Some words start with vowels.

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Okay, so there are two designations used for God. Yahweh, which is the sacred Tetragrammaton, it's written with four letters in Hebrew, they don't include vowels.

上帝有两个名字，耶和华，犹太人上帝的名字,在希伯来语由四个字母构成，希伯来语没有元音。

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I think the main difference is Australians tend to mumble a little bit and to draw out their vowels,

我想，主要的区别是澳大利亚人习惯说话有点含糊，而且突出元音发音，

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They do the big step of inventing vowels so that now you don't have to remember anything.

他们在发明元音方面迈出重大一步,所以现在你不必去费力记忆

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The South, hot, slow, long vowels, great storytellers, and so on.

南方就是,气候炎热,发展缓慢,长元音,故事大王,诸如此类

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You have to know where the vowels are supposed to go, and that makes it harder to learn how to read, but when you have the vowel sounds it's easier and the Greeks made that contribution.

你必须知道这些元音都应该加在哪,这使的学习阅读变得更加困难,但是如果填入元音,那么就会简单点,而希腊人在这方面做出了贡献

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