Well hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish!
I don't know if you've started to notice yet or not but native English speakers sometimes disagree about the correct pronunciation of some English words and sometimes people can be really harsh about it unnecessarily.
大家好，我是 Emma，歡迎來到美味英語頻道！
我不知道你是否已經開始注意到，但是以英語為母語的人有時會不同意某些英語單詞的正確發音，有時人們沒有理由地會對此非常苛刻。
I always get called out if I say H (haitch) instead of H (aitch). Heaven forbid.
如果我說 H（haitch）而不是H（aitch），我總是被人叫住。絕對不行。
That said, there are some common pronunciation errors that native speakers make and I've got eleven of them that I want to share with you in today's lesson.
And spoiler alert, there is one that I have been mispronouncing all of my life.
母語人士會犯一些常見的發音錯誤，在本節課程中，我想與大家分享11個發音錯誤。劇透警告，有一個我一直讀的都是錯的。
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This is going to be an interesting lesson for English learners of all levels but especially advanced level students.
點擊此處的訂閱按鈕，如果你想與你的朋友或同事分享本節課程，總是會有幫助的。對於所有級別的英語學習者，尤其是高級水平的英語學習者來說，這將是一個有趣的課程。
We're gonna focus on vocabulary and pronunciation skills today and this particular lesson is also gonna be quite relevant to native English speakers who may have been pronouncing these words wrong for most of their lives, myself included.
Now the reality is that there are differences in pronunciation between English accents and different dialects and me personally, I don't really believe that there is just one single correct way of pronouncing a word in English, you know.
今天，我們將重點關注詞彙和發音技巧，並且這節課程對英語為母語的母語人士來說也很有意義，他們可能一直把這些單詞發錯了，包括我自己在內。事實是，英語口音和不同的方言之間的發音存在差異，我個人認為，我不相信英語單詞只有一種發音。
The most important thing is that you are understood even if your pronunciation is not dictionary perfect. All right?
最重要的是，即使你的發音不完美，你也能被理解。對吧？
So keep that in mind. The first one, ironically is pronunciation.
所以記住這一點。具有諷刺意味的是，第一個詞就是 pronunciation。
So it's /prnnse()n/, not /prnunse()n/. Now I think it's easy enough to see how this mistake happens right?
所以是 /prnnse()n/，不是 /prnunse()n/。很容易看到這個錯誤是怎麼出現的，對吧？
We have the verb pronounce, and that has the /a/ vowel sound in there, pronounce. But the noun pronunciation has that // vowel sound in there. Pronunciation.
我們有動詞 pronounce，其中有/a/元音，pronounce。但是名詞 pronunciation 是//元音。Pronunciation。
I mean, you can see the different sounds, right? And you can actually see that they are written differently as well right?
我的意思是，你可以看到不同的發音，對吧？實際上也可以看到它們的書寫方式不同，對吧？
The spelling's different so that's a clue.
This is the one that drives me crazy as an English teacher, I'm using it all of the time but I have to restrain myself when I hear other people pronouncing it incorrectly and this is my friends, my family members.
拼寫不同，這是一個線索。這是一個讓我作為英語老師感到瘋狂的詞，我一直在使用它，但是當我聽到別人不正確的發音時，我必須克制自己，包括我的朋友，我的家人。
Okay? It's not /prnaunse()n/, it's/prnnse()n/. If you're a native speaker and you're hearing this for the first time, try and catch yourself the next time you use this word casually in a conversation.
好嗎？不是/prnaunse()n/，而是/prnnse()n/。如果你是母語人士，並且是第一次聽到的話，那麼下次你在對話中使用此詞時，請試著去抓住自己。
Listen to how you pronounce it or how other people around you pronounce it and I guarantee you, fifty percent of the people will mess it up — it's that common. So how about this one?
聽聽你的發音或周圍其他人的發音，我保證有50％的人會把它發錯——這很常見。那這個呢？
Do you say /rim/ or /re'im/? The second one is the correct pronunciation.
