Hello I'm Emma from mmmEnglish! In this video, I'm hoping I can convince you that you should practise your English pronunciation every day and it's easier than you think.
大家好，我是 Emma，歡迎來到 Emma 的美味英語頻道！在這個視頻中，我希望我能夠說服你們每天進行英語練習，而且這比你想像的更加簡單。
I want to give you some simple ideas to help you make daily pronunciation practice just a regular part of your routine. So let's get into it!
我想給你們一些簡單的思路來幫助你們將每日發音練習變成日常生活的一部分。讓我們開始吧！
The chances are, you're watching this video because you want to work on your English accent, which means that there is something about it that frustrates you. So firstly, I want you to tell me about it.
你們正在看這個視頻，可能是因為你們想要提升自己的英語發音，也就意味著這方面存在著令你煩擾的一些問題。那麼首先呢，我想讓大家告訴我一下。
Tell me about what makes you feel frustrated about your accent? Tell me in the comments below the video.
告訴我是什麼讓你對自己的發音感覺不滿意？在視頻下方的評論區告訴我吧。
I know what this is like, people misunderstanding you because you're not making the right sounds or even just feeling like that's not how it's supposed to sound. Why am I so awkward?
我知道那是什麼感覺，人們會誤解你，因為你發音不正確，或者是感覺不應該那麼發音。我為什麼這麼尷尬呢？
You know it's not smooth, it's not easy to talk to people and so your English conversations never really last that long. It's hard to fit in, you know, and as you start using English at work you realise my accent sucks.
你知道事情不會這麼順利，和別人說話並不那麼容易，所以你的英語對話不會持續很長時間。很難去融入，你開始在工作的時候開始使用英語，但是你意識到自己的口音很爛。
You feel like people aren't taking you seriously. You don't get invited to social functions and you start feeling really crap about yourself.
你感覺大家並不會認真對待你。你並不會被邀請去參加社交活動，你開始對自己感到很失望。
I know this because these are the same pains that so many of my students go through. Changing your accent helps you to feel accepted.
我知道這些，是因為我的很多學生都經歷著同樣的痛苦。改變發音能夠讓你感覺自己被接受。
It helps you to fit in and even excel with whatever you want to do. It takes years of work, of specific and deliberate training to first try to hear and recognise the sounds and then start making them yourself.
這能夠幫助你融入，甚至能夠完全勝任你想做的任何事情。這需要很多年的努力，需要專門的有針對性的訓練，去試著去聽音辨音，然後開始自己發音。
I mean you've probably been speaking English with your accent for years now, right? So it's gonna take some effort to break those habits.
你可能一直用自己的口音說了很多年英語了吧？所以需要一些努力來打破這些習慣。
Now I think that one of our biggest challenges as adults is creating regular habits, you know, we're all so busy with kids and family and work and travel and all of the extra stress that goes with that stuff.
You know it's incredibly difficult to find the time to focus on something consistently but that is exactly what you need to do if you want to change your accent and make it clearer, you've got to bring daily pronunciation practice into your life, right?
我覺得成人世界最大的挑戰之一是養成規律的習慣，你懂得，我們都很忙，要照顧孩子和家庭，要工作，要旅行，還有那些與此相關的額外的壓力。你懂得要找到時間去持續地專注在某件事情上是特別困難的，但是如果你想要改變自己的口音，讓其更加清晰的話，這正是你應該做的，你需要將發音練習融入到日常生活中，對吧？
I've got three things that I want to share with you today that I think you should be doing to improve your pronunciation every day. The first and really great daily habit that will help you to improve your pronunciation is super simple.
今天我想和大家分享三件我覺得你們每天都需要做的來提升發音的事情。能夠改善你的發音的第一個也是非常好的一個日常習慣非常非常簡單。
Read out loud. It doesn't matter what you read, as long as what you're reading is in English and doing this daily will help you to get your mouth muscles working and creating the sounds that you need to use when you speak English.
大聲念出來。讀什麼都沒有關係，只要你是用英語讀的，每天都讀，這能夠幫助你的嘴部肌肉工作，發出你在說英語的時候需要用到的那些音。
It really is as simple as that and it doesn't need to take you long, you know, five or ten minutes a day is plenty. That kind of exercise is really easy to fit into your daily routine, right? No excuses.
