跟读练习: English Pronunciation Study: What did you do Today? (Ben Franklin Exercise) - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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In this American English pronunciation exercise,
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In this American English pronunciation exercise,
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we're going to study some conversation.
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Today it's going to be a Ben Franklin exercise,
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where we analyze the speech together.
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Today's topic, what did you do today?
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Great.
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Let's get started.
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Tom, what did you do today?
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Tom, what did you do today?
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Lots of interesting things happening here.
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I noticed first of all that I've dropped the T here.
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What did?
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What did?
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What did you do?
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I'm also noticing I'm getting more of a J sound here.
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Ju, ju, what did you, did you?
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So the D and the Y here are combining to make the J sound.
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So we have, what did you,
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what did you, what did you?
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Tom, what did you do today?
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The other thing I notice is that the T here is really more of a flap sound, a D.
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Do-da, do-da, do-da-day.
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This is most definitely a schwa,
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so we're reducing this unstressed syllable to be the schwa.
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Today, today, do-da-day, do-da-day.
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Tom, what did you do today?
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Tom, what did you do today?
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Today.
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Today.
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Today I woke up.
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Now here we have today three times.
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Always the first syllable is reduced to the schwa sound,
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but I'm noticing that these T's are all true T's and not flap T's.
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That's because they're beginning sentences.
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So we're not going to reduce that to a flap T.
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In the case up here,
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do today, it came, the T in today came between a vowel,
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do, the oo vowel, and schwa sound,
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and that's why we made this a flap sound.
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But here, we're beginning a sentence,
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so we're going to go ahead and give it the true T sound,
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though we will most definitely reduce to the schwa.
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Today.
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Today.
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Today.
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Today.
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Today.
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Today.
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Today.
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Today.
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Today.
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I woke up.
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Everything was very connected there,
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and I know that when we have something ending in a vowel or diphthong sound,
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and the next word beginning in a vowel or diphthong sound,
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that we want that to really glide together.
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Today I, today I, today I.
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And any time we have a word that begins with a vowel,
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we want to say, hmm,
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does the word before end in a consonant sound?
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It does.
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It ends in the K consonant sound.
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Woke up, woke up.
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So to help us link,
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we can almost think of it as beginning the next word.
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Woke up.
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Today I woke up.
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Today.
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Today.
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Today I woke up, and I went for a run.
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And I went for a run.
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Tom dropped the D here,
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connected this word and to I,
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and I, and I, and I.
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This was the schwa sound.
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So he's reduced and, and I, and I.
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And I went for a run.
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Fura, fura.
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Tom reduced the vowel in the word for to the schwa,
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and we've connected these two function words together.
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Fura, fura, fura.
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This is also a schwa.
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Fura, fura, fura run, fura run,
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and I went for a run.
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Can you pick out the two stressed words here?
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Went, run.
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Those are the two words that have the most shape in the voice, the most length.
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And I went for a run.
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And I went for a run.
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Again, he's got the intonation going up here at the end because,
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comma, he's giving us a list here.
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And there's more information about to come.
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Today I woke up and I went for a run,
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and I went for a run,
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and I went for a run,
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and then I just worked.
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And now here Tom did pronounce the D,
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he linked it to the next word beginning with a vowel,
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which is just this thought word that we say when we're thinking.
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And, and, again, the intonation of the voice is going up at the end,
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and signaling, comma, not a period, more information coming.
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And, and, and, then I just worked.
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Worked, worked, then I just worked.
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Here finally we have the intonation of the voice going down at the end so we know period,
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end of the sentence, end of the thought.
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Then I, he connected this ending consonant to the beginning vowel,
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the diphthong I, I, to smooth that out.
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Then I, then I, then I just worked.
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Did you notice Tom dropped the T here?
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We did not get just worked.
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Just worked.
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He didn't release it.
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This happens often when we have a word that ends in a cluster with a T,
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when the next word also begins with a consonant.
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In these cases often, the T will get dropped.
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I just worked.
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I just worked.
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I just worked.
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Do you notice that the ED ending here is pronounced as a T sound?
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That's because the sound before, The K is unvoiced.
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So this ending will also be unvoiced.
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Worked.
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Worked.
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And I went for a run,
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and then I just worked.
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And then I just worked.
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And then I just worked.
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So where do you run?
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So where do you run?
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Now this is a question,
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but did you notice the intonation went down at the end?
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Run.
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Run.
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That's because it's a question that cannot be answered with just yes or no. Yes,
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no questions go up in pitch at the end.
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All other questions tend to go down in pitch at the end.
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Where do you run?
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Do you hear the stressed words in that question?
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Where?
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Run.
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So where do you run?
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Longer words, more up, down shape of the voice.
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Where?
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Run.
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So where do you run?
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I run in Fort Greene Park.
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What do you hear as being the stressed syllables there?
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I run in Fort Greene Park.
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I run in Fort Greene Park.
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I hear da-da-da-da-da-da.
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Definitely I hear Fort, Greene,
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and Park all being longer,
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all having that shape in the voice.
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I run in Fort Greene Park.
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Also I is a little bit more stressed than runnin'.
