念相结合。
常见发音陷阱
在这段视频中，有几个词汇的发音可能会让学习者感到困惑：
- "most important"：在此短语中，“t”音几乎被省略，连接成“mostim”，这对于非母语者来说可能需反复练习。
- "thousands of years"：该词组中“th”发音和后面的连读需要特别注意，以确保表达清晰。
- "make oil and sugar"：在快速说话时，"make oil"常被连读为“make goil”，这对学习者的发音技巧提出了挑战。
建议您在练习时，可以使用“shadow speech”技术，即通过跟读视频中的内容来提高您的发音和流利度。通过在专注的shadowspeaks练习中不断重复这些短语，您的口语能力将会显著提升。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。