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The following is relevant with American accent.
1) Why do English-speaking people have much more facial expression when they talk？ You might think they are too emotional. But, related to the nature of English pronunciation. Comparing Chinese to English.
2) Vowels, including a, e, i, o, u must be stressed
3) Consonants: keep in mind ‘d’, ‘t’, ‘k’, ’p’, ‘g’,’m’, and ‘n’ at the end of word. E.g. bag, back, green, column. Aime;bime,cime, dime,fime;hime; (substitute p, t, k, g for m)
4) 儿子: word, floor, bird, birthday, work
5) Pronunciation, intonation, and fluency
6) 2 songs, 2 conversations for the intonation purpose
7) Talk to yourself, don’t always study. APPLY what you’ve learnt. Sense Ping-Pong
1) Can VS cannot (emphasize on ‘t’)
2) Couldn’t
3) Book VS Luke e.g. book, look, cook
4) (Keep and need), sweet, feed VS fade e.g. key vs ‘K’, a sheet of paper VS boshit
5) Bit VS bait. E.g. river; English
6) Pass VS bother e.g. gather and Micro VS Macro
7) Cool (Ku:l), and school, nofrill. Also, compared ‘oo’ in ‘cool’ to that in ‘book’ (buk)
8) Lunch VS Launch. love
9) Think VS kitchen sink; e.g. there and brother, father (bite your tongue, please J)
Think VS this, that, these, those. Cloth VS clothe (open syllable, and close syllable)
10) New York and word
11) World
12) China and media VS idea
13) Strategy ‘te’, ‘gy’; Toronto; city; university; water
14) Bike VS back
15) My mind
16) Good
17) Perfect, prefer ‘c’ and ‘pre’ in the second word
18) Excuse me
19) Because (Canadian variance)
20) My --- Micro
21) +S, nasal and non-nasal relation, e.g. maps, cooks, and bags , computers.
Plus, ‘stressed’ vs ‘bagged’
Drills:
I can do it
I cannoT do it !!! J
I couldn’t find it
Beet, bit, bait, bet, bat, but. Keyboard, One coin, one corn
Toronto, tomato, potato
City, twenty, pity, ability
University of Toronto is near College Street; union: onion: opinion
I love this cat
I say she says…
Thanks, I think that’s a very good idea
I will help you make a big difference
2 mouths: is this your pen? Think if you can still form a full /th/ sound as usual when you speak soooooo fast. :)
a sentence : hi, Carol, he didn't see the sign.
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not that much though! If you can properly pronounce them, and plus your personal perseverance, you will improve your accent a lot.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
The following is relevant with American accent.
1) Why do English-speaking people have much more facial expression when they talk？ You might think they are too emotional. But, related to the nature of English pronunciation. Comparing Chinese to English.
2) Vowels, including a, e, i, o, u must be stressed
3) Consonants: keep in mind ‘d’, ‘t’, ‘k’, ’p’, ‘g’,’m’, and ‘n’ at the end of word. E.g. bag, back, green, column. Aime;bime,cime, dime,fime;hime; (substitute p, t, k, g for m)
4) 儿子: word, floor, bird, birthday, work
5) Pronunciation, intonation, and fluency
6) 2 songs, 2 conversations for the intonation purpose
7) Talk to yourself, don’t always study. APPLY what you’ve learnt. Sense Ping-Pong
1) Can VS cannot (emphasize on ‘t’)
2) Couldn’t
3) Book VS Luke e.g. book, look, cook
4) (Keep and need), sweet, feed VS fade e.g. key vs ‘K’, a sheet of paper VS boshit
5) Bit VS bait. E.g. river; English
6) Pass VS bother e.g. gather and Micro VS Macro
7) Cool (Ku:l), and school, nofrill. Also, compared ‘oo’ in ‘cool’ to that in ‘book’ (buk)
8) Lunch VS Launch. love
9) Think VS kitchen sink; e.g. there and brother, father (bite your tongue, please J)
Think VS this, that, these, those. Cloth VS clothe (open syllable, and close syllable)
10) New York and word
11) World
12) China and media VS idea
13) Strategy ‘te’, ‘gy’; Toronto; city; university; water
14) Bike VS back
15) My mind
16) Good
17) Perfect, prefer ‘c’ and ‘pre’ in the second word
18) Excuse me
19) Because (Canadian variance)
20) My --- Micro
21) +S, nasal and non-nasal relation, e.g. maps, cooks, and bags , computers.
Plus, ‘stressed’ vs ‘bagged’
Drills:
I can do it
I cannoT do it !!! J
I couldn’t find it
Beet, bit, bait, bet, bat, but. Keyboard, One coin, one corn
Toronto, tomato, potato
City, twenty, pity, ability
University of Toronto is near College Street; union: onion: opinion
I love this cat
I say she says…
Thanks, I think that’s a very good idea
I will help you make a big difference
2 mouths: is this your pen? Think if you can still form a full /th/ sound as usual when you speak soooooo fast. :)
a sentence : hi, Carol, he didn't see the sign.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
not that much though! If you can properly pronounce them, and plus your personal perseverance, you will improve your accent a lot.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net