Video Text:

[?], the schwa sound. A lot of languages have a schwa. How do we make it? It's like I wanted to make a noise without moving anything at all. Uh, uh. As you can see, the lips are barely apart, the teeth are barely apart, the tongue is forward and relaxed, the cheek and lips are completely relaxed. Uh.

[?]是中元音（發(fā)音時，舌位、唇形、開口度始終不變的元音叫中元音），很多語言中都有中元音。我們該怎么發(fā)這個音呢？這就好像我要在沒有任何動作的情況下要發(fā)出聲音一樣。Uh, uh. 正如你所看到的，嘴唇和牙齒就這么張開，舌頭在前部松弛著，臉頰和嘴唇都徹底放輕松。Uh.

Sample words:


崇高的

heaven

天堂

Sample sentence:

Today and tomorrow I'll be in Tallahassee.

今明兩天我會在塔拉哈西。