7 Tips to Improve

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• 7 Tips to Improve
• Your Pronunciation
• Your Putonghua
• and
• Your Kissing

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7 Tips to Improve Your Pronunciation

• Linguistics Theory
• Language Transfer
• Your native language influences your target
  language
• Every country pronounces English differently
• L1 ? L2

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7 Tips to Improve Your Pronunciation

• L1
• L2
• L3
• L4

• Your local dialect (eg. Hangzhou hua)
• Pinyin
• Putong Hua
• English

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7 Tips to Improve Your Pronunciation

• REMEMBER
• L1 ? L2
• L1 L2 ? L3
• L1 L2 L3 ? English

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• Tip 1
• S vs. SH
• Influence from L1
• Local Dialect Examples
• ? vs. ?
• ? vs. ?
• ????

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? vs. ?
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? vs. ?
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• Tip 1
• S vs. SH
• Minimal Pairs Practice
• See She
• Sell Shell
• Sore Shore
• Seat - Sheet
• Sit Shhh

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• Tip 1
• S vs. SH
• Tongue Twister Practice
• She sells sea shells down by the sea shore

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• Tip 2
• i
• /I/ vs. /i/
• Influence from L2 - Pinyin
• Practice
• It - Eat
• Sit Seat
• Ill Eel ??
• Still Steal
• Live Leave

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• Tip 2
• i
• Practice
• This is it
• It is this
• Everyone wanted to know if Chuck was LIVING.
• Everyone wanted to know if Chuck was LEAVING.
• in

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• Tip 3
• TH -  /T/ /W/
• Influence from L1 L3
• examples
• /T/- this, that, those, them, there
• /W/- thing, think, earth, birthday
• Practice i th in, thin

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• Tip 3
• S vs. TH
• Practice
• sick, thick, sick, thick
• sing, thing, sing, thing
• sink, think, sink, think
• He sinks, hes very fat!
• He thinks hes very fat!

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7 Tips Tip 3S vs. TH

• Sinking or
• Thinking

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• Tip 4
• V vs. W
• ?? problem (??)

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• Tip 4
• V vs. W
• ?? problem (??)
• English example
• I like to watch TV very much

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• Tip 4
• V vs. W
• ?? problem (??)
• Putong Hua example
• ????

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• Tip 4
• V vs. W
• ??problem (??)
• Putong Hua (L3) L1 L2 ? L3
• English (L4) L2 ? L4

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• Tip 4
• V vs. W
• V
• mouth wide
• upper teeth showing (big smile!)
• bite your bottom lip

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• Tip 4
• Practice V
• V
• very
• vest
• vent
• vet

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• Tip 4
• V vs. W
• W
• Round your lips
• Like a Kiss
• ?

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• Tip 4
• Practice W
• we
• west
• wet
• wary
• went

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• Tip 4
• Practice W
• we
• what
• when
• where
• why
• weishenme

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• Tip 4
• Practice V W
• V, we, V, we
• Vest, west, vest, west
• Vet, wet, vet, wet
• Very, wary, very, wary
• Vent, went, vent, went

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• Tip 4
• Practice V W
• We were very wary of the western vest.
• A whale would look silly wearing a veil.
• I like to watch TV very much.

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• Tip 4
• Practice - I TH W
• IN
• THIN
• WITHIN

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• /r/ /\/ vs. /l/
• ??? problem

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• Putong Hua
• L1 influences L3
• Local Dialect ? Putong Hua
• L1 ? L4 - Local Dialect influences English
• ???

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• ER /\/
• her, hamburger
• ???
• ??? her hamburger?

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• AR - /r/
• R
• are
• ?

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• AR - /r/
• SPEAK PUTONG HUA!
• are, car, park, Harvard, yard
• Park your car in Harvard yard!

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• AR - /r/
• WHO ARE YOU
• YOU ARE......................
• ???

