みなさん こんにちはHello everyoneI'm your host Scott PerryAnd this is Let's Talk HawaiiLive from Honolulu this timeThis program is about English pronunciation, communication, and interesting things in peopleYou can see me here every other Tuesday at 3pmみなさん こんにちはLet's Talk Hawaiiなんですけど毎、毎、毎、毎日、日本の時間は10時ですよね朝の10時今日のトピックはThe most mistaken soundsSo today we're going to talk about ABCsIt's basic 簡単なことなんですけどよく失敗…あのポイントがありますよねでもその前には最近3日前日本から帰ってきてI just came back from JapanAnd still a little bit of JisabokeですねSo I'm 10 o'clock Japan timeなんですけどHawaiiには感じですあんまり変わらないよねAnd at a really interesting timeI was there for over 2 weeks2週間以上行ったんで久しぶりですIt was many years since I was backSo I was attending several workshops and seminarsTraining sessions and other workAnd I was speaking at a conferenceAnd as you can see there600人以上の人が来たんでAnd there I am speakingSo it was very…That was my largest crowd600人が結構こうやって見てEverybodyが真面目な顔してこうやってずっと見てでもね100人、50人、600人あんまり変わらないFocusが just talk and kind of look at the peopleあんまりFocusしてないでねJust generally talkingSo you can see there was a lot of peopleThey were very excitedいろんなところが来たんでなんか大阪とか遠いところから1時間、新幹線2時間、新幹線で来てAnd we talked about English pronunciationI did many level checks何人のlevel checkもしましたんでAnd I have generated several new studentsWho are now beginning to change their lives as wellAnd today we are going to talk aboutDangerous lettersOr mistaken lettersNow everyone knows the ABCs日本では皆さんが中学、幼稚園からABCの勉強しますABCは生活中の皆さんが分かると思いますけどVery basic日本語と違ってAmerican EnglishUses letters a little bit differentlyThey don't always sound the sameSo the letter may look like an AIt's an A, but it could have a different soundA, A, AAnd it doesn't...You can't read it like you see itIt may change日本語と違ってABCsそのままIf you see some letter in JapaneseそのままIt's easy to read everything日本語では everything looks like it soundsBut that's not true for English英語ではそういうことではないですねSo in English you have to be careful本当は見ない方がいい言葉ずっと見てじゃあなんだYou can't read itYou can't understand itOne exampleI was in MidtownRoppongiのMidtownでHaving lunch with co-workersそれがこの店の名前は何ですかHow do you say thisThis clothing store nameI saidI've never heard of thisAnd it was a long nameAnd a lot of lettersだいたい分かったけどI'm not sureIn Japan they will often createMany interesting letter combinationsだけどI saidI can't say itI don't know itI haven't heard itでYou're AmericanI saidYeah butJust because it's writtenDoesn't mean I know the soundSo a different soundCan be given to any letterSo if I hear it一回聞いたらわかりますけど聞かないと誰でもわからないと思いますGuessができるけどIt could beBut it says it differentlySo we cannot assumeIt sounds like it looksそうするとYou will be mistakenMore than correctSo we're going to be carefulI'm sureI don't knowLettersNow one of theI guess the mostCommonly mistaken lettersare a, i, and rI just say airOn my chart hereYou can seeIt's日本ではない例えば日本ではAの音がありますああ音がありますなんだけどほとんどの音はあlike applethatcatheadイリス人もdoes not exist in British English as wellandbut American Englishほとんどの音は日本ではない例えば日本ではAの音がありますああ音がありますなんだけどほとんどの音はほとんどの音がそれですSoin Japanesewhen you might sayhatorcator thathatcutzutcutmat英語ではmad日本語ではmatAさんがありませんから65%approximatelyof the lettersI say areahということはA使わなかったら65% of your A sounds are wrongincorrectyou want to be carefulIis probably anotherwellandもしかしてIが一番難しいA, I, R両方が難しいなんだけどI一番hard to fixit's a visual problemyou were taughtthat Iis Eso every time you see letter Iyou were taught to say Ewe were taught to say I or Eso when you see this letterこの文字を見たらE is maybe 90% of the timesithititfitmisscaselist日本語英語ではsit, fit, hit, miss, kisseverything is an Ewe use the E sound as wellbutso when you arelooking at a letterI tell peopleif you basicallyjust take the E soundball it up in a piece of paperand throw it awayyou will be better offyou will be correctat least 90% of the timeif you never say E againnow that's not possiblebut it would be better for youso when you see letter Istart thinkingis itI is it E or Eほとんど Eso for examplelistL-I-S-Tlistlist日本語では listそういう言い方するとAmericans may make a mistakeand not understand youso basicallya few letter adjustmentsand you are going to beunderstood much betterlist言い方はあのベロがyou pull your tongue back引っ張ってちょっとなんか下の歯の裏からちょっとベロ引っ張ってニコニコしてAA回復しているAと同じその方がいいしっかりいるとEに近いから下があの歯の裏に当たったらEっていうの音が出ますそれじゃなくてAってことはちょっとベロが引っ張ってand笑って息吐き出すA近くにするとEになるからダメですねSo you want to make sure you are sayingA for everything儚い英語で言うとFishFishANow見るだけでIf you just look