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Latest post Fri, Sep 1 2006 5:05 PM by Erhancesur. 60 replies.
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Guest  +  43157 Mon, 23 Aug 04 11:34 PM
I want to develope my english knowledge.can you please give me some tips about spoken english?
Guest, 5 yr 88 days ago
Learn about how we perceive sounds. For example, 'f' and 'v' are two different sounds to us, because 'vast' and 'fast' mean two different things. 'P' has two sounds in English, but we think that both of them are the same because these two 'p' sounds can't change the meaning of a word. In Chinese, these two 'p' sounds could change a word, like 'f' and 'v' above. After all this, you should then learn how sounds change.

All languages have their own sound-changing rules. A rule that is easy to understand would be vowel harmony (not a rule of modern English, however). If the vowels in a word are all from one area of the mouth (front, middle, rear), the word is okay, but if a word has vowel sounds from two different areas, one of the vowles must change to be in the same area as the other vowel. English has many little rules like this, and if you understand why we use them, then learning them is very easy. After hundreds of years, rules will change also. That is why we say 'mice' and 'mouse'. Long ago, changing vowels was a normal rule and was based on vowel harmony, but vowel harmony no longer exists in English, so we have to memorize 'mice' and 'mouse' because the new rules would make you say 'mouses'.
Pemmican  +  43723 Sat, 28 Aug 04 06:39 PM
Two "p"-Sounds?? What do you mean by that? What is the 2nd p-sound??
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Barbcslp, 5 yr 77 days ago
There is only one /p/ sound in English.
Novalee  +  44664 Tue, 07 Sep 04 10:51 PM
I think the guest may be referring to the aspirated pronunciation of an initial p as opposed to that found in the middle of a word, which is not aspirated.

I was taught a little trick to learn the correct pronunciation of an aspirated /p/: take the word 'pottery', for example. Hold a piece of paper in front of your mouth while pronouncing this word. The paper must move slightly as you pronounce this /p/, so this means that a little air escapes from your mouth. You can also use a lighterWink [;)]

Of course I'm talking about RP (Received Pronunciation), that is, Standard British English, and you could argue that this is not a variety that you find nowadays, at least not so easily. I'd agree with that.
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ajeeth  +  94258 Thu, 28 Apr 05 05:19 PM
hi how are you hope you are well with grace of god

I want to develope my english knowledge.can you please give me some tips about spoken english?

thyank you

best Regards / ajeeth_k
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diaspriyankara  +  100767 Wed, 18 May 05 10:17 AM
please help to develop my english knowledge and speeking ability

thank you,

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