What pronunciation rules must you remember if you want to learn English well?

After reading the other two answers, they are all talking about the pronunciation details of words. Details don't represent rules of english pronunciation, just some specific pronunciation rules.

English classes in China schools castrate pronunciation, resulting in the vast majority of China people who have studied English for more than ten years not knowing what the key points and rules of English pronunciation are, and what are the differences between English and Mandarin pronunciation rules.

What are the pronunciation rules of Putonghua? The general principle is: one word, one sound, clear words, except for a few children with tone sandhi, Chinese characters will always be fixed pronunciation. The pronunciation law of English is the opposite: a word has multiple sounds, and the pronunciation of words in a sentence is different from that of independent words most of the time, and the pronunciation is very different.

In addition, there are rules differences between Mandarin and English. When there are a lot of rolling and flat tongue sounds, front nasal sounds and back nasal sounds, nasal sounds and lateral sounds in Mandarin, the conflict is very serious. However, Mandarin does not allow any adjustment to these conflicting sounds. No matter how embarrassed you are, you should try your best to speak. There are many conflicting sounds in English, but English is allowed to adjust smoothly. Everything you tune is right.

It is precisely because of the strict rules of Putonghua that the vast majority of China people's Putonghua is judged as "nonstandard", and many professions need Putonghua training to obtain certificates before they can take up their posts. It is precisely because English rules are loose and can be adjusted freely at will, while the British and Americans never do English pronunciation training, let alone textual research.

But the rules of Putonghua are strict, and the pronunciation of every word is fixed, which makes people easy to learn and understand. English rules are loose, allowing free adjustment. For China people who are used to Chinese pronunciation for a long time, it is especially difficult to learn English pronunciation. Mainly in these two aspects:

1. Words can be adjusted freely except for natural spelling. Turbidity, double consonant swallowing or something. People who haven't studied English pronunciation don't know that this is the result of free adjustment, but as the basic principle of English pronunciation, there is no need to summarize many rules one by one.

2. Words can be adjusted freely in sentences. All the words that can be read together will be linked together. Those that are not easy to read will be replaced by other phonetic symbols, and those that interfere before and after will change accordingly. There are too many phonetic rules for China people to hear clearly and their pronunciation is not standard.

The lack of phonetic symbols in English classes in schools seriously underestimates the difficulty of English pronunciation and directly cuts off the phonetic symbols, which neither teaches people how to pronounce words accurately, listen to the sounds of words, nor how to spell words by listening, nor how to read unfamiliar words, nor does it teach people the corresponding rules between letters and phonetic symbols of words, let alone the rules of phonetic changes of sentences. These extremely important and basic pronunciation rules will not be taught in school. Simply speaking vowels, consonants and phonetic symbols makes people think that these are the only details in rules of english pronunciation. The other two answers are just this kind of thinking, only for letters, phonetic symbols, words and other details, the eyes can not see the whole picture.

I can hear English clearly in a few short years and speak English with the same standard pronunciation as British and American people. It is estimated that few people believe it, because people around them can't hear English clearly and their pronunciation is not standard. But you should know that the reason why you can't hear clearly and your pronunciation is not standard is not because you are incompatible with English, but because you have never learned English pronunciation completely and don't even know the basic pronunciation rules.

I have published many headline articles about how to learn English, and there are also many analyses about pronunciation. If you want to know more, especially how China people can hear English clearly and speak standard English like foreigners, you will have a correct idea after reading it. It won't be long before you can speak pure and standard English.