Speaking English: How To Sound Natural and Smooth · Rachel's English
本视频介绍一种帮助非母语者自然流畅说英语的新方法，通过模仿特定发音技巧（monster voice）来改善语感。适合练习发音和语调，提升口语自信。
You're going to sound so natural speaking American English.
当你说美式英语时，你的表达会显得非常自然、流畅。
Hey Internet, so I just taught a
嘿，互联网的朋友们：我刚刚教了一个……（不过这里的内容似乎不完整或不清楚。）
live class for my students in Rachel's in the Academy and something kind of funny happened and I wanted to share it with you.
今天我为在 Rachel’s in the Academy 学习的学生们上了一堂实时直播课。期间发生了一件挺有趣的事情，我想和大家分享一下。
As I was working with the students on her overall sound and how to sound more natural,
在我与学生们一起研究她的整体发音方式以及如何让发音更加自然的过程中……
I realized that it actually helped her
我意识到这确实对她有帮助。
a lot to sound really good and really natural speaking American English if she did this thing that I named the monster voice.
如果她使用了我称之为“怪物音效”的那种说话方式，那么她的英语发音确实会显得非常流畅、自然，就像地道的美国英语一样。
In case you don't know who I am, my name is Rachel and I've been teaching the American accent for over two decades.
如果您还不知道我是谁的话，我的名字叫瑞秋（Rachel），我从事美国口音教学的工作已经超过二十年了。
I'm so passionate about helping non -native
我对帮助那些英语不是母语的人充满热情。
speakers of English sound the way they
说英语的人说话的方式就是这样的……
want to sound speaking English and I
我想让自己的英语听起来更像是在正常对话中使用的那种英语（即更自然、更流畅）。
would love to give you my free cheat sheet that shows the mouth positions for all of the sounds in American English.
我很乐意把我的免费学习资料分享给你，这份资料详细列出了美式英语中所有发音对应的嘴型（即发音时嘴巴应该做出的具体形状）。
So if you want to check that out, please scan this QR code or go to the link in the video description.
因此，如果您想查看相关内容，请扫描这个 QR 码，或者访问视频描述中的链接。
So I'm going to show you some clips from the live class.
那么，我将向你们展示一些来自现场课程的片段。
I actually worked with two students on this and I'm going to say if you imitate this and you get the monster voice,
实际上，我和两名学生一起完成了这个项目。我想说的是：如果你模仿他们的方法，然后发出那种“怪物般”的声音的话……
you absolutely nail it, you absolutely figure
你说得太对了，完全说中了！
out how to do it and you
（说明）如何去做这件事，而你……
do it a lot and get used
多做几次，慢慢就会习惯的。
to the feeling of it and then
根据直觉行事，然后……
you drop American English into that shape of the body that you have to make to make the monster voice.
你需要将自己的身体调整到适合发出那种“怪物般的声音”的状态，然后才能使用美式英语来表达这种声音。
You're gonna sound so natural speaking American English so please give it a try.
当你用美式英语说话时，会显得非常自然、流畅。所以请一定要试试看！
Here's the first student I worked with.
这是我合作过的第一个学生。
Her native language is German.
她的母语是德语。
I actually thought it was better.
实际上，我觉得这样反而更好。
Okay, do it again.
好的，再试一次吧。
Two weeks.
两周。
Yes.
是的。
Just see what happens if we bring it down to an unreasonable pitch that we would never actually speak with.
看看如果我们把讨论的难度提高到一种不切实际的水平（即我们根本不可能真正进行实际对话的水平）会发生什么吧。
But just to see what it feels like in the body.
只是想体验一下这种感觉在身体中的具体表现罢了。
Two weeks.
两周。
Two weeks.
两周。
Two.
二。
Two.
两个。
Two.
两个。
Two.
二。
Yeah, like I can't go lower than that as much as I would like to.
是啊，虽然我很想再降低标准，但实际上已经无法再降低了。
Two.
二。
Oh, try that.
哦，试试看吧。
Two.
两个。
Two.
二。
Uh -huh.
嗯……是的。