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1. What is the difference between sounds and letters?2. English pronunciation for some difficult sounds3. English Tongue Twisters.4. Silent letters.5. Common pronunciation mistakes.6. Tips for mastering the American accent.
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Letter ( alphabet) is anelement in the alphabeticsystem.
Each letter in the writtenlanguage is usually associatedwith one phoneme (sound) inthe spoken form of thelanguage.
In English there are 26letters 21 consonants and 5vowels.
Sounds and Letters
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Sounds and LettersPhonemeis the smallest unit ofsound employed to form a meaningfulcontrasts between utterances.
In English there ar 44 sounds 20vowel sounds and 24 consonantsounds.
Why should we know the difference?
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English Pronunciation
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/p/ and /b/They belong to a class of sounds Stops.
Voiced Voiceless sounds.How ?
Why do we ?
/b/ ; bay baby - boot/p/ ; pay paper - pool
English pronunciation
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English TongueTwisters
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Tongue TwisterPicky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter,
it is the peanut-butter picky people pick
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter
Piper picked?
Tongue Twister
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Th has 2 sounds in English.Both belong to a class of sounds called the Fricatives.
// and /s/How to pronounce the // ?What is the difference between Th // and /s/ ?
Thin - SinThick - SickThing SingThink - Sink
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English TongueTwisters
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I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
Tongue Twister
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Tongue TwisterThirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds
thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday
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// and /z/How to pronounce the // ?What is the difference between Th // and /z/ ?
This isThereFatherTogether
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English TongueTwisters
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Tongue Twister.There those thousand thinkers were thinking
where did those other three thieves go through
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Tongue TwisterThirty-three thousand people think that Thursday
is their thirtieth birthday.
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Sh for // and Ch /t//t/ belongs to ---Affricates.How to pronounce the / t/ ?What is the difference between // and/t/ ?
Chalk
ChocolateChoose - Shoes
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English TongueTwisters
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Tongue TwisterDr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great
consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian
nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in educationbecause the chief occupation is cultivation
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English pronunciation// for the ingIt belongs to a class of sound called Nasals.
How to pronounce // ?
SwimmingReadingInteresting
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Silent letters
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In an alphabetic writing system, a silent letter is a letter that, in aparticular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word'spronunciation.
Silent letters create problems for both native and non-native speakersof a language, as they make it more difficult to guess the spellings ofspoken words or the pronunciations of written words.
Here is a list of common letter combinations with silent letters.
This list contains most of the silent letters that give English as asecond language students difficulties.
Silent letters
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Silent BB is not pronounced when following M at the end of a word.Climb, comb
B is also silent when followed by a TDebt, doubt, subtle.
Silent letters
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Silent lettersSilent CC is not pronounced when following an S at the beginning of a word andfollowed by E and IScent, scissoors and science.
Normally C is pronounced as /k/ sound, when it is followed by /l/ as in;Climb ,CloudC is silent in the scle as in muscle
Silent DD is not pronounced in the following common words:Handkerchief, Wednesday, Handsome
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Silent lettersSilent GG is not often not pronounced when followed by an NChampagne, foreign
Sign , resign
Silent GH
GH is not pronounced before T and at the end of many words.Thought, light, might, right, fightthrough, weighdaughter
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Silent lettersSilent HH is not pronounced at the beginning of many words. Use the article "an" with unvoiced H. Here are some of the most common:Hour ,honest,honor,heir,herb
Pronounced HH is pronounced at the beginning of these common words.
Use the article "a" with voiced H.Hill, history,height, happy
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Silent lettersSilent K
K is not pronounced when followed by N at the beginning of a
word.Knife, kneeknow ,knock , knowledge
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Silent lettersSilent LL is often not pronounced before L, D, F, M, K.halfsalmon ,talkwould, should
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Silent lettersSilent NN is not pronounced following M at the end of a word.Autumn
ColumnDamn
Silent PThe letter P is silent in words;
receipt
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Silent lettersSilent SS is not pronounced before L in the following words:Island
aisle
Silent TT is not pronounced in these common words:
castleChristmaslisten , whistleoften
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Silent lettersSilent WW is silent in the word answer and is replaced by a verysoft /t/ sound.
W is not pronounced at the beginning of a word followed byan R.Wrap, write ,wrong
W is not pronounced with these three pronouns:whowhosewhom
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Common mistakes
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Clothes---closeWorked---wrkt
World----wr-eldSaysTh
Common mistakes
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Common mistakesWhat is Cluster of consonants?Do we have clusters in the Arabic language?
Friends ---- friend-esNext ------nek-estWorks-------work-es
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Common mistakesPronunciation of the O letter in ;
Office
DogWorry
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Mastering the Americanaccent
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Tips for mastering the American accentThe Sound /r/ in American English is never silent.
How to pronounce /r/?
Car, learn , heard , four.Her fourth birthday is on next Thursday
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Tips for mastering the American accentThe Sound /t/ in American English when it falls between 2 vowels is pronoufast /d/.
Water , city, better, ability, butter.
When /t/ falls in the final position of a word and the beginning of the nexta vowel.What areYes, it is.Will you get in or get out
I got up at eleven.
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