crazYgeeK
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- Jun 9, 2010
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- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Vietnamese
- Home Country
- Vietnam
- Current Location
- Vietnam
Someone told me that to pronounce English words exactly and natively, learners should learn to pronounce every word and listen how they are pronounced by native speakers to partly imitate them and correct the pronunciation. Is that so hard to do? We have hundreds thousands of words. I mean that we can use some rule to know how to pronounce any word exactly at least that happens in my native language (Vietnamese). But that doen't in English.
It seems that when looking at many English names (names of person, place ...), the learners can't read them exactly as they should be read and may need to hear or listen the native speakers reading them as a standard (to imitate).
Or we can read these names some ways?
For example:
Evangeline? "E" should be read like "e" in "even" or in "ever" ...?
Minerva? "i" should be read like "i" in "minute" or in "mine" ?
Any comments is very meaningful to me!
Thank you so much!
It seems that when looking at many English names (names of person, place ...), the learners can't read them exactly as they should be read and may need to hear or listen the native speakers reading them as a standard (to imitate).
Or we can read these names some ways?
For example:
Evangeline? "E" should be read like "e" in "even" or in "ever" ...?
Minerva? "i" should be read like "i" in "minute" or in "mine" ?
Any comments is very meaningful to me!
Thank you so much!