pronunciation help

[karthik]

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

[Tdol]

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

[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.

[MikeNewYork]

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

[j4mes_bond25]

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.

[MikeNewYork]

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.

[j4mes_bond25]

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.

[MikeNewYork]

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!

[j4mes_bond25]

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 ;)

[MikeNewYork]

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.

Two great peoples divided by a common language.