a follow-up to last week's lesson on the y versus j sounds and today our words

上週y和j音的後續課程，今天我們的單詞。

are how do I say mayor and how do I say major so let's go ahead and look at the

都是怎麼說市長，怎麼說少校，所以我們先來看看。

words so a mayor is an elected official and major means important or

詞，所以市長是民選的官員，主要的意思是重要的或。

significantI'm going to give you two different ways to pronounce the word

顯著我給你兩種不同的發音方式。

mayor I found that in teaching my students

我在教學生的過程中發現

some people prefer one to the other so let's go ahead and first talk about the

有些人偏愛一個，所以我們先來談一談。

Y versus the J sound in case you missed the lesson last week so for the Y

Y與J音的對比，如果你錯過了上週的課程，那麼對於Y的

sound what you want to think about doing is making your lips a little more wide

聽起來你要考慮做的是讓你的嘴脣更寬一點。

open and the tip of your tongue is going to be down away from the teeth and you

你的舌尖將向下遠離牙齒，而你

can actually touch the back of the tongue the outsides of the back of the

其實可以觸摸到舌頭的背面的外側的背面

tongue on the insides of the top teeth y y and your tongue is going to be

舌頭在上牙的內側 y y 你的舌頭會被

stable and it's not going to be moving for the J sound the j sound my mouth

穩定，它不會為J音而動，J音我的嘴巴

is definitely rounded and I am going to touch the tip of my tongue to the back

肯定是圓的，我要用舌尖去觸碰後背

of my top front teeth and then move it back so the tongue is going to move for

我的上前牙，然後把它移到後面去，這樣舌頭就會動起來。

the j sound so we have the y versus the j so when we look at these

j的聲音，所以我們有y與j，所以當我們看到這些。

two words let's start with the beginning syllable number one is going to be our

兩個詞，讓我們從開頭的音節開始 第一是我們的。

stressed syllable and we are going to make sure that that syllable is louder

強調的音節，我們將確保該音節是響亮的。

has a longer vowel and is a little bit higher in pitch than the second syllable

元音較長，音調也比第二個音節高一點。

may and we're going to start by putting the lips together may and then open and

可能，我們要開始 通過把嘴脣在一起可能，然後打開和

move to a smile for that long a may may for mayor you can just end with an er

移到微笑那麼長的時間 一個市長的市長的市長，你可以只用一個呃結束。

may er may er may er you can say may yer may yer with the Y sound

你可以說may er may er may er 你可以說may yer may yer with the Y sound

this really confuses especially my Spanish speakers so if that Y kind of

這真的讓人很困惑，尤其是我的西班牙語使用者，所以如果那個Y那種

confuses you just say her it's not a big deal

糊塗你就說她吧，沒什麼大不了的。

mayor or make your mayor mayor so for major what you're going to do is

市長或讓你的市長當市長 所以對於少校來說，你要做的就是

you're going to end that second syllable with the j for the jer may jer

你要在第二個音節結尾用j來表示jer may jer。

major so we have mayor mayor mayor major major major mayor major

所以我們有市長市長市長市長市長市長市長市長

mayor major so the mayor proposed major changes to the transportation system

市長主要所以市長提出了交通系統的重大變革。

give it a try I know people are going to notice the difference please give us a

試試吧 我知道大家會注意到不同的地方 請給我們一個機會

like share us with your friends and subscribe and check on our products on

喜歡與你的朋友分享我們，並訂閱和檢查我們的產品在

Google Play and iTunes and I hope to see you guys again next week thanks so much

谷歌播放和iTunes，我希望看到你們下週再次感謝這麼多

bye-bye

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