就是這麼簡單，並不需要太長的時間，每天五到十分鐘就足夠了。這種訓練很容易融入到你的日常生活中，對吧？沒有藉口。
Probably the best place to do this is at home, you know, somewhere where you're not afraid to project your voice, to push your voice out. I don't want you to read like this, okay?
可能最好的地方就是在家裡，你懂得，在一個你不害怕發聲的地方，把自己的聲音給發出來。我不想讓你這樣讀，好吧？
I want you to read like this. You know, practise pushing those sounds out of your mouth.
我想讓你這樣讀。你懂得，練習把這些音從嘴裡發出來。
You don't need to worry about being perfect, you know, you're just getting used to making those sounds and making those sounds together with other sounds in English.
So reading out loud is a really good way to sort of stretch and warm up your mouth ready for English.
不必擔心完美，你只是在習慣發出這些音，用英語把這些音和其他的音一起發出來。大聲朗讀是非常好的給嘴巴熱熱身，準備說英語的很好的方式。
So it's a good idea to do it before you go to class or before you have a phone call, before you have an English meeting, you know, activate those muscles, train them, remember what those sounds are and how to make them.
Reading out loud is an awesome way to practise your pronunciation.
在上課之前，在打電話之前，在開英語會議之前進行朗讀是個很好的注意，激活這些肌肉，訓練它們，記住那些音是什麼，如何把它們給發出來。大聲朗讀是一個練習發音的絕佳方法。
Speaking of sounds, get to know English sounds and in particular, the English sounds that you struggle with. This is a really, really important place to start, okay?
談到發音，要去了解英語的發音，尤其是你感到困難的那些發音。這是非常非常重要的起點。
There are lots of English sounds that you're totally cool with you know, but there are probably quite a few that feel unnatural and they don't really sound right as you speak. If you don't know what these sounds are for you then find out.
有很多英語發音你發的很不錯，但是可能也有一些，你說話的時候感覺並不自然，發的音並不太對。如果你還不知道這些音是什麼的話，那就去找出來吧。
A good place to start is just by researching the sounds that are difficult for people who speak your native language. For French people, it's definitely going to include the /h/ sound at the start of words.
一個很好的出發點是研究一下哪些音對於和你說同樣的母語的人來說是比較難發的。對法國人來說，肯定會包括單詞開頭的 /h/音。
Hat. Hero.
帽子。英雄。
Hotel. For Vietnamese people, it's going to be final consonants.
旅館。對於越南人來說，會是最後的。
Like. Out.
喜歡。出來。
Behind. For Arabic speakers, Indian speakers, for everyone, really, TH sounds.
後面。對於阿拉伯人來說，對於說印度人來說，對於所有的人來說，TH 都很難發。
This. That.
這個。那個。
These. Those.
這些。那些。
Enthusiasm. Weather.
熱情。天氣。
Bath. There are probably five to eight sounds that are problem sounds for you.
洗澡。大概有五到八種音對於你們來說是問題發音。
Alright once you've worked out what they are, make a list of those sounds, stick them on your bathroom mirror and practise them every morning out loud, every day. Just start ironing out the creases.
好的，一旦你弄清楚了這些音是什麼了，列一下這些音，把它們貼在浴室的鏡子上，每天早晨大聲練習。開始去解決問題。
It's gonna take some time but the fastest way to correct those sounds is to consistently practise them. If you're unsure if you're pronouncing words correctly, use an online dictionary to check. Super easy, right?
這需要一些時間，但是糾正這些發音最快的方法就是持續地練習它們。如果你不確定你的發音是否正確，那就用在線詞典查一下吧。非常簡單，對吧？
Drastic. You probably go to the gym, right?
非常激烈的。你可能會去健身房，對吧？
Or maybe you go for a run to keep fit or swim, just consider this your pronunciation workout, your English workout.
You've got to do it regularly to keep fit and to get stronger and you know think about it, it hurts a lot if you don't go to the gym for a while, you know, and then suddenly you're lifting weights and you're like "Oh this hurts."
