Hi, Friends! Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a "HAPPY NEW YEAR" 2021 first. Ok, let's contiune with our "Pronunciation of the Day" on a new page!
As usual, I'll be posting the PRONUNCIATION (in the form of PHONETIC SPELLING) of a WORD e
Do you have a READING HABIT? If you do, why don't you READ SOMETHING for our club members' LISTENING PLEASURE? It can be an interesting NEWS taken from a Newspaper, a SHORT STORY that you read recently or ANYTHING that you feel worth sharing. It will
Read more…I'll be posting the PRONUNCIATION (in the form of PHONETIC SPELLING) of a WORD everyday. My objective of doing this activity is to raise awarness among our Club members the importance of learning SPEECH SOUNDS and their SYMBOLS if they really want to
Read more…I'll use this forum as a thread to post pronunciation related challenges every now and then. I would like to see your participation. Please don't hesitate to ask me if you have any questions regarding speech SOUNDS, speech sound SYMBOLS or the Phonet
Read more…How many of you know that when you buy a DICTIONARY (yes, the one in book form), YOU ALSO PAY for the DICTIONARY to TELL YOU the PRONUNCIATION of EVERY SINGLE WORD listed in it?
The page shown below was taken from the "Oxford Advanced Learner's Dicti
Read more…English Sound System
Words in WRITTEN ENGLISH are made up of LETTERS. However, in SPOKEN ENGLISH we use small units of individual SOUNDS (called PHONEMES) to form SPOKEN WORDS.
1. These are the LETTERS that we use in WRITING to form the WRITTEN WORDS.
2. These are the SOUN
Read more…Are you thinking of sharing your voice recording here at the "English Pronunciation" group or anywhere else at our English Club, but DON'T KNOW how to do it? Don't worry! The following should help you to get it done.
1. Go to CHIRBIT voice RECORDING
There are a few reasons why it's difficult to pronounce the words in English. One of them is because some LETTERS are MULTI-VALUED. A MULTI-VALUED letter is a LETTER that makes more than one SOUND. Did you know that, for example, the LETTER "A" coul
Read more…Can you pronounce the following words?
If you know how to read the PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION given beside each word, you can easily PRONOUNCE the word correctly even if you’ve never HEARD or SEEN the word before, or don’t even know the meaning of the wor
Read more…Have you ever come across LONG WORDS and wondered how to PRONOUNCE them. You know what? You can EASILY PRONOUNCE any word in English no matter how LONG and DIFFICULT it seems to be if you know how to read the PHONETIC SPELLING (simply SPELLING of PRO
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