at the letteryour brainあの今までEだからパッてみてすぐEが出てくる障害の当たり前ですよね今までの人生はS-PenE確かに今EにしてくださいSo in my systemI typically rewrite the letterI did an episode beforewhere I saidReading English is probablygoing to be bad for your pronunciationThat means when you see a letterthat you knowyour original soundgonna come outEYou have to rewrite itEHlike イモジHイメージが出てくるそうするとEが言いにくい言いにくくなるAnother letter is RA-I-RAir is badそうじゃなくてHawaii the air is really cleanBut A-I-RR sound is technically difficultAnd it's difficult becauseit does not existin your language, in Japanese逆にthe equivalentあるいは似てるような音がdoes not exist in Englishfor examplein EnglishあるいはR is リリが始まる人例えばリかor イチローリンコーそういう音はwe don't have that soundso we always sayイチローRincoリンコじゃなくて リンコwe don't have that D soundit's a Land an IcombinationDdifferent tongue positionmy son's name isdaydayandpeople cannot sayday, it just becomes rayso in Japanesein Japan he's dayin America it would be rayso we don't have that soundso we don't say that soundwe say something different逆にR or Ryou don't have the soundsomething closebut it's notaccurateso to be accuratewe want to changethe way you make the sound言い方をあるいは下の位置を変わるもしかして you were toldでろ出して回ってtechnicallythat will makean R soundなんちゃって RRI can make the sound like thatRI've never done that in my life thoughI don't know any friendsthat say R alsobut if you don't know how to explain itちゃんと説明できなかったらそれ一番 easythat's the easiest way to explain itif you don't really know how to explain itsowhat we want to actually dois we want toちょっとぐらい上げてこういうイメージじゃなくてwe're just going to raise itjust a little bitandベルの奥の方が上がります奥の方が上の奥場に当たります右左にRI'm just going to pull it back a little bitちょっと引っ張ってちょっと上げてand thenRR口をよく見たら皆さんがちょっと上がってるけどこんなじゃなくてねso I'm going toexplain a little bit more about thisand many other lettersandwe're going to take a short breakin a momentand then I'll be right backbut until thenpracticeR丸くちしてくちこうやってRwe want to make the round lipspull the tongue backraise the tongue a little bitand say itwe'll be right back after this short breakHi, I'm Rusty Kamori, host of Beyond the LinesI was the head coachfor the Punahou Boys varsity tennis teamfor 22 yearsand we were fortunateto win 22 consecutive state championshipthis show is based on my bookwhich is also titled Beyond the Linesand it's about leadershipcreating a superior culture of excellenceachieving and sustaining successand finding greatnessif you're a student, parentsports or business personand want to improve your lifeand the lives of people around youtune in and join me on Mondaysat 11am as we go beyond the lineson ThinkTec Hawaii, AlohaAlohaI'm Marcia Joynerinviting you to join uson Wednesdaysat one o'clockfor Cannabis Chroniclesa 10,000 year odysseywhere we take a look at cannabisas food, cannabis as medicinecannabis and religioncannabis and dear old Uncle Samso please join usto learn all about cannabisagain Wednesdaysat one o'clockthank youhello welcome backI'm Scott PerryI'm your hostand this is Let's Talk Hawaiiday we are reviewingand talking aboutletters that create problemsor the most mistaken sounddanger's letterswe're just talking about letter R今まではRの話したんでちゃんと練習しましたかRといえばhaireartherethis letter right hereway over therenowrunrice日本のRが飛んでるRですイギリスRも一緒beertherecawin English we're going to take the Rand drop itand make it a stronger soundslow it downゆっくりするとit makes a stronger sound sojust slowing it downwill create a deeper soundfor examplehairrjust slowing it downspeeding it upwill make it sound like it's risingslow it downwill make it sound like it's droppingtherefarcarrunreadricewanna start lowrunthat would be a basic way to do itkey pointtongue in the back is pushing upyour tongue is not curled like thisit's just up a little bitand you speak like thatnowmoving onthere's all the other letterbefore that I'm going to talk about THTH is also a difficult lettercombinationbecause of the shapeit does not existyou don't need a TH in Japaneseso you never stick your tongue outthere's no ベルダス音 in Japaneseyou don't have to ever do thatlikethetheythisthesethemthattheseThursdaythroughyou don't need to make that shapeso many people are not used to itseems strangefor maybe American peoplethat some people cannot stick their tongue outand make this shapebut actuallyit's more difficultthan we might knowso I teach students every dayand groups of many peopleand they are sticking their