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课程名称：棘手的美式英语发音 课程概述：本课程旨在帮助学习者练习美式英语中可能令人困惑的发音，包括辅音和元音的练习。此外，课程还将讲解英语的“音乐”特征，例如如何正确重读单词中的音节、如何自然地运用语音的高低起伏以及如何将声音和单词自然连接。掌握这些技能将有助于提高口语清晰度，使他人更好地理解你的表达。该课程适合希望改善美式英语发音的英语学习者，以便更好地进行沟通。 请注意，所有讲座和讲义对任何人免费开放，但分级作业和测验仅在付费版本中提供。需提交个人发音录音以完成分级作业。 课程大纲： 1. 课程简介：在这一部分，学习者将了解美式英语的辅音和元音音素，并练习一些难度较高的发音。通过强调语调和单词重音，帮助提高发音，使口语更易被他人理解。 2. 棘手的辅音音素：在首周，学习者将集中练习美式英语中的辅音音素，了解气流与发音障碍的关系。通过快速测试识别最具挑战性的辅音，练习哪些可能混淆的音素，并学习区分它们的技巧。 3. 棘手的元音音素：第二周，学习者将练习美式英语中的一些棘手元音音素。元音是流畅发出的声音，是构成音节的“核心”。本周目标是帮助学习者以易于理解的方式发音，明确元音音素的重要性。 4. 美式英语发音的音乐：在这一周，学习者将学习英语特有的韵律和旋律，包括音节、词重音，以及如何在交流中压缩一些常用词。通过理解语言的音乐性，提升有效沟通能力。 5. 其他棘手的内容：最后一周，学习者将探讨美式英语发音中的其他难点，比如-s和-ed词尾的不同发音及其语法意义，以及如何准确发音数字和常见短语（如“gonna”表示“going to”）。通过这些练习，加深对发音变化的理解。
Name:Welcome
Description:In this course, you will learn about the consonant and vowel sounds of American English and practice some of the difficult sounds. You will also learn about and practice intonation and word stress. Practicing these things will help you improve your pronunciation and make your speech easier for others to understand.
Name:Tricky Consonant Sounds
Description:In this first week, you will practice the consonant sounds of American English. Consonants are the sounds where the air coming up from your lungs meets some obstacles on the way. The first sounds in the words time, sand, and moon are consonants. After a quick quiz to find out which consonant sounds are the most difficult for you, you’ll practice some pairs of sounds that might be confusing and learn some tricks for telling them apart, and you’ll start to understand how your mouth moves when you say these sounds.
Name:Tricky Vowel Sounds
Description:This week, you’ll practice some tricky vowel sounds in American English. Vowels are sounds that come out of your mouth very smoothly, like the first sounds in apple, ocean, and out. Vowel sounds are very important for being understood in English. They’re the “heart” of each syllable, and they need to be said clearly to avoid misunderstanding. Our goal is to help you pronounce English in a way that can be easily understood by listeners in real life, and mastering vowel sounds is an important step toward that goal. Now let’s practice the vowel sounds of American English.
Name:The Music of American English Pronunciation
Description:This week, you’ll learn about some things that give English its special rhythm and melody. You’ll learn about syllables—the small chunks of sound that make up the “beats” in words—and word stress—the way some parts of words are emphasized more than others. You’ll also see how some words become shorter and weaker when we talk. Since these words are used very often in ordinary speaking, we can’t understand spoken English without them. Our goal this week is to help you use the music of English to communicate more effectively and to be understood more easily when you speak. Enjoy learning about the music of American English pronunciation.
Name:Other Tricky Things
Description:In this final week of the course, you'll look at a few more tricky points in American English pronunciation. First, you’ll learn about the different ways to pronounce the –s and –ed word endings, which have important grammatical meanings, and you’ll learn when to use each kind of pronunciation. Next, you’ll practice pronouncing numbers like 14 and 40, 15 and 50, 16 and 60 that can cause misunderstandings. You’ll also learn about the pronunciation of the words “can” and “can’t” –the difference between them might surprise you. Finally, you’ll practice some sound changes that happen when words come together in common spoken expressions like "gonna" for "going to," "wanna" for "want to," and "shoulda" for "should have."
In this course, you’ll practice the sounds of American English that might sometimes be confusing. You'll practice both consonant and vowel sounds. You’ll also learn about the things that give English its special “music,” such as how to stress the right syllable in a word, how to make your voice go up and down in a natural-sounding melody, and how to naturally connect sounds and words. Learning these things will help you speak more clearly and make sure that others can understand what you're saying. This course is useful for English language learners who want to improve pronunciation of American English for better communication. Note that access to all of the lectures and handouts are free to anyone, but the graded assignments and quizzes are only available in the paid version of the course. You will need to submit recordings of your own pronunciation for graded assignments.