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I, I, da-da-da, da-da-da.
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I runnin'.
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I runnin'.
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Runnin'.
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Runnin'.
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So those two words are really linked together because we have an ending consonant and a beginning vowel.
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Runnin', runnin', I runnin'.
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I runnin' Fort Green Park.
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I runnin' Fort Green Park.
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I runnin' Fort Green Park.
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I runnin' Fort Green Park in Brooklyn.
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In Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn, a two-syllable word.
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One of the syllables will be stressed.
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What do you hear as being stressed?
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Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn.
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Definitely it's that first syllable.
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Brook.
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Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn.
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In Brooklyn.
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In Brooklyn.
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In Brooklyn.
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So what are you doing after this?
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So what are you doing after this?
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How was I able to say so many words quickly but still be clear?
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First of all, I'm dramatically reducing the word R to the schwa R sound, er, er.
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That means the T here is now coming between two vowel sounds,
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and I'm making that a flap T sound,
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which sounds like the D between vowels.
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Water, water, water.
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Also the word you is unstressed.
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So it's going to be in that same line,
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what are you, what are you,
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what are you, what are you.
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Very fast, quite flat, lower in volume.
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What are you doing?
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Now here we have a stressed word.
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Do, doing, doing.
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What are you doing?
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Do you hear how the syllable Do.
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Sticks out of that phrase more than anything else.
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What are you doing?
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What are you doing?
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After this.
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Another stressed word here.
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So what are you doing after this?
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So what are you doing after this?
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So what are you doing after this?
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After this, nothing.
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Tom's speaking a little bit more slowly than I am here.
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After this, nothing.
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We have two, two-syllable words here.
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Which syllable is stressed?
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Let's take first the word after.
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If you think you hear the first syllable as being stressed, you're right.
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AF.
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After.
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Der, der, der.
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The second syllable, very low in pitch, flat and quick.
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After.
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What about the word nothing?
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Again, it's the first syllable.
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ING endings, even though this isn't an ING verb, will be unstressed.
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Nothing.
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Nothing.
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Nuh.
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Nuh.
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Nothing.
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After this, nothing.
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After this, nothing.
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After this, nothing.
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No plans.
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No plans.
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Nothing reduces in this phrase.
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I'm really hearing this as two different stressed words.
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They're both one syllable.
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No plans.
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No plans.
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No plans.
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No plans.
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No plans.
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No plans.
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No plans.
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No plans.
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Should we get dinner?
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Yeah.
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Should we get dinner?
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One of the things I notice is I'm dropping the D sound.
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Should we, should we, should we get,
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should we get, should we get.
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That's helping me say this less important word even faster.
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Should we get dinner?
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I notice that the T here is a stop T.
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I don't release it.
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It's not get dinner.
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It's get, Get, get, get dinner, get dinner.
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Should we get dinner?
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Should we get dinner?
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Should we get dinner?
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Should we get dinner?
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Should we get dinner?
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Do you notice in this question,
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my voice does go up in pitch at the end.
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Dinner, dinner.
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That's because this is a yes, no question.
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Pitch goes up.
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Should we get dinner?
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Should we get dinner?
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Yeah.
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As you probably know, a more casual way to say yes.
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Should we get dinner?
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Yeah.
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Should we get dinner?
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Yeah.
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Working this way with any video or audio clip can help improve your listening comprehension and your pronunciation.
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That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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Don't stop there.
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Keep learning with my fun American English in Real Life playlist,
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my Reduction in Lincoln playlist,
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or any of the playlists on my channel.
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And don't forget to check out rachelsenglish.com,
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where there's lots more to work with.
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在这段美国英语发音练习中，我们将一起分析对话的细节。今天的主题是“你今天做了什么？”而这个练习崇尚本·富兰克林的学习方法，通过深入发音细节来帮助学习者改善口语。通过聆听和模仿对话，我们可以提升自己的发音技巧，并在日常交流中变得更加自信。
日常交流的五个常用短语
- 你今天做了什么？ (What did you do today?)
- 我醒来了。 (I woke up.)
- 这里发生了很多有趣的事情。 (Lots of interesting things happening here.)
- 我们开始吧。 (Let's get started.)
- 我注意到…… (I noticed that…)
逐步模仿指南
为了成功掌握这段对话和发音技巧，您可以遵循以下步骤进行模仿练习，提升您的口语能力，这种练习也常被称为shadowspeak或shadow speech：
- 听取原声：首先，反复播放视频，听清楚说话者的语调和节奏。
- 分段模仿：将视频分成小段落，集中注意力模仿特定句子，如“你今天做了什么？”和“我醒来了。”
- 注意发音细节：留意其中的发音变化，比如“what did you”转换成“what did you”的/j/音是非常关键的。
- 朗读练习：放慢语速，逐字朗读，确保每个音节都能清晰发出。您将会意识到自己在句中的发音变换。
- 重复反馈：模仿几次后，录音自己的声音并与原声对比，找出需要改进的地方。
这个自我模仿的过程确实是提升英语口语、增强发音能力的有效方法。通过不断的练习和反复重现，您会发现自己逐步掌握了更自信的发音技巧。
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。