让你的发音更地道 英语发音技巧 British Pronunciation Tips

Hello, everybody. This is Elliot from ETJ English, not Macaulay Culkin. So many of you guys have been writing comments saying, "Elliot, you look like that guy, that kid in Home Alone."

大家好，我是 ETJ English 频道的埃利奥特，不是麦考利·卡尔金。你们很多人都在评论说，“埃利奥特，你看起来像那个家伙，《小鬼当家》里那个孩子。”

And while I"m sorry, I"m in no way related to him. You should see my brother though. He really does look like Macaulay Culkin.

很遗憾，我跟他一点儿关系都没有。不过你应该看看我弟弟，他真的很像麦考利·卡尔金。

Today, in this video, we"re going to be talking about a few different ways in which you can sound more British. Everything I talked about is pronunciation.

今天，在这段视频中，我们将说说几种让你的口音更英式的技巧。我说的都是发音。

I"m a pronunciation teacher and I think there are a few different things which we can do to just sound a little bit more British, faster to make it happen faster. We need to focus on a few different things.

我是一名发音老师，我认为我们可以做一些不一样的事情来让发音听起来更英式一点，更快学会它。我们需要关注一些不同的事情。

Now, these kind of four things that I"m gonna tell you today and not all the things you need to do, they"re just a few just a few little ideas for you to practice and to think about when you"re trying to sound a bit more British. The first thing that I would like to talk to you about is when we should and shouldn"t use the letter or the sound /r/, the "r".

今天我要告诉大家四个技巧，不是说你们只需要做这四件事，而是当你们希望自己的口音听起来更英式的时候，这些技巧能帮助你们练习和思考。我要告诉大家的第一个技巧是我们什么时候会发/r/音，字母“r”。

So first of all, Americans they pronounce the "r". they have a rhotic R whereas in British English, it"s a little bit more complicated. So, when words finish with the letter "r", we do not pronounce it, "better/bet/", we use the schwa.

首先，美国人发“r”音，他们有儿化音，而在英式英语中，情况有些复杂。当单词以字母“r”结尾，我们不发这个音，“better/bet/”，我们发弱央元音。

Now, if you haven"t seen my video about the schwa sound, you can go back and watch that on my channel. But an American, they would say "better/betr/", where they just /r/ on the end.

如果你还没看过我关于弱央元音的视频，你可以去我的频道看看。但美国人他们说“better/betr/”，在结尾发/r/音。

Now, British English, we pronounce it as an //, better/bet/. So a few more words, we have "weather/we/".

而在英式英语中，我们发成//，better/bet/。再来一些词，例如“weather/we/”。

Okay. Another schwa at the end because it"s an //, and also, if we have words that simply end with just the letter "r". For example, "hear", "hear".

好，这是另一个以弱央元音结尾的词，因为它发成//，我们还有一些以字母“r”结尾的词。例如，“hear”，“hear”。

And that sound at the end is actually called a diphthong, the // sound and we"ll talk about that in another video. So, when do we pronounce the /r/ in British English when it"s in a word?

其结尾的音其实叫做双元音，//音，我们会在另一个视频中谈及。那么，在英式英语中，/r/什么时候会在单词中发音？

Well, we only pronounce the /r/ when it appears before a vowel sound. For example, listen to this sentence: I"m going to drive around the area in my car.

嗯，我们只在/r/出现在元音之前时才发。例如，听听这句话：我要开车在这一带转一圈。

I"m going to drive around the area in my car. So, we pronounce the R"s in the words like "area", "drive" because there is a vowel after that "r", but the word "car", there"s no vowel after that.

我要开车在这一带转一圈。我们在“area”、“drive”等单词中发 R 的音，因为它的后面有个元音，但对于单词“car”，R 后面没有元音。

Okay. So, generally that"s what happens. We also have something else in British English which is related to connected speech in pronunciation and this is called the intrusive R or the linking R.

通常就是这样。在英式英语中，我们还有一些与连音发音有关的东西，叫做嵌入式 R 或连音 R。

Now, this is when we join our words with an R. Ok. Now, I"m not going to talk about that in this video, because that would take a long time. It"s quite detailed.

就是当我们用 R 音来连接单词。现在，我不打算在这段视频中谈论这个，因为那需要很长时间。很详细。

But for example, if I was asking my friend where he is, instead of saying "where are you, where are you", what I will do is I will link with an /r/, "whe-rare you, whe-rare you". And this is because we"re lazy, we need to join our words together and make it sound more native, more smooth, and just easier to come out of the mouth.

例如，如果我问我的朋友在哪里，我不会说“where are you, where are you”，而是用/r/来把词连起来，“whe-rare you, whe-rare you”。这是因为我们很懒，我们需要把我们的话连接起来，让它听起来更地道，更流畅，更容易说出来。

And that"s what we call the intrusive R or the linking R. The next tip that I want to give you is to drop your T"s. Use the glottal T sometimes.

这就是我们所说的嵌入式 R 或连音 R。我要说的下一个技巧就是去掉 T 音。有时候要使用喉塞 T。

Why "sometimes"? Why can"t I say "a bo(tt)le of wa(t)er"? Well, the reason why is because really that"s only kind of use with cockney accents.

为什么是“有时候”？为什么我不能说“a bo(tt)le of wa(t)er”？好吧，原因是因为这只是伦敦口音的一种用法。

Generally, if you want to be, you know, to have that kind of standard sounding British accent, the southern British accent, not RP because RP is not used really anymore. That 2% of the population uses RP English now.

