Toadino2
Member
- Joined
- May 10, 2015
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Italian
- Home Country
- Italy
- Current Location
- Italy
I'm new here, so let me know if I should post somewhere other this thread than here, or anything else
I'm Italian, and, as many English people know, all Italians add many little vowels while they speak (especially at word boundaries). I've discovered it a little time ago, and I'm trying to fix this problem, but it's not so easy... every time I try I almost get angr because that little vowel seems to appear from nowhere even if I try to do everything I can to stop it. I've tried to say the entire word before and the consonant then, not-bounded... but I've discovered I add that vowel even to isolated consonants. I've tried to pronounce a longer consonant, but it doesn't work. I've tried to close my mouth when I complete a word: I don't add a vowel, but a P. Surely a more horrible pronunciation.
Could someone give me advice? I need to learn it because this summer I'm having a two-week holiday in Edinburgh, without my parents (to go to English school), and I don't want other people to laugh while I speak
I'm Italian, and, as many English people know, all Italians add many little vowels while they speak (especially at word boundaries). I've discovered it a little time ago, and I'm trying to fix this problem, but it's not so easy... every time I try I almost get angr because that little vowel seems to appear from nowhere even if I try to do everything I can to stop it. I've tried to say the entire word before and the consonant then, not-bounded... but I've discovered I add that vowel even to isolated consonants. I've tried to pronounce a longer consonant, but it doesn't work. I've tried to close my mouth when I complete a word: I don't add a vowel, but a P. Surely a more horrible pronunciation.
Could someone give me advice? I need to learn it because this summer I'm having a two-week holiday in Edinburgh, without my parents (to go to English school), and I don't want other people to laugh while I speak