或者你可能會通過跑步來保持健康，或者是遊泳，想想如果是你的發音訓練呢，你的英語訓練呢。你必須經常進行鍛鍊，以保持健康，變得更加強壯，想想看，如果你很長時間沒去健身房了，然後突然之間舉重的話，你會說，天哪，好疼啊。
If you haven't spoken English in a while, it hurts, you know, your muscles ache because they're not used to it but if you go to the gym regularly, you get fitter, you can last longer, you're not as sore after each session. Gradually you can start to increase the weights, right?
如果你很長一段時間沒有說英語了，你的肌肉也會疼，因為它們不適應了，但是如果你經常去健身房的話，你就會更加健康，持續的時間會更長，每一節結束都不會感覺那麼酸痛了。慢慢地你就可以開始增加重量了，對吧？
Your tongue is a muscle as well. It needs to be trained and stretched and twisted into the positions that English requires.
你的舌頭也是肌肉。它需要被訓練、拉伸和扭曲成說英語的位置。
You are already so awesome at making the sounds that you need for your native language but you need to do a little bit of extra work to activate some of the English sounds that don't exist in your language.
So a daily tongue workout, a daily mouth workout is the fastest and the simplest method to improve your English pronunciation.
你已經能夠非常嫻熟地發出你的母語中所需要的那些音了，但是你需要做一些額外的工作來激活一些你的母語中不存在的英語的發音。所以每天都訓練舌頭，每天鍛鍊嘴巴是最快的，也是最簡單的提升英語發音的方式。
Now tongue twisters might seem like a bit of a joke to you but if you can find a few to help you practise those difficult sounds of yours, then doing them a few times daily will help to strengthen the muscles, you know, and help you to make those sounds more easily.?
I've got a link to a video I made on tongue twisters up here.
你們可能覺得繞口令很好笑，但是如果你能找到一些幫助你們練習對你而言比較難的發音的話，那麼每天練習幾次可能會幫助你增加肌肉，幫助你更加容易地發出那些音。我在這邊放了一個我做的關於繞口令的視頻。
Check it out. Get started there.
看一看吧。從這裡開始。
But find ones that are relevant for you. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
但是要找一些和你最相關的。一隻蛤蜊怎麼能塞進一個乾淨的奶油罐頭呢?
Six sick hicks nicked six slick bricks with picks and sticks. So you've probably noticed that English words, when they're spoken naturally, sometimes change.
六個生病的鄉下人用十字鎬和木棒在挖六塊光滑的磚頭。你已經注意到了英語單詞在自然發音時，有時候會發生改變。
You know the pronunciation can change as we increase the speed of our speech. In fact, they often do.
當我們語速加快的時候，發音就會改變。其實經常會這樣子。
And there are lots of grammatical words that actually have two forms of pronunciation, a stressed form and an unstressed form. Some.
有很多語法詞都有兩種發音，重讀和非重讀。有些。
To. The schwa sound is really important to help you practise word stress and sentence stress in English.
到。中元音對幫助你們練習英語單詞重音和句子重音非常重要。
Studying connected speech is also going to help you to learn how to do this and to sound more natural when you speak.
I've got lots of videos about connected speech and pronunciation up here in this playlist but these are all really important aspects of naturally spoken English that you can work on to help you improve your pronunciation but you can't practise these things while you're just pronouncing English words individually.
學習連讀也能夠幫助你學習如何連起來讀，以及讓你說話的時候聽起來更加自然。我有很多關於連讀和發音的視頻，就在播放列表裡，但是還有很多自然英語發音的其他方面，你們可以進行學習來提升自己的發音水平，但是如果你說英語單詞的時候是一個一個蹦出來的話，這些根本就沒有辦法練習。
They have to be part of a sentence so how can you do that? You need some controlled practice and imitating a native speaker is a fantastic way to do this.
它們必須是句子的一部分，那麼你該怎麼辦呢？你需要一些有意識的練習，而模仿一位母語者就是很好的方法。
You may already know that I've created a whole course of videos around how to imitate a native speaker with lots of practice. You know, in these lessons I help you to copy and then shadow me as I speak.
你可能已經知道我有一系列的課程，都是關於如何模仿母語者的，裡面還有很多練習。在這些課程中，我幫助大家模仿我，然後在我說的時候進行跟讀。
They're really awesome quick ten minute videos that you can practise your pronunciation with. There are a few on my channel already but if you'd like to support mmmEnglish and purchase my imitation courses well you can do that right up here.
