By Pronunciation, Teaching English

When it comes to "t" and "d", Belly, regional variation in pronunciation is the rule rather than the exception. What everyone has replied is correct, even if it may seem contradictory. In teaching English as a second language, I try to take the "path of least...

Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones, easy grammar). Now I'll start off by saying that...

Hello Old Man Gordon,thank you for communicate your impressions. I can follow your way teaching english.But unfortunately I don´t like old music like Beatles and so on. Watching old movies is a method I will try.Yesterday I switched through CAST AWAY with Tom Hanks and it worked. Clear...

Elvis is one of the most popular and famous American Rock stars. Which of his songs would be best for learning/teaching English, and why? For example. 'Hound Dog' is good for teaching double negatives, which are completely wrong, yet are still commonly used. One problem with some of his songs...

Guest wrote:i totally agree with ambitious on the idea that the Vietnamese are very nice people. I also agree with that America-born Vietnamese about the Pronunciation problem. must be focused on pronunciation more. hello

i think the vietnamese word is not very difficult to study well. if we know the alphabet that we can pronunsiation it you know i have beeen there 10 years ago .but can speak vietnamese too ,i'm learning of vietnamese word about 5 years i think that language is not difficult well i...

Yeah you are absolutely right Nga_VN 87. I can realize one important point is our pronunciation is very bad. We couldnot make some foreigners understand the basic English words even we know English vocabularies very well but we have never ever had a conversation with foreigners so we are real...

Perhaps you could start with: Jabbour-Lagocki, Judith (1992). Medical terminology: A phonological analysis for teaching English pronunciation. ESP, 11(1), 71-79. I'm working on my thesis, too: Colloquial medical language for NNES health care personnel. Best of luck. Kim

Please accept my apologies. It was not my intention to be rude but rather realistic. I've been teaching English as a foreign language for over 25 years. It's much more important to speak correctly than to have good pronunciation. Your post has mistakes and I'm the only one who took the time to...

I would like to suggest a web site: www.ezgi.com is a free site teaching english grammar & vocabulary online for Turkish speaking people. The site has also online pronunciation robot at http://listen.ezgi.com where users can write and listen.