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Hello I'm Emma from mmmEnglish! In this video, I'm hoping I can convince you that you should practise your English pronunciation every day and it's easier than you think.
大家好，我是 Emma，欢迎来到 Emma 的美味英语频道！在这个视频中，我希望我能够说服你们每天进行英语练习，而且这比你想象的更加简单。
I want to give you some simple ideas to help you make daily pronunciation practice just a regular part of your routine. So let's get into it!
我想给你们一些简单的思路来帮助你们将每日发音练习变成日常生活的一部分。让我们开始吧！
The chances are, you're watching this video because you want to work on your English accent, which means that there is something about it that frustrates you. So firstly, I want you to tell me about it.
你们正在看这个视频，可能是因为你们想要提升自己的英语发音，也就意味着这方面存在着令你烦扰的一些问题。那么首先呢，我想让大家告诉我一下。
Tell me about what makes you feel frustrated about your accent? Tell me in the comments below the video.
告诉我是什么让你对自己的发音感觉不满意？在视频下方的评论区告诉我吧。
I know what this is like, people misunderstanding you because you're not making the right sounds or even just feeling like that's not how it's supposed to sound. Why am I so awkward?
我知道那是什么感觉，人们会误解你，因为你发音不正确，或者是感觉不应该那么发音。我为什么这么尴尬呢？
You know it's not smooth, it's not easy to talk to people and so your English conversations never really last that long. It's hard to fit in, you know, and as you start using English at work you realise my accent sucks.
你知道事情不会这么顺利，和别人说话并不那么容易，所以你的英语对话不会持续很长时间。很难去融入，你开始在工作的时候开始使用英语，但是你意识到自己的口音很烂。
You feel like people aren't taking you seriously. You don't get invited to social functions and you start feeling really crap about yourself.
你感觉大家并不会认真对待你。你并不会被邀请去参加社交活动，你开始对自己感到很失望。
I know this because these are the same pains that so many of my students go through. Changing your accent helps you to feel accepted.
我知道这些，是因为我的很多学生都经历着同样的痛苦。改变发音能够让你感觉自己被接受。
It helps you to fit in and even excel with whatever you want to do. It takes years of work, of specific and deliberate training to first try to hear and recognise the sounds and then start making them yourself.
这能够帮助你融入，甚至能够完全胜任你想做的任何事情。这需要很多年的努力，需要专门的有针对性的训练，去试着去听音辨音，然后开始自己发音。
I mean you've probably been speaking English with your accent for years now, right? So it's gonna take some effort to break those habits.
你可能一直用自己的口音说了很多年英语了吧？所以需要一些努力来打破这些习惯。
Now I think that one of our biggest challenges as adults is creating regular habits, you know, we're all so busy with kids and family and work and travel and all of the extra stress that goes with that stuff.
You know it's incredibly difficult to find the time to focus on something consistently but that is exactly what you need to do if you want to change your accent and make it clearer, you've got to bring daily pronunciation practice into your life, right?
我觉得成人世界最大的挑战之一是养成规律的习惯，你懂得，我们都很忙，要照顾孩子和家庭，要工作，要旅行，还有那些与此相关的额外的压力。你懂得要找到时间去持续地专注在某件事情上是特别困难的，但是如果你想要改变自己的口音，让其更加清晰的话，这正是你应该做的，你需要将发音练习融入到日常生活中，对吧？
I've got three things that I want to share with you today that I think you should be doing to improve your pronunciation every day. The first and really great daily habit that will help you to improve your pronunciation is super simple.
今天我想和大家分享三件我觉得你们每天都需要做的来提升发音的事情。能够改善你的发音的第一个也是非常好的一个日常习惯非常非常简单。
Read out loud. It doesn't matter what you read, as long as what you're reading is in English and doing this daily will help you to get your mouth muscles working and creating the sounds that you need to use when you speak English.
大声念出来。读什么都没有关系，只要你是用英语读的，每天都读，这能够帮助你的嘴部肌肉工作，发出你在说英语的时候需要用到的那些音。
It really is as simple as that and it doesn't need to take you long, you know, five or ten minutes a day is plenty. That kind of exercise is really easy to fit into your daily routine, right? No excuses.
