Name: 元音！(第二部分）┃隨身學習美式英語發音 (Vowels! (Part Two)┃Learn American English Pronunciation On the Go)
Uploaded: 2025-08-03T17:56:44.000Z
Duration: 31 min 17 s

You're listening to the Rachel's English Podcast.

您正在收聽的是瑞秋英語播客。

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If you haven't listened to part one, you might want to do that.

如果您還沒聽過第一部分，不妨聽一聽。

If you'd like a transcript for this podcast, it's absolutely free to download.

如果您需要本播客的文字稿，完全可以免費下載。

Please visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast and look for this episode.

請訪問 rachelsenglish.com slash podcast 並查找這一集。

好的，我和我丈夫戴維一起來的。

We're discussing the vowels of American English.

我們正在討論美式英語的元音。

Last week, we did the first five vowels in my list.

上週，我們學習了我的清單中的前五個元音。

We did the AH as in father, AW as in law, AH as in bat, EE as in she, and IH as in sit.

我們做了 "父親 "的 AH、"法律 "的 AW、"蝙蝠 "的 AH、"她 "的 EE 和 "坐下 "的 IH。

American English has 11 vowels so we've got six more to get through today.

美式英語有 11 個元音，所以我們今天還要學習 6 個元音。

So in the last episode, I asked if you could come up with all of the different vowel sounds in English, which you couldn't, not surprising.

是以，在上一集中，我問你能否想出英語中所有不同的元音，你不能，這並不奇怪。

But one of the ones that you did come up with was the EH vowel, like in bed.

但你想出的其中一個元音是 EH，就像床上的元音。

And I forget what word you came up with for it.

我忘了你用什麼詞來形容它了。

But I think that it was spelled with an E.

Now, you know, after working through that first podcast, that the sounds in American English do not correspond with the letters in a meaningful way.

通過第一期播客的學習，你已經知道，美式英語中的發音與字母並不完全對應。

So this EH sound can actually be spelled eight different ways.

是以，這個 EH 音實際上可以有八種不同的拼法。

We can spell it with just That one I think is really interesting.

我們可以只用這一個來拼寫 我認為這一個非常有趣。

You say, S-A-Y, pronounced with the AY diphthong.

你說，S-A-Y，用 AY 雙元音發音。

But then when you say he says, when you add the Y, then we change the, sorry, when you add the S, says, we somehow end up changing the vowel to the EH sound.

但是當你說 "他說 "時，當你加上 "Y "時，我們就會改變 "說"，對不起，當你加上 "S "時，我們就會以某種方式將元音變為 EH 音。

And actually, that's a pretty common mistake.

實際上，這是一個很常見的錯誤。

People will say say, and then they'll say says.

人們會說 "說"，然後又會說 "說"。

They'll mispronounce this word, but it's actually says.

他們會把這個詞唸錯，但實際上是說。

同樣的元音，現在拼法不同了。

So that's another spelling for this sound.

是以，這也是這種聲音的另一種拼法。

EA, like in the word head, spelled this way, or pronounced this way.

EA，就像head這個詞，拼法是這樣，發音也是這樣。

So, EO is not a very common combination, but in the first episode, we learned that it makes the E sound like in people, and here we're learning it can also make the EH sound like in leopard.

是以，EO 並不是一個非常常見的組合，但在第一集裡，我們知道它能發出人的 E 音，而在這裡，我們知道它還能發出豹的 EH 音。

Now, this is a little bit different because it's followed by an R consonant, which does color the vowel a little bit.

現在，這個詞有點不同，因為它後面跟著一個 R 輔音，這就給元音染上了一點顏色。

That sounds precariously close to a diphthong.

I actually say that it's more like the A diphthong, like in say.

實際上，我說它更像 A 雙元音，就像 say 中的 A 雙元音。

But it's also not a hundred percent that.

But if you were going to look up the word share in the International Phonetic Alphabet in a dictionary that tells the phonetic spelling, it would say this vowel.

但是，如果你要在國際音標詞典中查找 "share "一詞的音標拼寫，就會發現這個元音。

Another case where it's followed by the R, so it's not quite pure.

另一種情況是，它後面跟著 R，所以不太純粹。

But if you were going to look this up in a dictionary, it would say EH.

但如果你要查字典，字典上會寫 EH。

And a regional thing too is that a lot of people say bury.

還有一件地區性的事情是，很多人都說要埋葬。

I know people in the region that I grew up with might say that.

我知道和我一起長大的那個地區的人可能會這麼說。

Well, it might even be considered a secondary pronunciation.

嗯，它甚至可以被視為輔助發音。

And I agree these example words with an R, like I only included them because I couldn't find an example word without an R.

我同意這些帶 R 的例詞，因為我找不到不帶 R 的例詞。

And guys, if you're curious about that, I do have a pretty awesome YouTube video that goes over how the R can change the vowels.

夥計們，如果你們對此感到好奇，我在 YouTube 上有一段非常棒的視頻，介紹了 R 如何改變元音。

I will link to that in the show notes for this episode on my website.

我將在我網站的本集節目註釋中鏈接到該鏈接。

Okay, two more words because I like to have a total of ten with the EH sound are bed.

好吧，再來兩個詞，因為我喜歡一共有十個帶 EH 音的詞，那就是 bed（床）。

最好的，你能讀一個嗎，大衛？

So, this is different from British English.

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