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

他爱词发、如乐般美妙辅交织碰撞。

On to the next one, then, another vowel that changes.

好，我们看下一个，同样是发生变化。

Linguists give vowels names to make it easier to talk about them.

语言学家为很多字母命了名，以此来方便讨论。

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

再注意下，最后一个辅/v/前面融。

So it's almost like a vowel sound.

所以它（help中he部分）几乎就像一个(/e/)。

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

请注意在美式英语里他们读是data，不同。

So we drop, we drop vowels, consonants and words.

我们省去、辅词。

We drop vowels and consonants when words come together, right?

当几个词连在一起时，我们会去掉一些辅。

And we get the sound of this vowel.

我们就得到了这个声。

You can link any consonant to any vowel.

您可以将任何辅与任何连。

And you release into the vowel, " e" , " te-" .

然后松开，发出/ɛ/. /tɛ/。

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

你能否写下最喜欢一个以同一开始结束词？

No, just occasionally you'll hear an elongated vowel, you'll go " oh, he's Australian" .

不，只是偶尔你会听到一个拉长，你会说“哦，他是澳大利亚人”。

And then what a surprise moving along to the next vowel, another schwa sound.

然后到下一个，另一个弱央，真是惊喜。

Now the next vowel is, well, two vowels and they're called a diphthong.

下一个是两个，它们被称为双。

Vowels are often replaced by the schwa sound.

通常被弱央代替。

We can move that consonant to any vowel at the beginning of the next word.

我们可以把这个辅连到下一个词开头，无论这个是什么。

For instance, in the word " photography, " I stressed the second vowel.

比如，在词" 摄影（photography）" 中，我会在第2个上重读。

In " can't, " the vowel sound is never reduced.

在" can’t" 发时，从来不弱读。

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

不发可以是，也可以是辅或是整个节。