hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

vanessa calm today i'm here with a

special guest rachel from Rachel's

English if you have studied American

English pronunciation I'm sure that

you've watched some of her super helpful

and popular videos Rachel runs the

wildly popular YouTube channel Rachel's

English let's see what she has to say

about pronunciation

hi Rachel thanks so much for joining me

today I'm really happy to have you here

you're welcome it's my pleasure yes so a

lot of my audience might already know

who you are if they've studied anything

about pronunciation I'm sure they've run

across you but can you tell us a little

bit about yourself and how did you get

into American English pronunciation yeah

definitely it's been a while I started

my youtube channel back in 2008 and I

was living in Europe and I was studying

a lot of foreign language I was an opera

singer at the time since retired

um but yeah it was I was working with a

friend of mine who was in one of my

German classes with me and he wanted to

sound more American he was interested in

American English because of all of the

movies and the shows that Hollywood

produces and so I was giving him some

tips and I was sort of relying on my

singing background to to help me know

what to say and how to say it and he

said wow you're really good at that and

I said oh well thank you and so I

started making some videos that's

awesome so your singing background

really gave you the skills to know how

to use the certain muscles and to how to

explain it kind of gave you the language

to use to talk about pronunciation yeah

I think so it gave me a very different

take than an academic track of studying

teaching English

I was totally relying on my body what I

felt how I thought about things and

because of having Sun opera for so long

I was very tuned into you know all the

fine things that happen with the voice

yeah I think that's one thing that makes

you really unique as far as

pronunciation coaches or teachers or

instructors goes is you've got a

different background you haven't just

been doing pronunciation but you've also

got that opera singing background so

that adds a different element that I

think your your students probably really

enjoy yeah I think so yes yes so I would

like to ask you a couple questions about

pronunciation because you are the go-to

person for pronunciation and there's a

question I get all the time that my suit

asked me and that is should I focus on

pronunciation how important is it what's

your take on that question well the

answer there is how are you going to be

using English if you're going to be

holed up in your room only writing

emails then know your pronunciation

doesn't matter at all but most people

are studying in foreign language because

they want to speak it and they want to

communicate with it that's the whole

point is communication so if your

pronunciation is terrible it's really

going to get in the way of communication

I'm not in the business trying to tell

people you should not have an accent I'm

just trying to help people be understood

um that because that's really what it

boils down to if you're studying English

but no one can understand you then all

of that time is sort of wasted if you

study pronunciation as you're learning

new vocabulary and learning grammar and

how pronunciation relates to grammar

then you're really doing yourself a

favor because you're not gonna have to

go back and correct anything and you're

going to be able to be understood so I

think it's extremely important yes yes

and that's a huge boost for confidence

to when an english learner can say

something without being asked what did

you say that sounds great to just be

immediately understood so your goal is

to help English learners be understood

and sound as natural as they can not to

feel bad about their accent but to speak

as well as they can correct and for some

people that are living in in America

they do want to be able to speak and

sound totally American because they feel

like it's getting in the way of their

communication with people people are

always noticing and thinking oh that

person's not from here which I wish

wouldn't matter to anybody but I know

does matter to some people so it's

really the goal of the student do you

want to sound absolutely American you

know then there are ways to try to get

there it's really hard but if your goal

is just to be understood that's a more

realistic goal and there's you know I

have a lot of videos to help people get

there definitely definitely and it seems

like a lot of your videos are also

gonna help people to tweak their English

enough to be able to be more understood

and maybe lose some of their accent but

to be clearer in general which is the

goal that's the most important thing

right yes yes well I'd like to ask you

another question which is kind of about

problems that English learners some of

your students people who watch your

videos might make are there any problems

you think that English learners make

when they try to study pronunciation any

kind of mmm errors that they might run

across

well definitely there's a huge

misconception I've found is that people

want sounds they think when I get all of

the sounds I'm going to be fine and that

is not even half of it I would say it's

like a third of it maybe the sounds are

important to know and a lot of people

might be coming from a language that has

many fewer vowel sounds or something for

example so understanding the differences

in the vowels and how these make

different words it is very important but

you're not going to be done when you've

learned the sound and you actually need

to learn much more about the character

as you're learning the sounds then

people think long versus short the the

melody the cadence of the voice this is

really where my opera singing background

I think comes in handy is you know

hearing the melody talking about how how

we use the voice linking words together

