和 -cl_cl- : 发尾音L, M, N 的重要性及要领

-cl_cl- 谈过如何发尾音N, very helpful. 我再作点补充.

有人曾经说过, 把一个 word 首音和尾音发好了, 别人就听懂了. 这话不无道理. 说明发好尾音跟发好首音一样重要.
 
It was a headache to spell my last name “Qin” to somebody on the phone. Many times, I have to say “Q as in quick, I as in initial and N as in Nancy”. Otherwise, they misunderstand it as “Qia”. Why? Because “N” is not pronounced correctly.
 
The following is a list of some mistakes we frequently make:

1. 尾音 “N” or “M” is not emphasized or even omitted. “Learn” >”ler” or “Ler-a”; “Home”> “ho”, “Phone”> “Pho” or “Pho-a”

2. 尾音 “L” is pronounced as “O”. eg., “Bottle”> “Botto”, “Hospital” >”Hospito”

We usually do not have too much trouble when we pronounce “L”, “M” and “N” as an initial sound because we have these consonants in Chinese, e.g., Lao (老), Lan (兰), Man (慢), Mang (忙), Neng (能), Nan (南), etc.

尾音L, M, N 的发音也不难. 发尾音L, 要把舌尖 touch 上牙牙龈, otherwise, it will sound like “O”. 声带一定要震动.

发尾音 M and N, 要有十足的鼻音.

尾音L, M, N 的发不好的症结音是什么? 三个words: Not Long Enough, 切记!!!

It is OK to exaggerate at very beginning. 把L, M, N 三个尾音拉地很长, 很长. Moon>Moonnnnn; Cotton>Cottonnnnn. 

Please read these words to your American co-workers or your children.

尾音L: Tail, Hospital, Mail, Bottle, Detail, Bill, Hotel, Oil, Spill, Tool, Wool

尾音M: Home, Bottom, Come, Mom, Ham, Team, doom, beam

尾音N: Coin, Cotton, Button, Moon, Iron, Spoon, Moon, Listen, Fasten, Ten

Thank you!
QinHwang
April 27, 2007