Name: 最佳英語口音 - 說話像母語者一樣-------------排位 (Best English Accent - Speak like a Native Speaker - PLACEMENT)
Uploaded: 2020-10-13T19:16:06.000Z
Duration: 33 min 56 s

If you can improve your placement, you will immediately sound more natural every time you speak English.

如果你能改善你的位置，你每次說英語的時候，你會立刻聽起來更自然。

I've been making videos on American English on YouTube for 11 years and this is probably

我在YouTube上做美式英語的視頻已經11年了，這大概是

the most excited I've ever been about a video.

There's one thing that affects the sound of the voice when a non-native speaker is speaking

在非母語人士說話時，有一個東西會影響聲音的大小

American English more than anything else. And it really affects whether or not someone sounds American.

美式英語比什麼都重要。而這真的會影響一個人是否聽起來像美國人。

It's placement. Maybe you've never even heard this word before.

這就是安置。也許你根本就沒聽過這個詞。

Not many teachers talk about it and I will say it's one of the hardest things to teach.

沒有多少老師談到這一點，我想說這是最難教的一件事。

We're going to use a mixing engineer and a scientific paper to understand what is placement.

我們要用一個攪拌工程師和一篇科學論文來理解什麼是放置。

I had the mixing engineer change the placement. Thank you, Sendai Mike!

我讓混音師改變了位置。謝謝你，仙台麥克！

We're going to get to the details of all of this

but I want you to know that almost all of my students need to work on their placement.

但我想告訴你，幾乎所有的學生都需要在實習上下功夫。

It doesn't matter what your native language is. By the end of this video, you're going to understand

你的母語是什麼並不重要。在這段視頻結束後，你將會了解到

what placement is and be able to change your placement

什麼是安置，並能改變你的安置。

to unlock a more natural American voice within yourself.

來釋放自己內心更自然的美國聲音。

And please remember, if you like this video or learned something,

請記住，如果你喜歡這個視頻或者學到了什麼。

be sure to like it and subscribe with notifications. Thank you guys!

一定要喜歡它並訂閱通知。謝謝大家

Several months ago, I asked you to send in videos of yourself saying a dialogue

幾個月前，我讓你把自己說的一段對話的視頻發過來。

so I could use your examples to teach here on YouTube. Thank you!

所以我可以用你的例子在YouTube上教書。謝謝您！

All of the examples in this video, including the one you already heard came from you guys.

這個視頻中所有的例子，包括你已經聽到的例子都來自於你們。

And by the way, if you didn't see last week's video, that is a great one where

順便說一下，如果你沒有看到上週的視頻，那是一個偉大的一個地方。

I used your videos to teach about American English pronunciation, be sure to check it out!

我用你的視頻來教美式英語發音，一定要去看看!

Placement affects the overall quality of the voice.

Almost all of my student's placements are too high.

我的學生幾乎都有太高的位置。

It doesn't matter the native language: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese,

母語無所謂。中文、日文、韓文、越南文

Thai, Arabic, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and so on.

泰語、阿拉伯語、印地語、西班牙語、葡萄牙語、法語等。

The natural production of these languages is different than English.

這些語言的自然生成與英語不同。

So I found a mixing engineer here on YouTube who could play with the formants of the voice.

所以我在YouTube上找到了一個調音師，他可以玩弄聲音的曼音。

In a minute, we're going to talk about what that means.

一會兒，我們要談談這意味著什麼。

But first, I just want you to hear the difference.

但首先，我只是想讓你聽聽區別。

So he took the person we listened to, whose native language is Chinese, and changed the formants.

於是，他把我們聽的人，他的母語是漢語，換了個聲調。

The first one is her voice as she recorded it.

The second one has a different quality because Mike played with the formants of the sound.

第二張有不同的品質，因為Mike玩的是聲音的顫音。

Then he took my voice and he did the opposite.

然後，他把我的聲音，他做了相反的事情。

We'll call the student that we're working with here V.

我們就叫這個學生，我們在這裡工作的V。

He took V's voice and played with the formants for it to have a more American quality,

他把V的聲音和玩的manmants為它有一個更美國的品質。

then he took my voice and did the same thing in reverse

然後，他把我的聲音 並做同樣的事情，在反向

to try to make the quality of my voice reflect the quality of her voice.

儘量讓我的聲音品質反映她的聲音品質。

Changing the formants really changes the quality of the voice, doesn't it?

改變聲調真的會改變聲音的品質，不是嗎？

Listen to my whole mini conversation with that formant shift.

聽聽我與那個形體轉換的整個小對話。

I don't know. I feel like just watching TV.

我不知道，我感覺就像在看電視。我感覺就像在看電視。

So what is a formant and how does it change your voice so much? It's not the pitch.

那麼什麼是形體，它怎麼會讓你的聲音發生這麼大的變化呢？不是音高的問題。

The pitch or the fundamental frequency is the same.

The vocal cords vibrate at a pitch. Aaaahh. Uhhhh.

聲帶震動的音調。啊啊啊。啊啊啊。

Those are two different vowels on the same pitch.

