Name: 學習發音短 oo 音 /ʊ/ 🇺🇸 美式英語發音挑戰大師班 (Learn to Pronounce the Short oo Sound /ʊ/ 🇺🇸 American English Pronunciation Challenge Master Class)
Uploaded: 2025-10-08T19:01:49.000Z
Duration: 7 min 38 s

Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your pronunciation masterclass this week.

我是 Tarle Speech 的 Jennifer，這是本週的 pronunciation masterclass。

情態助動詞 A2

It's the short oo sound that we hear in the words could, would, and should.

今天我們要學的是 "short oo sound"，出現在 could、would 和 should 這幾個單字裡。

So here is our phonetic transcription for today.

所以這是我們今天的 phonetic transcription。

它看起來像一個小小的 horseshoe。

This sound is not very common in English, but we use it in very common words.

這個音在英文裡不算非常常見，但我們在很多很常用的單字裡都會用到它。

So the good news for this lesson is if this is difficult for you, you're really just going to have to memorize the pronunciation in a handful of words because we use them all of the time or get close enough.

所以這堂課的好消息是，如果這個音對你來說有點難，你其實只要 memorize 幾個單字的發音就好，因為我們經常在用，或者發得夠接近就好。

then you will be clearer and I'm sure more confident in your speaking as well.

你的 speaking 就會 clearer，我也相信會更 confident。

Well, so how do we spell this short sound?

那，我們要怎麼 spell 這個 short oo sound 呢？

Let me make this bigger so you can see the spelling.

讓我們先把這個放大一點，這樣你就可以看到 spelling。

If you're listening to this on a podcast, join us over on YouTube at Tarle Speech and you can see my presentations.

如果你是在聽 podcast，歡迎到 YouTube 上的 Tarle Speech 頻道，那裡可以看到我的簡報。

So we do have the spelling OO in good, and it's usually with this D, O, O, D.

所以我們在 good 這個字裡有 OO 的 spelling，通常是 D, O, O, D。

that's usually the long oo sound like we hear in boot.

那通常是 long oo sound，就像我們在 boot 這個字裡聽到的。

The O, U, L, we see this in a lot of words.

O, U, L，我們在很多單字裡都會看到這個。

put 這個字裡有 U，woman 這個字裡有 O。

I'm just going to say it, and I want you to try to repeat after me.

我會直接說出來，你們試著 repeat 跟我一起唸。

If you notice my lips are slightly rounded.

如果你們注意到我的嘴脣稍微圓圓的。

I'm not being completely relaxed and saying somewhere in the middle.

我也不是完全放鬆，說一個中間的音。

So let's look at how do we make this sound?

那我們來看看怎麼發出這個音？

And I have this all written out again if you want to see it, it's on YouTube.

如果你想看的話，我這裡都寫好了，在 YouTube 上。

所以我的嘴脣是圓的、放鬆的。

The middle of my tongue, or the tip of my tongue, rather, is in the middle of my mouth.

我的舌頭中間，或者說舌尖，是在我嘴巴的中央。

That's why I didn't really talk about it.

這就是為什麼我沒有真的去講它。

All I want you to do is just listen, and then you are going to repeat.

我只要你做的就是仔細聽，然後你會跟著重複。

All right, now repeat after Me look good put would woman look good put wood woman.

好，現在跟著我唸：look good, put, would, woman, look good, put, wood, woman。

Okay, I want to talk a little bit about when we have that W sound.

好，接下來我想稍微聊一下 W 的發音。

This is really difficult for so many of my students.

這對我很多學生來說都非常困難。

真的要仔細想想移動你的嘴脣。

So for the W, your lips are very puckered.

所以 W 的時候，你的嘴脣要非常噘起。

You're going to have to move your mouth a lot.

That's just a something to keep in mind in general in English, American English, that we move our mouths a lot from sound to sound because we have a lot of vowel sounds.

這只是你在美式英語中一般要注意的，因為我們有很多母音，所以聲音從一個音到另一個音時，嘴巴動很多。

So think about really moving your mouth more, and that should help.

所以試著讓你的嘴巴動得更多，這樣應該會有幫助。

So we are going to say would, would, would, and w. So again, would and woman.

所以我們要說 would，would，would，還有 w。所以再說一次，would 和 woman。

How much wood could a woodchuck chunk if a woodchuck could chuck?

如果一隻土撥鼠能丟木頭，牠能丟多少木頭？

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Please join me tomorrow for word practice and then on Friday for sentence practice.

請在明天加入我一起練習單字，週五則練習句子。

We only have one practice word list this week because this sound only happens in the middle of words.

這週我們只有一個練習單字表，因為這個發音只會出現在單字的中間。

And again, I think you'll be surprised how few words actually have this sound in it.

而且，我認為你會驚訝，實際上只有很少的單字有這個音。

Drop some words that have this sound in it in the comments to help all of your fellow learners.

請在留言區分享一些有這個音的單字，幫助其他學習者。

I will see you tomorrow and every day this year for a new lesson to celebrate 20 years.

明天我會繼續和大家一起學習，今年每天都有新課程，一起慶祝20週年。

If you feel like you've missed a lesson, don't worry.

如果你覺得錯過了一堂課，別擔心。

I post all of them on my feed, on YouTube, all of the socials, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, all the things.

我會把所有課程都發布在我的動態消息、YouTube、所有社群平臺，Instagram、Facebook、LinkedIn、Twitter，全部都有。

And you can also sign up for a name newsletter where I deliver to your inbox every lesson from the week before.

你也可以訂閱我的電子報，我會把前一週的課程都寄到你的收件匣。

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