Tips for Pronunciation

[GiddyGad]

How about tongue-twisters? I think they are useful and give us more fun to learn.

A classic one: She sells the sea-shells by the sea shore. If she sells the sea-shells, show me the sea-shells she sells.

Tongue-twisters are good for warming up and most welcome at the very beginning of each class - much like short and rather simple songs from 'Children's favorite songs' you may find on the Holywood site:

It ain't gonna rain no more no more,
It ain't gonna rain no more,
How in the heck
Can I wash my neck
If it ain't gonna rain no more.

...and the like.

Songs are as well a good way to round up classes though...

[Ordina_Lavender]

It is very difficult to say Pirate..I'll practise it more

[tandedao]

My thanks is beyond words.

[fixd]

Hi,

I mispronounced so many words years ago and it was extremely hard for me to relearn correct pronunciation because there are too many words for me to relearn. Fortunately, I found that the phonic rules are very helpful because I just need to know few rules, then I can use those rules to help me recall correct pronunciation. However, all the books or web resources only have few words for each rule. I needed all the words grouped by those rules.

Therefore, I developed a software to group all the words according to phonics. My customers and I found it extremely helpful because we can just practice bake, make, cake, fake, lake, etc all together. You can find out more about my pronunciation software at http://www.PronunciationPatterns.com.

I really hope that you can take the time to download a copy of the demo at http://www.PronunciationPatterns.com/download.html to find out yourself. Maybe this is the solution you have been looking for. Moreover, it also has a mouth exercise and online resources to help you improve and perfect your English pronunciation. You can see if we have answered your questions on learning pronunciation at http://www.PronunciationPatterns.com/FAQ.html

Thank you,

all the links here makes me wonder... do we really need a person (teachers, lecturers, etc.) to teach us these pronunciation skills. because the technology nowdays is changing our learning habits. how does the internet can actually play the role of the teacher to teach pronunciation?

[maythet]

I'm in trouble with word-stress.
I don't know where can i make stress in words .

[ahmedxzxz]

Hi Pirate !
I agree with you.
You are right at your tips for pronunciations.

[BenWizard]

My native language is Spanish and I want to improve my English language skills. Could you tell me or any body where I can get that book "Not study, but learn"?. I couldn't find it in Amazon.com. Thanks a lot friends.[/b]

[BenWizard]

Read this link and don't feel scared, please:)

http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/english0.html

real_lord

Excellent my friend.
On the other hand, my native language is Spanish and I want to improve my English language skills. Could you tell me or any body where I can get that book "Not study, but learn"?. I couldn't find it in Amazon.com. Thanks a lot friends.

[amandacool]

Very interesting.
actually, i am now doing research on how to acquire native-like pronunciation.
well, my questions is how can i motivate lazy students who rarely practice their pronunciation?

[Jads]

I'll share some of the most stupid n boring styles of how i learn pronunciation.....

I guess pronunciation comes from your confidence in your mouth;which is the tongue and throat. I know this is really an absurd idea & suggestion.

But i believe if you put in confidence in your 'tongue' something like;we practise it with a mirror or perhaps our daily conversations with some other races could help, then of course the tongue twister is great too(tt' peter-pickled is recommended for asians).Then 4 the throat if we practise singing classical english song/music can help a little and also whenever we are shouting at the top of our voice to convey whatever msg when we are angry,somehow it(maybe something like that... of..our mind-perception work) would always make the word or pronunciation seems almost perfect or correct.

It somehow works for me since young we cant avoid those small quarrels over something(which is 4 the throat part) and also the best part is to learn from cacausians that kind of thick accent which we hardly encounter in our asian city. It is like 'wow' cacausians, but that was in 90's so not anymore nw!!!Then some will be motivated to learn that accent,eventually get to learn the pronunciation correctly