In this American English pronunciation video, we're going to go over how to pronounce the
-er ending of words.
Today we're talking about word stress and -er ending words that are two or more syllables.
The -er ending will always be unstressed. So it will be lower in pitch and quicker than
the stressed syllable in the word. For example, 'father'. Fath-er, fath-er. I'm sure you can
hear the BIG-small contrast. So the stressed syllable will have shape in it, but the unstressed
-er,-er, will be very flat, -er, and low in pitch. Father. This ending is written in IPA
with the schwa and American R symbols. But you definitely don't want to make a separate
schwa sound: uh-rr, uh-rr, it's just one sound, -er, -er. Let's look at a few more example
words. Louder. Loud-er, louder. Further, furth-er, furth-er. Further. Sister. Sist-er, sist-er,
sister. Computer. Compud-er, computer. Ever, ev-er, ever. Over. Ov-er, over. Singer, sing-er,
singer. So don't forget, when you see this -er ending, to make it nice and short with
just the rr sound in it. No other vowel, no shape. It's a very flat, quick, low sound.
That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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在这个美式英语发音视频中， 我们将学习如何发音
单词的 -er 结尾。
今天我们谈论 的是两个或多个音节的单词重音和 -er 结尾词。
-er 结尾总是不重读。 所以它的音调会比
单词中的重读音节更低，更快。 例如， “父亲”。 父亲，父亲。 我相信你能
听到大-小的对比。 因此，重读 音节将在其中具有形状，但未重读的
-er,-er 将非常平坦，-er，并且音高低 。 父亲。 这个结尾是用国际音标书写的，
带有 schwa 和美式 R 符号。 但是 您绝对不想发出单独的
schwa 声音：uh-rr，uh-rr，它只是一个声音， -er，-er。 让我们再看几个
例句。 大声点。 更大声，更大声。 更进一步，更进一步， 更进一步。 更远。 姐姐。 姐姐，姐姐，
姐姐。 计算机。 计算机，计算机。 永远 ，永远，永远。 超过。 过，过。 歌手，歌手，
歌手。 所以不要忘记，当你看到这个 -er 结尾时，让它变得漂亮和简短，
只包含 rr 声音。 没有其他元音，没有 形状。 这是一种非常平坦、快速、低沉的声音。
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