就是这么简单，并不需要太长的时间，每天五到十分钟就足够了。这种训练很容易融入到你的日常生活中，对吧？没有借口。
Probably the best place to do this is at home, you know, somewhere where you're not afraid to project your voice, to push your voice out. I don't want you to read like this, okay?
可能最好的地方就是在家里，你懂得，在一个你不害怕发声的地方，把自己的声音给发出来。我不想让你这样读，好吧？
I want you to read like this. You know, practise pushing those sounds out of your mouth.
我想让你这样读。你懂得，练习把这些音从嘴里发出来。
You don't need to worry about being perfect, you know, you're just getting used to making those sounds and making those sounds together with other sounds in English.
So reading out loud is a really good way to sort of stretch and warm up your mouth ready for English.
不必担心完美，你只是在习惯发出这些音，用英语把这些音和其他的音一起发出来。大声朗读是非常好的给嘴巴热热身，准备说英语的很好的方式。
So it's a good idea to do it before you go to class or before you have a phone call, before you have an English meeting, you know, activate those muscles, train them, remember what those sounds are and how to make them.
Reading out loud is an awesome way to practise your pronunciation.
在上课之前，在打电话之前，在开英语会议之前进行朗读是个很好的注意，激活这些肌肉，训练它们，记住那些音是什么，如何把它们给发出来。大声朗读是一个练习发音的绝佳方法。
Speaking of sounds, get to know English sounds and in particular, the English sounds that you struggle with. This is a really, really important place to start, okay?
谈到发音，要去了解英语的发音，尤其是你感到困难的那些发音。这是非常非常重要的起点。
There are lots of English sounds that you're totally cool with you know, but there are probably quite a few that feel unnatural and they don't really sound right as you speak. If you don't know what these sounds are for you then find out.
有很多英语发音你发的很不错，但是可能也有一些，你说话的时候感觉并不自然，发的音并不太对。如果你还不知道这些音是什么的话，那就去找出来吧。
A good place to start is just by researching the sounds that are difficult for people who speak your native language. For French people, it's definitely going to include the /h/ sound at the start of words.
一个很好的出发点是研究一下哪些音对于和你说同样的母语的人来说是比较难发的。对法国人来说，肯定会包括单词开头的 /h/音。
Hat. Hero.
帽子。英雄。
Hotel. For Vietnamese people, it's going to be final consonants.
旅馆。对于越南人来说，会是最后的。
Like. Out.
喜欢。出来。
Behind. For Arabic speakers, Indian speakers, for everyone, really, TH sounds.
后面。对于阿拉伯人来说，对于说印度人来说，对于所有的人来说，TH 都很难发。
This. That.
这个。那个。
These. Those.
这些。那些。
Enthusiasm. Weather.
热情。天气。
Bath. There are probably five to eight sounds that are problem sounds for you.
洗澡。大概有五到八种音对于你们来说是问题发音。
Alright once you've worked out what they are, make a list of those sounds, stick them on your bathroom mirror and practise them every morning out loud, every day. Just start ironing out the creases.
好的，一旦你弄清楚了这些音是什么了，列一下这些音，把它们贴在浴室的镜子上，每天早晨大声练习。开始去解决问题。
It's gonna take some time but the fastest way to correct those sounds is to consistently practise them. If you're unsure if you're pronouncing words correctly, use an online dictionary to check. Super easy, right?
这需要一些时间，但是纠正这些发音最快的方法就是持续地练习它们。如果你不确定你的发音是否正确，那就用在线词典查一下吧。非常简单，对吧？
Drastic. You probably go to the gym, right?
非常激烈的。你可能会去健身房，对吧？
Or maybe you go for a run to keep fit or swim, just consider this your pronunciation workout, your English workout.
You've got to do it regularly to keep fit and to get stronger and you know think about it, it hurts a lot if you don't go to the gym for a while, you know, and then suddenly you're lifting weights and you're like "Oh this hurts."
