标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 3 Track 41（在线收听）

Exercise 5-15: Shifting Your Voice Position      CD 3 Track 41

Pinch your nose closed and sayœ. You should feel a high vibration in your nasal passages, as well as in your fingers. Now, continue holding your nose, and completely relax your throat—allow an ah sound to flow from deep in your chest. There should be no vibration in your nose at all. Go back and forth several times. Next, we practice flowing from one position to the other, so you can feel exactly when it changes from a nasal sound to a deep, richschwa. Remember how it was imitating a man's voice when you were little? Do that, pinch your nose, and repeat after me. Here, we will practice the same progression, but we will stick with the same sound, æ.

Nose  Throat  Chest

ãæ  •>  ãæ  •>  ãä  •>  ä  •>  ə  •>  ə

Nose  Throat  Chest

ãæ  •>  ãæ  •>  æ  •>  æ  •>  æ  •>  æ

As you will see in Chapter 12, there are three nasal consonants, m, n, and ng. These have non-nasal counterparts, m/b, n/d, ng/g. We're going to practice totally denasalizing your voice for a moment, which means turning the nasals intothe other consonants.We'll read the same sentence three times. The first will be quite nasal. The second will sound like you have a cold. The third will have appropriate nasal consonants, but denasalized vowels. Repeat after me.

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Now that you have moved your voice out of your nose and down intoyour diaphragm, let s apply it. A Lät of Läng, Hät Wälks in the Gärden. John was not sorry whenthe boss called off the walks in the garden. Obviously,to him, it was awfully hot, and the walks were far too long. He had not thought that walking would havecaught on the way it did, and he fought the policy from the onset.