那是兩個不同的元音，音調相同。

Why did they sound different? Because of the shape of my mouth,

為什麼他們的聲音不一樣？因為我的嘴型。

my tongue position was different, my lip position.

我的舌頭位置不同，我的嘴脣位置。

What the vocal cords were doing didn't change. The pitch was the same

聲帶在做什麼並沒有改變。音調是一樣的

but the quality of the sound was affected by the shape of the vocal tract,

但聲音的品質受到聲道形狀的影響。

which affected the sound, part of the sound called formants.

影響聲音的一部分，稱為聲素。

Formants are frequencies of sound above the fundamental frequency, that's the pitch.

形聲是指高於基頻的聲音頻率，也就是音高。

If this feels kind of technical, stick with me, the payoff in this video,

如果覺得這有點技術含量，請跟我一起堅持，這個視頻中的付出。

what you're going to learn to do with your voice, is going to be huge.

你要學會用你的聲音做什麼， 將是巨大的。

Okay, so the vocal cords make the fundamental pitch and the shape of the vocal tract makes the formants.

好的，所以聲帶決定了基本音高，而聲帶的形狀決定了音符。

The formants are what make different sounds like: ahh, uhhh, ohh, as my pitch stays the same.

聲調是使不同的聲音像：啊、嗯、哦，因為我的音調保持不變。

But they can also affect the quality of the vowel.

So you can either sound very natural speaking American English, or not very natural,

所以說美式英語，你可以聽起來很自然，也可以聽起來不是很自然。

depending on what's happening with your vocal tract.

So you may know exactly the tongue, lip and jaw position for an American vowel,

所以，你可能會準確地知道美式元音的舌頭、嘴脣和下巴位置。

but if the rest of your vocal tract, your throat isn't shaped right,

但如果你的聲帶的其他部分，你的喉嚨形狀不對。

you'll never be able to get the American quality of that vowel.

你永遠不可能得到美國品質的元音。

So we can change the formants of a sound by changing the shape of the vocal tract.

所以我們可以通過改變聲道的形狀來改變聲音的聲調。

In a minute, we're going to tell you what you want to do to sound more American.

一會兒，我們要告訴你，你要怎麼做才能聽起來更像美國人。

But we can also change the formants by recording a voice and having a sound mixer play with it.

但我們也可以通過錄制一個聲音，讓混音器播放來改變聲調。

I'm going to let Sendai Mike explain this more. He's a recording and mixing engineer in Seattle.

我想讓仙台麥克再解釋一下。他是西雅圖的錄音和混音工程師。

Then we're going to get into a lot more real life student examples

然後我們再來了解很多真實的學生案例

so you can start to find the right shape of your own vocal tract.

這樣你就可以開始找到適合自己的聲道形狀。

Most you all are probably familiar with pitch shifting.

大多數人可能都對音調變換很熟悉。

Pitch shifting especially downwards has become really popular in hip hop and rap music.

在嘻哈和說唱音樂中，音調變化尤其是向下的音調變化已經變得非常流行。

So pitch shifting, uuhhh, is when you change the fundamental frequency of your voice.

所以，音調轉換，uuhhh，就是你改變了你聲音的基本頻率。

And we will talk about using that to sound more natural in this video,

而我們將在這段視頻中討論如何利用這一點讓聲音更自然。

but at the moment, let's hear about formant shifting.

Now, format shifting is similar to pitch shifting, but the difference is when you format shift audio,

現在，格式轉換與音調轉換類似，但不同的是當你格式轉換音頻。

the note, and I mean the note like the note you would play on a keyboard,

音符，我的意思是音符 就像你在鍵盤上演奏的音符。

stays the same but the tone gets deeper or higher depending on which direction you're formant shifting.

保持不變，但音調會變得更深或更高，這取決於你的形體轉換方向。

So if you're formant shifting, you could sing a constant note

所以如果你是形體轉換，你可以唱一個恆定的音符。

and it would stay in key as you format shift up and down.

當你的格式轉換時，它將保持在關鍵。

Okay he did a lot of formant shifting and that's what he did earlier to V's voice and my voice,

好吧，他做了很多形體轉換，這就是他之前對V的聲音和我的聲音所做的。

so we could really see how it affected the sound,

所以我們可以真正看到它對聲音的影響。

and it either made the sound thinner or heavier.

而它要麼讓聲音變薄，要麼讓聲音變重。

And as we'll see in the students that we're going to study, most people have a sound that's too thin.

而在我們要研究的學生中，我們會看到，大多數人的聲音都太細了。

I've been in touch with a few students in my academy who've mentioned recently the idea that they had to

我在學院裡接觸過幾個學生，他們最近都提到了這樣的想法：他們要

use a different voice, which I would say is a different shape to their vocal tract,

使用不同的聲音，我想說的是他們的聲道形狀不同。

One of my American friends told me that my presence and my voice doesn't match for American people.

我的一個美國朋友告訴我，我的存在和我的聲音不符合美國人的要求。

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