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Wine/wain/, read with round lips when reading /w/. Vine/vain/, nibble your upper teeth while reading, read /v/.

English standard pronunciation is the most commonly used standard pronunciation in English teaching. English is RP (receiving pronunciation). Many people call it BBC English or Oxford English. Standard pronunciation originated in southeast England. Used by the upper middle class or upper class in Britain, it is also widely used in the private education system. Most BBC newscasters speak this English.

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There are many kinds of English. There are mainly American and Canadian English, Australian and New Zealand English, India and Pakistan English and African English. Even British English includes northern dialects, central dialects and western dialects. "English Putonghua" is standard English, and its definition is: "What educated people living in London and southeast England hear and what people in other countries and places say in this way".

The word "Hua" here does not refer to the words people use to express and exchange ideas, but refers to the pronunciation and intonation used to carry and describe those words. Therefore, pronunciation is the foundation of the foundation.

Without correct pronunciation, it is impossible to have a standard and elegant intonation. In order to standardize and popularize a standardized pronunciation, the International Phonetic Association established and formulated the "International Phonetic Alphabet" on 1886. Therefore, phoneticians have drawn a concise phonetic atlas, also known as the phonetic oral contour map, which is especially suitable for vowel research.