标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 4 Track 25（在线收听）

Exercise 8-11: A True Fool          CD 4 Track 25

Repeat after me.

A true fool will choose to drool in a pool to stay cool. Who knew that such fools were in the schools, used tools, and flewballoons? Louknewand now youdo, too.

Intonation and Attitude 

There are certain sounds in any language that are considered nonsense syllables, yet impart a large amount of information to the informed listener. Each languagehas a different set of these sounds, such as eto ne in Japanese, em in Spanish, eu in French, and um in English. In this particular case, these are the sounds that a native speaker makes whenhe is thinking out loud—holding the floor, but not yet committing to actually speaking.