Name: 美國人說錯的10個詞!| 美國人經常唸錯這些詞的發音。 (10 Words Americans Say WRONG! | Americans Mispronounce These Words Often)
Uploaded: 2020-10-08T19:38:08.000Z
Duration: 11 min 44 s

Recently, president trump mispronounced Yosemite.

近日，美國總統特朗普把優勝美地念錯了。

When they gaze upon Yosemite's— Yosemite's towering sequoias—

當他們注視著優勝美地的... 優勝美地高聳的水杉時...

Now, yes, probably 99 percent  of Americans, if not more, know how to pronounce Yosemite.

現在，是的，可能99%的美國人，如果不是更多的話，知道如何發音優勝美地。

It's one of America's most famous national parks.

這是美國最著名的國家公園之一。

But still, I would feel very confident saying every person who speaks American English has mispronounced a word.

但我還是會很有信心地說，每一個說美式英語的人都有唸錯單詞的時候。

In this video, we're going to look at tricky words that mess Americans up.

在這段視頻中，我們要看看那些讓美國人亂了陣腳的棘手詞彙。

My students are people who are not native speakers of American English,

我的學生都不是以美國英語為母語的人。

some of them are terrified, mortified of saying a word incorrectly, of misusing it.

他們中的一些人害怕，羞於說錯一個詞，害怕誤用。

So I'm making this video so that one, they know native speakers do this too.

所以我做了這個視頻，所以一個，他們知道母語者也會這樣做。

If we read a word or learn it through reading, we may mispronounce it.

如果我們讀一個字，或者通過閱讀來學習這個字，我們可能會讀錯。

There's not a direct correlation between letters and sounds in American English.

在美式英語中，字母和聲音之間並沒有直接的關聯。

比如，小樹林，手套。哦，啊。

And the second reason I'm making this is so that students can learn some of these tricky words

我做這個的第二個原因是為了讓學生們能學會一些棘手的單詞。

Now as always, if you like this video, or you learned something new,

現在和往常一樣，如果你喜歡這個視頻，或者你學到了新的東西。

please like and subscribe with notifications. It really helps.

請喜歡和訂閱與通知。這真的很有幫助。

Let's start by looking at the word Yosemite.

我們先來看看優勝美地這個詞。

A word that ends in M-I-T-E, will usually be pronounced: mite.

以M-I-T-E結尾的詞，通常會讀作：蟎蟲。

But not this word, this word is Yosemite.

但不是這個詞，這個詞是優勝美地。

It comes from the language of the indigenous people who populated the area that is now this national park.

它來自於居住在現在這個國家公園地區的土著人的語言。

Second syllable stress, flap T, Yosemite, mite, mite. Yosemite.

第二音節應力，瓣T，優勝美地，蟎蟲，蟎蟲。優勝美地。

Now just to be fair to both sides of the political spectrum here,

現在只是為了公平對待政治光譜的兩邊。

I found a word that president Obama mispronounced.

我發現奧巴馬總統唸錯了一個詞。

I'm going to stress again, every native speaker of American English has mispronounced a word.

我要再次強調，每一個以美國英語為母語的人都會念錯一個詞。

If you're a native speaker, and you're watching this video, please put in the comments

如果你的母語是英語，並且你正在觀看這個視頻，請在評論中寫上你的名字

words that you have mispronounced, why you did it, how you figured it out, who corrected you,

你念錯的字，為什麼會念錯，你是怎麼想出來的，誰糾正了你。

Representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do,

代表著我們的男女軍人所做的非凡工作。

海軍軍醫，克里斯蒂安-巴沙爾。

The word is corpsman but he pronounced all of the letters making it corpsman.

這個詞是corpsman，但他把所有的字母都念成了corpsman。

Just as trump was, he was reading off a teleprompter,

就像特朗普一樣，他是在讀提詞器。

and you know, now that I think of it, that might have been the reason these words were mispronounced.

你知道，現在我想起來了，這可能是這些詞被唸錯的原因。

You're in front of a crowd, reading something you probably didn't write,

你在一群人面前，讀著你可能沒有寫的東西。

it's less organic than saying a word that comes to mind.

