American Accent Training 1 美式发音训练.docVIP

AMERICAN ACCENT TRAINING General Pronunciation Shift your voice position: Pinch your nose and say (. You should feel a high vibration in your nasal passages, as well as in your fingers. Now, continue holding your nose, and completely relax your throat---allow an Ah sound to flow from deep in your chest. There should be no vibration in your nose at all. Go back and forth several times. Next we practice flowing from one position to the other, so you can feel exactly when it changes from a nasal sound to a deep ( sound. Nose Throat Chest ( → ( → ( →( →( → ( Mmmmm sound Let’s start with the mmmmm sound. It’s super easy to do. All you do is to put your lips together and hum. You’ll notice a couple of things here. Put your hand on your throat and say mmmm, and observe that you can feel a vibration in your fingertips. This means that the M sound is spoken and not whispered. Ah: in a deep voice, say the following out aloud. We’re adding two more consonants at the lip position. PB. mah mah-mah pah pah-pah bah bah-bah Repeat these syllables. Pay attention to the boldface. To get the physical experience of intonation, you can stretch your rubber band. 1. MAH-mah 2.mah-MAH 3.PAH-pah 4.pah-PAH 5.BAH-bah 6.bah-BAH 4. Using the AH sound, repeat the following sounds. Don’t worry about what it means, just repeat the sounds in a deep, confident voice. 1. b( bl(s diz j(b 2.sk(t t(d( l(t 3.d(n b(d( b(ik 5. Four important sounds. (:Uh. Don’t move your lips or tongue, just let a completely neutral sound come out—uhhhh. It’s the sound Americans use when they’re thinking ---um,uh-----. Read the following sounds aloud. but chuck done fun gun hut jump come luck much none putt rub such shut tub the vug was young zug (:Ah. First say Uh, then drop your jaw and say AHHH. This Ah sound is used for the letter O in one-syllable words: hot lost cop. And with the O in stressed syllables: possible hospi