pronunciation help

hello teachers,

i am presently doing my engineering.i don't pronounce the words properly while speaking to others. the tongue doesn't twist properly while speaking
complex words .so please tell me any exercises that i need to do to improve my pronunciation
complex words in the sense the words which start from the same letter.
for example,
slime soccer. while conversing with someone i just cant pronounce soccer.i pronounce it as
slime sloccer

Could you give some examples of the sounds or words you have trouble with?

I'm in agreement with Tdol, since giving us examples of certain words that you may've been having problems with would help us firstly to identify it's "phonetics" & then once we get to know that, we could most certainly point you in the right direction about how exactly you need to ARTICULATE the individual sounds occuring in a particular word.

If you meant "complex" words as any "long" words like:

>> description
>> citizenship
>> automobile

then you need to break it up into small chunks like:

>> des.crip.tion
>> citi.zen.ship
>> auto.mo.bile

This will help you pronounce each individual "syllable" seperately with "stress" on certain "syllable", after all, as you'd have known that English is a language having "stressed & unstressed" syllable.

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Originally Posted by j4mes_bond25

I'm in agreement with Tdol, since giving us examples of certain words that you may've been having problems with would help us firstly to identify it's "phonetics" & then once we get to know that, we could most certainly point you in the right direction about how exactly you need to ARTICULATE the individual sounds occuring in a particular word.

If you meant "complex" words as any "long" words like:

>> description
>> citizenship
>> automobile

then you need to break it up into small chunks like:

>> des.crip.tion
>> citi.zen.ship
>> auto.mo.bile

This will help you pronounce each individual "syllable" seperately with "stress" on certain "syllable", after all, as you'd have known that English is a language having "stressed & unstressed" syllable.

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Wouldn't it be better to divide the words into actual syllables?

de scrip tion
cit i zen ship

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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork

Wouldn't it be better to divide the words into actual syllables?

de scrip tion
cit i zen ship

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Indeed. Strictly speaking, your logic makes MORE sense but just a tad bit "advanced" to understand for someone who may not've been aware of the "syllable", "stress pattern" within the English language, I suppose.

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Originally Posted by j4mes_bond25

Indeed. Strictly speaking, your logic makes MORE sense but just a tad bit "advanced" to understand for someone who may not've been aware of the "syllable", "stress pattern" within the English language, I suppose.

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I see your point, but dictionaries break words up by syllables. I just wanted to minimize confusion. Students should use dictionaries more than they seem to. :-)

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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork

I see your point, but dictionaries break words up by syllables. I just wanted to minimize confusion. Students should use dictionaries more than they seem to. :-)

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Sadly, while the "chav" culture is on spring, there seems a trend for mobile texting in today's "iPOD generation" & for them, the idea of using dictionary is rather archaic.

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Originally Posted by j4mes_bond25

Sadly, while the "chav" culture is on spring, there seems a trend for mobile texting in today's "iPOD generation" & for them, the idea of using dictionary is rather archaic.

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I didn't know what that meant until I looked up "chav" and "on spring". Ah, English! :-D

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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork

I didn't know what that meant until I looked up "chav" and "on spring". Ah, English! :-D

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Chav = "typical teenager" with a pea-sized intellect
on spring = on increase

English is a fan-bloody-tastic language, don't you reckon ;)

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Originally Posted by j4mes_bond25

Chav = "typical teenager" with a pea-sized intellect
on spring = on increase

English is a fan-bloody-tastic language, don't you reckon ;)

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We use a different infix there. :shock:

Two great peoples divided by a common language. ;-)