In this American English pronunciation video, we’re going to go over the pronunciation

of two words: WANT and WON’T.

This is a tough word pair, and I’ve gotten lots of requests for it. Thanks for putting

in your request, I’m glad to do it.

‘Want’ and ‘won’t’ are two words that you’ll rarely hear fully pronounced

in American English. ‘Want’ and ‘won’t’ are more common. In these more common pronunciations,

I’m not releasing the T sound. This is a common pronunciation for all of the N’T

contractions, a topic that I made a video on several years ago.

So what’s the difference between these two common pronunciations of ‘want’ and ‘won’t’?

Only the vowel. The beginning and ending consonants are the same. They both start with W, which

is a tight circle in the lips. You’ll see this in up-close speech in just a minute.

The tongue lifts in the back and comes down in the front, ww. The ending is either an

N and fully a pronounced T, or, much more common, a stop of a nasal sound: nnt, nnt.

To make this sound, the flat, front part of the tongue is at the roof of the mouth. The

soft palate is down, which means air goes up into the nasal passages. For the T, we

want to push this sound a little and cut it off, to make a stop, nt, nt. The T is a stop

consonant. So let’s contrast a plain N sound with the N-T sound: nn, nt, nn, nt. Try just

to imitate those two sounds, nn, nt, nn, nt. For the NT sound, I’m pushing down in my

throat just a little bit. It pushes the sound even more into the nose. Nn, nt, nn, nt. And

that’s the sound I want to cut off, nt. Want, nt, nt, nt, won’t, nt, nt.

To fully pronounce the NT, simply put the tongue into position for the N, close the

teeth and cut off the airflow, nn-tt, and release the air, tongue, and teeth, nn-tt.

This if you want to make a True T at the end.

Now let’s compare the different vowel sounds. ‘Want’ has the AH as in FATHER sound,

ahh, want. But Americans will often morph this into something more like the UH as in

BUTTER vowel. I know I do. Wa-, uhh, want. Don’t worry, both of these vowels are really

different from the sound in ‘won’t’. For both the AH and the UH, the jaw drops,

want, want, and the lips stay relaxed.

In ‘won’t’, it’s quite different. Here we have a diphthong, the OH as in NO

diphthong. A diphthong is two different sounds. A beginning position moving into an ending

position. OH. You’ll see that the lips move, they come in. This will be really obvious

as we look at the zoomed footage. Let’s take a look now.

Here is the word ‘want’. Lips come in for the W, and then the relax for the rest

of the word. You can see the tongue come up for the N-T.

Now the word ‘won’t’. Again, the lips come into a tight circle for the W consonant.

They relax out for the first position of the diphthong OH, but they’re still rounded.

Then, they then come back into a tight circle again for the second position of the diphthong.

This second rounding is what makes this word different from ‘want’.

Then, the lips relax for the N-T sound.

Let’s compare ‘want’ and ‘won’t’ at the same time. Lips come into a tight circle.

For ‘want’, the lips are starting to relax all the way out. For ‘won’t’, the lips

are still rounded. And now, as ‘want’ continues to relax, the lips come in again

for ‘won’t’.

So the difference to focus on is the second lip rounding of ‘won’t’. Make sure you

do this diphthong lip rounding with ‘don’t’ as well, another very common word, don’t.

Won’t, don’t.

Want, won’t. I hope this video has made the difference in these two words clear. If

there’s a word or phrase you’d like help pronouncing, put it in the comments below.

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在这个美式英语发音视频中， 我们将复习

两个单词的发音：WANT 和 WON'T。

这是一个艰难的词对，我收到了 很多要求。 感谢

您提出您的要求，我很高兴这样做。

“Want”和“won't”这两个词在美式英语 中很少会完全发音

。 “想要”和“不会 ”更常见。 在这些更常见的发音中，

我不会释放 T 音。 这 是所有 N'T 收缩的常见发音

，几年前我制作了一个视频的主题 。

那么 “want”和“won't”这两个常见的发音有什么区别呢？

只有元音。 开头和结尾的辅音 是一样的。 他们都以W开头，这

是嘴唇上的一个紧密圆圈。 只需一分钟，您就会在近距离演讲中看到这一点。

舌头在后面抬起并 在前面下降，ww。 结尾要么是一个

N 和一个完全发音的 T，或者更 常见的是一个鼻音的停止：nnt，nnt。

为了发出这种声音，舌头的平坦前部 位于口腔顶部。

软腭下降，这意味着空气 进入鼻道。 对于 T，我们

想要稍微推动这个声音并将其 切断，以停止，nt，nt。 T是

塞音。 因此，让我们将普通的 N 音 与 N-T 音进行对比：nn, nt, nn, nt。

试着模仿这两个声音，nn, nt, nn, nt。 对于 NT 声音，我只是在喉咙里压

了一点。 它将声音 进一步推入鼻子。 nn，nt，nn，nt。 这

就是我想要切断的声音，nt。 想要，nt，nt，nt，不会，nt，nt。

要完全发音 NT，只需将 舌头放在 N 的位置，关闭

牙齿并切断气流，nn-tt，然后 释放空气、舌头和牙齿，nn-tt。

如果你想在最后做一个 True T 的话。

现在让我们比较不同的元音。 ‘Want’有 AH 和 FATHER 音一样，

啊，想要。 但是美国人经常会把 它变成更像 UH 的东西，比如

BUTTER 元音。 我知道我知道。 哇-，呃，想要。 不用担心，这两个元音都

与“不会”中的声音完全不同。 对于 AH 和 UH，下巴会掉下来，

想要，想要，嘴唇保持放松。

在“不会”中，情况完全不同。 在这里，我们有一个双元音，如 NO 双元音中的 OH

。 双元音是两种不同的声音。 开始位置移动到结束

位置。 哦。 你会看到嘴唇动了， 它们进来了。

当我们看放大的镜头时，这将是非常明显的。 现在让我们 来看看。

这里是“想要”这个词。 嘴唇出现 在 W 中，然后在余下

的单词中放松。 你可以看到 N-T 出现了舌头。

现在“不会”这个词。 同样， 对于 W 辅音，嘴唇会变成一个紧密的圆圈。

它们在双元音 OH 的第一个位置放松 ，但它们仍然是圆形的。

然后，他们又回到一个紧密的圈子中 ，为双元音的第二个位置。

第二次四舍五入使这个词 与“想要”不同。

然后，嘴唇放松，听到 N-T 声音。

让我们同时比较“想要”和“不会” 。 嘴唇紧紧地围成一圈。

对于“想要”，嘴唇开始完全 放松。 对于“不会”，嘴唇

仍然是圆的。 而现在，随着“想要” 继续放松，嘴唇再次

出现“不会”。

因此，要关注的区别 是“不会”的第二个嘴唇圆润。 确保你

也用“不要”来做这个双元音唇轮 ，另一个非常常见的词，不要。

不会，不要。

想要，不会。 我希望这个视频已经 清楚地说明了这两个词的区别。

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