Thursday 18 November 2010

A1 - Pronuntiation issues


English pronuntiation is something that gives us Spaniards a lot of trouble, the sounds are difficult to articulate and there is not a direct correspondence between the spelling and how the word is pronounced.

The best thing to improve your pronuntiation would be to listen to as much English as you can. Reading aloud, concentrating or pronuntiation rather than comprehension, is also a very good exercise, as well as saying tongue-twisters, you can find some here.

Nevertheless, it is sometimes comforting to see that even native speakers hesitate or have different opinions on how to pronounce words. Watch this video and read the article to find out how the pronuntiation of certain words in English is changing nowadays. As you can see, there is always a different version on the same problem!

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