When I told my girlfriend, she could hardly utter even a vowel sound.

当我告诉女友的时候，她几乎一声不吭。

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The other is that we link words ending with a vowel sound to words beginning with a vowel sound…

另一种就是我们把元音结尾的单词与元音开头的单词连起来读。

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Remember that if a word ends in a consonant sound and the next word starts with a vowel sound they can link together smoothly.

记住，如果单词以辅音结尾，而其后的单词又是以元音开始，那它们就会很自然地形成连读。

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The whistled language replaces each vowel or consonant with a whistling sound: two distinct whistles replace the five Spanish vowels, and there are four whistles for consonants.

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