von Nadja Wostiera | Donnerstag, September 24, 2020 | Learn, Learning strategies
Drilling in language learning simply means listening to a language model and repeating what is heard. The language model (or structure or pattern) can be provided by a teacher, a friend, another student or a recording. Even though modern language learning tends to be...
von Thom | Dienstag, September 15, 2020 | Learn, Learn pronunciation
Another area of pronunciation in which varieties of English can be distinguished is in the phoneme /r/. This is not only true between nations like Great Britain and the U.S., but also within them. Within the United Kingdom the pronunciation of /r/, or rather, how it...
von Thom | Dienstag, September 15, 2020 | Learn, Learn pronunciation
Before you tackle this lesson, take some time to do a bit of research. See what you can find out about varieties of English spoken in North America. This needn’t be a vast amount of in-depth research, just spend about 20-30 minutes learning about what...
von Nadja Wostiera | Mittwoch, April 8, 2020 | Learn, Learn pronunciation
Of all the features of English pronunciation, connected speech, or the flow between words, is the most subtle and one of the least well described. Elision is a specific part of connected speech, the one which is responsible for all the sounds dropped and most of the...
von Susannah | Donnerstag, Dezember 19, 2019 | Learn, Learn pronunciation
The consonants of English vary in their complexity and in their distinguishing pronunciation features. After understanding the basics of the simplest English consonants, there are a few more things that determine how a speaker can sound more like a native speaker or...