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Right now we're going to study English vowel sounds. Why?

今天我们要学习英语中的元音。为什么？

Because you can get yourself into a lot of trouble by using the wrong vowel sound in English words. So we need to fix that, right?

因为你可能会由于用错英语单词中的元音而让自己陷入困难。所以我们要来修正这一点，好吗？

Okay. If you've watched my IPA introduction video then you'll know exactly what all these symbols mean. This is the International Phonetic Alphabet and I use it a lot when I'm teaching pronunciation to my English students.

好。如果你之前看了我的国际音标简介的课程，那么你应该知道这些符号的意思都是什么。这是国际音标表，我在教学生英语发音的时候经常用到它。

If you don't know what they are, that's okay. You just need to watch the video up there, first.

如果你不知道它们是什么，没关系。你可以先看一下这里的视频。

Then you can watch this one! That video will make this video much easier to understand!

然后再看本节课！看完那个视频会让本视频更容易理解。

Ok, so these are all the English vowel sounds. These are the ones are diphthongs, which are also vowel sounds but there is another video that I've made especially about diphthong sounds.

好，那么这些是所有的英语元音。这些是双元音，它们同样是元音但是我会在另一个专门讲双元音的视频里讲它们。

You can watch it here. So there are all of these English vowel sounds but only five English vowel letters: a, e, i, o, u.

你可以在这里发现它。那么这些是所有的英语元音但英语元音字母只要5个：a，e，i，o，u.

How does that work? Let's use the letter E as an example.

这是什么意思？我们用字母 E 为例。

When you see the letter "e" in an English word, it can be pronounced in a few different ways: short -/e/as in egg. Long -/iː/as in she.

当你在单词中看到字母 "e" 时，它有几种不同的发音方式：短音 - /e/比如/eg/。长音 - /iː/比如 /ʃiː/。

Long with an accent, as in café. Or the lazy schwa sound - "uh".

带重音的长音，比如/ 'kæfeɪ/。还有慵懒的中元音 - /ə/。

This sound is so lazy, /ə/like eleven, eleven. So let's look at this group of English sounds.

这个音听起来懒洋洋的，/ə/ 比如/ɪˈlɛvən/，/ɪˈlɛvən/.那么我们来看一组英语音标。

Remember that they're sounds not English letters. Now, let's look at the first two sounds/iː/and/ɪ/.

记住他们是音标而不是英语字母。我们先来看前两个音标 /iː/ 和 /ɪ/。

These sounds caused a few problems English learners./iː/and/ɪ/.

这些音标给英语学习者带来了一些困难。/iː/ 和 /ɪ/。

Let's look at this example: beach. It has the long vowel sound in this word.

我们来看下例子：/biːtʃ/。这个单词里有一个长元音。

/iː/, beach. If you mispronounce this long vowel sound and use the short/ɪ/sound you'll say 'bitch'.

如果你发错了这个长元音而是发了短元音/ɪ/，听起来就像在说 /bɪtʃ/。那可不是什么好词。

That's a rude word. Beach, each.

这里还有另一个例子：/ʃiːt/，床单。

Here's another example: sheet, sheet. It uses the long vowel sound but if you accidentally use the short vowel sound, you'll say shit!

它用的是长元音，但如果你偶然发成了短元音，就变成了在说/ʃɪt/！那也不是一个好词！

That is also a really rude word! So long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds are important in English.

所以长元音和短元音在英语中是很重要的。短元音是/ɪ/，/ɪ/。

The short sound is/ɪ/, /ɪ/. Hit, sing, bit, which, disk.

长元音是/iː/。

The long vowel sound is/iː/. Meet, eat, beach, sheet, believe.

接着我们来看元音 /ʊ/。

Next we have the vowel sound/ʊ/. You'll hear that in words like: book, cook, sugar.

你会在单词：/bʊk/，/kʊk/，/ˈʃʊɡə/里听到它。我们还有长元音/uː/。

And then we have the longer sound/uː/. You'll hear this sound in words like: you, too, shoe, who, computer.

你可以在这些单词里听到它：/juː/，/tuː/，/ʃuː/，/huː/，/kəmˈpjuːtə/。我们继续。

Let's move on. It's also easy to confuse the/ɪ/vowel sound with the short/e/vowel sound.

元音/ɪ/和短元音/e/也很容易混淆。/e/，如/eg/，/ten/，/left/，/ˈeksələnt/。

/e/egg, 10, left, excellent. Below that we have/æ//æ/.

这之后我们有/æ//æ/.你可以在这些单词里听到它：/kæt/，/flæt/，/kəm'pæk/，/ðæt/。

You'll hear this sound in words like: cat, flat, compact, that. Let's go through the middle now.

我们现在来看中间这一排。我们接下来要学的是我最喜欢的音标。

Next we have my favorite sound. It's the laziest sound in English.

它是英语中最懒的发音。也是英语中最常见得发音。

It's also the most commonly heard sound in English. You'll hear it a lot.

你会经常听到它。

/ə/, /ə/. Today, teacher, the, around.

接下来是一个/ɜː//ɜː/。比如/hɜː/，/wɜːd/，/fɜːst/，/wɜːk/，/bɜːd/。

Then there's a/ɜː//ɜː/. As in her, word, first, work, bird.

同样的英语音标可以适用于不同的英语字母，你注意到了吗？在这个例子里，所有的单词 "her"，"work" 以及 "first" 使用了不同的字母，但是发相同的音。

Notice that the same English sound can be used for all of those different letters? In that example, all the words "her","work" and "first" use different letters, but make the same sound.

这就是为什么学习国际音标有助于你的英语发音变更好。接下来我们看音标/ɔː/，/ɔː/。

That's why learning the IPA is going to help you pronounce English words better! Then we have the/ɔː/sound/ɔː/.

你可能会在这些词听到这个音：/ɔː/，/ fɔː/，/bɔːt/，/pəˈfɔːm/，/sɔː/。下面我们来看音标/æ/后面的/ʌ/，/ʌ/。

You can hear this word pronounced in: or, for, bought, perform, saw. Underneath we move from the/æ/sound to/ʌ/, /ʌ/.

你可以听到含这个发音的单词：/kʌt/，/bʌt/，/'bʌtə/，/trʌk/。接着是音标/ɑː/，/ɑː/，/ɑː/。

You can hear this sounded words like: cup, butt, butter, truck. Then there's the/ɑː/sound/ɑː//ɑː/.

如：/fɑː/，/pɑːt/和/hɑːt/。然后是音标/ɒ/，/ɒ/。

As in far, part and heart. Then we have the/ɒ/sound/ɒ/.

你可以在这些词里听到这个音：/nɒt/，/ɒn/，/lɒg/，/ɡɒd/，/fə'ɡɒt/。所以这就是今天关于元音字母发音的内容。

You can hear this sound in: not, on, log, God, forgot. So that's it for English vowel sound pronunciation today.

确定你订阅了我的频道。这样的话你就可以观看我的下一节课程，关于英语中双元音的发音课。

Make sure you subscribe to my channel down here. So that you can get my next video which is all about English vowel sound pronunciation with diphthongs.

现在，我希望你可以登录我的网站，下载我为本节课准备的免费音标表。这样你就可以不断地练习，练习，练习！

But right now I want you to go to my website and download the free worksheet that I've made just for this video lesson. So you can practice, practice, practice!

音标表的的连接就在评论区，就在下方。或者你可以登录我的网站，这里。

The link to that worksheet is right in the comment section, just down here. Or you can go to my website, here.

下次再见！

See you next time! . . . . . .