屠蓓英语语音学习方法

How to Improve Your English Pronunciation

Presented by Prof . Tu Bei

English pronunciation is different from Phonetics and Phonology; I’m not going to talk about Phonetics and Phonology. What is Phonetics? Phonetics is “语音学”, Phonology is “音位学”. And these things are too theoretical,太理论了, so we are going to have a very very practical lecture, and this is not a lecture, and this is just a talk. I’m going to give you a very practical talk and in this talk, I’m going to give you a few tips, practical tips. Do you know this word “tip”? Tip. If you go to the hotel, sometimes you give the tips to---(laugh)to, to whom? To the attendant. If you go to the restaurant, you give the tip to the waiters and waitress. I don’t mean that after this lecture, you will give me some tip. Umm… I don’t accept tips. so obviously, tip has another meaning that is a tip means a piece of advice, or some good suggestions, or even some very good methods. All right, yes, so I’m going to give you a few tips, very practical tips. You can use them right away after this talk. Do you like that?. (Yes). Very good. And in my presentation, I’m going to ask you a lot of questions. And I’m going to ask you to join me a lot. Will you join me in the practice and in the exercises? (Yes). Very good. Now when we talk about English pronunciation, this is a very big topic. Do you think that we can cover everything in two hours? That’s impossible. 两个小时要把英语语音讲完，不可能。So that’s why I try to narrow down. I want to narrow down to what? How to improve your English pronunciation? Ok. And I want to narrow down, even narrow down to how to improve your pronunciation with some good tips. All right. When we talk about language, we usually talk about language in two different senses, narrow sense and broad sense. 我们讲语言的话，有的时候我们说从狭义的去讲，从广义的去讲。I’m going to talk about language in the narrow sense today. 今天从狭义的来讲。A language consists of three parts, sound, vocabulary…and what else? …grammar. All right? This is in the narrow sense. 从窄义的来讲，语言是什么？分成音，词汇和语法。Ok. Sound ,音) comes first. So English pronunciation is very important for us to learn a language. And I’m going to talk about a lot how important English pronunciation is. When we talk about English pronunciation, we must ask ourselves five questions.

Five Questions

All right? Do we have the five questions here? Ok. Ah…Five questions. I’m going to answer the five questions one by one later. But let’s have the five questions first. The first question is, what is good English pronunciation. Why this question is important? Because we want to set ourselves goals,

我们要给自己定一个目标。Ok. What is the second question? Why is good English pronunciation so important? Why this question? If you know this is important, you would work hard to achieve the goals. Is that right? So we need the second question. What is the third question?