ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION ADVANCED STUDENT LESSON Rachels English

Today, you’re going to study some really hard to pronounce words in American English.

Words with Rs and Ls.

We’ll talk about why these words are tricky,
go over ‘regularly’ and ‘clearly’,

and practice lots of other similar words together.

The sounds R and L are difficult for most non-native speakers when they occur in words on their own.

So when they occur in the same word, it
can be very challenging.

For japanese speakers and others, it’s common to mix up or switch the R and L sounds.

So the word ‘class’ might be pronounced ‘crass’.

Rr– rr– crass.

More of an R sound, by accident.

In this video, we’ll be working on finding
more clarity for these sounds.

To do this, we’ll be focusing on multi-syllable words,

that include both R and L sounds.

For in-depth descriptions of these sounds,

you can visit the specific sound videos,

I’ll link to some of these important
videos at the end of this video.

But let’s start by going over the basic differences in the mouth movements for Light L, Dark L, and R sounds.

First, let’s talk about 2 L sounds.

Light and dark.

The Light L is used when the L is beginning
a word, like: light or love.

Or for an L in the middle of the word when
it starts a syllable like: believe or delight.

For the Light L, the tongue tip lifts and touches the roof of the mouth just behind the teeth: ull, ull.

I’ve also noticed, some native
speakers make it like this: ull, ull,

where the tongue tip is pushing up on the
bottom of the top front teeth.

The Dark L is used when the L ends
the word like: feel or mail.

Also, in the middle of the word, if it comes after

the vowel or diphthong in the syllable
like: billing, billlling, or taller, tallller.

The Dark L can be made with just the back part of the tongue pulling back and pressing down a little bit.

Uhl.

You don’t need to lift your tongue tip up to
make this dark sound and in fact,

native speakers don’t lift their tongue tip
except in a few cases.

When students lift the tongue tip in the Dark L,
it tends to destroy the dark sound

and it ends up sounding more like a Light L instead.

When people focus on the tip, they forget the back.

Uhl.

And for Dark L, we want that dark sound
made with the back of the tongue.

Now, for the R sound.

The position is completely different.

It’s not made in the front or the back, but the middle.

Uhl, uhl.

Light L.

Uhl, uhl. Dark L.

Rrr– rr– R.

The front part of the tongue lifts and pulls back a little bit,

but the middle part of the tongue might make contact with the roof of the mouth in the middle.

Rrr, rrr.

Okay, we’ve taken a look at the specific way we make Light L,

Dark L, and R.

As you’ve heard and seen, each of these sounds has a very distinct mouth position.

We’ll have to really think about these positions as we work on these tough words with Rs and Ls.

It’s a great idea to stop on the R, to stop on the L, hold out the sound, and check your mouth position.

Let’s analyze two words that both have R and L in detail.

Let’s do ‘regularly’.

It starts with R, EH as in Bed, and G .

So tongue tip is pulled back and up to start,

rrr, lips are flared, rrrr–eh–, then jaw drop,
tongue tip goes down.

Re– reg– back of the tongue lifts for the G, touches the soft palate, reg–, then we have Y consonant schwa.

Regyy– For the G, the back of the tongue is
lifted, touching he soft palate.

For the Y, you move your tongue forward along the roof of the mouth.

Regyyy– then bring your tongue down for the schwa.

Regyyi– reggyy–

Now, an L.

It’s in the middle of the word.

Does it come before or after the vowel in the syllable?

it comes before.

It begins the third syllable so it’s a light L, tongue tip up.

Regulll–

Let’s try that again, just holding our L and R.

Rrrr–regu-lll.

We still have one more R and one more L.

From the light L, the tongue pulls right back into the R.

Lar– lllarr–

Don’t try to make a vowel in there, the schwa is absorbed by the R.

Let’s practice that transition by holding out L and R.

Lllarr— lllarrr–

Now, we have an L again and it’s the beginning
of the syllable again so it’s a Light L

so the tongue tip comes back up for the Light L.

Uhll, uhll, uhll.

It pulls back for the R and goes right back up.

Llllarrrlllyy—

You don’t have to move your jaw very much.

Just move the tongue.

Larl, larl, larl, larl.

And finally the tongue tip comes back down
for a quick unstressed E,

ly, ly, ly, ly.

Woooh, okay.