what's the character that makes up

American English I think when people

master the character even if some of

their sounds aren't quite accurate it

puts people at ease when they're

listening because it's really easier to

understand when the character is there

that person becomes easier to understand

and so that is the main issue I come

across is people focusing purely on

sounds and not understanding that sounds

are just part of this broader character

that needs to be understood right and

people want their personalities to come

through when they speak English so

getting the right natural intonation or

character as you said is going to be a

big point for that definitely yes yes

well I'm curious do you have any

cific things that english learners who

are watching this video can take away

right now what is something they could

do now to improve their pronunciation it

actually starts with listening

comprehension the two are linked very

closely um a lot of people have a hard

time understanding Americans we speak

very quickly but there are actually

tools that we're using that are allowing

us to speak quickly but still be

understood and I'm actually publishing a

video on Tuesday that I'm working on

right now that goes over five important

tips for improving your listening

comprehension um studying reductions

studying linking there are specific

things that you can study that will help

you understand how Americans are

speaking so quickly we're and once you

figure out how to listen for those and

find them then you can start imitating

them yourself so when your listening

comprehension improves then you know

what to work with a phrase with a

reduction if you hear the reduction then

you think oh this is a phrase I can use

you practice it over and over and then

the next thing you know your

pronunciation of that phrase is better

but it has to start with understanding a

native speaker saying it so you'll - yes

yes and can you just to clarify some

vocabulary here could you clarify what

would be a reduction maybe for people

watching this who haven't hurt you use

that term before yeah sure a reduction

is when a sound is changed or dropped I

always use the example of the word for

fo R and when we say in a sentence we

don't say for we typically say fur and

it's very fast it sounds like there's no

vowel and we use this word all the time

this is for work this is for later today

and if you're expecting to hear four and

a full pronunciation like that then if

you just hear fur so quickly you're

probably not going to catch it so not

only will your listing comprehension be

off but your pronunciation will be off

because you're pronouncing it for fully

and clearly in a way that Americans

don't so that would be an example of a

reduction great thanks so much for

giving us that I think those are the

small things that

you listen to English if you don't catch

those small things you might miss the

whole meaning so catching that first is

going to be the first step in using it

and improving your own pronunciation

right exactly

yes so I'd like to ask you a final

question about this awesome ebook that

you've got out can you tell us a little

bit about your American English

pronunciation book

yeah so I had been creating YouTube

videos for something like six years

before I started writing the book and

one of the questions that I always got

was where do I start you have so many

videos how do I work with them and I

realized that was a really hard question

to answer in an email um and so I

thought you know it's important it's

time to take all of these little ideas

that I've produced and come up with and

put them into something comprehensive

that someone can use to start somewhere

and then get somewhere get to where they

want to be so that was sort of the

inspiration for it and so that's what

I've done it's about 290 pages and I as

I was writing it I had my catalog of

videos there and I just integrated them

into the book so the book has text um

but then it links to a lot of the videos

that will further illustrate what I'm

talking about and then I've also put in

some audio about two and a half hours to

train a concept so when you learn the

concept by reading about it looking at

images watching the video then there's a

little bit of audio that you can use to

do some listen and repeat with excellent

excellent so it seems like there is

reading listening and they can also

imitate after you and try to shadow and

speak and use it themselves that's a lot

of material that's going to be so

helpful for just organizing I think

that's a huge thing you've got so much

material that English learners love but

having it so organized like that can

save time alright to know that they're

following the right path they're not

just spontaneously watching the next

video they're following what you think

is the best order and method that's

awesome

and then any video that they happen to

come across later they can sort of fit

it into their broader idea of the

concept of studying also I did work with

my friend Tom who's been in several

videos and so the audio is both male and

female so that people can you know

sometimes males don't like imitating the

female voice and vice versa so there's

examples of both um in the in the audio

excellent thanks so much for telling us

about that and just for creating such a

great resource for pronunciation it's a

important piece of speaking English and

I think you're also so much for

explaining some about your background

giving us some pronunciation tips and

introducing yourself I really appreciate

it

sure my pleasure and I hope that we can

see you back soon to explain more about

pronunciation all link to everything

that you mentioned the listening

comprehension video your your ebook all

your information below this video so

everyone can check it out awesome sounds

great great thanks so much Rachel talk

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嗨，我是 vanessa，今天和 vanessa quiet 说英语

