how to pronounce them. our lesson today is how  do i pronounce the words fruitcake: which is a  

如何發音.我們今天的課程是水果蛋糕這兩個字如何發音：這是一個

cake made with dried fruits and nuts, gingerbread  which is a cake or cookie flavored with ginger,  

用乾果和堅果製作的蛋糕，薑餅這是一種用薑汁調味的蛋糕或餅乾。

and a sugar cookie which is a small sweet  crisp or chewy treat covered in sugar  

和糖曲奇，是一種裹著糖的小甜脆或有嚼勁的食物。

and sometimes in icing. that's one of my favorite  christmas treats. the lesson today is really going  

有時在糖霜。 這是我最喜歡的聖誕美食之一。 今天的教訓是真的要去

to revolve around word stress and how do you  stress compound nouns so all of these words are  

圍繞著單詞的重音，你如何強調複合名詞，使所有這些單詞都是。

compound nouns. and basically what that means is  it's two words put together to mean a new thing.  

複合名詞.基本上是什麼意思就是它的兩個詞放在一起表示一個新的東西。

when you stress something you make it louder  higher in pitch and you have longer vowels.  

當你強調某件事情時，你會使它的音調更高更響亮，你會有更長的元音。

that is opposed to unstressed which is the exact  opposite softer lower and shorter. for most of  

這是相對於無應力，這是完全相反的柔軟較低和較短。

my students because vowels are so difficult this  longer vowel and shorter vowel is key. again a lot  

我的學生因為元音太難了，這個較長的元音和較短的元音是關鍵.又是很多的。

of students that i work with all of their vowels  are similar in length so if you really work on  

的學生，我與所有的元音是相似的長度，所以如果你真的工作在

making your vowels different lengths that's really  going to help with these compound nouns and people  

使你的元音不同的長度 這真的會幫助這些複合名詞和人

will better understand you. again here are our  words fruitcake gingerbread and sugar cookie.  

會更好地理解你.再這裡是我們的字水果蛋糕薑餅和糖餅乾。

how do we go about doing this. what you're going  to do is you are going to stress word number one  

你要做的是，你要做的是，你要強調的是，第一字

in each of these cases word number  two is going to have less stress  

在每一種情況下，二號詞都會有較小的壓力。

another key point is we're going to link these  words together with no pause in between them and  

另一個關鍵點是我們要把這些詞連接在一起，中間沒有停頓，並且

make them one word. so i'm not going to say fruit  cake. i'm going to link those words together with  

所以我不會說水果蛋糕，我要把這些詞連在一起。

no pause make them one word and i'm going to make  this word louder longer and higher. fruit cake  

沒有停頓，讓他們說一個字，我要把這個字說得更響，更長，更高。 水果蛋糕

fruit cake. same thing here i'm going to stress  ginger link it to bread make that all one word.  

水果蛋糕.同樣的事情在這裡我要強調生薑鏈接到麵包，使所有的一個詞。

ginger is longer louder and higher bread is  shorter softer and lower. gingerbread gingerbread.  

姜是較長的大聲和較高的麵包是較短的柔軟和較低的.薑餅薑餅。

and then for a sugar cookie sugar cookie sugar  cookie sugar cookie. so it sounds some of my  

然後為糖餅乾糖餅乾糖餅乾糖餅乾糖餅乾。 所以它聽起來一些我的。

students say as if i'm saying these second words  very quickly. and it kind of am because of that  

學生們說，好像我說這些第二句話的速度很快。

shorter vowel. so let's give these all a try  fruit cake fruit cake ginger bread gingerbread  

短元音，讓我們把這些都試一試 水果蛋糕 水果蛋糕 薑餅 薑餅

sugar cookie sugar cookie. i do want to make  one last comment for sugar cookie. that has that  

我想為甜心餅乾做最後的評論。

dreaded short um ooh sound that we have in english  it's not a very common sound but we do use it in  

可怕的短 um ooh 音，我們有在英語中 它不是一個非常常見的聲音，但我們使用它在。

very common words. it is here. a tip for that is  do not pucker your lips too much. it's not ooh  

很常見的詞.它在這裡.一個小貼士是不要太撅起你的嘴脣.它不是嗚嗚的

it's not sugar cookie. and don't relax them too  much it's not sugar cookie. it is a nice in the  

別讓他們太放鬆了，這不是甜餅，是個很好的內褲。

middle slightly rounded lips that are relaxed for  that uh vowel. so again it's not it's not uh it's

中間略微圓潤的嘴脣，是放鬆的uh元音。 所以再次它不是它不是uh它是。

sugar cookie sugar cookie. let's give those all  a try again fruit cake fruit cake fruit cake  

糖餅乾糖餅乾.讓我們再給這些都試一試水果蛋糕水果蛋糕水果蛋糕水果蛋糕。

gingerbread gingerbread gingerbread  sugar cookie sugar cookie sugar cookie.  

薑餅薑餅薑餅糖餅乾糖餅乾。

my favorite christmas treat is a sugar cookie  but i will also eat gingerbread and fruitcake.  

我最喜歡的聖誕禮物是糖餅乾，但我也會吃薑餅和水果蛋糕。

so let me know what your favorite christmas  treat is in the comments section. and give  

所以讓我知道你最喜歡的聖誕禮物是在評論部分。

it a try i know people are going to notice  the difference. if you found this helpful  

它的嘗試，我知道人們會注意到的差異。

please share us with your friends as a  little christmas present to them. and if  

請與你的朋友分享我們作為一個小的聖誕禮物給他們。

you need any extra help you can check out  my site tarotspeech.com and my products at  

你需要任何額外的幫助，你可以檢查我的網站tarotspeech.com和我的產品在

google play and itunes thanks everyone  merry christmas see you for the next video.

google play和itunes謝謝大家聖誕快樂，下一個視頻見。