tongue outlike thisall kinds of different waysand I realizethe muscles to do thisvery simplethese corner musclesbasically we're pushing inlike thisand themany times students arekind of relaxedsound is coming out of the cornersunderneathactuallyit takes energy but not too muchtheretheythisthat's the THand it has to be ashindo notevibration sounduhuhthat's the soundfor most American peoplenow some peopleand some Japaneseand around the worldcannot do thissome people can dosome people canand some people canwhat I foundis thatdikinai shita wahave a challenge with THtheir tongue has less controland their tongue is floatingin their mouth moremy tongue can stay flatsteadyit doesn't moveI can control iteasilywhen they are makingthis soundeven Americansthat cannot do ityou would never notice気がつかないと思いますアメリカ人ができなくてもわからないなぜかっていうのはthey have adjustedand basicallyspeed right over the soundso it's more of an explosion soundあるいは爆発音that, they, this, thesewhen your tongue is flatcompletely flatthere's no space for the air息が出ないからゥーができないよく見たらmy tongue is making a small little Vゥーand軽くI'm biting lightthe little small spacefor the air to come outand the vibrationbut if my tongue is completely flatなんかthere's no spaceso it just becomes asound like thatthey, there, Thursdaythese, thoseand no vibrationso don't worry if you can't do itno big dealsound still sounds fine音がまだ大丈夫できなくても大丈夫ですsonow the rest of the lettersABCs everybody knowsbutほとんどの人I've been teaching for 32 yearsandpsychingpeople are mysteriouslyknowing these soundsI guess others are borrowingmy techniquesbut for the first 25 yearsno one knew the sounds of the ABCslike none, none, what are you talking aboutevery letter has a soundand we use the soundswe don't use the letterswe don't saywe don't saywe don't saywe say catwe use the sounds to maketo make the wordsso for example Awe're gonna call thatBtechnically B has no soundso people might sayB or Bbut that's just the vowel after the Blike Bの後の音so B and O is bothB and E is BB and A is Bでも Bだけは no soundlike親指 is just thumbandのぼり ClimbBがっても there's never a soundit's for spelling purposenow when you open your mouthin the B positionB is thisthat's Bnext to it has to have a vowelor there's no soundB OO sounds likeOBBthere's always a vowel next to the Bthat's where your sound comes fromCの音は二つありますC and K are cousinsthey share the same soundD is not reallybut it's more like a tongue positionand airDogDidDudeit's more of a tongue position and airE is a vowelevery vowel is also the soundE is EE is Eand there's another E sound as wellnot so commonF is only an air soundF is not a Otoit's just airthat's the sound of Fsoif you can't make that air soundyou're not making the FFが生きの音ですあのーなんて言うあのーAKDAEF sound has to bejust as loud as another soundso it's not like small soundsand loud soundsthere's just one soundI'm gonna go quickly through the restGGit's more of a gluteal sound in the back of your throatit's not G-O or GAit's just Gthat's basically the sound that G makesHnot the air生きの音ですIJit's not Jthat would be J and an Abut it's more of a GJ soundJumpbackjustKKK脳の奥の方からKKTongue in the middle真ん中辺が上がっちゃってKごめんなさいTongue in the back raises to make a KKLニコニコしながらDair coming out of the sidesyour tongue is hereair comes around your tongueDnever close your lipslike lady listM鼻からの音鼻だけでM全部鼻からですMが同じなんですけど口開きますMMどっちの音だろうwe look at the mouth口が開いたらif your mouth is open it's an N閉じたらMOhas five soundUUlike oneit has several soundsit's trickyI'll have to go over that in detail laterPjust airPの口の形でQit's not Ku butit's just that sound of like a driedalmost dry butquick, quiet, queen, quiltthat's the soundRさっき練習したばっかりでSSベロがちょっと引っ張ってWe did the floatingand thenSusually pretty easyTTベロが上の天井に当たってand hanasuTU丸口してベロが七端の1でHでU丸口Uand OV出してみるあげてVVeryVoiceVaceWがTrickyほとんどみなさんがわからないんだW isU soundLow breathing soUXX that's itSixSixand Y is alsoEandYYellaYayayayaand ZZSo if you can say the ABCs by sound, it would beA, B, C, F, G, H, G, L, N, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, O, V, W, X, Y, ZThat would be the ABCs and by soundwhich is probably more important for speaking than the ABCs, the names.That's pretty much the end of my show today.And I hope you found that interesting.I'm going to be talking more about this.またこういうことやりますからThank you for watching. Let's talk Hawaii.I'm your host Scott Perry.Thank you and have a great day.