2013年2月20日 星期三

唸好長短和高低音

今次我和大家談一談幾個唸好長短、輕重和高低音的例子:
「你最喜歡讀哪科?」physics, history, geography
從來不讀「 she
不「大」的 direct, director

累贅的多音節字:

innovation, innovative
temporary, temporarily
高低有致:
finance, financial
discount 的名詞和動詞

9 則留言:

  1. 除了geography 和 discount 的名詞和動詞 外,其它的我已說錯好多年了! Thank you Chris.

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    1. 不用氣餒,知道之後就改。

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  2. My geography teacher in secondary school always likes to pronunce geography as 'draw-ga-phy'. Most of the second language learners can't recognize the stress pattern of the word.

    By the way, maybe next time you can talk about the omitted voice. For example, 'fortunately'. It has four stresses. But the native speakers especially British like to pronunce it as 'fortune-ly'. The 'ate' is omitted. I felt odd when my professor showed the clip, in which Tony Blair addressing an issue in parliament, to us. I asked him why. He explained that although we native speakers all know we should pronunce it word by word, it's very hard to stick to every syllable correctly in daily life. We also have to consider the rhythm of the sentence. 即我們廣東人所說的順不順口。

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    1. 我的British Professor住在香港很多年,識講廣東話的。

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    2. 鬼佬都有懶音,多人講得幾十年,就會坐正的了。
      不過你照講----nate ly(讀輕聲的 nit )無人會話你錯。

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  3. Chris, thank you for sharing with us. It's very useful!!!

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  4. 求youtube ac,想follow
    真係讀錯曬,連老師都係咁讀x_x

    by Svenja

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    1. 請光臨
      http://www.youtube.com/user/chrisleung1954/videos?view=0

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  5. 'direct' pronounced as /dai/ is perfectly acceptable!
    Besides, the 'va' in innoVAtive can also be pronounced as /vei/.

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