Name: 您的問題再次得到解答！┃隨身學習美式英語發音 (Your Questions Answered Again!┃Learn American English Pronunciation On the Go)
Uploaded: 2025-08-16T18:16:12.000Z
Duration: 29 min 52 s

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You're listening to the Rachel's English Podcast, made especially for non-native speakers, where we study the way Americans really speak.

您正在收聽的是專為非母語人士製作的 Rachel's English Podcast，我們在這裡研究美國人真正的說話方式。

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My goal is for you to listen to this podcast every week and sound more natural when speaking

我的目標是讓您每週都收聽這個播客，並在說話時聽起來更自然。

English and improve your listening comprehension.

In today's episode, my husband David and I are answering questions about pronunciation that have been posted to my YouTube channel.

在今天的節目中，我和我的丈夫大衛將回答大家在我的 YouTube 頻道上提出的有關發音的問題。

Alright guys, welcome to another question and answer, a Q&A podcast from Rachel's English.

好了，各位，歡迎收聽瑞秋英語的問答播客。

I'm here with my husband David, who has so generously given his time for this.

我和我的丈夫大衛在一起，他為此慷慨地付出了時間。

These questions are all coming in from YouTube, YouTube comments.

這些問題都來自 YouTube 和 YouTube 評論。

Can you help me on pronouncing pig and pick?

你能幫我讀出 pig 和 pick 的發音嗎？

我們還有 P-I-C-K，即動詞 "挑選"。

Okay so, I'm just, I'm putting David on the spot here, but as someone who is a native speaker but never needs to think about pronunciation, what do you think?

好吧，我只是想讓戴維當場回答，但作為一個以英語為母語但從不需要考慮發音問題的人，你怎麼看？

How would you describe the difference between those two?

您如何描述這兩者之間的區別？

Well, first of all, I was like, wait, what do you mean those are completely different words?

首先，我想，等等，你說這兩個詞完全不同是什麼意思？

But now when I'm thinking about the sound, I can see, I can see it.

但現在，當我思考聲音時，我可以看到，我可以看到它。

So you're saying, how would I describe the difference?

那麼你的意思是，我該如何描述兩者的區別？

Yeah, if you had to answer this person's question, what would you say?

是的，如果讓你回答這個人的問題，你會怎麼說？

Pick has a more firm stop on it, at the end of it to me.

對我來說，鎬的末端有一個更堅固的止動裝置。

David, did you know that the G sound and the K sound, which are the two ending sounds we have here, are made the exact same way with your mouth?

大衛，你知道我們這裡的兩個尾音 G 音和 K 音是用嘴以完全相同的方式發出的嗎？

I honestly don't believe you, but I'll listen.

我真的不相信你，但我會聽的。

So these, these two consonants are paired together.

The only thing that's different is that the G is voiced, meaning your vocal cords are engaged in the mouth position, and the K sound is unvoiced, meaning your vocal cords are not engaged during the mouth position.

唯一不同的是，G 音是發聲的，這意味著您的聲帶在口腔位置時會參與，而 K 音是不發聲的，這意味著您的聲帶在口腔位置時不會參與。

But the mouth position is the same, and that position is the back of your tongue reaches up, touches the soft palate, and pulls away.

但口腔的位置是一樣的，這個位置就是舌頭後部向上伸，接觸軟顎，然後拉開。

David, make those two sounds and notice it is the same.

大衛，發出這兩個音，注意是一樣的。

Yeah, I can make that sound with exactly the same mouth position.

是的，我可以用完全相同的口腔位置發出這種聲音。

It's exactly the same, only for the G, your vocal cords are engaged.

這是完全一樣的，只是在唱 G 的時候，你的聲帶會參與其中。

Okay, so some people have a hard time with ending voiced versus unvoiced consonants.

好吧，有些人對聲母和非聲母的結尾很頭疼。

Maybe because in your native language, you tend to unvoice ending consonants, maybe all your ending consonants are unvoiced, I'm not sure.

