I’d appreciate it if you could answer the following questions:
1. Why do you find it difficult to pronounce the English words?
2. What are the measures you’ve taken to improve your pronunciation?
3. What is the best approach to polish one’s pronunciation?
4. Could there be an effective solution to all the problems related to pronunciation?
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NOTE: If you would like to record your voice pronouncing the eighteen words that the parrot has listed above, be my guest! The first person who pronounces all the words correctly stands the chance to win a 'Mystery Gift'. The gift will be posted to the winner's home address!
Are your clueless where to get a voice recorder or how to embed an audio player here? Please check my blog, "Make your voice heard." It has everything you need to know about voice recording!
Thank you!
On a slightly different note, are you the kind of person who loves fun and challenges? If you are, why don't you drop in on my blogs and see what I have in store for you?
1. Find the hidden expressions!
2. Can you read the sentences?
3. You too can play music like a pro!
4. What question tag would you use?
~* GS *~
February 27, 2013
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Hi, there!
Thank you for dropping by and hitting on the "Like" button. By the way, don't you guys wanna share your thoughts about the issue with us? I'd appreciate it! ;-)
Hello dear teacher Gabriel ... It was so long to me since my last share in your useful blogs. I missed them :) I always wait every new from you especially what is related to pronunciation. Here is my answers to your questions:
1- It's difficult to pronounce English words because we didn't have the right source to get right pronunciation educationally. We didn't have professional teachers to teach us how to pronounce right.
2- The right measure to me is to follow the right ways in learning how to pronunciation. Moreover, to listen more to native English speakers and watch their mouths to find how they pronounce words. According to me follow your lessons is the first step in that way. I admit that recording my voice motivates me to improve my pronunciation.
3- I think it's so difficult to me to polish one’s pronunciation, but I think that it could be by practicing more and more.
4- The most solution is to practice, too. listen more and try to record what you had listened by that way we could find out our mistakes in pronunciation :)
Thanks so much ... I'm waiting for more benefits.
It's been a long time since I was with EC.......so sorry for the spacious gap between my words and the audioboo recording.......It seems I am groping for the right keys to keep the space at a nice interval but could not....... Really, am feeling like a newbie... haha
And these are my answers to your questions...........
1. Pronunciation of English words makes it difficult for me to pronounce because my tongue is so used to pronouncing my own language which is FILIPINO.
2. Oh my..........I don't know if I have improved so far, hahaha. The only measure I know is to imitate English speaking people how they utter and pronounce English words.
3. Gosh........this is difficult for an ordinary person like me......hihihi! I think that the best approach to polish one's pronunciation is to follow the old cliche which is "PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT". Oldie but effective, right?
4. With so much enthusiasm, I faithfully believe that there is always an effective solution to all the problems related to pronunciation, a solution that perfectly answers the needs of the learners.
So happy to be here once again..............wishing you the best, Gabs! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
How are you dear Gabs? WOW...... this is another great inspiring work of yours. I was dropping by but tempted to give this activity of yours a try......
I hope I met your expectation......if not, I am under your supervision hihihi.......THANK YOU SO MUCH Gabs.......... Below is the recording of my pronunciation...
Have a nice day......................see ya next time!
1. for me, its not really difficult, Im not a native speaker but I have been expose to american english since i was 5, seeing lots of tv shows, listening to american music and reading english books helped me a lot.
2.I always advice my online students to listen to american music and watch american tv shows, specially talk shows and reality tv shows.
3. practice and find a language partner with a higher level of english skills
4. This is a tough question for me, because english learners are from different countries that means different cultures and ofcourse different languages. I cannot think of an effective way that will suit for anyone who wants to improve their pronunciation, but for me, the most effective way is to immerse in a country where everyone speaks english. I know this can cost a lot of money but its the most effective.
Hello great friends of me :)
Here is what plays the most in the process of my pronunciation 's betterment ,Listening to the way of words are pronounced .And that's it.
P.S:I am missing to be active part in the blogs of you dear Gabriel :) Hope you will conclude applied and very useful solutions to help we conquer difficulties of correct pronunciation in English.
With Love, Hani :)
1. I think that it is because my native language does not have the sounds of English.. so it´s hard to discover how to make them.
2. I watch news in English, I listen very carefully and try to repeat the pronunciation, I listen the two, BBC and CNN.. haha
3. Just practicing.. doesn´t matter if at the beginning you made some mispronunciation ..it gets better with the practice
4. Yes, I think that this kind of websites, the use of technology and the access that we have today to a foreign language, are together a good solution to acquire a correct pronunciation.
Thank you Gabriel for rising these important questions ! It's so important to know the difficulties in studying and improving our pronunciation so that we can overcome them .
My answers are :
1-It's difficult to pronounce English words because English pronunciation is tricky , and the vowels have many different pronunciation ,for example : the letter ( a ) in the two simple words : car and cat
and also ,the pronunciation of the words are different from their spelling in many words.
2- I think the measures we should take to polish our pronunciation are :
- Learn the phonetic transcriptions and use a good dictionary with an audio recordings of the words
-Listen as much as we can and practice reading aloud .
3- The best approach in my opinion is : to study each group of phonetic transcriptions alone and practice them with a clear understanding to the differences between them like what you did dear Gabriel in your blogs : Improve your pronunciation Study sessions which give us the chance to review and correct our pronunciation in an arranged and a challenging way .For me ,I learned a lot from those sessions .
4-The effective solution is the voice training .If we don't have a chance to talk to native speakers or people with good pronunciation ,so the best way is to record our voices and repeat that many times to notice our mistakes and correct them .This way can be effective and at the same time interesting .
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