He loved the sound of words, the music of vowels and consonants jostling each other.

爱单词的发音、如音乐般美妙的元辅音交织碰撞。

Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the -ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable.

美国人全全地接受了这个新术语，但很多英国使用者却不喜欢aluminum这个名字，指出其破坏了由sodium, calcium, and strontium建立起的-ium的形式，因此在aluminum的基础上加了一个元音和一个音节。

And we get the sound of this vowel.

我就得到了这个元音的声音。

If the final three letters of a verb are consonant, vowel, consonant, we double the final consonant before we add i-n-g or e-d.

如果一个动词的最后三个字母是辅音、元音、辅音，那么在添加i-n-g或e-d之前，我要双拼最后一个辅音。

Notice, also, that the last consonant goes into the vowel.

再注意下，最后一个辅音/v/和前面的元音融合。

Note that in American English, they say data, so the vowel sound is different.

请注意在美式英语读的是data，元音不同。

Another exception again because this word begins with a U, which is a vowel letter, but the actual sound when you say this sound is a " ya" , " university" , " university" .

另一个例外，因为这个单词以U开头，U也是一个元音字母，但实际上单词的U发音“ya”, " University" , " University" 。

Can you write down your favorite word that starts and ends with the same vowel?

你能否写下最喜欢的一个以同一元音开始和结束的单词？

It can be a vowel sound, a consonant sound, a whole syllable.

不发音的可以是元音，也可以是辅音或是整个音节。

In each example the vowel with the long sound is first.

每一组例子长元音在前。

Often, unstressed vowels have a more relaxed lip position.

通常非重读元音的嘴型更放松。

The singing of Latin brought purer vowels into the King's sound, which was pleasing.

拉丁语的歌唱给国王的声音带来了更纯正的元音，这是令人愉快的。

The lot vowel is going to be very open, fronted, no lip rounding.

很多元音将是非常开放的，前置的，没有唇圆。

You can do this by underlining the vowel where the stress is.

你可以在重音所在的元音划下划线来进行标注。

These included elements of English speech such as vowels, consonants and commands.

这些包括英语演讲的元素，如元音、辅音和祈使句。

A word on pronunciation. We've got the expression: 'the rise and fall of', but said together, there's a lot of linking and some of the vowel sounds change.

多提一句有关发音的问题。我已经学了“the rise and fall of”这个表达，但是放在一起说，有很多连读，一些元音也会改变。

The vowels -- sounds you make with an open mouth – began to change.

此时，发声时嘴巴要张开的元音开始改变。

Some words that begin with a vowel letter in writing have a consonant sound.

在写作中，有些单词是以元音开头但却是辅音。

And it is the. It starts with an e sound, a vowel sound.

搭配 the。它是以元音 e 开头的。

The vowels -- sounds you make with an open mouth -- began to change.

此时，发声时嘴巴要张开的元音开始改变。