美语发音视频教程Paul Gruber主讲全程15个系列教程文本.docx

1、美语发音视频教程美语发音视频教程 Paul Gruber 主讲全程主讲全程 15 个系列教程个系列教程文本文本 Pronunciation Workshop The American dream does not come to those who fall out quick.Session One 1.Consonant R 2.Consonant W Hi,Im your instructor Paul Gruber and welcome to the Pronunciation Workshops-First Training Session.I am very excited th

2、at you have taken this first step to improve your English pronunciation and I do hope that you would enjoy this program and receive great benefits from it.Before we begin I wanna make sure that you have downloaded and printed out the training manual which accompanies this course.If you have not yet

3、done so,please do it soon because youll definitely need it.Now you may be wondering how is it that I am going to help you change the way you speak.Well,basically,when you learned English as a second language,you kept many of the sounds and speech rules from your first language and you were continuin

4、g to use them when you speak English.This is what gives you an accent.You were using the sounds and speech rules from your native language instead of the sounds and speech rules of English.And you know why?Well,because when you learned English,nobody ever showed you what the sounds and speech rules

5、of English were until now.Thats why Im coming.Because I am going to show you and train you on how to use these sounds and speech rules correctly.Knowing in using these rules will help you reduce or possibly even eliminate your accent.Now throughout the program youre often going to see me point to my

6、 mouth to show you how to produce a particular sound.I want you to pay close attention and try to copy exactly what it is I am doing.I would be showing you how to correctly form new sounds by changing the position of your tongue or changing the shape of your lips.These small changes are going to mak

7、e very big changes in your speech.Were going to practising and I recommend that you use the training manual and try to practise often.When you practise,I recommend that you start out speaking slowly out loud in a strong voice while exaggerating all the mouth movements.What would you be doing is retr

8、aining the muscles of your mouth in your tongue to move in new ways,which will produce a new pronunciation patterns.These new speech patterns will slowly and eventually involve into your own spontaneous fast speech,but it is important that you start out going very slow.If you can pronunce words and

9、sentences correctly speaking slowly,well,then youll have no problem in saying them fast.I believe practising is important,but I do not believe its the only key towards success.Being aware of your errors.That s the key.Being aware and also recognizing mistakes when you hear them will probably be the

10、most important factors towards your improvement.Another thing Id like you to keep in mind and Im sure you may have noticed this already is that when most Americans speak you will notice that we seem to open our mouth a lot and there is a great amount of mouth movements.Watch my mouth when I say some

11、thing like“Wow,was there really raining on Wednesday!”Did you see how my mouth seemed to move?It wasnt with my lips flat.It wasnt“Wow,was there really raining on Wednesday.”There was a lot of movements.My mouth opened wide,but also my whole mouth moved forward.Now I find many foreign speakers,maybe

12、because of their language characteristics,they dont move their mouths much.There is very little facial movement.Because of this,to an American listener,the words often sound mumble,making it very very difficult for an American listener to understand what it is you said.One way to be better understoo

13、d immediately is to become more aware of your speech and to really start opening and moving your mouth.Id like to try to observe what Im talking about.When you speak to native-borned Americans or watch TV or movies,notice how when Americans speak,generally our mouths really open big and our lips com

14、e forward.These movements have a lot to do with the sound of American English.I also want to add that Ill often be asking you to repeat words and sentences on these videos.Try to think as if we were both sitting in the same room and I am directly right in front of you.Listen carefully to the words a

15、nd sounds that I give you.Listen carefully to my pronunciation and watch my mouth,then repeat the words back to me in your own voice with the techniques that Im showing you as clearly as you can.Now at first you may feel a bit of foolish talking to your computer screen,but really you shouldnt.Make b

16、elieve youre speaking directly to me.Youll find this will to be extremely helpful and effective.During the course of this program,I will begin by addressing consonant sounds and then later on well work with vowel sounds.Now vowel sounds,as you know,are A E I O and U,like ahh,ohh,eee,ehh,ihh and ooo.

