Working with pronunciation
Nice and complete article on ESL teaching pronunciation. Read about the importance of teaching pronunciation, how to teach it and not to teach it and different approaches to do so. Still on pronunciation, Antimoon presents lists of phonetic symbols with printable version and recordings of American and British pronunciation in MP3 format.ESLGold offers pronunciation exercises and pratising using audio resources. Here you can have a good idea of the different sounds in English, listen and repeat the sounds of vowels, consonants, etc. It also presents a list of other links on pronunciation. The site - that is visually very clear and uses easy language to understand - also presents Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary, Business and Idioms sections.
posted by Maria Elisa Orsini at 9:55 PM
4 Comments:
It´s funny that we use only 5 letters for the 17 vowels sounds I counted in the list! I think these symbols represents not only phonemes founded in English (isn´t that right?). However, does these list include all the sounds (I mean language sounds) that a normal person can produce? Does they have names?
Maurissone
Maurissone,
you wouldn't believe how many sounds the human body can produce!
That list you talked about contains all sounds found in English, but obviously, many of them can be found in other languages as well. And no, it doesn't contain a third of all sounds found in all languages!
Yes, some of the sounds have names (like the schwa), but most of them don't, however there are categories to explain them - check this here: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/).
If you check "lucida unicode" or other unicodes in your Microsoft word you'll see an infinity of symbols from many languages. Or you can search for the IPA: "International phonetic alphabet" and discover some more about that! Cheers! : )
That's a great illustration that I have sought for long time. Thank you. But could you tell me where you found the picture showing the airway and mouth structure? Or what software to download? Thanks.
You might wanna try this link:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
It's the best and most complete I've ever seen.
When it comes to the illustration, I don't really kn ow where I got it from. Browsing Google images, yo can be sure of that...
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