PRONUNCIATION of the DAY - 2023
Hi, guys!
Let us continue with our pronunciation activity from here for the year 2023.
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PRONUNCIATION of the DAY - 2022
Hi, Everyone!
Today is the first day of the year 2022. I've opened a new page for our "Pronunciation of the Day" activity. Let's continue from here!
PRONUNCIATION and SPEECH SOUNDS
English Sound System
A learner’s effort to master the pronunciation of English words could be hampered if there is no proper understanding about the “English Sound System”, if you ask me!
You may argue that there are other factors which are the real o
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PRONUNCIATION of the DAY - 2021
Hi, Friends! Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a "HAPPY NEW YEAR" 2021 first. Ok, let's contiune with our "Pronunciation of the Day" on a new page!
As usual, I'll be posting the PRONUNCIATION (in the form of PHONETIC SPELLING) of a WORD e
NAMES of COUNTRIES A - Z
NAME of a Country || CITIZEN of a Country || CAPITAL of a Country || FLAG of a Country
There are 195 COUNTRIES in the WORLD today. Do you know their names?
I'm going to post some information about a country a day starting from today.
WORLD MAP
Audio Recordings: "Reading and Listening"
Do you have a READING HABIT? If you do, why don't you READ SOMETHING for our club members' LISTENING PLEASURE? It can be an interesting NEWS taken from a Newspaper, a SHORT STORY that you read recently or ANYTHING that you feel worth sharing. It will
Read more…PRONUNCIATION of the DAY - 2020
I'll be posting the PRONUNCIATION (in the form of PHONETIC SPELLING) of a WORD everyday. My objective of doing this activity is to raise awarness among our Club members the importance of learning SPEECH SOUNDS and their SYMBOLS if they really want to
Read more…Pronunciation Challenges!
I'll use this forum as a thread to post pronunciation related challenges every now and then. I would like to see your participation. Please don't hesitate to ask me if you have any questions regarding speech SOUNDS, speech sound SYMBOLS or the Phonet
Read more…PRONUNCIATION in your DICTIONARY
How many of you know that when you buy a DICTIONARY (yes, the one in book form), YOU ALSO PAY for the DICTIONARY to TELL YOU the PRONUNCIATION of EVERY SINGLE WORD listed in it?
The page shown below was taken from the "Oxford Advanced Learner's Dicti
Read more…LETTERS and PHONEMES
Words in WRITTEN ENGLISH are made up of LETTERS. However, in SPOKEN ENGLISH we use small units of individual SOUNDS (called PHONEMES) to form SPOKEN WORDS.
1. These are the LETTERS that we use in WRITING to form the WRITTEN WORDS.
2. These are the SOUN
Read more…HOW to SHARE your VOICE RECORDING
Are you thinking of sharing your voice recording here at the "English Pronunciation" group or anywhere else at our English Club, but DON'T KNOW how to do it? Don't worry! The following should help you to get it done.
1. Go to CHIRBIT voice RECORDING
LETTER vs SOUND
There are a few reasons why it's difficult to pronounce the words in English. One of them is because some LETTERS are MULTI-VALUED. A MULTI-VALUED letter is a LETTER that makes more than one SOUND. Did you know that, for example, the LETTER "A" coul
Read more…Written Word vs Spoken Word
Can you pronounce the following words?
If you know how to read the PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION given beside each word, you can easily PRONOUNCE the word correctly even if you’ve never HEARD or SEEN the word before, or don’t even know the meaning of the wor
Read more…Long Words and Pronunciation
Have you ever come across LONG WORDS and wondered how to PRONOUNCE them. You know what? You can EASILY PRONOUNCE any word in English no matter how LONG and DIFFICULT it seems to be if you know how to read the PHONETIC SPELLING (simply SPELLING of PRO
Read more…Legal Terms and Pronunciation
LEGAL TERMS
I'm neither a lawyer nor law student! Neverthless, I know how to pronounce the LEGAL TERMS when I come across them. It's possible because I could read the PHONETIC SPELLINGS. A phonetic spelling (or phonetic transcription) is the WRITTEN F
Read more…What was the funniest text message that you received?
We often receive all sorts of text messages on our mobile phone, don’t we? Some of them really irritate us, for example junk mail and chain letters! (That reminds me of the riling spams by exasperating spammers right here on MyEC!) On the o
Read more…Why is English pronunciation so difficult? Is there a solution?
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 pronuncia
Read more…I couldn't 'Save' ... 'Preview' ... 'Delete' a blog that is in progress!
Dear Tech Team,
I have a problem with creating new blogs. I could start typing a new blog and save it as a draft. For example, just now I typed only one sentence and save it as a ‘Trial Blog’. Then, I edited the first sentence and added a sec
Read more…Is RSS the cause?!
For the attention of EC Technical Team:
Re: RSS or Really Simple Syndication is not as easy as it sounds!
Today when I signed in and went to "My Page" everything seemed perfectly normal. The different segments on my wall appeared as they were all this
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