Some Differences Between British and American Pronunciation · ETJ English
讲解英美发音的细微差别，适合练习发音技巧和语调。涵盖元音、辅音及实际发音示范，帮助提升英语口语水平。
Hello everybody.
大家好！
This is Elliot from ETJ English.
我是来自 ETJ English 的 Elliot。
I am your British pronunciation teacher on YouTube.
我是YouTube上负责教授英语发音的老师。
One of the most frequent questions that I've been receiving recently has really been about the pronunciation differences between British English and American English.
最近我收到的问题中，最常见的一个就是关于英式英语和美式英语在发音上的差异。
And I know that lots of YouTubers have made videos about this before.
我知道很多 YouTube 制作者之前都制作过关于这个主题的视频。
So I'm not going to talk about the obvious things.
所以，我不会谈论那些显而易见的事情。
So the obvious things are, for example, they say garage, I say garage,
那么，显而易见的一些情况是：比如，当他们提到“garage”（车库）时，我也会说“garage”。
I say tomato, they say tomato.
我说“番茄”，他们也说“番茄”。
Those are just basic things and that's sentence stress.
这些只是基本的内容，涉及的是句子重音的标注方法。
But if we get a bit more technical with the way that we pronounce things in British English and American English,
但如果我们更详细地探讨一下英式英语和美式英语中单词的发音方式……
there are some subtle differences that are actually quite important to know, which I feel like not enough people know about this.
其实存在一些细微的差异，这些差异非常重要，值得了解；但我认为，了解这些差异的人并不多。
So we're going to focus on this today.
因此，我们今天将重点讨论这个话题。
Before we start, I want you to write in the comments below in your school when you studied English.
在我们开始之前，我希望你们能在下面的评论区写下自己是在哪所学校学习英语的。
Did you study an American style English or did you study a British style of English?
你学习的是美式英语，还是英式英语？
I'd love to know.
我很想知道。
Before we start talking about the two techniques today,
在我们开始讨论今天的这两种技术之前，
the first thing I want to tell you is that British English is a much more frontal and tense accent.
首先我想告诉你们的是：英式英语的发音方式更加直接、语气也更加紧张（即发音更加清晰、语调更加尖锐）。
Americans are a lot more relaxed when they speak.
美国人说话时表现得要轻松得多。
However, in British English, we're creating lots of tight shapes.
然而，在英式英语中，我们会创造出许多结构紧密的句子或表达方式。
We're moving the mouth from smiles into round shapes.
我们正在将嘴巴的形状从微笑状态调整为圆形状态。
It's changing all of the time.
它一直在发生变化。
And that's what makes it quite difficult to practice and to learn.
正因为如此，练习和学习这项技能变得相当困难。
We're a lot more tense in the throat, whereas Americans don't push the sound out so much.
我们的发音方式更加紧张、压抑（即声音在喉咙部位被过度压缩），而美国人则不会将声音强行“推出”（即不会过度用力发出声音）。
And our sounds are much shorter.
而且我们的声音持续时间要短得多。
Our vowel sounds especially can be much shorter.
我们的元音发音尤其可以变得更短（即发音时间更短）。
And remember, there are lots of different accents in the UK, there are also lots of different accents in the US.
请记住，英国有很多不同的口音，美国也有很多不同的口音。
We don't all talk like Harry Potter or BBC News Reader in England.
我们并不是所有人都会用像《哈利·波特》里的人物或英国广播公司（BBC）新闻播报员那样的方式来表达自己。
I'm from the south of England and my accent might be slightly similar to some of them,
我来自英格兰南部，我的口音可能和他们中的一些人有点相似。
but I would say it's a lot more normal and every day my accent.
但我认为这种情况其实非常普遍，我的口音几乎每天都在使用（也就是说，我的口音已经成为了我的“日常表达方式”）。
So I focus on southern English.
因此，我主要研究英格兰南部的方言。
That's what we're going to talk about here also.
这正是我们在这里要讨论的内容。
So the first thing is the letter T, the T sound.
首先，我们要学习的是字母“T”以及它所代表的发音“T”。
Now just practice it with me.
现在就跟我一起练习吧。
Put your tongue on the ridge behind your teeth, touching the gum and build up some pressure,
将舌头放在牙齿后面的那条凸起上（这个凸起会触碰到牙龈），然后逐渐施加压力。
some air and release the sound and release the tongue.
先吸入一些空气，然后发出声音，最后放松舌头。
Okay,
好的。
now try this word.
现在试试这个单词。
Better.
好多了。
Now listen to how an American would say it.
现在，听听一个美国人会是怎么说的。
They would say better.
他们会说“情况会更好”的。