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Hello I'm Emma from mmmEnglish!
哈囉,我是 mmmEnglish 的 Emma!
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I've got a pronunciation lesson for you today,
我今天為你們準備發音課程,
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one that I think you'll find incredibly useful.
我認為你們會覺得非常有用的一個課程。
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I'm going to give you some tips that will help you to pronounce thousands of English words.
我會給你們一些技巧,幫助你們正確唸出上千個英文單字。
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Words that end in -tion.
字尾為 -tion 的單字。
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Now I bet that you're already thinking of some examples of English words that end in -tion, aren't you?
我相信你們已經想到不少 -tion 結尾的英文單字,沒錯吧?
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There are so many!
有非常多都是!
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This part of the word is a suffix,
這個字後面的部分叫做後綴,
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a common ending in an English word.
這是英文單字中常見的結尾。
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Now words that end like this in English are almost always a noun.
現在英文單字以這樣做結尾的幾乎都是名詞。
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And the pronunciation of this syllable is always unstressed.
而這個音節的發音總是輕音。
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It's always an unstressed syllable which means it's really quick.
它一直都是輕音的音節,代表它非常快。
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Yeah, -tion is pronounced
沒錯,-tion 是要這樣發音
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If it was written like it's supposed to sound
如果把它寫下來的話,它的發音應該是
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it would be like this..
它會長得像這樣...
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Well phonetically it's
按照語音學上來說,應該是
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ʃ
ʃ
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ə
ə
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n
n
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These are the phonetic symbols, the sounds, not the letters.
這些都是音標、聲音,而不是字母。
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ʃ - an unvoiced consonant sound.
ʃ — 無聲子音。
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ə - the unstressed vowel sound, the schwa.
ə — 輕母音:中性母音。
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And n - a voiced consonant sound.
以及 n — 有聲子音。
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Now bring all of those sounds together and you get
現在把這些所有音組合在一起,你就會得出
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-tion.
-tion.
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It's really, really fast.
它真的真的唸很快。
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In fact, often the schwa sound is absorbed into the consonant sounds.
事實上,經常會將中性母音吸收進子音中。
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Because it's unstressed, we hardly hear it at all.
因為它是輕音,我們幾乎聽不到它。
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So if you see it in a dictionary written like this,
所以,如果你在字典裡看到這樣的寫法,
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it means that the sound is absorbed into the consonant sounds around it.
代表這個聲音會吸收進附近的子音中。
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Now these words are a special bonus for Spanish and Portuguese, Italian and French and German and Dutch native speakers
現在這些單字是為西班牙文、葡萄牙文、義大利文、法文、德文,以及荷蘭文母語人士特別準備的,
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because there are patterns between words in your language and words in English
因為在你們的語言和英文中,有的單字存在著一些模式,
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which means you instantly know the meaning of thousands of English words.
這代表你可以馬上了解上千個英文單字的意思。
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The pronunciation rules that you learn in this lesson will help you to correctly pronounce all of these words in English.
你在這堂課所學到的發音規則,將幫助你正確唸出英文中的這些字。
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Okay let's build up with some extra syllables to practise using this suffix within some bigger words.
好的,那我們慢慢拉長額外的音節,在其他更長的單字中練習這個後綴。
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Okay? Practise out loud with me.
好嗎? 和我一起大聲練習。
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Caution.
小心
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Tradition.
傳統
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Frustration.
挫折
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Conversation.
對話
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Now there are a couple of exceptions to this pronunciation rule.
這個發音規則也有幾個例外。
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Just a couple, so don't worry!
就只有幾個而已,別擔心!
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When the consonant sound is the sound right before the -tion,
當子音的聲音就正在 -tion 前時,
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the pronunciation becomes /tʃən/ instead of
發音就會變成 /tʃən/,而不是
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instead of
也不是
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Question.
問題
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Exhaustion.
疲憊
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Digestion.
消化
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One of the wonderful patterns that exists in English is that you can attach -tion to the end of many verbs to create a noun.
英文中有一個很奇妙的模式,就是你可以將 -tion 加到很多動詞後面,把它們通通變成名詞。
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It creates the noun that is the action of the verb.
創造出動詞動作的名詞。
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I mean take a look at how many there are,
我想說的是,看看它們有多少,
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and these are just a few!
而這些只是一部分而已!
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In an earlier lesson, I talked about the importance of word stress in spoken English.
在之前的課程裡,我談過單字重音在英文口語的重要性。
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Using the correct word stress will help you to sound much more natural when you speak English.
正確唸出單字重音,可以幫助你在說英文時聽起來更自然。
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Like I said, the -tion suffix is always unstressed.
如我所說的, -tion 的後綴都是輕音。
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So which syllable should you stress?
所以哪個音節你要發重音呢?
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It's actually simple, it's the syllable before -tion.
其實非常簡單,就是 -tion 前的那個音節。
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The stress pattern is consistent throughout English pronunciation.
在整個英文的發音中,重音的模式都是一致的。
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The syllable before -tion is the stressed syllable.
-tion 前的音節都是重音音節。
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Action.
動作
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Caution.
小心
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Tradition.
傳統
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Frustration.
挫折
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Connection.
連結
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Donation.
捐贈
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Repetition.
重複
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Inspiration.
靈感
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Construction.
建造
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Invention.
發明
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Infection.
傳染
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Description.
描述
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Collection.
收集
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Interruption.
打斷
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Population.
人口
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Celebration.
慶祝
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Innovation.
創新
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Transformation.
變化
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It's consistent across all syllables.
所有音節都是一致的。
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-tion doesn't have to be the final suffix either, it can followed by -al or -ally.
-tion 也不一定是最後的後綴,後面可以加上 -al或-ally。
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Traditional. Traditionally.
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International.
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Internationally.
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But the stress pattern is exactly the same - even now!
即使是現在,重音的模式完全是一樣的!
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The stress syllable is the one before -tion
重音音節就在 -tion 的前面
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International.
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Traditionally.
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Well that's it for this lesson!
好的,這就是今天的課程!
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I hope that this little pronunciation tip
我希望這小小的發音訣竅,
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showed you just how easy it is to start practising the correct pronunciation of all of these words.
可以證明開始練習這些單字的正確發音有多簡單。
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Remember that there are thousands of them in English.
要記得,它們在英文中是有上千個的。
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Make sure you subscribe and check out some of my other pronunciation lessons right here.
一定要訂閱我的頻道,並看看我這裡其他的發音課程。
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Thanks for watching today and I'll see you next week.
謝謝你們今天的觀看,我們下星期見。
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Bye for now!
先這樣囉,拜拜!