或者你可能会通过跑步来保持健康，或者是游泳，想想如果是你的发音训练呢，你的英语训练呢。你必须经常进行锻炼，以保持健康，变得更加强壮，想想看，如果你很长时间没去健身房了，然后突然之间举重的话，你会说，天哪，好疼啊。
If you haven't spoken English in a while, it hurts, you know, your muscles ache because they're not used to it but if you go to the gym regularly, you get fitter, you can last longer, you're not as sore after each session. Gradually you can start to increase the weights, right?
如果你很长一段时间没有说英语了，你的肌肉也会疼，因为它们不适应了，但是如果你经常去健身房的话，你就会更加健康，持续的时间会更长，每一节结束都不会感觉那么酸痛了。慢慢地你就可以开始增加重量了，对吧？
Your tongue is a muscle as well. It needs to be trained and stretched and twisted into the positions that English requires.
你的舌头也是肌肉。它需要被训练、拉伸和扭曲成说英语的位置。
You are already so awesome at making the sounds that you need for your native language but you need to do a little bit of extra work to activate some of the English sounds that don't exist in your language.
So a daily tongue workout, a daily mouth workout is the fastest and the simplest method to improve your English pronunciation.
你已经能够非常娴熟地发出你的母语中所需要的那些音了，但是你需要做一些额外的工作来激活一些你的母语中不存在的英语的发音。所以每天都训练舌头，每天锻炼嘴巴是最快的，也是最简单的提升英语发音的方式。
Now tongue twisters might seem like a bit of a joke to you but if you can find a few to help you practise those difficult sounds of yours, then doing them a few times daily will help to strengthen the muscles, you know, and help you to make those sounds more easily.?
I've got a link to a video I made on tongue twisters up here.
你们可能觉得绕口令很好笑，但是如果你能找到一些帮助你们练习对你而言比较难的发音的话，那么每天练习几次可能会帮助你增加肌肉，帮助你更加容易地发出那些音。我在这边放了一个我做的关于绕口令的视频。
Check it out. Get started there.
看一看吧。从这里开始。
But find ones that are relevant for you. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
但是要找一些和你最相关的。一只蛤蜊怎么能塞进一个干净的奶油罐头呢?
Six sick hicks nicked six slick bricks with picks and sticks. So you've probably noticed that English words, when they're spoken naturally, sometimes change.
六个生病的乡下人用十字镐和木棒在挖六块光滑的砖头。你已经注意到了英语单词在自然发音时，有时候会发生改变。
You know the pronunciation can change as we increase the speed of our speech. In fact, they often do.
当我们语速加快的时候，发音就会改变。其实经常会这样子。
And there are lots of grammatical words that actually have two forms of pronunciation, a stressed form and an unstressed form. Some.
有很多语法词都有两种发音，重读和非重读。有些。
To. The schwa sound is really important to help you practise word stress and sentence stress in English.
到。中元音对帮助你们练习英语单词重音和句子重音非常重要。
Studying connected speech is also going to help you to learn how to do this and to sound more natural when you speak.
I've got lots of videos about connected speech and pronunciation up here in this playlist but these are all really important aspects of naturally spoken English that you can work on to help you improve your pronunciation but you can't practise these things while you're just pronouncing English words individually.
学习连读也能够帮助你学习如何连起来读，以及让你说话的时候听起来更加自然。我有很多关于连读和发音的视频，就在播放列表里，但是还有很多自然英语发音的其他方面，你们可以进行学习来提升自己的发音水平，但是如果你说英语单词的时候是一个一个蹦出来的话，这些根本就没有办法练习。
They have to be part of a sentence so how can you do that? You need some controlled practice and imitating a native speaker is a fantastic way to do this.
它们必须是句子的一部分，那么你该怎么办呢？你需要一些有意识的练习，而模仿一位母语者就是很好的方法。
You may already know that I've created a whole course of videos around how to imitate a native speaker with lots of practice. You know, in these lessons I help you to copy and then shadow me as I speak.
你可能已经知道我有一系列的课程，都是关于如何模仿母语者的，里面还有很多练习。在这些课程中，我帮助大家模仿我，然后在我说的时候进行跟读。
They're really awesome quick ten minute videos that you can practise your pronunciation with. There are a few on my channel already but if you'd like to support mmmEnglish and purchase my imitation courses well you can do that right up here.
