Unfortunately students who take IELTS exhibit the same poor speech skills, and that already includes a speaking test (for which I'm an examiner). I gather that pronunciation is one of the criteria for marking and assessment...

require >>> working with a linguistic therapist in a language laboratory. Am I >>> write in thinking that even someone ... Where >>> would she look for this kind of tutoring? It doesn't seem to be >>>

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: One can always record one's own speech and compare it with a native speaker's rendition. On the contrary, I think one can improve a lot if others listen to him/her attentively and make him/her notice ...

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Should have been ... absurd, you know please limit your posts to alt.absurd.replies. What do you find so absurd in my reply? That you compare using a talking dictionary or the phonetic

Never thought of that; I don't hear anything in South ... way I don't hear Britishness in a S Asian accent? Right; I think a typical native Californian English speaker would say that a typical Philippino English speaker has a very soft

Yes. One senior man and another a young girl. But they are not professionals. And what are they teaching? English language? At this point what you may need, if you have a good vocabulary, is elocution lessons. Getting rid of an accent is more like

Thanks for replying, I am according with you but, Then ... 'china' (/tS/)? A part of American people pronounce it so. The /tS/ pronunciation is the only correct one, but in connected speech sounds at the beginning or end of words ... heard

/eIdZ/ There's only one syllable; you must mean the final ... countless other English words: judge, edge, jail, June, major, etc. Thanks for replying, I am according with you but, Then is wrong to pronounce the final segment as the first sound

Such is the characteristic of the language. In Chinese, every ... and just slip from word to word, wich sounds funny. Which suggests a technique I have mentioned previously in this newsgroup, and which several people seemed to think was a ... can

I consider English is a rhythmical language. All languages have a rhythm. In my opinion, its pronunciation and the shape of the alphabet are rounded. When speaking, because of these features, it makes easier to go on to the next sentence. Are