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Session One
1.1. Introduction to
Improve Your AmericanEnglishAccent
1.2. What’s in Session One
9 vowels (four easy ones)
9 syllables in words and ... letters.
(Many students and teachers of English as a second language use this or some
other number system to identify the most common North AmericanEnglish
vowels—but native speakers generally ... sounds like a punch in the
stomach! It’s not beautiful, but it’s
very important
in North American English.
Some words that contrast these four vowel sounds:
1 10 6 11
sheet shoot shot...
... naturalized Americans who
actually speak English better than I do, but who have this irritating
accent you'd like to be free of. And it's for all you others too who soon
will speak English ... improve your accent? Wrong. Losing your accent does not
* You can draw the vowel in 'feeeeeeyyyyyyyt' out for a long time (2
seconds) without gaining an *accent* An accent happens ... good idea to get the accent right
from the start, if that matters to you.
First some general points:
1. Were you over 40 when you first learned to say 'hello' in English?
Everybody...
... uống (thuốc ) “) của Anh.
Người Anh dường như không sử dụng chữ administrate. Theo từ điển
Oxford English Dictionary ( viết tắt : O.E.D ), chữ administrate là phó từ
của administer. Administer thường ... của Mỹ tương đương với chữ subject (thần dân, công
dân của Anh).Chúng ta thường thấy trên báo chí American citizen và
British subject. Ngoài ra, chữ citizen ở Mỹ còn có ý nghĩa là resident,
inhabitant ... một cơ cấu gọi là carpet-bagger government (chính quyền
của bọn đầu cơ chính trị)
The Oxford English Dictionary dẫn chứng, thời gian từ này bắt đầu
được sử dụng ở Mỹ sớm hơn ở Anh
CARRY
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LIVING LANGUAGE
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A Random House Company
American English Pronunciation Program
Written by Barbara
Raifsnider
Edited by Christopher
A.Wamasch
... 74
HAVAN’T 74
HAS/HE 74
HIS 74
HASN’T HE 74
HAS HIM 74
HERS 74
HASN’T&HER 74
HE’S 74
Rapid English Hints and Phrases 74
S, Z,T,D before “Y” 74
S+Y=[SH] [Ш] 74
Z+Н=[ZH] [ЖЬ] [ЖЬЁ] 75
T+Y=[CH] ... 66
Practice Y— link 66
Конец — Начало. The end + the beginning 66
Drop “T” and “D” 67
SECTION 4 Reduced English 67
PART I Reductions 68
The second category of vowel reductions 69
IS and AS sound the same...
... IT?
I learnEnglish
1. to watch American TV
2. because I like it; it’s a beautiful
language
3. because I work with the foreigners in
my company
4. to graduate
5. to understand how English ... bad habits as a learner of
English .
CHARACTERISTICS GOOD
CLASSROOM LEARNERS SHARE
o
be a good listener
o
take risks in doing new things
o
ask questions
o
think about how to learn
o
accept ... GOOD LEARNER
o
has motivation
o
takes responsibility for learning
o
share some common
characteristics in class
A GOOD LEARNER HAS
MOTIVATION
2 kinds of motivation:
o
instrumental – learning...
... Canada. There are naturally hundred of such differences. But in spite of these
differences, North Americans do not have much trouble understanding one another,
even if they come from places that...