标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD3 Track 32

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Exercise 5-7: Silent Ls        CD3 Track 32 

Once you've found all the L sounds, the good news is that very often you don't even have to pronounce them. Read the following list of words after me.

1.  would  could  should

2.  chalk  talk  walk

3.  calm  palm  psalm

4.  already  alright  almond

5.  although  almost  always

6.  salmon  alms  Albany

7.  folk  caulk  polka

Before reading about Little Lola in the next exercise, I'm going to get off the specific subject of L for the moment to talk about learning¹ in general. Frequently, when you have some difficult task to do, you either avoid it ordo it with dread². I'd like you to take the opposite point of view For this exercise, you're going to completely focus on the thing that's most difficult: leaving your tongue attached to the top of your mouth. And rather than saying, "Oh, here comes an L, I'd better do something with my tongue,"just leave your tongue attached all through the entire paragraph!

Remember our clenched-teeth reading of What Must the Sun Above Wonder About?, in Chapter 3? Well, it's time for usto make weird³ sounds again.