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Mastering English Pronunciation: Fun and Fundamental Insights

Enhance your English pronunciation skills with this crash course on vowels, stress, and sound strategies. Learn how to improve communication fluency by practicing articulatory anatomy and vowel variations. From mastering vowel length to understanding unstressed syllables, unlock the secrets to clear and confident English pronunciation. Take advantage of practical tips, interactive exercises, and resources provided by ELSP to refine your pronunciation. Join a Pronunciation class today and boost your language proficiency in an international context.

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Mastering English Pronunciation: Fun and Fundamental Insights

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  1. The fun fundamentals of English Pronunciation/ðə i:jelesju: ɪzɪnʃɜrfi:ldru:mθri:wənaɪn/ Brett W Harmony b.harmony@ic.ac.uk

  2. Our own pronunciation becomes more important when we communicate in an international environment. • Communicating fluently and clearly is most important • You don’t have to speak like the Queen to do this.

  3. This is a crash “course” in how to break down and deal with the aural English communication system. • Vowels • Not Vowels • Stress • Strategies

  4. Unfortunately, English spelling does not always reveal a word’s pronunciation. • How many letters are in the English Alphabet? • ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 26

  5. Unfortunately, English spelling does not always reveal a word’s pronunciation. • ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ How many vowels do we use when speaking? 12 vowels and 8 two vowel combinations A= æ, a, ɔ, eɪ

  6. If this is a map to your mouth, your tongue is the car. Let’s take a drive through the E.U.!

  7. There are some mistakes with vowels you don’t want to make. • I rested in peace on a sheet on the beach. • I rested in /pi:s/on a /ʃi:t/on the /bi:tʃ/. How relaxing! • I rested in /pɪs/on a /ʃɪt/on the /bɪtʃ/. Oh Dear!!

  8. Vowel pronunciation is governed by the vowel length, your Tongue, Jaw and Lips • How /i:/ is different than /ɪ/ • It’s Longer • It’s a bigger smile • More pressure on your tongue University of Iowa site http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html# http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

  9. Say this short phrase, but be sure to say the vowel longer and with a smile! I stepped on… University of Iowa site http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html# http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

  10. Some vowels is all about the jaw. • How / æ / is different than /e/ • A wide open mouth University of Iowa site http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html# http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

  11. Things to think about when working on your Vowels

  12. You need more than your tongue to get to where you want to go on this map.

  13. Fortunately, with consonants, English spelling sometimes helps with pronunciation • ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ How many consonants? 24 consonants

  14. The Periodic table of English Consonants

  15. How do you Pronounce “TH?” • Stick out your tongue! • Pronounce the following sentence: • There are 3,033 of them on Thursday. • /ð/ere are /Ɵ/ree /Ɵ/ousand and /Ɵ/irty- /Ɵ/ree of /ð/em on /Ɵ/ursday. • Stick out your tongue 7 times, but what’s the difference?

  16. Voice and Voiceless Consonants Partners

  17. The Voiced “TH” • All of the little words in English which begin with “th” use/ð/: • Them • Then • Those • This • These • They • Their • Thus • There • Than • The

  18. Strategies for Practicing Consonants

  19. English’s Overall System of Meaning is Stress • But what is stress?

  20. The vowel is the key to finding stress. • The stressed vowel sound is different by being • Higher • Louder • Longer

  21. English’s Overall System of Meaning is Stress • How many syllables in the following words? • Conduct • Progress • Rebel • Suspect • Which syllable has the stress? The first or second? It depends on whether the word is a verb: “I conducted an experiment” Or a noun “Your conduct on the beach was horrible.”

  22. What does it mean to be unstressed? • to rest in peace on a sheet on the beach! • The unstressed Vowel sound is: • Lower • Shorter • Quieter /ə/

  23. How Unstressed Syllables Affect Listening • How do you say the following sentences? • You should not have done that! • We could not have seen to it earlier. • Did you hear what I was saying? How does Liz say it?

  24. How Unstressed Syllables Affect Listening • How do you say the following sentences? • You should nothave done that! • We could nothave seen to it earlier. • Did youhear what I was saying?

  25. Practice these words

  26. Strategies for Stress revolve around vowels

  27. Now what do you do?

  28. References and Useful Tools all on our Blackboard Learn Virtual Learning Site • English Articulatory Anatomy from University of Iowa • http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/anatomy.htm • BBC Learning English/ Pronunciation Tips • http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/sounds/con_voiced_6.shtml • Howjsay.com • http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=tribology&submit=Submit • Speech accent Archive: • http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php

  29. ELSP Pronunciation classes are only an hour, at lunchtime, available through online registration. • Hope to see you again soon!

  30. The fun fundamentals of English Pronunciation/ðə i:jelespi: ɪzɪnʃɜrfi:ldru:mθri:wənaɪn/ Brett W Harmony b.harmony@ic.ac.uk

  31. The fun fundamentals of English PronunciationThe ELSP is in Sherfield Room 319 (near our friends in ISS)https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FQPSZPQ Brett W Harmony b.harmony@ic.ac.uk

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