Let’s do this whole word, holding out our Rs and our Ls.

Rrrregulllarrrrllly.

Regularly.

Now, let’s do the whole word in slow motion a few times:

regularly,

regularly.

How does it feel? Is it any easier for you to do this?

Having slowed it down and broken it down?

If not, break it up into parts, keep going slowly,
practice just individual sounds,

then go back and do the word, holding out those tricky sounds.

Another amazing technique that works well

after you’ve really studied the position

is just to use pure repetition.

In my academy , I call it the play it, say it method.

You hear something, you say it out loud.

You hear it again, you say it again

and you don’t think too much about position, you definitely don’t correct yourself if you hear it’s not right,

you just play it again and say it again, always moving forward.

As you listen and repeat over and over, something amazing happens.

You start to become an amazing imitator.

And your mouth makes subtle adjustments

that makes you sound more native.

I’ve seen this happen over and over with students.

I’ll watch them use play it, say it and I don’t even tell them what to fix.

They figure it out by repetition

and in the end, they sound amazing.

Try this with me now. I’m going to say
the word ten times in a row.

Each time, I’ll take a break that’s just
long enough for you to repeat.

You’re not focusing on what to do here,
you’re focusing on what you hear

and repeating it back exactly.

Okay, here we go.

Repeat out loud.

Regularly.

You did it.

If you want, go back and play this part of the video again

to get ten more times of hearing it

and repeating it back exactly like you hear it.

I couldn’t hear you but I bet after the tenth time,
you are sounding pretty good.

Can you imagine if you did this everyday with your most challenging words for one or two weeks?

Those wouldn’t be your most
challenging words anymore.

You’d have to come up with a new list.

And finally, the word ‘clearly’.

Both Ls are light Ls because they come
before the vowel and the syllable.

So make the K by lifting the back of the tongue, kkk,

then as you release it, lift your tongue tip.

Kl, kl, klllii—

then the tongue tip comes down for the EE vowel, kli, kli.

And now, our R.

Tongue tip pulls back and up.

Earr, earr.

Clear.

Now, let’s hold out the L and the R.

Clllearrrr.

Now, all we have to do is add the LY ending.

Tongue tip comes up again for the light L.

Llllly.

And pulls down for the EE vowel.

Ccllleearrrrllllyy.

Clearly.

We’ll do it again, holding out all Rs and Ls.

Ccllleearrrrllllyy.

And now, slowly, a few times.

Clearly.

Notice the shape of stress.

This is a stressed word

so we want the voice to go up and
then curve back down.

And we can hear that even more clearly when
we do the word in slow motion.

Ccllleearrrrllllyy.

Clearly.

Play it, say it, ten times in a row.

Ready?

Clearly.

Now, we’re going to look at many words with Rs and Ls

that students find really tricky like: rarely and culturally.

I’ll do each word ten times. It’s the play it, say it method.

Repeat out out with me.

Don’t stop to correct mistakes.

Don’t think too much about what you’re doing.
Let your body make adjustments

by focusing only on repeating back just exactly what you hear.

This method is amazing.

Let’s start.

Culturally. Ten times.

Culturally.

Temporarily. Ten times.

Temporarily.

This only works if you’re repeating out loud so
if you’re watching this video by now,

I hope you’re still repeating out loud.

Popularly. Ten times.

Popularly.

Orderly. Ten times.

Orderly.

Now, nearly.

Nearly.

Rarely, ten times.

Rarely.

There are a lot more words you can practice with.

I’m going to suggest that you go to Forvo.com,

find a native speaker that you like

and use the play it, say it method yourself.

You play it on the audio file and you say it out loud.

Play it, say it, back and forth over and over.

We’ll do one more word together.

Rural. Ten times, out loud, say it with me.

Rural.

You’ve learned in this video how to break down difficult words and sounds and put all words back together.

Now, you can take long, intimidating words and
make them sound really natural

with just a little bit of practice.

Let’s link now to those videos I told you about.

I have videos that contrast R and L, a great place
to start if these two confuse you.

Then I have a video on L and a video on R.

These go over the exact position of these
sounds with illustrations.

Be sure to check them out.

