This is Elliot from ETJ English.

我是 ETJ English 的艾略特。

And today, we're talking about probably one of the most important parts of pronunciation, actually, probably one of the most important parts of English in general.

今天我們要談論的可能是發音的最重要的部分之一，實際上，可能是英語中最重要的部分之一。

Intonation.

就是語調。

Let's do it.

我們開始吧

Your intonation is just as important as the words you choose.

你的語調和你選擇的詞語一樣重要。

This is something I have read in many books about phonetics.

這是我在很多關於音韻學的書中看到的。

Linguistics?

語言學？

Yes, vocabulary is important.

是的，詞彙很重要。

Yes, grammar is important.

是的，文法很重要。

Yes, vowel sounds and constant sounds are important.

是的，元音和恆音很重要。

But Internation is the heart and the soul off.

但Internation是心和靈魂的關。

All of this and we all want it.

這一切，我們都想要。

All of my students.

我所有的學生。

One of the first things they want is a better Internation.

他們首先想要的是一個更好的國際。

And yes, there are rules.

是的，是有規則的。

There are things you can learn about Internation.

有關於國際的東西，你可以學習。

You could definitely learn the techniques and tips of what natives do, but it's very, very particular, and things can change and things could be very specific but also very non specific.

你肯定可以學習本地人做的技術和技巧，但這是非常非常特殊的，事情可能會發生變化，事情可能很特殊，但也可能很不特殊。

At the same time, it's such a complex topic on we all want it.

同時，這是一個如此複雜的話題，我們都希望它。

Why?

為什麼？

Because we are human.

因為我們是人。

You, my students are human on.

你，我的學生是人上。

Humans always want the thing which is the most difficult to get.

人類總是想得到最難得到的東西。

And that's the truth.

這就是事實。

There are lots of things I want in life, which are very, very difficult.

生活中我想要的很多東西，都是非常非常困難的。

I could easily have something else, but I want the thing, which is more difficult.

我可以輕易地擁有別的東西，但我想要這個東西，這比較困難。

I'm sure you are the same.

我相信你也一樣。

Anyway, I'm going to give you just a few useful tips for improving your Internation some things which you can do to make your Internation better.

無論如何，我要給你只是一些有用的提示，以提高你的Internation一些事情，你可以做，使你的Internation更好。

Now, of course, the first thing I need to mention is you need to learn the rules.

當然，現在，我首先要提到的是你需要學習規則。

You do need to know the reasons why we use particular tones and understand the names of different tones just so you know how it works.

你確實需要知道我們使用特定音調的原因，並瞭解不同音調的名稱，以便你知道它是如何工作的。

And of course, you need some stress and rhythm.

當然，你也需要一些壓力和節奏。

These are all things you could learn in my pronunciation course or from an English teacher.

這些都是你可以在我的發音課程中或者向英語老師學習的。

The link to my pronunciation course is in the description box below, but it's not just that you can learn rules, but there's only a certain distance that the rules Congar Oh, which leads me on to point number one.

我的發音課程的鏈接在下面的描述框裡，但是並不是說你可以學習規則，而是規則聰兒只有一定的距離哦，這就引出了我的第一點。

I want you to imagine Internation is a bit like a song, right?

我想讓你想象Internation有點像一首歌，對吧？

Imagine you're driving in your car on.

想象一下，你開著車在。

Do you do this every morning on the way to work on every time you're you're driving into work.

你每天早上上班的路上都會這樣做嗎？ 每次你都會開車去上班。

The same song seems to come on.

同樣的歌曲似乎也會出現。

The radio is a very popular song at the moment.

電臺是目前非常流行的歌曲。

Everybody loves it.

每個人都喜歡它。

It's really, really popular.

它真的，真的很受歡迎。

Maybe you like the song.

也許你喜歡這首歌。

Maybe you don't like the song, no matter what you're hearing it every time you go into work because the radio keeps playing it on.

也許你不喜歡這首歌，不管你每次上班都會聽到這首歌，因為收音機一直在播放。

Then you find maybe after a few days of hearing this song, you started singing it to yourself.

然後你發現也許聽了這首歌幾天後，你就開始自顧自地唱了起來。

You start hearing it in your head because you're around it So much.

你開始聽到它在你的腦海裡，因為你是在它身邊這麼多。

A good way to describe this in a native expression were to say that you have the song stuck in your head.

