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Hi everybody,

I am not a teacher, I  am just a dedicated learner.

This blog aims to share some notes in order to give encouragement about pronunciation.  I'm making a self-study without any tutorial, the only things in my progress are internet and books.

While making this process, I realized that issue requires a highly deep research.

In brief outline;

I learned that there had been 15 vowel sounds and five of them are called "front vowel sounds".

/ i / , / I / , / ei / , / e /, / ae /

and following them central and back vowel sounds also diphthong and R-colored sounds.

Position of Lip,tongue,mouth is highly important.

For example;

Lips: Spread, Mouth:from close to opening more, Tongue: forward and from high to lower, like that

See some literature:

Long, Short, Long, Short, Short

tense, relax, tense, relax, tense

   (i)    (ı)    (ei )  (e)     (ae)

To be aware of relations between them and understand the differences,

you can look at this link

• you should learn phonemic symbol
  
• don't need to be expert but  should be familiar with the phonemes.
  

The role of language in my life is more than a communication, I love dealing with english.

Please note what Josef Essberger's (who is founder of EC) said ;

"If you use word stress in your speech, you will instantly and automatically improve your pronunciation and your comprehension."

"Your first step is to HEAR and recognise it."

Two important rules about word stress:

1. One word, one stress
2. The stress is always on a vowel

 http://www.englishclub.com/esl-articles/199810.htm

very very useful another material for ESL  VOA learning english; listen and repeat,

 GOOD NEWS & JOIN US IN Gabriel&Galina grasping pronunciation Course; here is the first lesson

TARA'S TIP;  Are you wondering how to improve your pronunciation?

Good Luck,

-Selma-

My other Sources;

Ipa for English, ,vowel sound,Phonetic and non-Phonetic system,

Combination of vowel letters, "SPELLING", Unicode for Phonetic symbols,

linking tips,

Aeiou, 

English phonology

My handy guide Ipa character picker,  phonemic chart (RP) English Club

The most important sound is SCHWA that every learner should know, I came across a definition of schwa which has been made clearly that it can be remembered easily what schwa is.

"The word -Schwa - comes from the hebrew word schwa, which means; a mark indicating lack of a vowel sound"  here is the video has a good teaching technic.