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• Pronouncing /\/
• mouth round
• teeth open
• tongue floating in middle of mouth

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• Pronouncing /l/
• mouth wide
• tip of tongue touches back of top teeth
• VERY IMPORTANTkeep mouth wide, dont close it

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• Smile - Smell
• really
• her
• I really love her

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• Tip 5
• rate, late, rate, late
• red, led, red led
• read, lead, read, lead
• right, light, right, light
• wrong, long, wrong, long
• fresh, flesh, fresh, flesh
• dear, deal, dear, deal

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• Practice
• What a marvelous tour.
• What a marvelous tool.
• This is a tough rock
• This is a tough lock
• Look! A large cloud!
• Look! A large crowd!

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• Tip 5
• R vs. L
• pressure
• pleasure
• Practice
• My job gives me a great deal of pressure.
• My job gives me a great deal of pleasure.

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• Tip 6
• zh - /V/
• pressure (sh) /F/
• pleasure (zh) /V/
• My job gives me a great deal of pressure.
• My job gives me a great deal of pleasure.

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• Tip 6
• zh - /V/
• usually
• you
• zh
• ?
• ?
• Usually!

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• Tip 7
• PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
• 1. Learning English is marvelous and it gives me
  a great deal of pleasure.

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• Tip 7
• PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
• 2. I really wish to improve my English.

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• Tip 7
• PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
• 3. It is usually within my ability to do this, I
  think!

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• PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
• Learning English is marvelous and it gives me a
  great deal of pleasure.
• I really wish to improve my English.
• It is usually within my ability to do this, I
  think!
• Park your car in Harvard yard!
• ??? her hamburger?

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• PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!

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• 7 Tips to Improve
• Your Pronunciation
• Your Putonghua and
• Your Kissing

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• The End
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• Notes from a BBS for foreign teachers
• the result is a bit like someone learning tennis
  who thinks the only way to get better is to only
  ever practice it when the coach is there to watch
  but they only see the coach for one hour a week.
  The rest of the week they don't even pick up the
  racket. The best speakers on this campus are
  those who talk to each other or, at a pinch, talk
  to walls to practice 'th', 'v' and their ilk
  until their tongues and lips slip into place
  naturally... but no matter how often I hold these
  students up to everyone else by way of proof the
  'I will only entrench my errors if I speak
  English with another Chinese' obsession continues
  to operate.
• I think neither Chuck nor I were saying that
  there were no pronunciation problems here.

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• Notes from a BBS for foreign teachers
• I think there's a dual problem here, then
  firstly that students are indeed not very far
  down the path to good pronunciation in comparison
  to where you'd expect them to be for their level
  of education. That, as far as I can see, is down
  to a lamentable lack of practice all the way
  through their schooling where a semester oral
  lessons seems to consist of learning by rote
  another few hundred set sentences and recitation
  of the works of the Bronte sisters. Convincing
  students they should talk with each other to
  improve is a real uphill struggle and if you're
  on a campus like mine - some 4,000 students
  learning some degree of English and only two
  native English speakers - the result is a bit
  like someone learning tennis who thinks the only
  way to improve their game is to only ever
  practice it when the coach is there to watch but
  they can only spend one hour a week with the
  coach. The rest of the week they don't even pick
  up the racket. The best speakers on this campus
  are those who talk to each other or, at a pinch,
  talk to walls to practice 'th', 'v' and their ilk
  until their tongues and lips slip into place
  naturally... but no matter how often I hold these
  students up to everyone else by way of proof the
  'I will only entrench my errors if I speak
  English with another Chinese' obsession continues
  to operate. The same goes for grammar. What
  stops students from getting (to take the obvious
  example) 'he' and 'she' right isn't a lack of
  knowledge it's purely down to a lack of
  practice. They all know the rule AS a rule and
  there's no point repeating it, but they're all so
  busy with the mental translation that comes with
  unfamiliarity of actual use that the rule
  inevitably slips.
• So yes, pronunciation is poor here. The problem
  Chuck identified was an additional one that when
  students DO attain a reasonable level of
  pronunciation and should be spending time on
  other matters on the basis of the law of
  diminishing returns they insist on soldiering on
  to the almost unattainable goal of trying to rid
  themselves of their accents altogether and sound
  PRECISELY like a station announcer on the BBC or
  VOA