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How should English be pronounced? It feels different from Chinese pronunciation.

British accent

British accent is characterized by vibrato, almost every syllable is pronounced clearly, and there is a very obvious difference between long vowels and short vowels. American English, on the other hand, is a bit vague, and most of the long vowels are truncated. For example, the A sound in class is a long vowel, and the average English pronunciation is more complete. On the other hand, Americans tend to pronounce short sounds, which sound similar to the A sound in bad. Another example is aunt. Americans are almost invariably called ants, which makes it unclear whether they are talking about their aunts or ants at home.

British accents often pronounce unvoiced consonants on weak syllables very clearly, while Americans often pronounce unvoiced consonants as voiced consonants. For example, batteries, Americans read like badri.

In fact, the English pronunciation used in English classes in primary and secondary schools in China is based on British standards (now the new curriculum standard has begun to use American accent). The conversations between China people and foreign journalists are basically British English. In foreign media, BBC is recognized as a model of British English. Among the movie stars, hugh grant (starring in Four Weddings and a Funeral) graduated from Oxford with a standard upper-class English accent.

American accent

In fact, there is not much difference in accents in different parts of the United States. In addition to the truncation of long vowels mentioned above, Americans often pronounce -ing as-n.

Eastern United States

Mei Dong's pronunciation, because it is geographically close to Britain, is more similar to the British accent in many ways. I have a professor who graduated from Princeton (located in New Jersey). A few weeks ago, I thought she was English. Later, after many confirmations, I realized that she was an American.

Linguistically, there are tongue sounds and non-tongue sounds. Rhotic stress, specifically R, should be pronounced whether it is a consonant (such as red) or a vowel (such as four). On the other hand, it is a non-rho sound. This pronunciation style is to pronounce only the consonant r and not the vowel R. British people, parts of the eastern United States and a small part of the southern region are non-vowels. Most parts of America are consonants.

Because the eastern part of the United States was developed earlier, the population mobility is relatively large and the accent is very mixed. So far, I haven't found any film and television works that can highlight the American-Eastern accent. Although many plays, such as Friends and Sex and the City, are set in the eastern United States, these plays cannot fully reflect the accent of the eastern United States.

Among these celebrities, the singer Clay Aiken is from North Carolina, and his pronunciation is very strange. (Source: English McDonald's-English learning portal EnglishCN.com)

Southern United States

The economy in the southern part of the United States is backward, and the people's general education level is not high, so it has long been looked down upon by people in other parts of the United States. Most of the south is an agricultural area, and farmers are called red necks, which means that they are red in the sun all day. Red neck became synonymous with white people in the southern United States.

The southern American accent is characterized by a long sound. All vowels are very long, and there is no pause between words. They are all read together. In addition, southerners love to use nasal sounds, and their conversation sounds like two people with a cold talking. In fact, the southern accent is easy to be laughed at.

Among celebrities: President Bush spent most of his life in Texas, speaking with a southern accent. Dr. phil McGraw, a famous psychological program host, is a southerner with a strong accent.

Movies and TV programs: Almost all movies set in the southern United States have a very easy-to-distinguish southern accent. The more famous ones are Forrest Gump and the comic book King of the Hill.

Yao Ming's trip to Houston is a special case of American southern accent-the coastal area of the Gulf of Mexico. It is said that people in this place speak southern accent+Meidong, which can't be confirmed.

Western United States

The western region accepts a large number of immigrants, so the accent is mixed. What is more prominent is that the O sound in God is dragged to Gaad, and the leg pronunciation is layg.

Australian accent

Australia was originally a British colony and was used to distribute prisoners. Later, a large number of gold diggers poured in.

Australian accents often omit the consonant H and pronounce the vowels directly behind them. For example, how is often pronounced ow. Australians call their friends mate and like to exaggerate their hair into myte. So there is a famous joke. Australian tourists always like to pester the tour guide and say, "Where are we going to die?" Where will we die? Where are we going today? Australians announced their death today.

Celebrities: Many Australian stars who developed in Hollywood, such as Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe, all spoke with an Australian accent. Nicole seems to be the least obvious.

Film and television works: The egrets, sharks and dentists in Finding Nemo are all typical Australian sounds.

Other accents

Japanese accent

Japanese has only five vowels, and they are all the same length, so it is usually difficult for Japanese to cope with English with many vowels.

Korean accent

Korean words are read continuously, and the last syllable is extended. Many Koreans speak English in this way. Besides, they can't tell l from r, and they can't pronounce th.

Indian accent

Many Indians think their English is very good, but no one can understand the English they speak except themselves. Indians have a poor grasp of English pauses.

We have classified English pronunciations in countries other than Britain and the United States, and the degree of difficulty is divided into three levels:

The first file is represented by Australia, as long as you know the accent of a different word, for example, the pronunciation of data in Australia is "hit him", which is enough, and the rest are the same.

The second gear is represented by Singapore. For Singapore English pronunciation, it is enough to recite "a real tree". Because in Singapore English, the pronunciation of one, two and three corresponds to the standard one, truth and tree, and this pronunciation is everywhere.

The third file, represented by Japan and India, is curly English. For example, in Japan, Silk is pronounced Siloko, while in Indian English, the pronunciation of the word "data" is basically tied in the ear after listening. A colleague thinks his English is not bad. At least his English level can be understood in non-English speaking countries. At one time, Indian IT provided remote technical support. Before the start, both parties connected to Netmeeting with an IP address, which added up to less than 12 digits. After talking to each other for 30 minutes, they can't get through.

Indians have a strong English accent and speak fast. When they speak, their tongues run around their mouths, and the consonant r trills, which sounds difficult to understand at first. Therefore, when domestic units receive Indian guests, it is often several English experts from their own units who go into battle together, listen attentively, and sometimes have heated discussions with each other before they dare to translate. Another main feature of Indian English pronunciation is to simplify the inarticulate th in standard English to t, and the Indian pronunciation of t is close to d, so Indians themselves joke about this pronunciation feature. When they say "I am thirty years old", it sounds like "I am dirty" because the pronunciation of thirty is confused with dirty. 1968 In "The Party" filmed in the United States, the famous comedian Cyrus played an unlucky Indian bumpkin, who was full of Indian accent English and laughed at himself all the way, making mistakes one after another at the grand banquet of white Americans. American imitation of Indian accent English is still a classic.

Jokes are jokes. In fact, Indian English is the most important member of the English family. As early as the15th century, English entered India with British businessmen, and now many words rarely used in modern English have been preserved. There are always such elegant sentences in the letters drafted by my Indian colleagues to the project implementation unit: Please be considerate … (please inform …) or inform you soon (inform you soon). To the same effect, my American colleague simply wrote: Please let us know and we will inform you soon. Because India's population far exceeds that of Britain, the late famous British writer Malcolm Magric once said that "the last English gentleman in the world may be an Indian".

For me, the most unaccustomed thing is that Indian gentlemen always use modern continuous tense, for example, I am understanding it and she is knowing the answer. This is not old Scottish grammar, but old English influenced by Hindi. Common Indian English influenced by Hindi and your good name? What's your name? When asking someone's age, you can use this euphemism: What's your good number? You can even ask: When is your birthday? When is Happy Birthday? )

Indian rules of english pronunciation:

When?

I want to change the color.

Key points:

P fa b

T method d

K method g

R fa l

There are no plosives and unvoiced consonants