English pronunciation is not difficult to solve if you know the right approach. But, first and foremost, you must understand that English is a NON-PHONETIC language. A non-phonetic language or writing system is one where the spelling of words does no
A learner’s effort to master thepronunciationofEnglish wordscould 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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
We often receive all sortsof textmessages on our mobile phone, don’t we?Some of them really irritate us, for example junk mailandchain letters!(Thatreminds me of the riling spams by exasperatingspammersright here on MyEC!)On the o
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