广受欢迎的 YouTube 频道 Rachel 的

英语 让我们看看她对发音有什么看法

嗨 Rachel 非常感谢你

今天加入我我真的很高兴有你在这里

欢迎你很高兴我很高兴是的所以

我的很多观众可能已经 知道

你是谁，如果他们研究过任何

关于发音的事情我相信他们已经遇到

过你，但你能告诉我们

一些关于你自己的情况，你

是如何进入美式英语发音的，是的，

肯定有一段时间我开始

我的 youtube 频道早在 2008 年，

我住在欧洲，我正在

学习很多外语，我

退休后当时是一名歌剧歌手，

但是是的，我正在和我的一个

朋友一起工作 我和我一起上

德语课，他想

听起来更美国化他对美式英语很感兴趣，

因为好莱坞制作的所有

电影和节目，

所以我给了他一些

建议，我有点依赖我的

歌唱背景 为了帮助我知道

该说什么以及如何说，他

说哇，你真的很擅长那个，

我说哦，谢谢你，所以我

开始制作一些

很棒的视频，所以你的歌唱背景

真的给了你技巧 知道

如何使用某些肌肉以及如何

解释它，这给了你一种

用来谈论发音的语言，是的，

我想，所以它给了我一个

与学习英语教学的学术轨道非常不同的看法，

我完全依赖我的 身体 我的

感受 我对事情的看法

因为有这么长时间的太阳剧

我很熟悉你 知道

声音发生的所有美好的事情

是的 我认为这是让

你真正独一无二的一件事 正如

发音教练或老师或

讲师所说，你有

不同的背景，你不只是

在做发音，但你也

有歌剧演唱背景，这样

就增加了一个不同的元素，我

认为你的学生可能真的很

喜欢是的 我想是的，是的，所以我

想问你几个关于

发音的问题，因为你是发音的首选

人

，我的西装一直

问我一个问题，那就是我应该如何专注于

发音 重要的是

你对这个问题的看法以及

答案是你将如何

使用英语如果你要

躲在房间里只写

电子邮件然后知道你的发音

根本不重要但大多数人

正在学习外语，因为

他们想说它并想

与之交流，这

就是交流的重点，所以如果你的

发音很糟糕，它真的

会进入 沟通的方式

我不是在这个行业试图告诉

人们你不应该有口音我

只是想帮助人们

理解嗯因为

如果你正在学习英语

但没有人真的是这样的话

如果

你在

学习新词汇和语法

以及发音与语法的关系时学习发音，那么所有的时间都被浪费了，

那么你真的是在帮自己一个

忙，因为你不必

去 返回并更正任何内容，您

将能够被理解，所以我

认为这非常重要

立即被理解，因此您的目标

是帮助英语学习者被理解

并听起来自然，因为他们不会

对自己的口音感到难过，

而是尽可能正确地说话，并且对于某些

人来说 重新生活在美国，

他们确实希望能够说和

听起来完全是美国人，因为他们

觉得这妨碍了他们

与人们的交流

对任何人，但我知道

对某些人来说确实很重要，所以这

真的是学生的目标你

想听起来绝对是美国人吗？你

知道吗？有办法尝试到达

那里，这真的很难，但如果你的目标

只是被理解，那就是 更

现实的目标，你知道我

有很多视频可以帮助人们

肯定地到达那里，

看起来你的很多视频也可以

帮助人们调整他们的英语

，以便能够被更多人理解

，也许会失去一些 他们的口音，但

总体上更清楚，

这是最重要的目标，

是的，是的，我想问你

另一个问题，这是关于

英语学习者的问题 s

你的一些学生 观看你的

视频的人可能会犯

你认为英语学习者

在尝试学习发音时会犯的任何问题

他们可能会遇到的任何类型的 mmm 错误

肯定有我发现的一个巨大的

误解是 人们

想要声音，他们认为当我得到

所有声音时，我会没事的，

这甚至不到一半

来自一种

元音较少的语言或其他东西

，因此了解

元音的差异以及它们如何构成

不同的单词非常重要，但是

当你

学会了声音并且你实际上不会完成

在学习声音时需要更多地了解角色然后

人们认为长短

旋律旋律声音的节奏这

确实是我认为我的歌剧演唱背景的地方

你知道

听到旋律谈论我们如何

使用语音将单词连接在一起

我认为构成

美式英语

的角色是

什么 他们在

听是因为

当角色在那里

时更容易理解那个人变得更容易理解

