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hi, my friend, The most difficult for Chinese learners is how to pronunce "th". Many of them are quite lazy to pronunce it and they usually say it as "s", because the pronunciation of "th" is not exist in Chinese and instead, "s" is very easy for them. Moreover, Chinese tend to pronunce shorter than...

Dear jameso, Thanks very much for you opinions. I feel you have to some extent misunderstood my ideas. I mean that we who take English as a second or foreign language need not to master the standard pronunciation just like a native speaker, but the precondition is that there is no trouble in communi...

Hi fellows, For a very long time, our Chinese students are demanded to master the standard American or British prounciation. I remember when I was in the college, many students perfered American pronunciation and they spent much time on it. However, with the developing of sociolinguistics, more peop...