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

他词的发音、如音乐般美妙的元辅音交织碰撞。

But in fluent, everyday speech, when one word ends in a plosive sound and the next begins in another consonant sound, we don't always hear the release of the plosive sound.

在日常英语中，当一词以爆破音结尾，而下一词以辅音开头，我们经常听不到爆破音的出现。

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.

如果一动词的最后三字母是辅音、元音、辅音，那么在添加i-n-g或e-d之前，我们要双拼最后一辅音。

So try this: find me a tongue sound, a lingual, that's clear, meaning voiceless, and has the first tone.

帮我找一声母属于「舌音」， 也就是（现代语言学的）舌冠音，「清」的，也就是清辅音，属于第一种声调的字。

We link the consonant onto the vowel.

我们将辅音连音到元音上。

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

再注意下，最后一辅音/v/和前面的元音融合。

In these examples, you can't link the two consonant sounds.

在些例子里，您无法两者的 辅音做连音。

" Back" and " book" begin with " b" , which is a consonant, so: " Thuh back of thuh book." Okay.

“Back”和“book”以“b”开头，“b”是辅音字母，发音 " Thuh back of thuh book." 。好的。

The r-sound is one of the last consonants that english-speaking kids learn to say.

R 音是说英语的孩子学会说的最后几辅音之一。

As a result, those two consonants can sound the same to a native Japanese speaker.

因此，两辅音母语为日语的人来说听起来是一样的。

I know there are a few tricky consonant clusters there, aren't there?

里的辅音丛不简，吧？

Here we have the R vowel-consonant. They make just one sound: ur. Hh-ur-d. You don't need to drop your jaw very much for this sound, do you?

现在是元音—辅音R。现在只需要发一音ur. Hh-ur-d.发音的时候不需要张开下巴很多。

Which sounds so much more French with the dropped consonant.

去掉辅音后，听起来更像法语。

You make consonants by bringing together two parts of your mouth or throat, like P.

你通过把嘴或喉咙的两部分放在一起来发出辅音，比如 P。

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

些包括英语演讲的元素，如元音、辅音和祈使句。

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

在写作中，有些词是以元音开头但却是辅音。

You just put the end consonant on the end of your sound.

你只需在你的声音末尾加上结尾的辅音。

However, he did make two accurate observations: the tablets were administrative records, and the script was a syllabary, where each symbol represented both a consonant and a vowel, mixed with characters that each represented a whole word.

不过，他的确做出了两项准确的观察：些泥板是行政记录；文字是音节文字，其中的每符号都代表了一辅音加元音，并融进了一些代表整词的字符。

It starts with a j sound, a consonant sound.

它以辅音 j 开头。

Oh, and do you remember how there were many hieroglyphs representing multiple consonants?

你还记得有很多象形文字代表多辅音的情况吗？