你說的是 /rim/ 還是 /re'im/?第二個是正確的發音。
The first syllable sounds like ray so it's not that short unstressed sound. It's regime.
第一個音節聽起來像射線，所以它不是短的不重讀的音。是政權。
Now for all of my English students out there, this consonant sound // can be a little tricky right? It's the voiced consonant sound that pairs with //— so this is unvoiced.
對我所有的英語學生來說，這個輔音//可能有點困難吧？這是與//配對的濁音輔音——所以是不發聲的。
// uses our voice box but the exact same mouth position to make that sound so we say regime. Status
//要用到我們的聲帶，但發出聲音的位置完全相同，所以我們說 regime。地位
This one could be a little contentious but it should be pronounced as status /steits/not with the short // vowel sound like /'stds/.
Though you will hear native speakers say both and to be honest, look, I think it's so often mispronounced that it's just become pretty normal right?
大家對這個可能有點爭執，但應該是/steits/，不是短元音 //，像是 /'stds/.儘管你會聽到以英語為母語的人兩種都會說，並且說實話，我覺得它經常被誤讀，所以都變得很常見了，對吧？
If it's not already an accepted pronunciation, it probably soon will be. /steits/ is correct.
如果現在還不是被大家接受的發音的話，那很快也會被大家接受的。/steits/是正確的。
/'stds/ is very common. Picture.
/'stds/很常見。照片。
So I'm just going to draw your attention to that little /k/ sound right there okay? It's really important that you make that sound; otherwise, you are saying the word pitcher.
我只是想引起你對那小小的/ k /音的注意，好嗎？發出那個音很重要，否則的話說的就是投手。
So when this word is pronounced correctly, you will hear that /k/ sound. Picture. Not pitcher.
因此，當該單詞正確發音時，你會聽到/k/音。圖片。 不是投手。
Very subtle but this one is often mispronounced by native speakers.?This one quasi.
非常細微的差異，但母語人士通常會發音錯誤。這個，quasi。
My mind has been blown. I thought this was /kwɑsi/.
我的腦袋炸裂了。我以為是/kwɑsi/。
But then I looked it up in the dictionary and I'm quite wrong. I've been pronouncing it wrong my entire life.
但是後來我在字典中查了一下，我錯了。我一直都說錯了。
I feel like this is so often pronounced as. I'm sure that there are many native English speakers who are out there right now, realising the error of their ways just like me.
我覺得這經常被發音為/kwɑsi/。我敢肯定，有很多以英語為母語的人剛剛意識到自己一樣發錯了音。
Is your mind blown too? /kweza/, not /kwɑsi/, /kweza/.
你是不是也被震驚了？/kweza/，不是 /kwɑsi/，/kweza/。
Now if you're wondering what the heck is quasi anyway? Well let me explain it for you.
你是不是想知道 quasi 到底是什麼意思？好吧，讓我為大家解釋一下。
Quasi is a prefix which means it is part of a word and it's added to the front of a word. Prefix at the front.
Quasi 是一個前綴，表示它是單詞的一部分，添加到單詞的開頭。前綴在前面。
Suffix at the back. But you can't use quasi on its own right?
後綴在後面。但是你不能單獨使用 quasi，對吧？
It always has to be together with another word and it forms a noun or an adjective. And by adding quasi, you're describing something as like that thing but not actually being it, okay?
它總是必須與另一個單詞一起使用，組成一個名詞或形容詞。通過添加 quasi，你將某件事情描述為類似的事物，但實際上並不是，對吧？
So if I said: A family was quasi-religious. It means that they appear to be religious but they're not really okay?
所以，如果我說：某個家庭是準宗教的。這意味著他們似乎是信教的，但並不真的是，對吧？
So it's a very cool advanced English word or prefix that now we know how to pronounce correctly, don't we? So this is spherical.
所以這是一個非常酷的高級英語單詞或前綴，現在我們知道如何正確發音了，對吧？這個是球形的。
Not /sfrk()l/, okay? So a sphere is an object that is shaped like a ball, a sphere.
