Those examples made your answer even better. English phonetics is the most interesting thing I've ever heard. When I started to learn english, I thought it was easy. Now it's my favourite hobbie. "If it's hard, then diserve to be

Is this what you're after? Maybe be too TEFL-ey/basic for your audience (sorry if you've thought of these already) - clean up our board: after a particularly messy lesson, work with students to organise the board into a set of clear notes

On 28 Jan 2005 20:09:37 -0800, R H Draney Bob Cunningham filted: When we were in elementary school, the teacher taught us ... the vowels in "peck", "pick", "pock", and "rut" were short. That's

Don Myers wrote on 20 Nov 2004: Teachers tell students to practice reading. Students then run across many words they've never heard pronounced. As they see the ... quickly pick out the word in a list be helpful even though there is no meaning

Great! Am I right to believe that people from Asia ... Chinese or Japanese or Mongolian I would be completely lost! Actually, I believe both Chinese and Japanese (I don't know about Mongolian) are much easier languages than English. Especially

Great! Am I right to believe that people from Asia have to make an effort bigger than Europeans to learn ... In that, I admire Asians. If I were to study Chinese or Japanese or Mongolian I would be completely lost! Actually, I believe both Chinese

The schwa is by definition syllabic, though - to tell whether it's present in Bush's "prioritize" just count the syllables that you hear. But is the schwa a purely objective thing? I don't know from Bush's dialect, but

They both said the pronunciation of the river's name was ... unequivocal about the state and the river both being (m@'zUr@). I would personally appreciate it if you would add the phonetically spelled version when you use the above style.

(about sound files for the speech examples in the Handbook of the International Phonetic Association ) Of immediate interest is the fact that the AmE representative is MIMIM. Professor Peter Ladefoged, the author of the American English piece,

Afrikaans only became an official language in the 1920s, and trek entered English long before that. Of course, but it didn't come from the Dutch spoken by academicians in the Netherlands; it came from the Dutch spoken by farmers in South