Oh my gosh guys! How annoying are silent

letters in English words? What are they

even doing there?!

This video is all about English words

with silent letters in them. When do you

pronounce those letters and when don't

you pronounce those letters? I'm going to

teach you a few simple rules to help you

pronounce English words correctly.

Don't forget to turn on the subtitles

either. The button is just down there, so

you can follow along. There are a lot of

English words that have silent letters

in them. And there are lots of silent

letters in English! About sixty percent

of all English words have a silent

letter! No wonder pronunciation is so

frustrating, right? And they can be silent

these letters, but they're not always

silent! So you have to be careful!

You need to know a few basic rules to

help with the pronunciation of silent

letters in English words.

Okay, let's start at the top with the

letter A. Now the letter A can be silent

especially in words that end in '-ally'.

Like these:

So, I'm not pronouncing:

Cut the A out. Get rid of it!

Now there's a rule

to remember with the letter B. It's

always silent when it follows the letter M

So, practice them with me. I'm not

pronouncing the B, I'm just pronouncing

the M consonant sound.

And the letter B is

often silent when it before the

consonant T, so think of these examples:

So, see in all of

those examples, my lips are closing and

coming together to form the B sound,

I'm just pronouncing the T.

Now, the letter C can cause a

few problems because it's often silent

after the letter S, like in

these very common examples - they are quite tricky!

So that's the silent C.

So what about the letter D? Yep, it can be

silent too!

So, I'm not pronouncing the D in 'sandwich'

I'm just pronouncing the consonant N

sound before it. Try it with me one more time.

And a D can be very quiet, not quite silent, but

very quiet in front of a G, like in these

examples:

So in these examples the D and the G

combined together produce the 'dg'

consonant sound 'dg'

Okay, so the letter E can often be silent

at the end of a word. I'm pretty sure

you know this one already, like these

examples:

But that E on the end, although it might be silent,

it can affect the pronunciation of the

vowel sound before it.

Let's look at these examples:

So see how the E at the end, although it's not

pronounced, is affecting the vowel sound

before it. It makes it longer. So hid /i/

becomes hide /i:/

But if the E is the final letter in

the word but it's the only vowel sound

then it needs to be pronounced, like in

these examples

E can also be silent at the end of past tense regular

verbs, which all end in ED, right?

But they're not always pronounced like it is

in 'wanted'. So, you can hear the ED sound

there '-ed', '-ed'. It's its own syllable.

But a lot of the time that E isn't pronounced

Now they could be a little bit tricky, so

let's do it again!

Okay, so a G can also be silent too! Think

about the word sign, champagne, design, or

foreign. All of these examples have a

silent G. And the combination GH can also

be silent when it comes after a vowel sound

Now, the letter H

is often silent too, often when it's

following a W, like in the examples

And sometimes it's not pronounced at the

start of a word like honest and hour.

And sometimes the H is not pronounced

when it follows any of these three

letters: C, G or R.

Now, most of the time

CH is pronounced 'ch' but on small occasions

or rare occasions

it's not pronounce, the H is silent.

Good news!

The I is not usually silent, it's usually

pronounced. Except in the word business!

Okay, K! Now I know you know this one!

A K is not pronounced when it comes before an N.

The letter L can be silent too and it's

quite common when you look at this list.

But consider this rule to be a bit of a

cheat because the letter L is quite

difficult to pronounce in all of these

words, even for a native speaker!

So, this makes it easier! In these

words where /l/ is really difficult to

pronounce then it's silent! Ready? Let's try it.

So, we got through quite a bit but

we're only halfway through! So, if you

want to keep watching and keep

practicing with silent letters in

English then click the link in the

description box and go to part 2 of this video.

Guys, I love making these videos

for you and I love hearing from you as

well, so if you want to say hi

come over to my facebook page at

mmmEnglish and say hello, ask question,

introduce yourself!

I'd love to hear from you there. Make sure

you check out part 2 - the links down

there! See you soon!

