(This video from BBC) это видео от BBC (explains the different) объясняет различие (sounds of english) между звуками в английском языке.
Hello - привет!
(Now one question) сейчас один вопрос (I am often asked) который я часто задаю (is what’s the best way) - это, какой лучший способ (to improve my pronunciation) улучшить мое произношение?
Well, my first piece of advice is to try to learn each different sound of English.
And in order to learn each different sound of English, it’s very helpful to learn each different symbol that represents the sounds of English.
Why do we need different symbols?
Why do we need different symbols? I hear you Os.
Well, in writing English, we use 26 letters of the alphabet, but there are more than 26 sounds in English. In fact, there are over 40 sounds in English.
And it’s not very easy to show these using only the letters of the English alphabet.
So there is a system which uses a group of symbols, now some of these symbols are the same as letters and some of them are different.
You can use the symbols to write up the pronunciation of words, and many dictionaries for English learners you will see the pronunciations written out using these special symbols.
To show that it is the sound which is being written, not the letters, the transcriptions are written between slashes.
For example, the pronunciation of a word, pet, is written like this, /pet/. In this example, the sound symbols look exactly the same as letters.
You can only tell that we’re talking about pronunciation, and not spelling because of the slashes (/…/).
However, some words look very different when you see the pronunciation.
Look at this one… [see screen] Have you gotten any ideas what that is? It’s the word, knowledge.
As you can see, it’s very different from the spelling. So this is why it’s very useful to learn the symbols. You can match the letters of word to the sounds of the word.
So if you want to improve your English pronunciation, you should learn the different sounds.
And if you want to learn the different sounds, you should learn the symbols.
And here is some good news. If you know the symbols of the sounds, you will be able to use many dictionaries to find pronunciation of any word in English. And you won’t even need a teacher.
So to help you learn the symbols and sounds, why not watch my videos here.
Good luck and happy speaking.
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