它比說一個想到的詞更不有機。

The word corps is a word I've definitely heard mispronounced.

By the way, I tried to see if Obama mispronounced the word corps and I couldn't find any examples.

對了，我試著看奧巴馬是否唸錯了兵團這個詞，我找不到任何例子。

But if you've only learned the word by reading it and you've never heard it pronounced,

但如果你只是通過閱讀來學習這個詞，而你從未聽過它的發音。

how would you know the P and the S are silent?

This word comes to English, from French, from the Latin word 'corpus' meaning body.

這個詞在英語中來自法語，來自拉丁語 "corpus"，意思是身體。

And in French, they drop a lot of sounds so we picked that up when we absorbed the word from them.

而在法語中，他們會掉很多音，所以我們從他們那裡吸收單詞的時候就學會了。

You might have heard the terms peace corps, Marine Corps, press corps.

你可能聽說過和平團、海軍陸戰隊、記者團這些名詞。

A corps is a group of people associated with each other,

acting together, especially, for example, in the military.

Now to make it more confusing, the word corporal,

which also comes from French, and originally the Latin word corpus,

這也是來自法語，最初是拉丁語的語料庫。

但兵團目標，沉默的P，沉默的S。

On top of this, if you pronounced all the letters and you did say the word 'corpse' that is a word,

最重要的是，如果你把所有的字母都念出來，而且你確實說了'屍體'這個詞，那就是一個詞。

只不過我們在結尾處拼了一個E。

Okay, now we're going to go to a news correspondent, Kris Jansing.

好了，現在我們要去採訪一位新聞記者，克里斯・詹星。

I asked her if there are any words she has a hard time pronouncing.

Are there any words in American English that you stumble over sometimes, that are a challenge for you?

在美式英語中，有沒有什麼單詞是你有時會絆倒的，對你來說是個挑戰？

Do you know, I think it's like anybody else, sometimes when you read something, it just doesn't look right.

你知道嗎，我想這就像其他人一樣，有時當你讀到一些東西時，它看起來就不對了。

And it might be a simple word, so usually, it's something like that that will trip you up.

而且可能是一個簡單的詞，所以通常情況下，是這樣的東西會絆倒你。

She agrees the teleprompter might be causing some of the mispronunciations,

她同意提詞器可能會造成一些發音錯誤。

because some words just don't look at all like they're pronounced.

因為有些詞看起來根本就不像他們的發音。

She gives us another word I hear mispronounced a lot,

她給了我們另一個我經常聽到的錯誤發音的詞。

and you all pointed out too in the comments of another video on mispronunciations.

而你們也都在另一個視頻的評論中指出了發音錯誤。

我確實有一些小毛病，比如核。

Listening to the pronunciation, I hope, guys.

This is a three-syllable word with stress on the first syllable.

這是一個三音節的詞，重音在第一音節。

Sometimes, even native speakers will mix up the location of the L and say: nuc-ya-lar.

有時，即使是母語人士也會把L的位置弄混，說：nuc-ya-lar。

But we all do the best we can and you never get it right 100  percent of the time.

但我們都是盡力而為，你永遠不會百分之百地做到正確。

By the way, did you hear Kris Jansing use the term 'pet peeve'?

對了，你有沒有聽到Kris Jansing用 "小癖好 "這個詞？

This is a term we use for something that annoys us.

這是一個術語，我們用來形容讓我們討厭的東西。

For example, one of my pet peeves is when people chew with their mouths open while eating.

例如，我最討厭的一個問題是人們在吃飯時張嘴咀嚼。

Actually, someone else used that phrase in the comments.

其實，有人在評論中用了這句話。

My pet peeve is people mispronouncing realtor like really re-lit-or.

我最討厭的是人們把房地產經紀人唸錯了，就像真的re-lit-or。

Realtor. This is a word that we use for people that help us buy and sell houses.

房地產經紀人。這個詞我們用來形容幫助我們買賣房子的人。

But lots of people put a schwa between L and T,

但很多人在L和T之間加了一個分音符。