Tips to improve pronunciation by Ingrid

TIPS TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION BY INGRID

TIPS TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION

Next I’m going to explain Adam’s tips to improve pronunciation and sound like a native speaker. Remember the most important thing to improve pronunciation is practicing.

 

-          Connect words:

He explains when there are two words and the first one ends in a consonant and the follow word begins with the same consonant, they don’t pronounce the last consonant of the first one, for example:

“black coffee”, he doesn’t read the whole word: bla”ck” - “c”offee.

He reads: “bla” coffee, the last consonant of the first word doesn’t sound.

-          Squeeze words:

Sometimes native speakers don’t pronounce all syllables; they only do it to emphasis the word. Besides when the first word ends consonant and the second one begin with vowel, they separate the consonant and pronounce it with the second word, for example:

-          Squeeze letters:

They neither pronounce some letters like "tr" it sounds like "chr" and "dr" it sounds like "jr".

 

By the way, the video he mentions is about "Phonetics", it means the sound of the syllables in the word. So if you know how to pronounce the syllable you will know how to pronounce the whole word.

For example "lock" and "luck" have completely different meanings. They have no relationship to each other except that they share three similar letters, so both have similar pronunciation.

We have to use the "phonetic symbol", which you will find in English dictionary, because it include the "phonetic spelling" that means they spell the word according to its sound.