How to correct your English pronunciation correctly?

We learn English like children learn to speak, and the process must be imitation, error correction and constant practice.

First of all, imitate and follow.

After you are familiar with words or sentences, you can use recording equipment or listening equipment to find out the gap with the original sound and correct it.

After being able to pronounce correctly, you need to practice continuously to make the mouth muscles form inertia.

In the process of correcting English pronunciation, I have the following suggestions, which I think are very important.

1. First, decide whether you want to choose British pronunciation or American pronunciation. There is no difference between the two, just depending on which one the subject likes and which one is suitable for.

2. Learn the phonetic alphabet course

These 44 English phonetic symbols are necessary, just like Chinese Pinyin. Many people in China have never learned phonetic symbols or formed bad habits in the process of learning phonetic symbols (such as marking pronunciation in Chinese). It should be noted that no pronunciation in English is exactly the same as that in Chinese.

I recommend you to watch the teaching of phonetic symbols in BBC official website.

If you need more detailed pronunciation teaching, there are many on the market.

In the process of learning phonetic symbols, we should pay attention to the comparison of similar pronunciations, such as (DJ phonetic symbols are used below):

[I:] [I]

[u:] [u]

[? :] [? ]

[s] [θ]

[z] [？ ]

3. Stress reading and weak reading

When we learn words, we will come into contact with stressed reading, such as at/? T/, they/? Em/, is there /h? But in real spoken English, we should pay attention to notional words, such as names, adjectives and notional verbs. And weak reading function words, generally prepositions, pronouns, articles, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, etc.

Ex.: Don't look at me!

In this sentence, don't, look should be stressed, at, me should not be stressed T/ reading is undoubtedly very blunt. Here at should be pronounced/? T/, while T loses its voice and only keeps its mouth shape.

Example: Some laws have been passed, and many policemen and other officials are receiving training in this field.

In this sentence, have is not stressed, pronounced as /h? V/ or/? v/.

Continuous reading

There are three main situations in which you can read continuously.

1. Consonants+vowels

Relax, such as is /teikiti:zi/

2. Consonants+Consonants

When the first word ends with a consonant and the next word begins with the same or similar consonant, it needs to be read continuously.

Take it for example, it just ends with a t, and take starts with a t, so you don't have to read the previous t, so take it as in the first case, so after reading it continuously, use the phonetic symbol to express it as /d? steikit/

For another example, you don't need to send /d/, just send it as /juztu/

3. Vowel+Vowel

The main problem is to add a glide between vowels to solve the problem.

For example, when going out, put a sliding sound /w/ between two words, and the phonetic symbol is /g? uwaut/

My apple, put a sliding sound /j/ between the two words, and the phonetic symbol is /maij? pl/

Note that the glide is naturally brought out. Don't overemphasize it, it will spoil.

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