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- Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:05 am
- Forum: Elementary Education
- Topic: Phonics--natural pronunciation
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8462
Since I first learned to pronounce a-z alphabets as an elementary student, the teacher of the supplementary school taught us to pronounce them in KK phonetic symbols. From then on, I had been used to pronouncing alphabets according to the KK phonetic symbols. Recently, many experts in Taiwan sugges...
- Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:48 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Help with "er" sound
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19799
I would give some concrete examples if I knew how to insert phonetic symbols in this message but I will try to illustrate. For instance, if you know the sound of the schwa and the /I/ symbol, it wouldn't be difficult to guess the sound produced when the two come together as a diphthong, as in the w...
- Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:29 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Help with "er" sound
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19799
Lorikeet Wrote I don't "teach" IPA. In fact, I usually use my own symbols. For example, I use CaC for the sound in bat (consonant a consonant). I use CaCe for the sound in "face" etc. I do that when I am teacher sound/spelling correspondence in my ESL classes. In my pronunciation class, however, I ...
- Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:45 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Help with "er" sound
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19799
Lorikeet, That is why sometimes phonetic transcripts are so confusing since they are so many of them. It makes learning pronunciation like hell, at least for me. Pardon me! After I learned phonics and the standard American Phonetic Alphabet, I couldn't go back to IPA, even though IPA has its own mer...
- Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:40 pm
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Help with "er" sound
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19799
Lorikeet, if you look up Americen phonetic transcript (using dictionary.com), work will be writen like wurk. Plus, if you use er to represent the ur sound, how do repesent the sound in air, hair, bear, fair, etc. I uses er to represent the sound in air, bear, fair, etc because the air is pronouncd a...
- Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:24 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Help with "er" sound
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19799
It is not the er sound.
I think that you meant the UR sound. Asian people like me always have a hard time saying the UR sound. For me, I didn't know that the word world is pronounced as wurld . So I pronounced as wald. After I knew that the UR sound as in early , it was much easier for me to practice pronouncing the word w...
- Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:01 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Pronunciation of the letter "a"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16786
Phonetic transcript sometimes can be very confusing
Phonetic transcript sometimes can be very confusing especially when you have several different phonetic transcripts, International Phonetic Transcript (APA), American Phonetic Transcript (APA), and others. When I moved to the states, I cound't figure out which one was which one because I learned lit...
- Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:42 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Pronunciation for a Chinese Speaker
- Replies: 31
- Views: 27077
Hi, I am a Chinese. In Chinese, we have the sounds P, T, and K but we don't have words ending with those sounds. That is why we have a hard time stoping saying those sounds. I meant we will pronounce mat as mata. To correct this problem, you have to tell your students say the sound without pronounci...
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:10 pm
- Forum: TOEFL
- Topic: improving scores on the ibt Speaking section
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19937
Here are the steps he/she needs.
1. Read the articles on VOA Special English. They have audio files recorded by English specialists who pronounce English clearly. 2. Download the audio files of the words he/she can't pronounce or mispronounce and practice them. 3. Record their voice and compare them against with the pre-recorded vo...
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:00 pm
- Forum: Software
- Topic: Software recommendaiton (English-English dictionary)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13129
Try www.PronunciationPatterns.com/download.html. You can use this software surfing online. Just double click any words to take you to multiple online dictionary sites with pronunciation. You can actually save the audio files on the system to practice them later.
Xin
Xin
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:57 pm
- Forum: Software
- Topic: any really accurate pronunciation software?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9801
Try Pronunciation Patterns.
Hi, try Pronunciation Patterns at www.PronunciationPatterns.com/download.html which actually breaks sound files anyway you want to break them so that students can follow not just the whole sound but also each phoneme.
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:41 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Pronunciation of the letter "a"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16786
Here are the five sounds the letter A can make.
The letter "a" in a word can stand for several different sounds:
1. the long "a" sound as in able,
2. the short "a" sound as in apple,
3. the "schwa" sound as in about,
4. the short "e" sound as in air,
5. the short "o" sound as in car.
Xin
www.PronunciationPatterns.com
1. the long "a" sound as in able,
2. the short "a" sound as in apple,
3. the "schwa" sound as in about,
4. the short "e" sound as in air,
5. the short "o" sound as in car.
Xin
www.PronunciationPatterns.com
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:35 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Pronunciation Software
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4419
Try Pronunciation Patterns.
Try Pronunciation Patterns which uses phonics and patterns to teach English pronunciation at www.PronunciationPatterns.com/download.html.
Xin Wang
www.PronunciationPatterns.com
Xin Wang
www.PronunciationPatterns.com
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:32 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Forum on English Pronunciation and Accent Reduction.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3009
Forum on English Pronunciation and Accent Reduction.
Hi all, I am working on a forum just specializing in English Pronunciation and Accent Reduction. I hope that you can post your questions or share your experiences on my forum. The URL is http://www.pronunciationpatterns.com/Scripts/w-agora/index.php?site=pronunciationpatternsforum&bn= Looking forwar...
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:26 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: How to teach adults pronunciation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5339
Using phonics to teach adults pronunciation.
Because adults can't hear some of the sounds so that they can't reproduce them. It will be very helpful for them to use visual clues like phonics to recall the correct pronunciation. Plus, phonics has been used by American Children to help them read English words out loud. You can Google on using ph...