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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Pronunciation and lip-reading



What's the point of Pronunciation? Before we try to answer this question, let's watch some videos about Phonetics.




  • Problems with spelling and pronunciation, for example, nice /naɪs/ and niece /niːs/. Please, be careful when you're speaking in English and make sure that you've choosen the right pronunciation. 


  • To read one's lips and guess English words, specially when there's a lot of noise at the background. Check these lip-dub videos to practise your pronunciation.

  • To  begin to incorporate pronunciation into your everyday English.



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Whenever you've got any question about the pronunciation of a word or even single letters, you could use the following websites: http://www.wordreference.com/ , http://www.howjsay.com/ and http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/activities/phonemic-chart You can also click on the photos below to get to those webpages.






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