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- English and it absurdities
A little poem author unknown that will help some with their English pronouciation
Go on try it out....be Brave....
dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
and enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say
finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and
gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very
nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost lost, post and doth, cloth, loth,
Job, Nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give,
verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.Pronunciation-think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough-
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!June 30, 201512 My first experience of delivering a English presentation
I told myself to ignore the black statue on my left and focused on my audience who were chatting with each other . But I failed. It was Mr. Fei, my new English teacher, who was still in the corner of my eye and mind. Mr. Fei is a passionate and strict middle-aged teacher with a silky or occasionally, frightening voice. I set my sights on him, noticing that he wore that suit again which made him look more serious.
Standing on the rostrum alone, I took a deep breath and glancing at my classmates, looking for my group partners' seats. We spent a whole weekend on Mr. Fei's troublesome homework. Topic chosen, material gathered, posts designed, scripts written and rewritten, and here I was, trying to show our little crystallization of the wisdom and knowledge--a brief introduction to chocolate. I found them without much difficulty, for they sat fairly close to the rostrum, to me. And They both looked at me encouragingly, which gave me great comfort.
Mr. Fei's tough voice dispelled my visions of that weekend. 'Silence! 'He shouted. All chirps and twitters ended instantly. Then he turned back, standing looking towards me. Everyone else was waiting for me with total attention as well now.
'Hello everyone', I started and paused. Too cheerful, I thought. I resisted the urge to say my opening gambit again, and continued, 'Chocolate, as known to all, is well spread all across the world since--'
'Write it' the teacher spoken suddenly, 'Your topic. Write it on the blackboard'. My hands were trembling but I managed to grasp a piece of chalk. Then I misspelt the word 'chocolate'. Whole class burst into laugher when Mr. Fei pointed out my error in an understanding tone.
So far, so bad. I took another deep breath and resumed to recite our carefully edited script. I did not freeze on the stage for forgeting my lines. On the contrary, I paused a second time for speaking too fast and I failed to catch my breath. My heart beat quickly and loudly. Two stressful minutes elapsed then Liu, one of our group members, stepped on the rostrum to help me present the post*.'Slow down your speed' she whispered as she walked pass me. I promised I would with a nod of my head.
But I failed in calming myself down. I kept delivering my presentation quickly and my volume raised and raised in a state of great agitation. I gave them a glimpse. Liu sat there expressionlessly.
[the last paragraph is in the picture ].only minor corrections, red bits are not neededlilac added extra wordit was ok would also sugest changing"post*"to presentation
0 votedMarch 27, 20151Wish me good luck
I'm occupied with preparing for Ms office test during these days. Actually, I don't have faith in passing it. Whatever, I hope that I could pass. The tragedy is that my mobile data will run out.Maybe I will finish my entry in time on italki in the next week.(>﹏<)
Only minor corrections/alterations also try and leave spaces after commas and full stops, as the space denotes time for the reader to breathe..
0 votedMarch 26, 20150Immoral....is too strong a word...have not highlighted the corrections and have removed a couple of words
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Unsociable Behaviors in Public ~please help me correct the composition, thank you
It's common to see various unsociable behavior in public for most people such as littering, spitting and jumping a queue. I had the experience of seeing a man seated near a window throwing out a plastic bag after he ate his breakfast on the bus. Such phenomenon exists everyday in our culture.
It's universally acknowledged that unsociable behavior in public does exert a negative impact to many aspects. For an individual, when one behaves uncivilizedly this lower others' respect for him to some extent. Furthermore, we are unwilling to make friends with such people for the most part this means bad immoral behavious will narrow one's social circles. For a society, it will damage the image of a city and a country if it's citizens act impolitely too frequently. There is no denying that our sense of social responsibility could be affected by inappropriate deeds by some people.
Only when we treat this problem, as seriously as it deserves, will we accomplish the first step . It is vital to draw up stricter policies for government to punish people who behave uncivilizedly in public. Besides, more public-service advertisements are beneficial to cultivate people's civic consciousness and help them to be good from bottom of their hearts. Last but not least, schools and families have obligations to educate students to behave well in public. Via both efforts of all people, our society makes it possible to be better and better.0 votedMarch 26, 20150- 我是写第一输入, not sure if this works in Chinese as well as English, read a comment on other site "In the fire of art I would gladly place my hand" Which gave a response "in the rivers of sound is where I find my mind," as I am struggling with getting tones.... thought I'd try 在最亮的火艺术 我会很高兴地潜水 音响运行深像河流 是时间的脑海里变得活
March 26, 201550 Slight typo sentence (your missing the t)
quality, speed, reliability? What do you look for as a consumer? Well, I believe the answer lies in a combination of all of these elements
what does this sentence "What do you look for as a consumer?"mean? does the author miss something in it?thxPrice is also a factor, as well as brand for many
0 votedMarch 24, 20150- speak well or cannot to speak
Its interesting to see how others rate their ability to converse in a foreign lanquage, several cultures have higher expectations of what is good and what is not. I feel that Asian cultures want to be no one, and are disapointed with anything less so fail to see how much progress they have actualy made, whereas western cultures its the trying thats more importent. What do you think am I right or wrong in my assumptions
Is confidence all that is holding them back, or fear of being thought of as stupid for not knowing how "lead" is pronouced when refering to a dog or a case.
Do virtual keyboards help or hinder when trying to comunicate say in Mandarin for example or is using translators like google or MGBD, better is useing a old fashioned paper book the best way to go what do you think, have you found a tried and trusted way or are you still looking..
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