这都是很好的快速十分钟的视频，你们可以用这些视频练习发音。我的频道里已经有一些了，但是如果你们想要支持美味英语的话，可以购买我的模仿课程，点击这里就可以。
Then you'll have lots of different videos to practise with, lots of natural phrases and expressions to learn. So what am I going to say next?
你会有很多不同的视频可以进行练习，可以学习到很多自然的短语和表达。我接下来要说什么来着？
Daily habit. That's right!
每日习惯。是的！
Okay? Get into the habit of practising with one lesson every day, that's just ten more minutes of pronunciation practice every day alright?
对吧？养成跟着一节课进行练习的习惯，每天拿出来十多分钟进行英语练习就行了。
In the lessons, I'll show you how to shadow a native speaker and this allows you to practise the rhythm, the pace, the pause, the intonation that's used and this technique is something that you can start practising with any video.
It doesn't have to be my lessons, you can choose whatever video, whatever native speaker you want to shadow.
在课程中，我会给大家展示如何模仿母语者，这能够帮助你们练习使用的韵律、节奏、停顿和音调，有了这个技巧就可以开始用任何的视频进行练习了。不一定非得是我的课程，你也可以选择其他的视频，你想模仿的任何母语者。
Whatever you choose, I'd focus on one lesson or one video every day for a whole week okay. So give yourself the time to go over and review, build confidence with it, right?
不管你选择了什么，我都会专注于一节课，或者是一周的每天看一个视频。给你时间去回顾复习，来慢慢树立信心，对吧？
Once you've done that make a recording of yourself and compare it to the original. Listen to yourself and try to identify what you're doing wrong, what are the sounds that you're not quite getting?
完成之后就可以给自己录个音，然后和原始的版本进行比较。听听你自己说的，然后试着去找出来你有没有什么错误，哪些音发的不够好。
I've added the link to my imitation course below in the description and I'll also add one of the ones from my channel at the end of this video, okay?
In a video a couple of weeks ago, I said that with language practice, it's easier to create a habit once you attach it to another activity.
我在视频下方的描述区已经添加了模仿课程的链接，我也会在这个视频的最后放一些我的频道的课程，好吗？在几周前的一个视频中，我说过英语练习这件事情吧，只要你把它和其他的活动给挂钩，就更加容易养成习惯了。
You know, like for me, I 
always listen to an audiobook while I go for a run. You might say "Okay I'll practise my pronunciation every morning after I brush my teeth."
比如说对我而言，我跑步的喜欢一直喜欢听有声书。你可能会说：“好的，我每天早晨刷完牙之后练习发音。”
Or I'll read out loud for ten minutes every night before I go to bed. So attach it to an activity, help it to become a regular part of your routine.
或者是每晚我上床睡觉之前都大声朗读十分钟。把它和其他的活动结合起来，帮助它成为日常生活的一部分。
Changing your pronunciation is gonna take time so you must make it happen regularly, you know, you've got to create that daily habit and you've got to do it every day for a year which seems like forever but time flies if you get started today and you do it every day, you'll be speaking clearly and confidently before you know it.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson and you found it useful.
改变你的发音需要时间，所以你必须经常进行练习，你需要养成每日的习惯，你需要一年中的每天都去做，可能看起来好像永远
都得练习，但是时间飞逝，如果你今天就开始，每天都进行练习的话，你会在自己意识到之前说的更加清晰、更加自信的。希望你们喜欢本节课程，也希望你们觉得它有用。
If you did, make sure you let me know in the comments below. You can find me on social media over here and as promised here's one of my imitation lessons so that you can take it right now and practise.
如果你是这么觉得的话，那就在评论区告诉我吧。你可以在这边的社交媒体上找到我，履行承诺，这里是我的一节模仿课程，你们现在就可以进行练习了。
Hit the subscribe button if you haven't done that already and I'll see you in there!
如果还没订阅的话，点击订阅按钮吧，再见！
