Have you ever wondered 'what is a consonant'? Have you ever wished that you knew how to pronounce consonants in English accurately?
你有沒有想過「什麼是輔音」？你是否曾希望自己知道如何準確地發出英語中的輔音？
Well, in this video, I'm gonna show you exactly what a consonant is and how you to start to work on your consonant pronunciation in English. So here we go. In the English language, as I'm sure you know, there are 21 consonant letters: like b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l and so on.
好吧，在這段視頻中，我將向你展示什麼是輔音，以及如何開始學習英語輔音發音。我們開始吧。在英語中，我相信你知道，有21個輔音字母：像 b，c，d，f，g，h，j，k，l 等等。
But in terms of pronunciation, we actually have 24 consonant sounds. Now, a good consonant definition, in term of pronunciation, is that with consonants, the articulators either touch or they come are very, very close to one another.
但就發音而言，我們實際上有24個輔音。那麼輔音的定義是：發音器要麼接觸，要麼彼此非常接近。
Now, just before I give you some examples, just to be clear that the articulators are the tongue, and lips, and teeth, and hard and soft palate. So, for example: with a b sound, as in 'bye', 'bike', and 'bus' the two lips come together completely and then they release the sound suddenly.
在我給你們舉一些例子之前，先說清楚一點，發音器官是舌頭，嘴唇，牙齒，硬顎和軟顎。例如，在「bye」，「bike」和「bus」裡面的 b 音，兩片嘴唇完全合在一起，然後突然釋放出聲音。
With an f consonant sound, as in 'fork', and 'from' and 'fry' the lower lip touches the underside of the upper front teeth but loosely, so there's a little bit of space through which the breath travels. So, it creates a sort of hissy, friction like sound, /f/.
以 f 輔音發音，如「fork」，「from」和「fry」，下唇接觸上門牙的下側，但很鬆，所以有一點空間讓呼吸通過。所以，它會產生一種嘶嘶聲，摩擦聲，/f/。
With a ch, the part of the tongue touches the hard palate and then releases slowly as in words like 'church', and 'chew' and 'chalk'. And in a sound like ng as in ng as in 'song', 'meeting' and 'talking' the back of the tongue is raised touching the soft palate and the sound travels up and out through your nose.
ch 的發音方法是舌頭的一部分接觸硬顎，然後緩慢地釋放，就像「church」、「chew」和「chalk」這樣的單詞一樣。在像" song "中的" ng "和" meeting "和" talking "的發音中舌根碰到軟顎，聲音通過鼻子向上發出。
So, what is a constant? Well, a good definition of consonance sounds is that it is a sound whereby the articulators either touch or almost touch and then releasing suddenly or slowly or they hold their position.
那麼，什麼是輔音？輔音的定義就是發音器官要麼接觸，要麼彼此非常接近，然後突然或緩慢地釋放聲音，或者保持它們的位置。
Now, we do have 3 consonants that don't follow that rule exactly, in fact, they don't touch, the articulators don't touch with these three consonants, instead the articulators approximate with one another. They hold a shape in the mouth.
我們有三個輔音沒有完全遵守這個規則，事實上，在發那三個音的時候發音器官並不接觸，而是彼此非常接近。嘴巴形成一個形狀。
And they are the sounds are 'r' as in 'row', 'w' as in 'we' and 'y' as in 'yellow'. Now, interestingly they have the name semi-vowels.
它們是「row」中的「r」，「we」中的「w」，「yellow」中的「y」的發音。而且，它們還有個名字：半元音。
And that's because a good definition for a vowel sound is that with vowels the articulators don't actually touch or come close together instead, they just hold a shape, so we call them consonants but we they actually got qualities about them that are like vowel sounds.
Now, I've made another video about vowels telling you what a vowel is and how to make vowels, so at the end of this video why don't you click here and it'll show you a link to that video and you can learn a little but more about vowel pronunciation.
這是因為根據元音的定義，發音器官不會接觸或彼此接近，而只是保持一個形狀，所以我們把它們叫做輔音，但它們確實擁有元音的一些特質。我已經製作了另一個關於元音的視頻，告訴你什麼是元音，以及如何它們如何發音，就在視頻的最後，你可以點擊這裡，它會顯示一個連結到該視頻，你可以學習更多關於元音的發音。
But if you'd like to master your pronounce of consonant sounds, then at the end of this video, I've put a link up that will take you to 1 of 5 videos that help you to master the pronunciation of what are in my opinion, 5 of the most commonly mispronounced consonant sounds.
Now, they are only 3 minutes long and they show you how to make that sound, with pictures of the tongue and the lips, and also example words and typical spellings.
但是如果你想掌握輔音的發音，那麼在這段視頻的最後，我會給你一個連結，帶你去5個視頻中的其中1個，幫助你掌握我認為的5個最常見的發音錯誤的輔音。它們只有三分鐘長，用舌頭和嘴唇的圖片，還有單詞的例子和典型的字母組合，向你展示如何發出這種聲音。
And if you watch to the very end, there's a great free resource that I've shared with you and you can download that and really master your pronunciation in English and speak with much more confidence and clarity.
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So, I hope to see you here next week.
希望下周能再見到你。