用本土化的表達方式來描述這個問題，好的方式是說，你的腦子裡有這首歌。

Okay, great expression that this can happen with Internation if you do the right things.

好吧，偉大的表達，如果你做正確的事情，這可以發生與Internation。

So the reason why the song is stuck in your head is because you're hearing it all the time on your brain.

所以這首歌之所以會停留在你的腦海裡，是因為你的大腦裡一直在聽這首歌。

Naturally, just wants Toe wants to, wants to replay it on.

自然，只是想託想，想重播上。

That's what intonation is.

這就是語調的含義。

If you are listening to the accent a lot, you're hearing the tone the way that people sing the song of English.

如果你經常聽口音，你就會聽到人家唱英文歌的語氣。

Naturally, you're going to want to do it yourself now again because it's such a difficult topic.

自然，你現在又想自己做了，因為這是一個很難的題目。

I can't just say imagine English is a song.

我不能只說想象英語是一首歌。

Hey, now you have good Internation.

嘿，現在你有好的國際。

That's not how it's going to work.

這是不可能的。

There are lots of other things you need to do is well Number two.

還有很多其他的事情，你需要做的是好二號。

I want you to understand that intonation is also your personality.

我想讓你明白，語調也是你的個性。

Okay?

好嗎？

My intonation is very different to my sister's Internation.

我的音調和姐姐的國際音很不一樣。

My Internation is very different to my girlfriend's Internation or my dad's Internation anyone's Internation.

我的Internation和我女朋友的Internation或者我爸爸的Internation任何人的Internation都很不一樣。

The reason why is because I have my own personality.

原因是我有自己的個性。

So lots of people say that imitation technique is perfect.

所以很多人都說模仿技術很完美。

It's the best way to improve pronunciation or intonation.

這是提高發音或語調的最好方法。

Yes, it's fantastic, but do you want to sound like an actor or an actress?

是的，這很奇妙，但你想聽起來像一個演員還是一個演員？

No.

不知道

Imagine you.

想象一下，你。

The only person you've been listening to is Princess Diana on.

你一直在聽的人只有戴安娜王妃在。

Do you really want to sound like Princess Diana?

你真的想聽起來像戴安娜王妃嗎？

She did have a fantastic pronunciation, a great Internation, But then imagine.

她的發音確實很好，是一個偉大的國際，但後來想想。

You know you're trying to copy Princess Diana, but you are a 50 year old man with a very deep voice.

你明明知道你是想抄襲戴安娜王妃，但你是一個50歲的老人，聲音很深沉。

Yes, imitate people imitate the way that they go up and down.

是的，模仿人模仿人的方式，上行下效。

But remember, you're not trying to be someone you're just trying to copy the techniques they use.

但請記住，你不是想成為某個人，你只是想複製他們使用的技術。

So instead of thinking how they say this or how they sing the song, if you like instead think about the technical side of it, Are they going up at the end of a sentence?

所以，如果你喜歡的話，不要去想他們是怎麼說的，也不要去想他們是怎麼唱的，而是要去想技術層面的問題，他們是不是在句子的末尾上去了？

By the way, we do that to show we have more to say, say, or are they going down at the end of a sentence?

對了，我們這樣做是為了表示我們還有更多的話要說，說，還是一句話就下去了？

We do that to show that we finished speaking.

我們這樣做是為了表示我們講完了。

Think about those technical things.

想想那些技術性的東西。

Once you know the rules, you can analyze the way people speak.

一旦你知道規則，你就可以分析人們說話的方式。

Be yourself.

做你自己

Use your own tones on bleeds.

在出血上使用自己的色調。

This leads me on to my next point point number three.

這就引出了我的下一個觀點第三點。

Be play for Have fun.

要玩得開心。

Okay, The more fun you have with Internation, the more you're going to be again yourself.

好吧，你對Internation的樂趣越多，你就越會再次成為自己。

For lots of people, the most uncomfortable part of learning Internation is the fact that British people go up when they speak quite a lot.

對於很多人來說，學習Internation最不舒服的地方就是英國人說得挺多就上去了。

In the middle of our speech, we might go up, particularly my Chinese and Russian students find this very difficult.

在我們演講的過程中，我們可能會上去，特別是我的中國學生和俄羅斯學生覺得這很難。

They find it very, very difficult to go up.

他們覺得非常非常難上去。

The reason why is because lots of people are used to always going down every time they speak, they have to go down on.

