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Jizzo T. Clown
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 Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:33 am Post subject: Excellent Pronunciation Site |
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Yes, there's a link to this on dave's homepage, but I thought I'd make it easy:
http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/
Good stuff! And if I ever needed an excuse to teach the IPA to my Japanese students, here it is (or do most Japanese students know it already?). |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
Joined: 04 Nov 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| Jizzo T. Clown wrote: |
| Good stuff! And if I ever needed an excuse to teach the IPA to my Japanese students, here it is (or do most Japanese students know it already?). |
Japanese students get a simplified version of IPA starting from JHS 2nd year. The phonemes contrasted on that website are not what mnay Japanese students get confused or slip up with.
Voiced and devoiced English /th/ is usually pronounced as English /s or English /z/ (depending on voicing).
E. /r/ and E/l/ is really hard for them, word initial minimal pairs are easier than in the middle or end (rotacized /er/ is usually "aaa")
E/i/ and E/I/ are very hard for them.
English /SH/ and English /CH/ are easy for Japanese students, but English /s/ and /sh/ are sometimes an issue ("she" versus "see").
E/W/ is easy (at least prior to a short "a" and for some Japanese speakers long "o") but harder before other vowels.
E/v/ and E/b/ is a huge problem ("ban" verses "van")
The /dz/ (as in the word Jay) without the initial [d] is very, very, very, VERY hard for them, but is rarely used in English anyway.
The next set of vowels (ar, er, ur) are very difficult as is schwa.
English /f/ is pronounced like English /h/ not English /p/ which they have no problem with (except for prior to any vowel that they don't have).
Unit 12- all of those vowels are difficult and sound pretty much alike to Japanese students except for the Engl/E/ as in "bet". The reast all sound like English /a/ in father to them. Same for schwa.
English /hw/ verses English /w/ is also very difficult, but aren't even pronounced as different phonemes in many varieties of English (they aren't in mine), so I can't see that being a big problem if they can't get it. |
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danielita
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