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08-Oct-2006, 09:03
| | Newbie | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Country: india
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Current Location: bangalore First Language: kannada | |  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
Last edited by karthik; 10-Oct-2006 at 17:48.
Reason: bcoz the teachers didnt get my actual difficulty
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08-Oct-2006, 12:13
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Current Location: Phnom Penh First Language: English Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: pronunciation help
Could you give some examples of the sounds or words you have trouble with? |
09-Oct-2006, 17:04
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Current Location: non-exotic city of Leicester First Language: English Member Type: Student or Learner | |  Re: pronunciation help
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.
Last edited by j4mes_bond25; 09-Oct-2006 at 17:10.
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10-Oct-2006, 00:02
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Current Location: New York First Language: American English Member Type: Academic | | Re: pronunciation help
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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. | Wouldn't it be better to divide the words into actual syllables?
de scrip tion
cit i zen ship |
10-Oct-2006, 09:23
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Current Location: non-exotic city of Leicester First Language: English Member Type: Student or Learner | | Re: pronunciation help
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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 | 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. |
10-Oct-2006, 15:46
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Current Location: New York First Language: American English Member Type: Academic | | Re: pronunciation help
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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. | 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.  |
10-Oct-2006, 15:50
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Current Location: non-exotic city of Leicester First Language: English Member Type: Student or Learner | | Re: pronunciation help
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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. | 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. |
10-Oct-2006, 17:45
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Current Location: New York First Language: American English Member Type: Academic | | Re: pronunciation help
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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. | I didn't know what that meant until I looked up "chav" and "on spring". Ah, English!  |
10-Oct-2006, 19:50
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Current Location: non-exotic city of Leicester First Language: English Member Type: Student or Learner | | Re: pronunciation help
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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! | Chav = "typical teenager" with a pea-sized intellect
on spring = on increase
English is a fan-bloody-tastic language, don't you reckon ;) |
10-Oct-2006, 19:59
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Current Location: New York First Language: American English Member Type: Academic | | Re: pronunciation help
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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 ;) | We use a different infix there. 
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