英音- 05 | Tim's Pronunciation Workshop - 英音发音工作室

本视频来源为BBC Learning English，视频主讲人为Tim，视频在小木屋（workshop）中拍摄，命名为Tim‘s Pronunciation Workshop。同时，视频中有街拍真人实例发音，比较有说服力和代表性，大概每集在5分钟以内，适合碎片化时间学习，大家一起加油吧！

自学方法

• 仔细观看视频（两遍以上），熟悉每一个发音位置；

• 依据视频，进行大量跟读模仿；

• 把自己的音频录制下来，与视频中发音进行比对；

• 找出不足，回头再学习视频中的发音技巧，进一步练习；

• 找一位同伴或英语教师（Native speaker最好），为自己纠音。

注意事项

• 发音需要大量练习；

• 一定要模仿正确的音，要打破之前的发音习惯；

• 不要短期期待效果，坚持坚持在坚持；

• 有条件一定要结伴同行，可以是学生，最好是老师；

• 发音好不等于英语好，因此还要大量输入语言素材，不要只关注发音。

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参考文本

Tim
Hi. I'm Tim and this is my pronunciation workshop. Here I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. Wow. Isn't the world an amazing place? Look how many countries there are! Well – at least ten! Do you like travelling? How many countries have you visited? Now, is there any particular place, or country, that you'd like to visit? This is what the people of London told us when we asked them that same question.

Voxpops
I'd like to visit Iceland.
I'd like to visit South America.
I'd like to visit Spain and Greece.
I'd love to go to Egypt.

Tim
The contraction 'I'd' ends in the sound /d/, doesn’t it? Or does it? Listen again - can you fully hear the /d/?

Voxpops
I'd like to visit Iceland.
I'd like to visit South America.
I'd like to visit Spain and Greece.
I'd love to go to Egypt.

Tim
We make the sounds of English in different ways, using different parts of our mouths. There's a group of consonants called plosives, and if this sounds a bit like the word 'explosion', well, that's not a bad way of remembering it. Plosive sounds are made by suddenly releasing air that has been blocked by various parts of the mouth. The sound /d/ is one of these plosives. The others are /b/, /t/, /p/, /k/ and /g/. But in fluent, everyday speech, when one word ends in a plosive sound and the next begins in another consonant sound, we don’t always hear the release of the plosive sound. 'I'd like to', becomes 'Idliketuh'. This is called 'an unreleased stop', or, if you want to get really technical, 'a stop with no audible release'. Here are some more examples.

Examples
How about a quick chat?
You should thank her.
It was a sad time in his life.
Why don't you sit down?

Tim
Right, so you've heard the examples, and now it's your turn. You know the drill by now: listen and repeat.

Examples
How about a quick chat?
You should thank her.
It was a sad time in his life.
Why don't you sit down?

Tim
Well done. And remember, if you want to learn more about this, then please visit our website, bbclearningenglish.com. And that is about it from the pronunciation workshop for this week. I'll see you soon. Bye bye! Now, if you were to ask me where I'd like to visit next… well – anywhere! I just love travelling. Now let's see if we can find my next destination. Oww! I hurt my finger… again!