也許是因為在你的母語中，你傾向於不發聲尾輔音，也許你所有的尾輔音都不發聲，我不確定。

Pig ends in the voiced consonant, and pick ends in the unvoiced consonant.

Pig 以有聲輔音結尾，而 pick 則以無聲輔音結尾。

And as David described them, you described the K sound as being more forceful at the end.

正如戴維所描述的，你說 K 音在末尾更有力。

Yeah, so the K sound, the unvoiced sound is stronger, and the unvoiced sound G is weaker.

是的，所以 K 音，未發聲的音強一些，而未發聲的 G 音弱一些。

So that's really cool that you identify that as the difference without knowing all the technical parts of it.

所以，你在不瞭解所有技術部分的情況下就能識別出兩者的區別，這真的很酷。

There's one other difference, and that is in a word pair like this, where everything is the same except the final consonant.

還有一個區別，那就是在這樣的詞對中，除了最後的輔音，其他都是一樣的。

The word will be longer if the ending consonant is voiced.

如果詞尾輔音為聲母，則單詞會更長。

Pick has four letters, but it's shorter than pig with three letters.

Pick 有四個字母，但比有三個字母的 pig 短。

It's so hard as a learner of languages to not mostly use your eyes.

作為語言學習者，不使用眼睛是很難做到的。

You're so used to seeing it on the page, and that's how most people start learning.

你習慣於在頁面上看到它，這就是大多數人開始學習的方式。

They start with books and reading, and less so with just hearing.

他們從書籍和閱讀開始，而不是僅僅從聽覺開始。

So the difference, pig, a little longer, unvoiced ending, which is weaker.

是以，"豬 "與 "豬 "的區別在於，"豬 "的尾音稍長，沒有聲音，而 "豬 "的尾音較弱。

Pick, a little shorter, voiced, unvoiced ending, which is stronger.

挑，稍短，有聲，無聲結尾，更有力。

And so our next question is from Eduardo Medina Espana.

下一個問題來自愛德華多-梅迪納-埃斯帕納。

Thanks, Spanish is my only language where I can actually pronounce things other than in English.

謝謝，西班牙語是我唯一能用英語以外的語言發音的語言。

So Eduardo says, if I said, I finished my homework, can I drop that T in ED?

所以愛德華多說，如果我說，我做完了作業，我能把 ED 中的 T 去掉嗎？

One of the things that I tell people is that native speakers do often drop the T when it comes between two other consonants.

我告訴人們的一件事是，母語為英語的人經常會在 T 位於兩個輔音之間時將其去掉。

So that always brings up the question of the ED ending, because for, in lots of words, the ED ending is pronounced as a T, like in the word finished, finished, there the ED ending is pronounced, ttt, as a T. So here, the T sound comes after the SH sound, which is a consonant, shht, shht, finished.

是以，這總是會帶來 ED 結尾的問題，因為在很多單詞中，ED 結尾讀作 T，比如在單詞 finished, finished 中，ED 結尾讀作 ttt，即 T。

And he put it in a sentence where the next word, my, begins with a consonant.

他把這個詞放在一個句子中，下一個詞 "我的 "是以輔音開頭的。

So if I wasn't going to make that break, and I was going to connect all of the words together, what would happen to my T?

所以，如果我不打算做這個突破，我打算把所有的單詞連在一起，我的T會怎麼樣？

And I was trying to pay really close attention to David when he read it out loud, and I think he did drop it.

當戴維大聲朗讀時，我一直在仔細聆聽，我想他確實把它丟掉了。

I mean, if anything, it is such a light T that I don't even think a non-native speaker would notice.

我的意思是，如果說有什麼不同的話，那就是 "T "很輕，我甚至認為非母語人士不會注意到。

Uh, I guess it is pretty much totally gone.

在我看來，我把它包括在內，但是。

Now try to say it in present tense without the ED ending.

現在試著用現在時說，不要用 ED 結尾。

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