不是/sfrk()l/，對吧？因此，球體是一個形狀像球的東西，球體。
This is a sphere, three-dimensional and so it's really easy to see how this word is mispronounced, right? It's an easy mistake to make.
這是一個三維球體，很容易看到這個詞念錯了，對吧？這是一個容易犯的錯誤。
Spherical, spherical, right? Well no actually, the adjective spherical is pronounced with a different vowel sound, okay?
Spherical，spherical，對吧？好吧，實際並不是，形容詞球形的發音的元音是不同的。
So it's not /sfrk()l/, but /sferk()l/, /sferk()l/. And lots of native speakers mess that one up.
不是/sfrk()l/，而是 /sferk()l/，/sferk()l/。許多以英語為母語的人都會說錯。
Ask It's a pretty simple verb, right?
詢問 這是一個非常簡單的動詞，對嗎？
But you'd be surprised how many native English speakers mispronounce it. I was listening to a podcast just a few days ago and someone was saying:
但是你會驚訝地發現有那麼多以英語為母語的人發音都是錯的。幾天前，我在聽播客，有人說：
It's important to aks your customers for feedback. It's a habit that they've probably had since they were a child and they're probably not even aware of it, you know.
向你的客戶徵求反饋意見很重要。從他們還是個孩子的時候，他們就養成了這個習慣，他們甚至可能沒有意識到。
It's /ɑsk/, /ɑsk/. And to be fair, that consonant cluster is tricky even for native English speakers, you will often hear little kids mispronouncing it as well but it is/ɑsk/, not /ɑks/.
是/ɑsk/， /ɑsk/。公平地講，即使對於說英語的人來說，輔音叢也很困難，你經常會聽到小孩也把它讀錯，是/ɑsk/，不是/ɑks/。
And actually, that's not the only example of this pronunciation mistake either, it happens quite a bit with the /sk/ sound being pronounced as /ks/ instead.
So espresso, sometimes some native speakers will say expresso, which is incorrect unless I guess you are having a really fast coffee, right?
實際上，這也不是這個發音錯誤的唯一例子，它經常會出現，/sk/音會發成/ks/音。意式濃縮咖啡，有時一些以英語為母語的人會說 expresso，這是不正確的，除非我猜你正在喝一杯很快的咖啡，對不對？
Super fast to go. An expresso.
超級快速。快速的咖啡。
But if it's just regular coffee, espresso is the way to go. And especially, especially, not /kspe()li/.
但是，如果只是普通的咖啡，那麼應該說 espresso。特別是，特別市，不是/kspe()li/。
This one happens a lot, this mistake. A lot of native speakers will make this same mistake.
這個錯誤經常出現，這個錯誤。許多以英語為母語的人都會犯同樣的錯誤。
So if you especially like espresso coffee you want to make sure you spend a little bit of time practising the correct pronunciation of espresso and especially. Athlete.
因此，如果你特別喜歡意式濃縮咖啡，那要花點時間練習 espresso 和 especially的發音。運動員。
Now this is two syllables only not three, okay? You may hear some native speakers making a little mistake there and adding a third syllable in.
有兩個音節，而不是三個，對吧？你可能會聽到一些講母語的人會在這裡犯了一個小錯誤，在裡面添加了第三個音節。
Athlet, athlet. Now, unfortunately, this pronunciation actually results in some spelling errors as well.
運動員，運動員。現在，不幸的是，這個發音實際上也導致了一些拼寫錯誤。
So it's best to focus on the correct pronunciation, right? So that you don't make spelling errors as well but this combination of consonants here is pretty tricky.
因此，最好要保證發音正確，對嗎？這樣就不會出現拼寫錯誤，但是這裡的輔音叢也很困難。
So you might find that you're actually adding that extra little schwa sound in there, slipping it in to make it easier to work those two sounds in together. This is actually incorrect.
