[矫音随笔] 语音语调模仿的“过正矫枉”—
矫音的过程，我一直深信并遵循“过正矫枉”的原则。
一根弯曲的钢条，如果把它搬直后放手，它会迅速回到弯曲的状态。如果想要把它永久的校直，需要向相反的方向过度弯曲。这种道理同样适用于矫正英语口音。“李阳疯狂英语”有一个“三最”原则：最清晰，最大声，最快速。这种不同于平时讲话的，夸张的“清晰，大声，快速”的方法，无疑就是“过正矫枉”。矫音练习要取得比较好的效果，需要一定程度的“过正矫枉”。
众所周知，中文和英语发音方式，最主要的区别在于发声的部位。中文发音比较靠前，偏向于口腔发音，口型变化较小；英语发音比较靠后，偏向于喉部发声，口型变化比较大。 美国黑人讲英语特点比较明显：口型变化比较大，口腔后部发声的现象比较明显。而且演讲的时候，面对很多观众，讲话的方式类似于“喊话”，这种特点就更加明显。因此模仿练习黑人演讲，可能是一个比较有效的用于矫正“中式发音”的方法。
模仿的过程中，可以尽可能地“取其精华，去其糟粕”。由于黑人讲英语时，有些独特发音，一些单词偏向英式发音，例如单词中部分r不发音等，因此模仿中可以忽略，尽量按标准美音处理。
在马丁路德金的演讲中，大量使用了单词Negro。按目前的标准，Negro是一个贬义词。 搜索网络，可以发现有一些资料中，用colored American替代演讲中的单词Negro。但是，如果把这个词看作马丁路德金的演讲的一部分，应该不会涉及种族歧视的问题。而且在2010年美国人口普查表中，又使用了negro一词。
本人水平有限，并不能模仿地惟妙惟肖, 但通过一段时间的练习，感觉还不错。虽然这种发声方法和语调并不能直接用于平时的英语交流，但是我还是感觉到了其间接的影响。
因为这个演讲比较长，大概16分钟，我会陆续把录音分段贴出来，每段3分钟左右。希望得到大家的批评指正。我知道，其中问题可能会很多，因为我的发音还有很多问题没有解决，而且很多时候发音、语调、发声部位顾此失彼。但是我更希望能发现新问题，作为下一步继续努力的目标。
对过去曾经帮助过我矫音的XDJM，再次表示由衷地感谢！
NTOTL ----Never Too Old To Learn
I HAVE A DREAM--PART 1
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the
greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand
today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a
great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in
the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long
night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years
later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of
segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the
Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of
material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in
the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So
we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the
architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and
the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which
every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes,
black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note
insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro
people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient
funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We
refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of
opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that
will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
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