About phonetic and pronunciation
During the process of the second language/foreign language acquisition learners encounter different types of problems. Between them, one of the most challenging issue is a pronunciation. It could cause more or less difficulty depending on the student’s native language and the target one, as every language has their own set of sounds which could be similar to the ones of another language’s set or completely different.
For being successful in any foreign language learners should pay enough attention to the correct pronunciation. It not only makes the speech sound more natural, but also helps to avoid misunderstanding in cases when the meaning of word could be changed because of inaccurate pronunciation.
English pronunciation seems difficult for many foreign learners. Spanish learners are not an exception and they have a serie of specific problems due to the different characteristics of the phonological systems of this two languages.
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About Phonetics and Pronunciation.
During the process of the second language/foreign language acquisition learners encounter different types of problems. Between Among them, one of the most challenging issues is a pronunciation. It could cause more or less difficulty depending on the student’s native language and the target one, as every language has its their own set of sounds which could be similar to the ones of another language or completely different.For being In order to be successful in any foreign language, learners should pay enough attention to the correct pronunciation. It not only makes the speech sound more natural, but also helps to avoid misunderstandings in cases when the meaning of word could be changed misconstrued because of inaccurate pronunciation.
English pronunciation seems difficult for many foreign learners. Spanish learners are not an exception and they have a series of specific problems due to the different characteristics of the phonological systems of this these two languages.
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About phonetics and pronunciation
Learners encounter different types of problems learning a foreign language. Amongst them, one of the most challenging is pronunciation. It is easier or harder according to the similarity or not of the student’s native language to the target one, since every language has its own set of sounds that may or maynot resemble each other.To be successful in any foreign language learners should pay enough attention to the correct pronunciation. It not only makes the speech sound more natural, but also helps to avoid misunderstandings in doubtful cases.
English pronunciation seems difficult for many foreign learners. Spanish learners are not an exception and they have a series of specific problems due to the different characteristics of the phonological systems of the two languages.
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About phonetic and pronunciation
For being successful in any foreign language learners should pay close enough attention to the correct pronunciation. It not only makes the speech sound more natural, but also helps to avoid misunderstanding in cases when the meaning of word could be changed because of inaccurate pronunciation.
English pronunciation seems difficult for many foreign learners. Spanish learners are not an exception and they have a series of specific problems due to the different characteristics of the phonological systems of this two languages.
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I'm currently studying in Spain, and we have English phonetics. It's really interesting to study and this text is an introduction for my written work. I'm still not good at English, so I need some help, thant's why I'm going to put some parts here .
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The correct pronunciation of a word is not so rigid as you might expect and that is why English speakers from different countries can speak with one another. It takes a little while to get used to the accents but eventually we usually do, though not always. People from Wales I find difficulty with but American, Australian, English, Scottish is usually not to difficult.
When I listen to someone I don't listen to every word said, I listen for meaning, what are they saying so that even though I might miss a word or two it does not often matter.
The other week I listened to some workmates talking and they mentioned an eggbeater which drew my attention. I listened but no mention of cooking came so I thought helicopters were sometimes referred to as eggbeaters but the conversation did not support that idea. Finally they mentioned fishing and I immediately knew they were talking about a fishing reel.
The order of the words in a sentence has a little flexibility to and I am used to hearing sentences put a certain way and when a word is put to far out of place it becomes a distraction, I call it a clanger just cause it is hard to ignore.
Imagine a piano player playing a song and then he hits a wrong note. You are listening to the music and you don't really notice each note until the wrong note is hit and then you cannot forget it.
I really enjoyed your piece and thank you
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