American Accent Training 笔记 04

American Accent Training  笔记 04

Grammar in a nutshell

English is chronological language .We just love to know when something happened ,and this is indicated by the range and depth of our verb tenses.

按发生时间顺序排列的; 按时间计算的(年龄)(相对于身体、智力或情感等方面的发展而言

The confusing part is that in English the verb tenses are very important ,but instead od putting them up on peaks of a sentence ,we throw them all deep down in the valleys!

Articles and verb tense changes are usually mot stressed.

Notice that in fluent speech ,the th of them is frequently dropped (as is the h in the other object pronouns, him her)

Change the stress from the first syllable for nouns to the second syllable for verbs. This is a regular ,consistent change,

The miracle Technique

Regaining long-lost listening skills

People learn their native language and stop listening for the sounds that they never hear, then they lose the ability to hear those sounds .

Reduces sounds

The down side of intonation

Reduced sounds are all those extra sounds created by an absence of lip tongue ,jaw and throat movement .they are a principal function of intonation and are truly indicate of the American sound.

Word stress or intonation will determine the pronunciation.

Word groups and phrasing

In addition to intonation, there is another aspect of speech that indicates meaning.

This can be called phrasing or tone