这本书是讲述美语发音训练的。已经看了一段时间了，决定向周叶学习，记录读书笔记。计划每天花半个小时，学习3节左右的音频（按照CD TRACK)，并完成训练。
CD1
Track1
What is Accent？
Accent is a combination of three main components:intonation(speech music),liaisons(word connections),pronunciation(the spoken sounds of vowels,consonants,and combinations).
Many people equate accent with pronuncation. But this is not true.
Less than it appears...More than it appears...
有时候我们会加一些音节，有时候则会减少。例如pool单音节听上去像两个音节、feel，business的si不会发出来zi的音。
Language is fluent and fluid.这一小段有不少鼓励的话。“改变发音”就像从手动挡切换到自动挡。
Track2
It shows eight tense vowels and six lax vowels and semivowels.
** take(a),eat(e),ice(i),hope(o),smooth(u),caught（发类似牙医看牙时的声音，“阿”）,cat（发“阿”到e过渡）,down（梅花音+O）。其中前五个，发字母本身的音。
A tense vowels requires you to use a lot of facial muscles.书中有口腔位置的描述。
** get,it,took,some,
** her,dull
voiced consonant and unvoiced consonant
p,b/v,f/s,z/think,that/g,k/t,d/garage,bridge/choke,sheet/
l,r,h,w,j
Pronunciation points:
1、hurry
2、不区分a和sort
3、r按照半元音来处理。
4、ow按照梅花音加o来处理。
5、sibilant and plosive，th 和v 是plosive
Track3 电话测试内容
Chapter1 Intonation
Track4
American Intonation Do‘s and Don‘ts
*Do not speak word by word
*Connect words to form sound groups
*Use staircase intonation
What exatly is “staircase intonation”？
We‘re here；No；
seat和seed,以unvoiced consonant（t，k，s，x，f，sh）结尾的词，前面的元音发的短，一个台阶；,以voiced consonant（b，d，g，z，v，zh，j）结尾的词，前面的元音发的长，像两个台阶；
Three ways to make Intonation
Get louder，streeeetch the word，to change pitch(这一点还要仔细体会是什么意思，会是重音或者音高的变化吗？）.