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

今天，你将学习一些非常难发音的美式英语单词。

带有 Rs 和 Ls 的单词。

我们将讨论为什么这些词很棘手
，复习“定期”和“清楚地”，

并一起练习许多其他相似的词。

对于大多数非母语人士来说，R 和 L 的声音在单独出现在单词中时是很困难的。

因此，当它们出现在同一个词中时，
可能会非常具有挑战性。

对于讲日语的人和其他人来说，混合或切换 R 和 L 声音是很常见的。

所以“class”这个词可能会发音为“crass”。

Rr–rr–粗鲁。

更多的 R 声音，偶然。

在本视频中，我们将努力
让这些声音更加清晰。

为此，我们将专注于多音节单词

，包括 R 和 L 音。

有关这些声音的深入描述，

您可以访问特定的声音视频，

我将
在本视频的末尾链接到其中一些重要的视频。

但是，让我们先回顾一下 Light L、Dark L 和 R 声音的嘴部动作的基本差异。

首先，让我们谈谈 2 L 声音。

光与暗。

当 L 开始一个单词时使用 Light L
，例如：light 或 love。

或者在单词中间的 L
开始一个音节时，例如：相信或高兴。

对于 Light L，舌尖抬起并接触到牙齿后面的上颚：ull，ull。

我还注意到，一些
母语人士是这样说的：ull，ull

，舌尖向上推到
上前牙的底部。

当 L 结束以下单词时使用 Dark L
：feel 或 mail。

此外，在单词的中间，如果它出现

在音节中的元音或双元音之后，
例如：billing, billlling 或 taller, tallller。

只需将舌头的后部向后拉并向下压一点即可制作 Dark L。

呃。

你不需要抬起你的舌尖来
发出这种黑暗的声音，事实上，

母语人士不会抬起他们的舌尖，
除非在少数情况下。

当学生在 Dark L 中抬起舌尖时，
它往往会破坏黑暗的声音

，最终听起来更像是 Light L。

当人们专注于尖端时，他们忘记了背部。

呃。

而对于 Dark L，我们想要用舌头后部发出的黑暗声音
。

现在，对于 R 声音。

立场完全不同。

它不是在前面或后面制作的，而是在中间制作的。

呃，呃。

Light L.

呃，呃。 Dark L.

Rrr– rr– R.

