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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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
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Try Pronunciation Patterns which uses phonics and patterns to teach English pronunciation at www.PronunciationPatterns.com/download.html.


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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...