24th September 2009
How can children's nursery rhymes help adults improve their pronunciation of English? For some of the same reasons they help English-speaking children learn the rhythms and rhyming patterns of their first language.
Nursery rhymes draw children's attent...
24th September 2009
Many students learning English are puzzled by the connection between English spelling and English pronunciation. They look at words with similar spelling patterns like rough (pronounced like "ruff") and cough (pronounced like "coff") and wonder if they wi...
24th September 2009
Non-English speakers are often puzzled by the American English pronunciation of the letter âtâ. Sometimes it sounds clearly like a /t/ in the word determine), but other times it sounds almost like a /d/.
There are a lot of technical descriptions of...
24th September 2009
Have a look at these two sentences, and read them out loud to yourself:
1) He goes to school.
2) He goes to school?
Looking at the sentences, you can see clearly by the punctuation that one is a statement and the other is a question. How do we co...
21st September 2009
Do you want to improve your English Pronunciation? Here's some advice you might not have heard before: start acting silly. That's right: silly. It might be just what you need to help yourself reach a new level of pronunciation expertise.
Before looking...