因此，你可能會發現自己在中間加了一個額外的中元音，把它給加了進去，讓這兩個音更容易一起發出來。這實際上是不正確的。
What you want to do is try and push those consonant sounds together, even closer and to practise it, this is great pronunciation practice for any consonant clusters, instead of adding a sound between the consonant cluster, just pause okay? So we have athlete.
你需要做的是嘗試將這些輔音組合到一起，讓它們更近並進行練習，這對於任何輔音叢來說都是不錯的發音練習，而不是在輔音總之間添加額外的音節，不要這樣，好嗎？所以應該是 athlete。
Okay, so don't open your mouth before you finish the sound. And then start bringing those sounds closer together.
好吧，在發完那個音之前不要張開嘴。然後開始將這些聲音拉近。
So keep your tongue touching your teeth at all times, all right? First touching the bottom of your teeth then slipping behind.
始終保持舌頭觸碰牙齒，好嗎？首先觸碰牙齒的底部，然後向後滑動。
Supposed and supposedly are both really interesting when we start to focus on the correct pronunciation.
Supposed is usually used with the to-infinitive following, so supposed to, supposed to do, supposed to be, all right?
當我們開始關注正確的發音時，supposed 和 supposedly 這兩個詞都非常有趣。Supposed 通常與不定式連用，所以是 supposed to，supposed to do，supposed to be，對吧？
This is a really common phrase to learn together as a chunk and focusing on the pronunciation, the natural pronunciation with those reduced sounds. Supposed to, supposed to do, supposed to be, supposed to buy.
這是一個非常常見的短語，可以作為一個整體學習，並專攻其發音，也就是那些會縮減音的發音。應該，應該做，應該是，應該買。
Now native speakers actually take quite a bit liberty with this pronunciation. And often reduce it down to /spst/.
以英語為母語的人實際上在發這個音的時候會偷偷懶。把它發成/spst/。
So it's really tricky to even recognise what the individual words are, right? What am I supposed to do about it?
去識別單個單詞是什麼非常困難，對嗎？我該怎麼辦？
What am I supposed to do? But when we move along to the adverb form supposedly well that's when native speakers can really start making a few errors right?
我應該做些什麼？但是，當我們說到其副詞形式 supposedly時，英語母語就會開始犯錯誤了，對吧？
That D is often mispronounced as a B sound. And we use supposedly when maybe you don't agree with something but it's what some people are saying or believing in anyway.
D通常被誤讀為B音。我們可能會在不同意某事的情況下使用 supposedly，但無論如何，這是某些人在說或相信的東西。
That house is supposedly haunted. Kind of suggesting that you don't really believe if it's true, you're not sure.
那房子據說是鬼屋。表明的是 i並不真的相信這是真的，你不確定。
So there you have it, that was eleven English words that many native English speakers pronounce incorrectly. I wonder if any of them surprised you, quasi- was definitely a shock for me.
就這麼多啦，這就是11個許多以英語為母語的人發音都會不正確的英語單詞。我想知道有沒有讓你感到驚訝的，對我來說quasi 很令我震驚。
I think I'm still recovering from it. I'm not sure how long it's going to take me to adjust.
我想我仍在恢復中。我不確定要花多長時間進行調整。
Look, all in all, pronunciation errors are not a huge deal so long as you're understood, right? But my point today is that if you think that native speakers have one perfect way of saying a word in English, it's often not true.
總而言之，只要你能被理解，發音錯誤就不算什麼，對嗎？但是我今天的觀點是，如果你認為說母語的人的英語單詞表達方式都是完美的，那一般是不正確的。
Amongst native English speakers, we will bicker about the correct way to pronounce something, we do it all the time but the good thing is we usually just get by, right?
We still manage to communicate with each other despite our differences and our disagreements.
在以英語為母語的人中，我們會對正確的發音方法有爭執，我們總是會這樣，但是好的方面是我們總會應付過去，對吧？儘管我們之間存在分歧和不一致，但我們仍然可以彼此進行溝通。
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