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Re: Easy as Pie, Almost!

Frequently listen to English spoken by native speakers and repeat them. Watch English movies, listen to music, audio clips, BBC news and presentations. Control your rate of speech to get the correct intonation and rhythm of English. Use your dictionary.Familiarize yourself with the phonetic...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Anonymous 35 days ago Vowels Intonations Accents Consonants Pronunciation Phonetics Speak english
Re: how to learn English

i. Observe the mouth movements of those who speak English well and try to imitate them. When you are watching television, observe the mouth movements of the speakers. Repeat what they are saying, while imitating the intonation and rhythm of their speech. ii. Until you learn the correct...

Teaching English (TEFL) by Anonymous 245 days ago Intonations Conversations Phonetics Grammar Speak english English grammar Pronunciation
Re: Speaking Teaching Books

Hi, yes, there are books that deal with stress, intonation, and pronunciation. I've read "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. There's really a lot of stuff in that book (and on the 5 CDs). I haven't tried any other books anyway, so I can only tell you about that one. It treats American...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Kooyeen 1 yr 241 days ago Vowels Intonations Accents Accent Training American accents American English Pronunciation Phonetics British English Contractions
Re: Hardest pronunciations

Hello everyone, I would like to highlight that it is possible for anyone to learn to distinguish between the different sounds of any variety of English. You just need to study the sound-system of an accent of English carefully enough. What you need to do is to train your ear and imitate native...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Englishuser 1 yr 336 days ago Intonations Accents Phonetics
Re: How to get rid of typical Czech pronunciation of "R"?

Hi Jana, I suppose you've already tried to imitate an English r-sound. It might be good for you to read about how English people 'produce' the r-sound. Descriptions can be found in books on English phonetics and on some pronunciation related websites. everyone knows that I am a foreigner It's...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Englishuser 1 yr 346 days ago Intonations Accents Pronunciation Phonetics
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Emeritus Professor John C. Wells in his daily phonetic blog on Firday 20 October 2006: Unusual pronunciations observed recently in the mouths of native speakers of English: from a CNN newsreader, to obey someone sl/æ/vishly. Since the point being made was the possible offensiveness of this...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by Englishuser 1 yr 351 days ago Intonations Difference between Pronunciation Phonetics Expressions Punctuation

Re: :::::: HOW TO SPEAK AND LEARN EGNLISH ::::

Part I: Want to 'neutralise' your accent? Many deserving candidates lose out on job opportunities because of their vernacular accent. Can I 'neutralise' my accent? Yes, you can. All you need to do is train yourself to speak English as comfortably and perfectly as you speak your mother...

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Re: American Accent Training!

Hi All, I have been conducting Neutralized American Accent Training in Makati, Malate, Libis, and Quezon City for the last three months now. I have worked with Korean, Japanese, and Filipino executives, high school teachers, university students, and Filipino professionals. I utilize the book...

Teaching English (TEFL) by Amboy 3 yr 39 days ago Intonations Conversations Phonetics Accents Accent Training American accents Literature Universities
Re: What are the differences?

Some people says that US and UK accents are totally different. Though, I dont find any relevant difference. Can anyone help me resolving my confussion? It really depends on what "totally" different is. And it again depends on what sort of accents you are looking at. For general discussion let...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by equivocal 3 yr 221 days ago Intonations Vowels Accents Phonetics British English
Re: Deep pronunciation rules

Hello, Lukas One of the best books I've read on pronunciation is Daniel Jones' "An Outline of English Phonetics". It's a rather old book, but it's very very good. I don't know if it's out of print now, but I'm sure you'll be able to find it in a library, or in a used-books store. The book deals...

English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation by miriam 4 yr 117 days ago Vowels Intonations Consonants Pronunciation Phonetics Teaching English

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