TASK 09
Go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZJ1Q3GSuI
1. Listen carefully to the tips to improve you pronunciation. Make a post summarizing the tips. Then go to the website the speaker mentions and find out a different tip about pronunciation to share with your partners in the blog. Do not forget to illustrate your post.
Many people aks how can i sound like a native speaker? Well the answer is that everyone can be a native speaker but it would take time and a lot, a lot of practice and of course you have to be patient.
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The first tip is: Connecting Words
In any language (chinese, polish, etc) when you are speaking fast, you’re taking words and you’re squeezing them together, you are connecting them so one Word flows into the next Word.
You can connect consonant to consonant, it means when a Word ends in a consonant and another Word begins with the same consonant that the previous word finishes, drop the firs one. For example: black coffee, the sound “k” is not pronounced so it would be “bla coffee”. Another example is whenn a word ends in “t” and the other Word begins with “d”, well the “t” and “d” are different consonants but according to the tongue in a mouth they almost sound the same so drop the letter “t” wha do you do?
The tip number two is: Sqeeze (some) words
In certain words they don’t say all the syllables and don’t say all letters. For example the Word “comfortable” the native speakers don’t say “OR” comfortable, they say comf ta b.l and the last sound is like a small tiny, tiny Little “i”. The same hapens with the Word “interesting” this Word is not pronounced “in che res ting” only we say it to emphazise, normally we say “in chres ting”.
And the third tip is: Squeeze letters
When we have “tr” together usually sounds like “chr” for example country, they don’t say “coun try” they say “coun chry”; another example is when you’re connecting words and you have a “d” and a “y” together it becomes like “j” sound. Did you? Sounds like di jou?
Another different tip i found is: Does the “c” sounds like “s” or “k”
The answer is “c” pronunciation sometimes sounds like an “s” and sometimes sounds like a “k”.
• If the word has “c” and an “a” for example cat it sounds like a “k”, like “kat”.
• If the word has a “c” and an “e” for example centre, cell or cereal it’s going to sound like “s” like “sentre”, “sell”, “sereal”.
• If the word has c + i: is going to sound like “s” example “city” sounds like “sity” and with “cigar”, “cilantro” happens the same.
• c + y: for example “cyber” is going to sound like “syber”, the same happens to “cynical” is going to sound like “synical”.
• If the word has “c” and an “o” for example “coast” is going to sound like “k” “koast” and if the word has “c” and an “u” is going to sound like “k” too.
good!
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