這都是很好的快速十分鐘的視頻，你們可以用這些視頻練習發音。我的頻道裡已經有一些了，但是如果你們想要支持美味英語的話，可以購買我的模仿課程，點擊這裡就可以。
Then you'll have lots of different videos to practise with, lots of natural phrases and expressions to learn. So what am I going to say next?
你會有很多不同的視頻可以進行練習，可以學習到很多自然的短語和表達。我接下來要說什麼來著？
Daily habit. That's right!
每日習慣。是的！
Okay? Get into the habit of practising with one lesson every day, that's just ten more minutes of pronunciation practice every day alright?
對吧？養成跟著一節課進行練習的習慣，每天拿出來十多分鐘進行英語練習就行了。
In the lessons, I'll show you how to shadow a native speaker and this allows you to practise the rhythm, the pace, the pause, the intonation that's used and this technique is something that you can start practising with any video.
It doesn't have to be my lessons, you can choose whatever video, whatever native speaker you want to shadow.
在課程中，我會給大家展示如何模仿母語者，這能夠幫助你們練習使用的韻律、節奏、停頓和音調，有了這個技巧就可以開始用任何的視頻進行練習了。不一定非得是我的課程，你也可以選擇其他的視頻，你想模仿的任何母語者。
Whatever you choose, I'd focus on one lesson or one video every day for a whole week okay. So give yourself the time to go over and review, build confidence with it, right?
不管你選擇了什麼，我都會專注於一節課，或者是一周的每天看一個視頻。給你時間去回顧複習，來慢慢樹立信心，對吧？
Once you've done that make a recording of yourself and compare it to the original. Listen to yourself and try to identify what you're doing wrong, what are the sounds that you're not quite getting?
完成之後就可以給自己錄個音，然後和原始的版本進行比較。聽聽你自己說的，然後試著去找出來你有沒有什麼錯誤，哪些音發的不夠好。
I've added the link to my imitation course below in the description and I'll also add one of the ones from my channel at the end of this video, okay?
In a video a couple of weeks ago, I said that with language practice, it's easier to create a habit once you attach it to another activity.
我在視頻下方的描述區已經添加了模仿課程的連結，我也會在這個視頻的最後放一些我的頻道的課程，好嗎？在幾周前的一個視頻中，我說過英語練習這件事情吧，只要你把它和其他的活動給掛鈎，就更加容易養成習慣了。
You know, like for me, I always listen to an audiobook while I go for a run. You might say "Okay I'll practise my pronunciation every morning after I brush my teeth."
比如說對我而言，我跑步的喜歡一直喜歡聽有聲書。你可能會說：「好的，我每天早晨刷完牙之後練習發音。」
Or I'll read out loud for ten minutes every night before I go to bed. So attach it to an activity, help it to become a regular part of your routine.
或者是每晚我上床睡覺之前都大聲朗讀十分鐘。把它和其他的活動結合起來，幫助它成為日常生活的一部分。
Changing your pronunciation is gonna take time so you must make it happen regularly, you know, you've got to create that daily habit and you've got to do it every day for a year which seems like forever but time flies if you get started today and you do it every day, you'll be speaking clearly and confidently before you know it.
I hope you enjoyed this lesson and you found it useful.
改變你的發音需要時間，所以你必須經常進行練習，你需要養成每日的習慣，你需要一年中的每天都去做，可能看起來好像永遠都得練習，但是時間飛逝，如果你今天就開始，每天都進行練習的話，你會在自己意識到之前說的更加清晰、更加自信的。希望你們喜歡本節課程，也希望你們覺得它有用。
If you did, make sure you let me know in the comments below. You can find me on social media over here and as promised here's one of my imitation lessons so that you can take it right now and practise.
如果你是這麼覺得的話，那就在評論區告訴我吧。你可以在這邊的社交媒體上找到我，履行承諾，這裡是我的一節模仿課程，你們現在就可以進行練習了。
Hit the subscribe button if you haven't done that already and I'll see you in there!
如果還沒訂閱的話，點擊訂閱按鈕吧，再見！