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Hello! I'm John Russell.
大家好！我是约翰·拉塞尔。
Vowel sounds are very important in American English.
元音在美式英语中非常重要。
If you want to reduce your accent or sound more like an American, it is worth paying careful attention to the differences between these sounds.
如果你想纠正你的口音，即令你的发音听起来更像美国人，那么仔细注意这些音素之间的区别是值得的。
So, let's play a game.
我们来玩个游戏吧。
We will listen to a sentence and decide which vowel sound plays a more important part in the sentence.
我们将会听到一个句子，并决定哪个元音在句子中起着更重要的作用。
What are our two vowel sounds?
我们的两个元音是什么？
The first one is written like this in International Phonetic Alphabet (or IPA): /ae/.
第一个元音在国际音标中写成这样：/ae/（正确写法见视频）。
This vowel sound appears in words such as "hat" or "man".
这个元音出现在诸如“hat”或“man”之类的单词中。
The second vowel sound is written like this in IPA: /a/.
第二个元音在国际音标中写成这样：/a/（正确写法见视频）。
This vowel sound appears in words like "stop" or "job".
这个元音出现在诸如“stop”或“job”之类的单词中。
So, we have our two vowel sounds: /ae/ and /a/.
因此，我们有了两个元音：/ae/和/a/（正确写法见视频）。
You will now hear a sentence.
现在你将会听到一个句子。
Which vowel sound is more common in the sentence?
哪个元音在句子中更常见？
His father is confident that he got the job at the body shop.
他的父亲非常确信他得到了在汽车修理厂的工作。
The answer is this: /a/
答案是：/a/（正确写法见视频）。
This vowel sound appears many times in the sentence you heard.
这个元音在你听到的句子中出现了很多次。
You heard it in: father, confident, got, job, body, shop.
你在以下单词中听到了该元音：father，confident，got，job，body，shop。
So, if we analyze the sentence "His father is confident that he got the job at the body shop," we can say that the vowel sound /a/ plays an important part.
所以，如果我们分析“他的父亲非常确信他得到了在汽车修理厂的工作”这句话，我们可以说，元音/a/（正确写法见视频）起着很重要的作用。
It is like the star or main actor of the sentence.
它就像这句话的主角。
That's all for today! Keep up the good work!
今天就到这里吧！继续努力！
