Name: 用電視節目 "朋友 "說英語！| 如何說美式英語 (Speaking English with the TV Show “Friends”! | How To Speak American English)
Uploaded: 2025-08-06T17:54:43.000Z
Duration: 37 min 19 s

Today, we're studying English by analyzing a scene from the TV show Friends.

今天，我們通過分析電視劇《朋友》中的一個場景來學習英語。

情態副詞

What exactly makes American English sound American?

究竟是什麼讓美式英語聽起來像美式英語？

What words might change in a full sentence?

在一個完整的句子中，哪些詞可能會發生變化？

首先，這是我們要學習的場景。

They're lighting the big Christmas tree tonight.

All right, who keeps leaving old newspapers in the trash?

好吧，是誰一直把舊報紙丟在垃圾桶裡？

Hey, you know, at least you have somebody to miss that stuff with.

嘿，你知道，至少你還能和別人一起懷念那些東西。

每年這個時候，我都討厭一個人。

Next thing you know, it'll be Valentine's Day, then my birthday, then bang!

接下來就是情人節，然後是我的生日，接著就是 "砰 "的一聲！

Before you know it, they're lighting that damn tree again.

不知不覺中，他們又點亮了那棵該死的樹。

Let's study the music of speech together.

I'm Rachel, and I've been teaching the American accent here on YouTube for over 15 years.

我是瑞秋，在 YouTube 上教授美國口音已有 15 年之久。

Get my free course, The Top Three Ways to Master the American Accent, at rachelsenglish.com slash free.

請登錄 rachelsenglish.com 免費獲取我的免費課程《掌握美式口音的三大方法》。

It will give you some killer tips on speaking natural English.

它將為您提供一些說自然英語的 "殺手鐗"。

But I still feel an up-down shape of stress there.

但我仍然感覺到那裡有一種上下起伏的壓力。

One stress word there, and it's the word this.

這裡有一個強調詞，就是這個詞。

This is really typical for American English.

Words sort of glide together, and sometimes, sounds even get dropped.

詞語在一起滑行，有時甚至會掉音。

Now, let's look at what's happening to these sounds to make this phrase so smooth.

現在，讓我們來看看是什麼原因讓這些聲音變得如此流暢。

So, the first thing I notice is, I'm looking for the T here, look at this, and I find it's totally dropped.

所以，我注意到的第一件事就是，我在這裡找 T，看這個，發現它完全掉了。

For AT, there's usually a stop T when it's followed by a consonant.

就 AT 而言，當它後面跟一個輔音時，通常會有一個停頓 T。

And the schwa is linking right into the voiced TH.

而且，分裂音直接與發聲的 TH 相連。

The word this then has the IH vowel and an S.

這樣，this 這個單詞就有了 IH 母音和 S。

And it has a curve up and down because it's a stress word.

因為它是一個重音詞，所以有一個上下弧度。

So, the word AT just becomes a quick uh, uh, uh, which is called the schwa, and it links into the next word.

是以，AT 這個單詞就變成了一個快速的 "呃""呃""呃"，這就是所謂的 "分裂音"，並連接到下一個單詞。

If I go back to the word look, here I'm looking for a K, listening for a K.

如果我回到 "看 "這個詞，這裡我在找一個 K，聽一個 K。

Look at, look at, look at, look at, look at.

看啊，看啊，看啊，看啊，看啊。

And that's sort of being used to link into the schwa.

Look at, look at, look at, look at, look at this.

看看，看看，看看，看看，看看這個。

The OO here makes the push vowel, uh, uh, luh, luh.

這裡的 OO 發出推元音，uh、uh、luh、luh。

So, all of those sounds really melting together very smoothly to become this one single phrase.

是以，所有這些聲音都非常順暢地融為一體，成為一個樂句。

And even though it sounds nothing like look at this, everyone who is a native speaker would understand this easily without trying, hearing it just once.

雖然聽起來一點也不像，但每個以英語為母語的人，只要聽過一次，不用嘗試就能輕鬆理解。

Try it as well yourself now and to really go for that smoothness.

你現在也試試看，真的會很順滑。

So, listen to it three times and then say it.

所以，現在我們有一個很長的句子。

They are lighting the big Christmas tree tonight.

And of course, it's not pronounced that way at all.

It all glides together smoothly, some sounds change, some syllables are longer and clearer, those are and others are very minimal, very fast, quiet.

所有的聲音都很流暢，有些聲音發生了變化，有些音節更長、更清晰，這些都是，而其他的聲音則非常小、非常快、非常安靜。

Let's first look for the stressed syllables in this phrase.

我們先來找找這個短語中的重讀音節。