舌头的前部抬起并向后拉一点，

但舌头的中部可能会接触到中间的上颚。

呜呜呜。

好的，我们已经了解了制作 Light L、

Dark L 和 R 的具体方式。

正如您所听到和看到的，这些声音中的每一个都有非常不同的嘴巴位置。

当我们用 Rs 和 Ls 处理这些强硬的词时，我们将不得不真正考虑这些立场。

停在 R 上、停在 L 上、按住声音并检查你的嘴巴位置是个好主意。

让我们详细分析两个都有 R 和 L 的单词。

让我们“定期”做。

它以 R、EH 和 Bed 和 G 开头。

所以舌尖被拉回和向上开始，

rrr，嘴唇张开，rrrr–eh–，然后下巴下降，
舌尖下降。

Re– reg– 舌后部抬起 G，触及软腭， reg–，然后我们有 Y 辅音 schwa。

Regyy——对于G，舌后部
抬起，触碰他的软腭。

对于 Y，您将舌头沿口腔顶部向前移动。

Regyyy——然后把你的舌头放下来吃 schwa。

Regyyi– reggyy–

现在，一个 L。

它在这个词的中间。

它出现在音节中的元音之前还是之后？

它在前面。

它从第三个音节开始，所以它是一个轻 L，舌尖向上。

Regulll–

让我们再试一次，只需拿着我们的 L 和

R。Rrrr–regu-lll。

我们还有一个 R 和一个

L。从轻 L 开始，舌头直接拉回

R。Lar–lllarr–

不要尝试在那里发出元音，schwa 被 R 吸收了。

让我们通过按住 L 和 R 来练习这种转换。

Lllarr— lllarrr–

现在，我们又得到了一个 L，它又是音节的开头
，所以它是一个 Light L，

所以舌尖恢复为 Light L。

呃，呃，呃。

它向后拉 R 并立即返回。

Llllarrrlllyy—

你不必经常移动你的下巴。

动一下舌头。

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最后，舌尖回落
，发出快速无重读的 E,

ly, ly, ly, ly。

呜，好吧。

让我们做这整个词，拿出我们的 Rs 和我们的 Ls。

啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊

经常。

现在，让我们用慢动作把整个词做几次：

定期，

定期。

感觉怎样？你这样做容易吗？

放慢速度并打破它？

如果没有，把它分成几部分，继续慢慢地
练习，只练习个别的声音，

然后回去做这个词，把那些棘手的声音拿出来。

在你真正研究过这个位置之后，另一个非常有效的技巧

就是使用纯粹的重复。

在我的学院里，我称之为play it，say it method。

你听到了什么，你大声说出来。

你再听一遍，你再说一遍

，你不要想太多位置，听到不对你肯定不会纠正自己，

你只是再弹一遍，再说一遍，永远向前。

当您一遍又一遍地聆听和重复时，会发生一些惊人的事情。

你开始成为一个了不起的模仿者。

你的嘴巴会做出细微的调整

，让你听起来更自然。

我已经看到这种情况一遍又一遍地发生在学生身上。

我会看着他们玩，说出来，我什至不告诉他们要解决什么。

他们通过重复

来解决这个问题，最后，他们听起来很神奇。

现在和我一起试试这个。我要
连续说十遍这个词。

每次，我都会休息一下，
时间足够你重复。

您不是专注于在这里做什么，
而是专注于您听到的内容

并准确地重复它。

好的，我们开始吧。

大声重复。

经常。

你做到了。

如果您愿意，请返回并再次播放视频的这一部分，以

再听十次，

并以您听到的方式重复播放。

我听不见你的声音，但我敢打赌，在第十次之后，
你的声音听起来不错。

你能想象如果你每天都用最具挑战性的话来做这件事，持续一到两周吗？

那些不再是你最具
挑战性的话了。

你必须想出一个新的清单。

最后，“清楚地”这个词。

两个 L 都是轻 L，因为它们
位于元音和音节之前。

因此，通过抬起舌后部 kkk 来制作 K，

然后在释放它时抬起舌尖。

Kl, kl, klllii—

然后舌尖下降为EE元音，kli，kli。

现在，我们的 R.

舌尖向后拉。

耳朵，耳朵。

清除。

现在，让我们拿出 L 和

R。Clllearrrr。

现在，我们所要做的就是添加 LY 结尾。

L. Llllly 的灯光再次出现

舌尖。

并下拉为 EE 元音。

清清楚楚。

清楚地。

我们会再做一次，拿出所有的 Rs 和 Ls。

清清楚楚。

现在，慢慢地，几次。

清楚地。

注意应力的形状。

这是一个重读的词，

所以我们希望声音先上升，
然后再向下弯曲。

当我们以慢动作做这个词时，我们可以更清楚地听到这
一点。

清清楚楚。

清楚地。

播放它，说它，连续十次。

准备好？

清楚地。

现在，我们将研究许多

学生觉得非常棘手的带有 Rs 和 Ls 的单词：很少和文化上。

每个字我会做十遍。就是玩吧，说吧方法。

跟我重复一遍。

不要停下来纠正错误。

不要想太多你在做什么。
让你的身体做出调整

，只专注于重复你听到的内容。

这个方法很神奇。

开始吧。

文化上。十次。

文化上。

暂时地。十次。

暂时地。

这仅在您大声重复时才有效，因此
如果您现在正在观看此视频，

我希望您仍在大声重复。

流行。十次。

流行。

整齐的。十次。

整齐的。

现在，几乎。

几乎。

很少，十次。

很少。

你可以练习的单词还有很多。

我建议你去 Forvo.com，

找到一个你喜欢的母语人士

并使用它，自己说它的方法。

你在音频文件上播放它，然后大声说出来。

弹奏它，说它，一遍又一遍地来回。

我们再一起说一句话。

乡村的。十次，大声，跟我说。

乡村的。

您已在本视频中学习了如何分解困难的单词和发音并将所有单词重新组合在一起。

现在，只需稍加练习，您就可以将冗长的、令人生畏的单词
变得非常自然

。

现在让我们链接到我告诉你的那些视频。

我有对比 R 和 L 的视频，
如果这两个让你感到困惑，这是一个很好的起点。

然后我有一个关于 L 的视频和一个关于 R 的视频。

这些视频通过插图详细说明了这些声音的确切位置
。

一定要检查出来。

就是这样，非常感谢您使用 Rachel 的英语。