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哦，我的天哪，伙计们！ 英语单词中的无声字母有多烦人

？ 他们

还在那里做什么？！

这个视频是关于英语单词的，里面

有无声字母。 你什么时候

发这些字母，什么时候

不发这些字母？ 我将

教你一些简单的规则来帮助你

正确地发音英语单词。

也不要忘记打开

字幕。 按钮就在下面，因此

您可以跟随。 有很多

英语单词中有无声

字母。 还有很多

英文无声字母！ 大约 60%

的英语单词都有一个无声

字母！ 难怪发音如此

令人沮丧，对吧？ 他们可以对

这些信件保持沉默，但它们并不总是

保持沉默！ 所以你必须小心！

你需要知道一些基本规则来

帮助

英语单词中无声字母的发音。

好的，让我们从

字母 A 开始。现在字母 A 可以保持沉默，

尤其是在以“-ally”结尾的单词中。

像这些：

所以，我不是在发音：

把 A 去掉。 摆脱它！

现在有一个规则

要记住字母B。

当它跟随字母M时总是沉默

所以，和我一起练习。 我不

发B，我只是

发M辅音。

并且字母 B

在辅音 T 之前通常是无声的

，所以想想这些例子：

所以，在所有

这些例子中，我的嘴唇闭合

并合在一起形成 B 音，

我只是发 T。

现在，字母 C 可能会导致

一些问题，因为它通常

在字母 S 之后保持沉默，就像在

这些非常常见的示例中一样 - 它们非常棘手！

这就是无声的 C。

那么字母 D 呢？ 是的，它也可以

静音！

所以，我不是在“三明治”中发音 D，

我只是

在它之前发音辅音 N。 和我再试一次。

D 可以很安静，不是很安静，但

在 G 前面很安静，就像在这些

例子中：

所以在这些例子中，D 和 G

结合在一起产生 'dg'

辅音 'dg'

好的，所以 字母 E 通常可以

在单词的末尾保持沉默。 我很确定

你已经知道这个了，比如这些

例子：

但是结尾的那个 E，虽然它可能是无声的，

但它会影响

它前面的元音的发音。

让我们看看这些例子：

那么看看结尾的 E，虽然它不

发音，是如何影响它前面的元音的

。 它使它更长。 所以 hid /i/

变成了 hide /i:/

但是如果 E 是单词中的最后一个字母，

但它是唯一的元音，

那么它需要发音，就像在

这些例子中

E 也可以在过去时结束时保持沉默 规则

动词，都以 ED 结尾，对吧？

但它们并不总是

像“通缉”那样发音。 所以，你可以听到 ED 的声音

有“-ed”、“-ed”。 是它自己的音节。

但是很多时候 E 不发音

现在它们可能有点棘手，所以

让我们再做一次！

好的，所以 G 也可以保持沉默！

想想标志、香槟、设计或

外来词。 所有这些例子都有一个

无声的G。

当它出现在元音之后

，GH

的组合也可以是无声

的 在

诚实和小时这样的词的开头。

有时当 H

跟在这三个字母中的任何一个之后时，H 不发音

：C、G 或 R。

现在，大部分时间

CH 发音为“ch”，但在少数情况下

或极少数情况下

它不发音，H 是无声的。

好消息！

I 通常不是沉默的，它通常是

发音的。 除了商业这个词！

好的，克！ 现在我知道你知道这个了！

K 在 N 之前不发音。字母 L 也可以不发音，

当您查看此列表时，这很常见。

但是认为这条规则有点

作弊，因为字母 L

在所有这些单词中都很难发音

，即使对于母语人士来说也是如此！

所以，这使它更容易！ 在这些

词中，如果 /l/ 真的很难

发音，那么它就是无声的！ 准备好？ 让我们试试看。

所以，我们完成了很多，但

我们只完成了一半！ 因此，如果您

想继续观看并继续

练习无声英文字母，

请单击

描述框中的链接并转到此视频的第 2 部分。

伙计们，我喜欢为你制作这些视频

，我也喜欢收到你

的来信，所以如果你想打招呼，

请到我的

mmmEnglish 的 Facebook 页面打个招呼，问问题，

介绍自己！

我很想听听你的意见。 确保

您查看第 2 部分 - 那里的链接

！ 再见！