一般来说，如果你想说那种标准的英国口音，英国南部口音，而不是 RP，因为 RP 已经不再使用了。如今只有2%的人口在使用 RP 口音。

But if you want kind of a normal British southern accent, then generally, we will drop our T"s sometimes. In less formal occasions and even in formal occasions sometimes, I"ve been in job interviews before where I might drop the T on the word "it".

但如果你想学正常一点的英国南部口音，那么通常情况下我们有时会去掉 T 音。在不太正式的场合，甚至有时是正式的场合，我曾经在工作面试中说“it”的时候把 T 音去掉了。

So for example, "it was good" instead of saying "it was good". To give you a few more examples, I could say "whe-ris i(t)", "whe-ris i(t)", instead of saying "where is it".

例如，“i(t) was good”，而不是“it was good”再举几个例子，我可以说“whe-ris it”，“whe-ris it”，而不是“where is it”。

You know, we can do that, but we can pronounce the T. You can do either, but I just think sometimes it"s good to drop a T because it will make you sound that little bit more British and just have that kind of British sound to your voice.

我们可以这样做，但我们也可以把 T 音发出来。都可以，但我只是觉得有时候去掉 T 音好一些，因为这样会令你听起来更英式，你的口音更有英式的味道。

One more, I could say to my friend: "I"ll see you a little bit later", a little bit later. So, I"m pronouncing the T in "little".

我还会对我朋友说：“I"ll see you a little bit later”，a little bit later。我把“little”中的 T 音发出来了。

But because "bit" isn"t really that much of an important word in that sentence, it"s kind of what we would call a function word. We drop it, "a little bit later".

因为“bit”在句中不是一个很重要的词，它就像我们所说的功能词。我们去掉它的 T 音，“a little bit later”。

Okay. So, we just kind of drop that T on the end to make it easier, quicker, and more British. So, continuing on. The last thing I want to tell you are two sounds that I think are very important to British English.

那么，我们这样把末尾的 T 音去掉，使它的发音更容易、更快速、更英式。好，继续。最后，我想告诉大家两个音，我认为它们对英式发音来说很重要。

Now, there are a lot of sounds that are important to British English, but these two are particularly good to know and hopefully, this will give you a good idea. So first of all, the // sound, the sound that would be in words like "a lot", "problem", "what", "forgot".

对英式发音来说，很多音都很重要，但知道这两个尤其重要，希望能帮助大家。首先是//音，单词“a lot”、“problem”、“what”、“forgot”中都有这个音。

So, it"s that // sound where we kind of make this shape with our mouth like that, like a fish. And the reason why this is important is because for example, Americans and a lot of non natives learn to pronounce it in the American way which would be /ɑ/.

发//音的时候，我们的嘴巴要像这样，像条鱼。为什么它很重要是因为，例如，美国人和很多非本地人学这个音发的是美式英语的/ɑ/。

So for example, "problem/prɑblm/", instead of "problem/prblm/", "problem/prɑblm/", "problem/prblm/", /prɑ/. So, we don"t want that /ɑ/ or /r/ sound, we want it to be an // if we want to sound more British.

例如，“problem/prɑblm/”，而不是“problem/prblm/”，“problem/prɑblm/”，“problem/prblm/”，/prɑ/。如果我们像听起来更英式，那么我们不发成/ɑ/或/r/，我们发成//。

I"m sorry. My American accent is terrible by the way. For example, in a sentence: what"s the problem? what"s the problem? Okay.

抱歉，我的美式发音很烂。例如，句子：what"s the problem？what"s the problem？

And finally, the other sound which I think is quite important is the // sound. For example, in a word like "word" or "work".

最后，另一个我认为很重要的音是//音。例如，单词“word”或“work”。

"I want to wear a purple shirt on Thursday." "I want to wear a purple shirt on Thursday."

“I want to wear a purple shirt on Thursday.”“I want to wear a purple shirt on Thursday.”

Now, an American would pronounce that as a /r/, "purple/prpl/ shirt/rt/", and we don"t want that. We want it to be an // sound if we want that more British sound. It"s a very difficult sound to learn.

美国人可能会发成/r/，“purple/prpl/ shirt/rt/”，但我们不是。我们的英式发音是//。这是一个非常难学的音。

All of my skype students find that sound difficult. Maybe one day, I"ll do a video about this.

我所有 skype 学生都觉得这个音很难。也许有一天我会做一个关于这个的视频。

If you want me to, please tell me. Your feedback really helps.

如果你想我做，请告诉我。你的反馈很重要。

Now, that"s the end of that video. Hopefully, those tips will get you started on your journey to sounding a little bit more British.

这就是本期视频的尾声。希望这些技巧能使你开启学习英式发音的旅程。

If you have any other questions or anything, if you want me to continue this series, please tell me and I"ll make another video soon. Don"t forget to follow me on social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, all of that stuff.

如果你还有其他问题或什么的，如果我希望我继续这个系列视频，请告诉我，我很快会制作另一期视频。别忘了在社交媒体上关注我噢，脸书、Ins、推特，等等。

Visit my website if you would like to book a Skype pronunciation lesson. And finally, don"t forget to give me a thumbs up and subscribe if you enjoyed the video and leave me a comment and tell me how much you love me.

如果你想订购一个 Skype 发音课程，请访问我的网页。最后，如果你喜欢这个视频，别忘了给我点赞并订阅，给我留下评论告诉我你有多爱我吧。

See you in the next video. Cheers!

下期视频再见，拜拜！