A schwa is a really reduced vowel sound.

即弱化音。

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

注意在美式英语里他们读是data，音不同。

So, before " up" , " up" , letter " u" is a vowel sound, " up" , so it's: " thee up, the up" .

所以，在“up”之前，“up”，字母“u”是一个音，" up" , 所以念作: “thee up, 向上”。

Any vowel sound we can use this schwa sound.

任何音都可以读成这个弱央音。

When a word ends with a consonant sound and the next word begins with a vowel sound, we usually connect the two words, okay?

当一个单词以辅音结尾，下一个单词以音开头时，我们通常会把这两个单词连在一起读。

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

不发音可以是音，也可以是辅音或是整个音节。

Now here are some words which have this vowel sound.

这里有一些含有这个音单词。

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。我们已经学了“the rise and fall of”这个表达，但是放在一起说，有很多连读，一些音也会改变。

This sound is a little different from all of the other vowel sounds.

这个音和其它音发音不太一样。

Vowel sounds are a good place to start.

音是一个很好出发点。

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

此时，发声时嘴巴要张开音开始改变。

In the second example I said excuse me and do you know which word I'm really using? I'm definitely using, excuse me, but I'm dropping that first vowel sound and it sounds like skews.

在第二个例子中，我说了 " 对不起" ，你知道我真正用是哪个词吗？我肯定用是 " excuse me" ，但我去掉了第一个音，听起来像是 " skews" 。

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

搭配 the。它是以音 e 开头。

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

此时，发声时嘴巴要张开音开始改变。

There's a vowel sound at the end.

最后有一个音。

The number of syllables in the word depends on the number of vowel sounds.

单词中音节数量取决于音数量。

For example, " cat" is a one-syllable word that contains one vowel sound.

例如，cat是包含一个音单音节单词。

This is very common that a T between vowel sounds will sound like a D.

音中间 T 音听起来像 D 音，这是很常见。

When you say it faster, you can remove the vowel sound.

当你说更快时候，你可以移除那个音。

Then, we have assonance, vain, and travail so that long sort of vowel sound.

然后，我们有 asonance，vain 和 travail 这些长音。