Posts belonging to Category 'prononciation'

Prononciation anglaise: articulation, rhythm and rhyme

I believe that language is like music, and even if you know all the words, it doesn’t mean that you can sing the song, right? when you sing, you sing with rhythm, when you speak, you should also speak with rhythm. In this lesson, I’m going to share a children’s rhyme, or as we say, [...]

Prononciation anglaise : le son ‘th’ (3) – voiced and unvoiced

voiced: voisé unvoiced : non voisé try saying these phrases: That clothing these brothers another mother this is smooth the father is there bathe them Notice that verbs coming from nouns are voiced. teeth (les dents) – unvoiced to teethe (faire des dents) – voiced bath (bain) – unvoiced bathe (se baigner, se laver) – [...]

Prononciation anglaise: le son ‘th’ (2)

Theo Keith Garth Arthur Thelma kathy Catherine Dorothy Cynthia Ethel Thayer Thacker Thornton Smith Horvath Roth Hathaway My favourite: Thistlethwaite Fortunately, there aren’t many people called Thistlethwaite outside the north of England.

Prononciation anglaise: le son ‘th’ (1)

This is a very popular English learning channel on Youtube. Jennifer has a lovely approach, a very good teaching methodology, and a soothing, attractive voice. I’m sure her students adore her!! Jennifer’s sentence to practise is this: “Kathy thanked both Theo and Thelma for everything.” My advice: Try saying the sound ‘s’. As you make [...]

Prononciation : “vulnerable”

J’ai choisi ce mot parce qu’il vous montre comment un mot qui est identique en français en en anglais écrit peut être complétement différent à l’orale. Ecoutez bien, et essayer de le prononcer le mot ‘vulnerable’ en anglais!!

pronunciation: heat/hit

Yes, this one again! I think that even if you mix up these two sounds [i:] and [I], the context makes your listener understand. In linguistics, the first of rule of communication is to cooperate. This means making an effort to understand and responding with an appropriate anwser. For example, you might mispronounce the word [...]

prononciation avec Harry Potter: ‘th’

The best advice I’ve heard for pronouncing the ‘th’ sound in English is to start by saying ‘s’ and then slowly moving your tongue towards your teeth. When your tongue touches your teeth, you should have a good ‘th’ sound. The video of Harry Potter saying, ‘a month?’ is the shortest video from youtube I’ve [...]

Hungry – angry : pronunciation practise

Practice saying this proverb: ‘A hungry man is an angry man’ You must pronounce the ‘h’ in hungry, but as there is no ‘h’ in ‘angry’ you must say ‘an angry man’. Vowels: the ‘u’ in ‘hungry is said like the ‘u’ in ‘cut’, while the ‘a’ in angry is like the ‘a’ in ‘cat’.

Adjusting, modifying: technical verbs

Try this quiz to discover a few verbs that we use to show how things can be changed. There are certainly are lot more that are not in the quiz, but we can see from the Germanic side of English there are many that can be formed from the adjective, plus ‘-en’: widen, shorten, thicken, heighten etc.

Cours de phonétique: diphtongue dans ‘idea’

Beaucoup de francophones prononcent mal le mot ‘idea’ en anglais. Dans la vidéo, je vous explique pourquoi. La diphtongue à la fin de ce mot est: Vous le trouvez également à la fin des mots suivants: hear gear fear tear (larme) appear here weir career (carrière) smear beer

Accentuation et mots composés

Question reçue: Je voudrais savoir si l’accent tonique dans les mots composés se fait sur le premier mot et pourquoi ? (le sens global venant du second mot donc pourquoi pas celui-là ?)Merci bien,Camille C’est une très bonne question, Camille. Les mots composés peuvent être divisés en trois groupes – noms composés,(skateboard) verbes composés (overtake), [...]

comprendre les anglophones: ‘wanna’

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