美语发音训练-AAT
(此一段录音中含有2个TOPIC)
Accent versus Pronunciation
Many people equate accent with pronunciation. I don't feel this to be true at all. America is a big country, and while the pronunciation varies from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the southern to the northern states, two components that are uniquely American stay basically the same—the speech music, or intonation, and the word connections or liaisons. Throughout this program, we will focus on them. In the latter part of the book we will work on pronunciation concepts,
such as Cat?Caught? Cut? and
Betty Bought a Bit of Better Butter;
we also will work our way through some of
the difficult sounds, such as TH, the American R, the L, V, and Z.
"Which Accent Is Correct?"
American Accent Training was created to help people "sound American" for lectures, interviews, teaching, business situations, and general daily communication. Although America has many regional pronunciation differences, the accent you will learn is that of standard American English as spoken and understood by the majority of educated native speakers in the United States.
Don't worry that you will sound slangy or too casual because you most definitely won't.
This is the way a professor lectures to a class,
the way a national newscaster broadcasts,
the way that is most comfortable and familiar to the majority of native speakers.
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