How to Pronounce OF American English Pronunciation

In this American English pronunciation video, we’re going to go over the reduction of the word OF.

OF is a preposition, and prepositions are function words.

Function words are the words that will generally be unstressed in a sentence.

In this particular case, the word may also reduce, which means that one of the sounds will change or be dropped.

The word ‘of’ on its own, outside of the context of a sentence, will be pronounced with the UH as in BUTTER vowel and the V consonant.

Of.

When we reduce this word, we may drop the consonant altogether.

When we use OF in a sentence, we’ll want to use the schwa, so, less jaw drop, and it will be very fast.

If the next word begins with a consonant, you can drop the V as well.

If the next word begins with a vowel or diphthong, you’ll want to keep the V sound.

Then you’ll have the case of an ending consonant and a beginning vowel, so the V can help you link the two words together.

Let’s look at some examples.

It’s one of my favorites.

Here, I’ve dropped the V.

OF is simply the schwa.

Uh, uh, uh-my, uh-my, it’s one of my, it’s one of my favorites.

Another example: A lot of offices have the same policy.

Here, the word after OF begins with a vowel, so I’m not going to drop the V.

I’m going to use it to link the word ‘of’ and ‘office’.

When we have a word that ends in a consonant, when the next word begins with a vowel or diphthong, it’s a great opportunity to link.

So, we think of the ending V actually as beginning the next word.

So instead of ‘offices’, we’ll have ‘voffices’, ‘uh-voffices’, of offices.

Linking will help smooth out your speech and prevent it from being choppy.

Very important in American English.

Of offices, a lot of offices.

A lot of offices.It’s part of a bigger plan.

Again, the next word begins with a vowel.

I’m going to link with the V sound, vv, vv.

Of a, of a.

It’s part of a bigger plan.

It’s one of the best videos I’ve seen.

Here the next word begins with a consonant, so I can drop the V if I want.

Uh-the, uh-the, one of the, one of the, It’s one of the best videos I’ve seen.

Now let’s look at OF THEM.

This set of words can be reduced two different ways.

The word THEM can be reduced to the schwa/M sound, dropping the TH.

So, we can drop the TH of THEM.

That means we’ll want to keep the V of OF, because the next word begins with a vowel, the schwa: uh-vm.

A lot of them are good.

But, let’s say we don’t drop the TH.

Then we can drop the V.

A lot of them thought that.

uh-them, uh-them, a lot of them thought that.

I think in most cases I would drop the TH and keep the V.

But, this just goes to show there isn’t any one right way to deal with reductions in a sentence.

I hope this helps you understand the reduction of ‘of’.

Practice: make a video of you saying a few sentences with of, and post it on YouTube as a video response to this video.

I can’t wait to watch.

That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.

在这个美式英语发音视频中,我们将回顾一下 OF 一词的简化。

OF是介词,介词是虚词。

虚词是在句子中通常不重读的词。

在这种特殊情况下,单词也可能会减少,这意味着其中一个声音会改变或被丢弃。

在句子的上下文之外,单独的“of”一词将与 UH 一起发音,如 BUTTER 元音和 V 辅音。

的。

当我们减少这个词时,我们可能会完全放弃辅音。

当我们在句子中使用 OF 时,我们会想使用 schwa,所以,下巴减少,并且会非常快。

如果下一个单词以辅音开头,你也可以去掉 V。

如果下一个单词以元音或双元音开头,则需要保留 V 音。

然后你会有一个结尾辅音和一个开始元音的情况,所以 V 可以帮助你将这两个词联系在一起。

让我们看一些例子。

这是我的最爱之一。

在这里,我放弃

了 V。OF 只是 schwa。

呃,呃,呃-我的,呃-我的,这是我的一个,这是我的最爱之一。

另一个例子:很多办公室都有相同的政策。

在这里,OF 之后的单词以元音开头,所以我不会去掉 V。

我将用它来连接单词“of”和“office”。

当我们有一个以辅音结尾的单词时,当下一个单词以元音或双元音开头时,这是一个很好的链接机会。

所以,我们认为结尾 V 实际上是下一个单词的开始。

因此,我们将使用“voffices”、“uh-voffices”来代替“offices”。

链接将有助于平滑您的演讲并防止其断断续续。

在美式英语中非常重要。

办公室,很多办公室。

很多办公室。这是更大计划的一部分。

同样,下一个单词以元音开头。

我要连接 V 音,vv,vv。

一个,一个。

这是一个更大计划的一部分。

这是我看过的最好的视频之一。

这里下一个单词以辅音开头,所以我可以根据需要去掉 V。

呃,呃,其中之一,其中之一,这是我看过的最好的视频之一。

现在让我们看看他们。

可以通过两种不同的方式减少这组单词。

单词 THEM 可以简化为 schwa/M 音,去掉 TH。

所以,我们可以去掉 THEM 的 TH。

这意味着我们要保留 OF 的 V,因为下一个单词以元音开头,即 schwa:uh-vm。

其中很多都很好。

但是,假设我们不放弃 TH。

然后我们可以放弃

V。很多人都这么认为。

呃-他们,呃-他们,很多人都这么认为。

我认为在大多数情况下,我会放弃 TH 并保留 V。

但是,这只是表明没有任何一种正确的方法可以处理句子中的减少。

我希望这可以帮助您理解“of”的减少。

练习:制作一段你用 of 说几句话的视频,并将其作为对该视频的视频回复发布在 YouTube 上。

我等不及要看了。

就是这样,非常感谢您使用 Rachel 的英语。