Hello, friends!
A bunch of you are well aware of the ‘Pronunciation Study Sessions’ conducted jointly by Galina and I right here on MyEC last year! The virtual class had, regrettably, ended abruptly and you haven’t got the slightest clue till this very moment! I’m sorry for keeping you, our enthusiastic learners of speech sounds, in the dark! Believe it or not, I was having problem back then saving any newly created blogs as ‘Drafts’. Usually, for your info, each blog of a study session would take four to five days for me to complete! Just recently a knight in shining armour came to my rescue and the rest is history! Thank you, teacher Tara!
Okay! Are you ready to rekindle your passion for perfect pronunciation? Great! If you remember rightly, our last lesson was Study Session 9. Now, before I post Study Session 10, I want you to record the following speech sounds, words and sentences. This is a perfect opportunity for you to recall all the 14 phonemes (speech sounds) we have introduced so far. To all those NEW KEEN LEARNERS of EC, YOU ARE INVITED too! If you think that it's too late to join us, you're wrong! Don’t worry if the speech sounds are something unheard-of to you. You can still pick them out in next to no time. It's worth learning them because the ability to identify and make the speech sounds could solve the problems concerning your pronunciation. If you put your trust in us, we will not let you down. This is your big chance!
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Click the related link if you want to revise a Study Session.
Study Session 3: consonant sounds /p/ and /b/
I didn't push him into the bush as he claimed.
Study Session 4: consonant sounds /t/ and /d/It's not true that the students drew the mural.
The cable right below our gable looks precarious.
Study Session 6: consonant sounds /f/ and /v/We saw some fast animals in the vast Amazon forest.
Study Session 7: consonant sounds /θ/ and /ð/The word ‘thigh’ sounds different from ‘thy’, if you ask me.
Study Session 8: consonant sounds /s/ and /z/We all know zinc will, without doubt, sink in water.
Study Session 9: consonant sounds /ʃ/ and /ʒ/Our leader of vision had his mission which ended in failure.
You can use this Vocaroo Voice Recorder to practise the above given task. Please take note, however, your voice will not be saved in it permanently!
Once you are ready, use either AudioPal or Audioboo to record your voice. Then, embed the audio player in the comment box. Read my blog "Make Your Voice Heard" if you don't know where to get those voice recorders and how to embed an audio player here! Please don't hesitate to ask me if you face any problems. I'll be seeing you!
“My shyness has ruined so many opportunities!”
Please don’t make that mistake, my fellow EC members!
voice recordings so far:
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They are: Prostomolotova Galina, Hala J.M, Daniel, Stephen, Asm@, Rajesh,
Selma, Hani, SkoonAlBahr, Barbare, Scarlett and Ehab Nassif
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~* GS *~
ATTENTION
If you have completed the above audio assignment, you can move on to
Comments
My Dear Teacher,
Great job! It's really useful & love to learn everything with you.
Regards/ Teresa
Dear Sir /Madam
At the first time I found the room , I wanto to continue to study in here...
Could you help me , I want to like study english with u and participant in this room,
Please give support....I want to learn english
Kusuma , Indonesia
English it's important ,with english i can go to other country and meeting many people in the world...
Thank you so much, dear teacher Galina for always encouraging me and other members here. We EC members feel so happy to have such encouraging teachers with us. Thank you so much always! :)
First, thank you for welcoming us - Galina and I. We’re really very happy to see you again in our class. I’m glad that you managed to resolve the problem you had in recording the voice. You are a smart man!
Ehab, you never cease to amaze me with your fierce determination in improving your pronunciation. I must salute you for being a diligent participant, my friend. Well! You could articulate all the fourteen consonants with ease. That’s a remarkable achievement, you know!
I just want you to be a little extra careful with the following few words.
push – bush
true – drew
precarious
mission
We’ll see you in Study Session 10. Meanwhile, have a pleasant weekend!
~* GS *~
My dear teacher Galina,
I'm so happy to receive your welcoming words, I'm glad you like my songs. I'll try my best to master my English. And won't let you down.
Thank you very much for always being kindly to us, my beloved teacher.
My dear teacher Gabriel,
I'm truly grateful for your kind words and the helpful corrections, I'll keep in mind and practice much more. Actually, intonation is my big problem. I still find it difficult to make properly. Thanks for telling me that.
Hello Ehab,
Welcome to our study,
You are good as well as the other participants :))
Members of this group will fly with Gabriel's help, Thanks to him,
Nice to see you,
Selma,
I have a website that might also be useful for this group: http://www.spokenskills.com/student-activities.cfm It is for American English, not British.
Here each English sound is listed on the page I posted. Click on the sound you wish to practice, then you will be taken to a page where someone has recorded several podcast sentences using this sound. On the same page is a flash recorder you can use to record yourself speaking one of the same sentences (it is easier to hear yourself on a recording than it is to hear during speaking). Then you can compare your recording to the pre-recorded sentence, to see how close you are to creating the correct sound.
Enjoy!
Hello Gabriel
thank you for your nice words . I have a problem in recording my voice as I see message said that falsh player and my mic not allowed . can you help me in this problem ? you can use team viewer with me thank you .
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