Learn the British Estuary Accent with Ricky Gervais | Pronunciation guide · Learn English with Papa Teach Me
学习 Ricky Gervais 的 Estuary 英式口音，适合练习发音和日常口语。了解其独特的发音特点，如 glottaltees、缩音和连读，提升英语表达自然度。
You come to England one day and you're like, I don't understand anyone, what language are you speaking,
有一天你来到英格兰，然后你想：“我根本听不懂他们在说什么，他们到底在说哪种语言啊？
what accent is this?
这是什么口音？
This is what we would call an estuary accent.
我们可以将这种口音称为“河口地区特有的口音”。
For actors, if you go to an audition with this accent, it's gonna probably give you an edge,
对于演员来说，如果你带着这种口音去参加试镜，很可能会让你更具优势。
but if you're not looking for that typical upper class, Shakespearean sounding British accent,
但如果你并不想要那种典型的、带有上流社会气息、听起来像莎士比亚时代风格的英式口音的话……
and you also don't want to go cockney with it, then Ricky Gervais has the accent for you.
你也不想用那种带有伦敦口音的方言来表达，那么瑞奇·热维斯（Ricky Gervais）的口音正好适合你。
This accent is going to be the easiest to break down, because his accent is the most similar to mine.
这种口音最容易分析（或者说最容易被“破解”），因为他的口音和我的非常相似。
So let's break down the voice and accent of Ricky Gervais.
那么，让我们来分析一下瑞奇·热维斯（Ricky Gervais）的嗓音和口音特点吧。
Glottaltees, yep, quite common.
喉塞音符号（Glottaltees）？没错，它们相当常见。
Ricky Gervais especially uses glottaltees everywhere.
里基·热维斯（Ricky Gervais）尤其喜欢在各种场合使用喉塞音（即通过声门产生的特殊发音）。
I've thought about this a lot, including in words in which the tea is separated by two vowel sounds.
我对此思考了很多次，其中还涉及到一些用特定词汇来描述这种情况的表述——在这些词汇中，表示“茶”的词语包含两个元音音素。
When I started out, I was sort of a writer -director.
刚开始的时候，我算是个兼具编剧和导演职能的人。
Traditionally, you probably wouldn't do that if you wanted to sound smart, but that's how people see accents in England.
传统上，如果你想显得自己很聪明的话，可能就不会那样做了；但在英格兰，人们就是这么看待口音的。
So better, hotter, he would pronounce as better, hotter.
因此，他应该将“better, hotter”发音为“better, hotter”。
This is as good as it'll ever be, it's not like I'll get better, do you know what I mean?
情况已经好到不能再好了；反正我也不会好转的，你明白我的意思吧？
This you'll find super interesting because no one talks about it, and that is that with this accent,
你会发现这一点非常有趣——因为几乎没人谈论过这个话题。具体来说，就是关于这种口音的问题。
it's very common to change the word something to summer.
将 “something” 这个词替换为 “summer” 是非常常见的做法。
Summer.
夏天。
I'ma tell you, Summer, right?
我跟你说吧，Summer，对吧？
One thing that is super interesting is that remember be not and have not can be changed to ain't.
有一件非常有趣的事情需要记住：单词 “be not” 和 “have not” 可以被改写成 “ain't”。
I ain't late, you're late.
我不是迟到了，是你迟到了。
Well, with this accent, ain't is taken one step further.
嗯，带着这样的口音，他根本无法再向前迈进一步了。
It's contracted to in.
该合同已经签订完毕。
I'm not late.
我没有迟到。
Might sound in this accent like I ain't late, you're late, or a sentence like I haven't got any.
用这种口音说出来的话，可能会让人觉得我在说“我其实没迟到”（其实是我迟到了），或者“我根本没什么可说的”。
I ain't got any.
我一个都没有。
I've got 50 ,000 you in.
我给你投了 5 万（单位未提及）。
Another common but quite overlooked characteristic of this accent is when a sentence finishes with want to, for example,
这种口音的另一个常见特征（但却常常被忽视）是：当句子以 “want to” 结尾时的发音方式。例如：
yes, I want to, you would contract it to Wanna, but it doesn't sound like Wanna, it sounds like Wanna.
是的，我想这么做；你可以把合同签给“Wanna”，但这个名字听起来并不像“Wanna”……
Yeah, I want to.
是的，我愿意。
And I will if I want to.
如果我想的话，我当然会这么做。
So if you're thinking that, ah, Wanna can sound like Wanna, then surely Gonna can sound like Gonna.
所以，如果你认为“Wanna”可以发音成“Wanna”的样子，那么“Gonna”也应该可以发音成“Gonna”的样子吧。
You'd be right to think that.
你这么想确实是有道理的。
Yeah, I'm gonna.
是的，我打算这么做。
This is very common of estuary accents.
这种情况在河口地区的口音中非常常见。
Again, we're not dealing with an upper RP or even an RP accent here.
同样，这里所涉及的语言现象既不属于高级RP（Rapid Punctuation，一种快速打字时使用的特殊标点符号风格），也不属于RP口音。
The H sound, sometimes he drops the H, sometimes he keeps the H.
发“H”音的时候，有时候他会省略这个字母，有时候则会保留它。
So he might say hello, or he might say hello.
所以他可能会说“你好”，也可能会再说一次“你好”。
For him, sometimes yes, sometimes no.
对他来说，有时候可以，有时候不行。
He specifically doesn't change TH sounds.
他明确表示不会更改字母 “TH” 的发音。