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Hello! I'm John Russell.
大家好！我是约翰·拉塞尔。
We can use different kinds of listening exercises to improve our pronunciation.
我们可以使用不同的听力练习来提高我们的发音。
The idea is that if we can hear the difference between some sounds, then we will be more likely to produce these different sounds.
这个想法是这样的：如果我们能听出一些声音之间的区别，那么我们在说话时就更有可能发出这些不同的声音。
Let's play a kind of game.
我们来玩一种游戏。
You will hear a sentence.
你将会听到一句话。
Your job is to select the word that you hear.
你的任务是选择你听到的单词。
Pay special attention to the consonant sounds.
特别注意辅音的发音。
Let's start: Question 1: He finished in tenth place.
我们开始吧：问题1：他得了第十名。
Which word did you hear?
你听到的是哪个单词？
Listen again: They finished in tenth place.
再听一遍：他得了第十名。
The answer is tenth.
答案是tenth。
The important consonant sound is at the end of the word.
重要的辅音在词尾。
In International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA, we write it like this: /0/.
在国际音标中，我们把上面提到的辅音写成这样：/0/。
Now let's try another example.
现在让我们再来听一个例子。
This time you will only hear two words.
这一次你只会听到两个单词。
Choose the word that you hear:
选择你听到的单词：
Question 2: sick.
问题2：sick。
Let's listen again: sick.
我们再听一遍：sick。
The answer is sick.
答案是sick。
In IPA, we write this sound like this: /s/.
在国际音标中，我们把上面提到的辅音写成这样：/s/。
Let's try one last round of our game.
我们再玩最后一轮我们的游戏。
Listen to this sentence.
听这个句子。
Pay careful attention to the nouns.
注意听名词。
The soccer ball hit her mouth.
足球击中了她的嘴。
Which noun did you hear?
你听到了哪个名词？
Let's listen again: The soccer ball hit her mouth.
我们再听一遍：足球击中了她的嘴。
The answer is mouth.
答案是mouth。
If these questions were difficult for you, you might need to watch some of our earlier videos on the consonant sounds of American English.
如果这些问题对你来说很难，你可能需要看看我们之前发布的有关美式英语辅音发音的一些视频。
That's all for today! Keep up the good work!
今天就到这里吧！继续努力！
