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Pronunciation course overview

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7 sessions + 1 (overview) + 3 individual feedback 'goes'

PRONUNCIATION course overview

  • Aspiration of
initial voiceless plosives, e.g. /pʰ et/, /kʰi:p/
  • Word stress
  • Intonation
  • Connected speech
(elision: /ˌfɪʃ en ˈtʃɪps/)
  • Vowels:short and long i as in ship vs sheep
  • Consonant /f/
  • Nuclear stress, e.g. I didn’t BUY the car. I RENTED it. vs. I didn’t buy the car, but HE did.
  • Vowel quality,
e.g. /rʌn/ vs. /ræn/
  • Often mis-
pronounced words
  • Weak forms,
e.g. strong /hæv/, weak /həv/, weak /əv/
  • Strong and weak
forms of prepositions.
  • Consonants
/θ/ vs. /ð/
  • Homographs.
  • Homophones.
  • Sentence stress. Questions.
  • Vowel /ɒ/
  • Foreign words
pronunciation.
  • Silent letters.
  • Features of
connected speech
  • Consonants /v/ vs.
/w/ e.g. /vet/ vs. /wet/
  • /ɜː/ like in first
  • Word endings,
e.g. /d/,/t/,/id/
  • Consonants /r/,
/ŋ/, /h/.
  • Vowels:short and
long u
  • Br. vs. Am.
pronunciation

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