Life is but a BREATH
Life is but a BREATH
Al Hobbs wrote: English pronunciation isn't that complicated
Often the most important part of the news is what they didn't tell.
Campbell Ritchie wrote:There are of course a few exceptions to all such rules, “tomato” being one of the best known
Often the most important part of the news is what they didn't tell.
Dawid Smith wrote:
When it comes to actually practising, mirroring(reapeating after chosen person) worked for me much better than studying books about pronunciation.
Often the most important part of the news is what they didn't tell.
Tim Holloway wrote:
Dawid Smith wrote:
When it comes to actually practising, mirroring(reapeating after chosen person) worked for me much better than studying books about pronunciation.
You really shouldn't believe what books say, anyway. They frequently assert that certain sounds "don't exist" in Language X, but you can plainly hear them (although usually weakened) if you actually listen to native speakers.
And forget about pronouncing things as you read them. Virtually no languages pronounce exactly as written. Possibly excepting Standard Arabic, but that's a formal language, not a "natural" one. French is notorious for all the letters you don't pronounce, Polish managed to make "Lodz" pronounce as "wooz". Gaelic is a nightmare. And English is probably the grossest offender of them all, thanks to its habit of plundering words wholesale and more or less keeping their original spelling despite differences in how alphabets are used. And, of course due to the sound mutations over the centuries, even the native and Anglo-Saxon mother language contributions have only light correspondence to their present-day spelling.
Often the most important part of the news is what they didn't tell.
Depends where you live. Where I grew up, the “or” was pronounced as a shwa; thirty miles away the word was pronounced comftable with the “or” completely mute.Dawid Smith wrote:. . . a common word like "comfortable" for example. Here, in the British pronouncation, the "or" part in the middle is mute . . . .
Fire me boy! Cool, soothing, shameless self promotion:
We need your help - Coderanch server fundraiser
https://coderanch.com/wiki/782867/Coderanch-server-fundraiser
|