17、And consonant sounds are basically all the other letters sounds,like b,ch,s,t,f,g,sh,w and of course,there are many many more sounds.The consonants that we are going to cover in this first session are the consonant R and the consonant W.Ok,are you ready?Here we go.Lets get started.Lets start with th

18、e American R.Rs are everywhere.Theyre probably the most commonly occurring consonant sound in English.One reason for this is that Rs affect vowel sounds,especially when an R falls at the end of word or after a vowel sound as in the word CAR,or the word AIR,or the word TURN.After working with so many

19、 non-native English speakers from around the world,I believe the R sound is one of the main causes for being misunderstood in American English.Therefore,this is why Ive chosen to start out with this sound.Now when some languages,like our speaking Spanish,the R is produced by bringing the tongue forw

20、ard in the front of the mouth behind the upper teeth and rolling or trilling the tongue,like that.Now when some other languages,like German and French,the R is produced in the back of the throat,but this is not how we produce an R sound in the United States.In American English,in order to say a clea

21、r R sound,two distinct things hafta(have to)happen.The first thing is that our mouth and lips come tightly forward as if you would be saying the OO sound.Do this with me,say OO and make sure you bringing your lips all the way forward.Say OO.Thats it.You see how your lips are forward?Thats what you w

22、anna do.This is the position your mouth should be in when you producing an American R,like that,and Ill bet you know whenever I told you that.Now,the second thing is that your tongue moves back in your mouth.It doesnt come forward.Its pulled back.This is probably the opposite of what youre doing rig

23、ht now.So,for example,in the word Rock,notice how my lips are coming forward and my tongue moves back in my mouth and I push out the R sound.Watch this:RRRock.Do with me and exaggerate the R:RRRock.Watch with my head turn:RRRock.You see that?See how the whole bottom of my face came forward.Dont be a

24、fraid to do this.This forward mouth movement is what is going to give you an American R sound.Its not and its not Rock with your lips flat.Your whole mouth really hasta(has to)come forward.Now latter I recommend that you practise doing this in front of a mirror while watching your mouth.Really push

25、out the R and remember to pull your tongue back.Now one way of checking if youre doing this correctly with your tongue is by actually putting your finger around an inch into your mouth while saying an R sound.Watch this,RRRock,like that.You should be able to take the tip of your finger and feel the

26、tip of your tongue.If you do these two simple things-bringing your mouth forward and pulling your tongue back.Im telling you your speechs going to be clear and youre going to sound so much better.Ok,we re going to start out with Rs at the beginning of words.Here we go.Repeat after me.Rock Rip Reach

27、Road Rain Rich Rome Raise Robe Rice Very good.Now repeat this sentence.The round rooster rushed into the wrong road.Very good.Now pronuncing Rs like this may feel a little weird to you,but if you notice this is how most Americans talk.Ok.Now lets do Rs at the end of words or after a vowel.When a for

28、eign speaker produces R which at the end of word of follows a vowel,its usually very weak-gets not really heard and leaves the word opener unfinished,like in the word CAR.Now you may say CAR ending with the A vowel.But it s not CAR.Its CAR/r/.Your tongue hasta pull back.CAR.And also your lips close

29、a little bit in the front.The R needs to be very strong and you need to close the word.CAR.Lets practise these words.Repeat after me.Car Far Star Door Bear Four Air Year(now has a high vowel sound EE.Year.)Turn Poor Very good.Ok.Now lets discuss Rs in the middle of words.In the word Very,for example

30、,which is a frequently used word in English.The R occurs in the middle of the word.Its not a D sound.The word is not Vedi,or Vehi,its Very.Make sure that the R sound is strong and your lips are coming forward.Your tongue is back and you push out the R:Very,like that.Practise these sentences with me

31、nice and slow.He is Very Very nice,like that.See how my lips are coming all the way forward?Next one.She is Very Very tall.Here are some more practice words with R in the middle.Repeat after me.Direction Arrange Erase Correct Marry Garage Original Hurry Zero Marine Berry Operation Caring Arrive Ever

32、yone Ok.Very good.Now,Rs are often combined with other consonants and form what we call R Blends.It is important to understand that the R sound is the stronggest sound of the blend and your lips often come forward before you even say the word.And example of this is the word Grape.Now notice how my m

33、outh comes forward before I even say the word.Grape.Did you see that?And notice in the word Grape the R sound is strongger and you even hear it more than the G sound.Grape.Here are some practice words with R Blends.First at the beginning of words.Here we go.Training Trust Trip Great Tropical Bring Print President Product Cracker Crawl Break Ok.Now in the middle of words.Subtract Waitress Nutrition