标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 3 Track 34（在线收听）

Exercise 5-9: Little Lola          CD 3 Track 34

Now that we've done this, instead of L being a hard letter to pronounce, it's the easiest one because the tongue is stuck in that position. Pause the CD to practice the reading on your own, again, with your tongue stuck to the top of your mouth. Read the following paragraph after me with your tongue in the normal position. Use good, strong intonation. Follow my lead as I start dropping h's here.

Little Lola felt left out in life. She told herself that luck controlled her and she truly believed that only by loyally following an exalted leader could she be delivered from her solitude. Unfortunately, she learned a little late that her life was her own to dealwith. When she realized it, she was already eligible for SocialSecurity and she had lent her lifelong earnings to a lowlife in Long Beach. She lay on her linoleum and slid along the floor in anguish. A little later, she leapt up and laughed. She no longer longed for a leader to tellher how to live her life. Little Lola was finally allwell.

In our next paragraph about Thirty Little Turtles, we deal with another aspect of L, namely consonant clusters. When you have a dl combination, you need to apply what you learned about liaisons and the American T as well as the L.

Since the two sounds are located in a similar position in the mouth, you know that they are going to be connected, right? You also know that all of these middle Tsare going to be pronounced D, and that you're going to leave the tongue stuck to the top of your mouth. That may leave you wondering: Where is the air to escape? The L sound is what determines that. For the D, you hold the air in, the same as for a final D, then for the L, you release it around the sides of the tongue. Let's go through the steps before proceeding to our next exercise.