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Tricky ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION Made Easy: Say SSSSSSS like a native - Susan's student tips

27/3/2016

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Tricky ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION Made Easy is a series to HELP students PERFECTION their PRONUNCIATION in difficult areas of English.
Want to speak like a native?  Say FACEsssssssBOOK SsssssssLOWLY like a SsssssssNAKE....
Learners of English tend to pronounce the letter S before a consonant at the beginning of a word like a Z so they ZMILE when it ZNOWS; they like ZWIMMING ZLOWLY and they offer UZ a ZLICE of cake just to give a few examples.
It gives USsssssss GOOSEsssssssPIMPLES to hear that they live in a HOUZE, that they post THIZ photo on FAZEBOOK!

So if you want to speak like a native pay great attention to how we pronounce the letter  S in various contexts:

http://youtu.be/zMbxBm3gpO8

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I hope you find this useful.
Susan

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Tricky ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION Made Easy:  HUNGRY - ANGRY – Susan’s Student Tips

27/3/2016

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Tricky ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION Made Easy is a series to HELP students PERFECTION their PRONUNCIATION in difficult areas of English.

Pronouncing HUNGRY with a clearly AUDIBLE H and the subsequent letter U with a VERTICALLY OPEN MOUTH (opening the top jaw UP and the bottom jaw DOWN) seems problematic for some students who need to practise this movement and sound very consciously.

In contrast there is the pronunciation of ANGRY where absolutely NO H must be heard and the initial letter A must be pronounced with a HORIZONTALLY OPEN MOUTH (opening the MOUTH WIDE from SIDE to SIDE).

CORRECT PRONUNCIATION is often UNDERESTIMATED by students who repute us to be exaggerated in our precision but even teachers may have problems understanding a student who does not pronounce words correctly let alone a person on the street or members of an audience at a conference. Therefore CORRECT PRONUNCIATION is a very IMPORTANT part of language acquisition.

PRACTISE PRACTISE PRACTISE !!

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I hope you find this diagram as useful.

Susan

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Tricky English Made Easy:  BRING-TAKE-CARRY / FETCH-GET – Susan’s Student Tips

15/3/2016

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Tricky English Made Easy is a series to help students clarify concepts which are often difficult for learners of English. 
 
The use of BRING-TAKE-CARRY / FETCH-GET is problematic for students since, in many cases, the same verb for the different concepts can be used in other languages.
 
CARRY is the easiest of all to explain since it involves TRANSPORTING WITH YOUR ARMS.
 
The other verbs are best explained in the picture above (to download) in which I tried to make an explanatory diagram and in this excellent video by Vicki Hollett Simple English Videos:
 
Come, Go, Bring, Take, Fetch, Get: Learn English with Simple English Videos
https://youtu.be/ijuI7T-zpCM

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I hope you find this diagram as useful.
Susan
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    My name is Susan Brodar, born in London into a multilingual family and brought up bilingual English / Italian.

    I went to school in London until 15 when we moved to Germany where I finished my British education at Munich International School. I started teaching Italian at evening classes aged only 17 and studied Mass Communications and Journalism at Munich University.

    I continued teaching parallel to interpreting at trade fairs and business meetings as well doing translations. After working at the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade for a year I married my Italian globetrotting companion in 1983 and we set up our home near Venice, Italy where we continue to live with our two teenaged children.

    Having taken my British High School-leaving ‘A’ Level exams in English, Italian, French & German I am completely fluent in all four languages and am taking a DELE certification in Spanish to complement them.

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