，所以我遇到的主要问题

是人们只关注

声音而不理解声音

只是这个更广泛角色的一部分

需要正确理解，

人们希望他们的

个性在他们说英语时表现出来，所以如你所说，

获得正确的自然语调或

性格将是一个

重要的点，绝对是的，是的，

我很好奇你有什么

cific

正在观看此视频的英语学习者现在可以带走的

东西他们现在可以

做些什么来提高他们的发音它

actua lly 从听力开始，

这两者之间的联系非常

密切

我实际上

在周二发布了一个我现在正在制作的视频，其中

包含五个

提高

听力理解的

重要技巧 我们是，一旦你

弄清楚如何倾听并

找到它们，那么你就可以开始

自己模仿它们，所以当你的听力

理解提高时，你就会

知道如何处理一个带有缩减的短语，

如果你听到缩减，那么

你会想哦 这是一个短语，我可以用

你一遍又一遍地练习它，

然后你知道你

的那个短语的发音更好，

但它有 从理解

母语人士说的开始，这样你就会 - 是的

，你能

在这里澄清一些词汇吗？你能澄清一下

，

对于那些没有伤害你的人来说，可能会减少什么吗

？ 减少

是当声音改变或删除时，我

总是使用 fo R 这个词的例子

，当我们在句子中

说我们不说的时候，我们通常说毛皮，

它非常快，听起来好像没有

元音，我们 一直用这个词

这是为了工作 这是为了今天晚些时候

如果你期待听到四个这样

的完整发音，那么如果

你很快听到毛皮，你

可能不会听懂它，所以

不仅 您的列表理解是否会

关闭，但您的发音会关闭，

因为您

以美国人不这样做的方式完整而清晰地发音，

所以这将是一个减少的例子，

非常感谢您

给我们，我认为那些 是

小事吗

如果你听不懂

那些小东西，你就听英语，你可能会错过

整个意思所以

首先抓住它将是使用它

并改善你自己的发音

的第一步，完全

是的，所以我想问你

关于你出版的这本很棒的电子书的最后一个问题

你能告诉我们

一些关于你的美式英语

发音书

吗是的，所以

在我开始写这本书之前，我已经制作了大约六年的 YouTube 视频和

一个问题 我一直得到的

是我从哪里开始你有这么多

视频我如何与他们合作我

意识到这是一个很难

在电子邮件中回答的问题所以我

认为你知道重要的是现在是

时候拍摄所有这些了

我产生并提出的小想法，

并将它们放入全面的东西中

，人们可以使用它从某个地方开始

，然后到达某个地方到达他们

想要的地方，这就是

它的灵感等等 这就是

我所做的，它大约有 290 页，

我在写它的时候，我在那里有我的

视频目录，我只是将它们

整合到书中，所以这本书有文字，

但是它链接到很多

视频 进一步说明我在

说什么，然后我还放了

一些大约两个半小时的音频来

训练一个概念，所以当你

通过阅读它来学习这个概念时，

看着观看视频的图像，就会有一

点点 您可以用来

做一些聆听和重复的音频，非常

出色，因此看起来像是在

阅读听力，他们也可以

模仿您并尝试模仿和

说话并自己使用它，这是很多

很有帮助的材料 仅仅为了组织，我认为

这是一件很重要的事情，你有这么多

英语学习者喜欢的材料，但是

把它组织得这样可以

节省时间

xt

视频，他们遵循你

认为最好的顺序和方法，

然后他们碰巧遇到的任何视频，他们

都可以将

其融入他们对学习概念的更广泛的想法中，

我也和

我的朋友一起工作过 汤姆出现在几个

视频中，所以音频是男性和

女性，所以人们可以知道

有时男性不喜欢模仿

女性的声音，

反之亦然，所以音频中有两个例子，

非常感谢 告诉我们

这一点，只是为了创建如此

出色的发音资源，这

是讲英语的重要部分，

我认为您也非常愿意

解释一些有关您的背景的信息，

为我们提供一些发音技巧并

介绍自己，我真的很感激

，

当然我的 很高兴，我希望我们能

很快见到你，解释更多关于

发音的所有链接

到你提到的所有内容听力

理解视频你的电子书所有

您在此视频下方的信息，以便

每个人都可以查看 很棒 听起来

很棒 很棒 非常感谢 Rachel

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