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1、Whatisschwa?SchwaisthenameforthemostcommonsoundinEnglish.Itisaweak,unstressedsoundanditoccursinmanywords.Itisoftenthesoundingrammarwordssuchasarticlesandprepositions.Gettingtheschwasoundcorrectisagoodwayofmakingyourpronunciationmoreaccurateandnatural.Thephonemicsymbolforthissoundis/ə/. Inunstres

2、sedsyllablesAnyvowellettercanbepronouncedasschwaandthepronunciationofavowellettercanchangedependingonwhetherthesyllableinwhichitoccursisstressedornot.Lookatthesetwowords:Intheword’man’theletter’a’hasitsfullsound-representedbythesymbol/æ/.In’postman’thesyllable’man’isnotstressedandtheletter’a’isp

3、ronouncedasschwa,representedbythesymbol/ə/. NotjustaletterThesoundschwadoesnotonlyrepresentasingleletter.Insomewordsitisthesoundofseverallettersorevenawholesyllable.Thisisoften,butnotonly,seeninwordswhichhaveasyllablemadeupofavowelletterfollowedbytheletter’r’.Remembertheschwasoundisonlyusedifthe

4、syllablewhichitisinisnotstressed. Lookattheseexamples,theschwasoundsaremarkedinred:   Thispresentisformybrother.It’sabookaboutaboywizard.   Tosurvivethecoldweatheryouhavetomakethoroughpreparations.Schwa/ə/   Thisisashortvowelsound/ə/.Andmakethissoundisjustrelaxyourmouth.Youtrylistenandrepeat/ə/,

5、andagain/ə/.InfactthisisaverycommonsoundinEnglish.Andinmanygrammarwordsistheonlyvowelsound,suchas:      a/ə/   of/ə/   the/ə/     that/ə/Let'spracticethese.Listenandrepeat.     a/ə/   of/ə/   the/ə/     that/ə/Andyoucanalsogetthissoundinmanywordswithmorethanonesyllable.Listen.     about   common

6、  standard  butter. Let'spractice.Listentomeandrepeat.    about common standard butter. ExtrainformationThemostimportantsoundinEnglish  Youcouldsayvowel/ə/ isthemostimportantvowelinEnglish.Infactitissoimportantthatithasitsownname.It'scalled“John”.No,notreally,itisactuallycalledschwa.Schwa,whichc

7、ouldbestrangeyouthinkaboutitbecausethewordschwadoesn'thaveschwa'ssound/ə/init.Sowhyisthissoundsoimportant?Wellit'sverynaturalsoundforEnglishspeakersandactuallymostfrequentsoundinEnglish.Itappearsinjusteverywordmorethantwosyl