From 732a61c5282f590f9e3aa386528f220daff46227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: windsuzu Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 01:12:17 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2023-10-06 01:12:17 Affected files: content/english-pronunciation/English Pronunciation Exercises.md content/english-pronunciation/The Main Sounds of English.md --- .../English Pronunciation Exercises.md | 5 ++--- .../The Main Sounds of English.md | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/english-pronunciation/English Pronunciation Exercises.md b/content/english-pronunciation/English Pronunciation Exercises.md index 8f00bfe1..660faaaf 100644 --- a/content/english-pronunciation/English Pronunciation Exercises.md +++ b/content/english-pronunciation/English Pronunciation Exercises.md @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ --- title: English Pronunciation Exercises draft: false -date: 2023-10-05 23:57 +date: 2023-10-06 00:45 tags: - learning - - english - - pronunciation + - english-pronunciation --- There are 5 steps provided by EngFluent to practice English pronunciation. They are: diff --git a/content/english-pronunciation/The Main Sounds of English.md b/content/english-pronunciation/The Main Sounds of English.md index fa940f33..8b56537f 100644 --- a/content/english-pronunciation/The Main Sounds of English.md +++ b/content/english-pronunciation/The Main Sounds of English.md @@ -1,12 +1,24 @@ --- title: The Main Sounds of English draft: false -date: 2023-10-05 23:57 +date: 2023-10-06 01:01 tags: - - reading - learning + - english-pronunciation --- +There are 15 main vowel sounds in English^[Ohata, K. (2004). Phonological differences between Japanese and English: Several potentially problematic areas of pronunciation for Japanese ESL/EFL learners. Asian EFL Journal, retrieved on 20th, July, 2012, from http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/ december_04_KO.php], while Chinese has only 5^[San, D. (2007). The phonology of standard Chinese (2nd edition). New York: Oxford University Press.]. This is why Chinese speakers, like me, tend to pronounce English using only the sounds familiar in our native language. + +This sometimes results in similar words being pronounced the same way. For example: "heel" and "hill", "sale" and "sell". But don't worry, this can be practiced by **listening to and speaking the two sounds simultaneously**. + +### /i/ and /ɪ/ + +1. heel - hill +2. feel - fill +3. seat - sit +4. eat - it +5. beach - bitch +6. sheet - shit