原因是很多人習慣了每次說話總是往下說，必須往下說。

There is no tone in their voice.

他們的聲音裡沒有語氣。

But when you listen to British people were stressing words to show that they are important.

但當你聽英國人在強調單詞時，以顯示它們的重要性。

We're using our tone as a tool to make ourselves hurt, to make ourselves sound interesting and to make people want to listen to us.

我們把自己的語氣當成一種工具，讓自己受傷，讓自己聽起來很有趣，讓人們願意聽我們說話。

Be playful.

俏皮點。

Go up, go down, experiment with different things on.

上去，下去，實驗不同的東西上。

Remember to mostly play with your Internation around the stressed words, the words which are important in your sentence.

記住主要圍繞強調的詞，即句子中重要的詞來發揮你的Internation。

Give them Cem Internation.

給他們Cem國際。

Give them a bit of up downtown.

給他們一點上市中心。

It's instead of saying it's really good.

這與其說是真的好，不如說是真的好。

Say it's really good.

說是真的好。

Good.

很好啊

Okay, on up, down tone is a fantastic way off, showing emotion, some other really useful things, just some really important words.

好的，在上，下的語氣是一個奇妙的方式，顯示情感，其他一些真正有用的東西，只是一些真正重要的詞。

I mentioned this in a lot of my videos, and it's kind of becoming a meme now.

我在很多視頻中都提到了這一點，現在已經有點成為一種追憶了。

It's the word patience, but this word is Justus important, and this word is repetition, repetition, repetition.

就是耐心這個詞，但是這個詞是賈斯特斯重要的，這個詞是重複、重複、重複。

You need to be repeating lots repeating the tones, the waves, the sounds that we make on do you can do this.

你需要重複很多重複的音調，波浪，我們做上的聲音，你可以做到這一點。

Like I said through imitation on.

就像我說的通過模仿上。

You can also do this from learning the rules.

你也可以從學習規則中做到這一點。

So on one hand, you have patients, right?

所以一方面，你有病人，對嗎？

You need to take your time.

你得慢慢來

Understand that Internation in particular, not just pronunciation, but Internation takes a very, very long time.

尤其是瞭解Internation，不僅僅是發音，Internation需要非常非常長的時間。

So you have the patience.

所以你有耐心。

If you also have that repetition on you, push them together.

如果你身上也有這種反覆，就把它們推到一起。

Patients on repetition.

患者在複診。

Sorry about my blisters.

對不起，我的水泡。

I've been going to the gym.

我一直在去健身房。

If you have that patients on that repetition and you're using them together, you are on to a winner.

如果你有那個重複的病人，而且你把他們一起使用，你就是贏家了。

Repeat, repeat, repeat every day, Do some training.

重複，重複，每天重複，做一些訓練。

Imagine it's singing practice, okay?

想象一下，這是唱歌練習，好嗎？

And finally step out off your comfort zone.

最後走出自己的舒適區。

If you go up to a native and you start using some different tones, which you're not familiar with, it might feel uncomfortable because you are so used to maybe always using a falling tone.

如果你走到一個本地人面前，你開始使用一些不同的音調，這是你不熟悉的，它可能會感到不舒服，因為你已經習慣了也許總是使用落音。

But remember, that's not normal.

但記住，這是不正常的。

To us.

向我們走來

So you're learning something new, which is normal for us, So using the thing which is normal for us isn't going to sound bad.

所以你要學習新的東西，這對我們來說是很正常的，所以用這個對我們來說很正常的東西是不會聽起來不好的。

It's going to sound good.

聽起來會很不錯。

It just might feel uncomfortable for you.

只是你可能會覺得不舒服。

In the beginning, you could learn everything about intonation, and I guess speed the process up by learning with me on my pronunciation course.

剛開始的時候，你可以學習一切關於語調的知識，我想通過跟我的發音課程學習，可以加快這個過程。

I also give feedback on what sat with voice messaging on wechat from only for members who join my course.

我還反饋了什麼坐與語音消息在微信上從只為加入我課程的會員。

Okay, is only available for people who joined the course.

好吧，是隻有加入課程的人可以使用。

You can joined my course by clicking the link in the description box below.

您可以點擊下面描述框中的鏈接加入我的課程。

If not, I will see you next time in my next YouTube video.

如果沒有，我下次會在我的下一個YouTube視頻中見到你。

Cheers, guys.

乾杯，夥計們。

Bye.

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