发音不准 poor pronunciation leads to misunderstanding
true story 真实故事
i was having a conversation with a friend about food and he was telling me how fond he was of western food.at one point,how-ever, he said something that sound-ed iike，“i really like pizza pizza.”it would be like a westerner saying“i like dumplings dumplings.”the problem was poor pronuncia- tion.what the student really wanted to say was,“i really like a pied of pizza.”
我和一位朋友讨论食物，他告诉我他很喜欢西餐。但忽然他说的听起来像:"i really like pizza pizza.(我真一喜欢比萨饼比萨饼)”，就好像西方人的说法:"i like dumplings dumplings.(我喜欢饺子饺子)”。问题就在于发音不准。这个学生真正想说的是:"i really like a piece of pizza.(我很喜欢比萨饼)”
知识扩展
分析提示：
the pronunciation problem here is essentially a problem of“word joining”(连读).in english，when certain words are read together, the sounds blend together:piece of=pieta
发音练习：
now take a look at some other common examples of phonetics:
want to=wanna—(美俚)想要，希望
don't know=dunno—(口)不知道
going to=gonna—(美)将要
kind of--kinda—有一点，有几分
isn}aren't =ain't—不是
what do you=whatcha—什么
give me=gimme(口)给我