Pronuncia - Lettura - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on why the language is so difficult to pronounce.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful English expressions; you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to information on some of the reasons why Wnglish is so difficult to pronounce.
So let’s start!

Pronuncia - Lettura - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting English on why the language is so difficult to pronounce.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful English expressions; you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to information on some of the reasons why Wnglish is so difficult to pronounce.
So let’s start!

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Questa lezione ti aiuterà a comprendere alcuni particolari sulla pronuncia della lingua inglese

All languages exist as speech long before any written form appears.

People like the written word or rather spelling to match the way we pronounce words. Unfortunately the English language has a mismatch between the spelling of words and their pronunciation. This is partly because English uses the Roman alphabet, that was originally devised for Latin, an older language with patterns of sounds and grammatical structures that differ from English.

There are over 40 sounds in English but only 26 letters to represent them. Some letters represent one sound, for example, f, l, m, and z. But most letters can represent more than 1 sound. For example the consonant c is pronounced differently in the 3 words cake, city, and church. The vowel e is different in the words den, pretty and patient, and sometimes it is not pronounced at all, especially at the end of words, for example come and dance.

Hence it is important if you are studying English, to write down new words in an address book, along side the spelling of a word, and from a dictionary to write down its phonetic symbols. This way you learn the phonetic alphabet, and improve your English pronunciation.

This article is adapted from www.askoxford.com

Pronuncia - Fonologia - Trascizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be listening to the pronunciation of the 25 vowel symbols, (that is to say “speech sounds”) of the phonetic alphabet.
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Pronuncia - Fonologia - Podcast

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Leggi per avere alcune utili informazioni sui suoni vocalici inglesi.

Vowels in the alphabet are the following characters “a”, “e” ,”I”, “o”, “u”.

However in the English phonetic language, there are 25 vowel sounds (phonemes), as shown below.

This can be a problem, as many language students have less vowel sounds in their own language, so their ears are not trained to perceive the difference between “ship” and “sheep” for example.

There are 12 monophthongs (OR a single vowel sound)

There are 8 dipthongs (OR a single vowel sound also, but, the tongue moves to produce a transition from 1 vowel to another)

And there are 5 tripthongs (OR also a single vowel sound, but the tongue moves twice, to produce a transition from one vowel to another, and then to a third)

Below is the “vowel phonetic alphabet” with examples, and in the following podcast, you will hear the correct pronunciation of them.

Pronuncia - Vocabolario - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some useful English terminology used for English exams
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some useful, English vocabulary, you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
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Pronuncia - Vocabolario - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some useful English terminology used for English exams
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some useful, English vocabulary, you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
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Scopri la differenza fra fonetica e fonologia, oltre ad alcuni termini utili per capire lo studio della pronuncia dei suoni inglesi.

Phonetic terminology made simple………

Phonetics is the study of physical sounds and the human voice. It is concerned with the properties of speech sounds (phones) and of non-speech sounds and their production and perception.

Phonology, as opposed to phonetics, is the study of sound systems and abstract sound units, such as phonemes.

Phonemes are the smallest unit of sound in a language which can distinguish two words, for example, “can” and “fan”, these words only differ with initial sound /k/ and /f/. But “ban” and “bin” differ only with their vowel sound / ɪ / and / æ /

RP means “Received Pronunciation.” This is a standard “BBC English” pronunciation used, for the sounds of phonetic spellings.

In a bilingual dictionary you can find the standard pronunciation for each word, transcribed following the IPA conventions.

IPA is an acronym meaning International Phonetic Association.

Adapted from wikipedia.org

Pronuncia - Tecniche di pronuncia - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting techniques to improve your English pronunciation.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful techniques. You’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to two people having a conversation in a university canteen.
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Pronuncia - Tecniche di pronuncia - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting techniques to improve your English pronunciation.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful techniques. You’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to two people having a conversation in a university canteen.
So let’s start!

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Pronuncia - Tecniche di pronuncia

Con questa lezione capirai le differenze di pronuncia fra suoni molto simili per un parlante italiano.

On the British Isles, school children have numerous reading and spelling tests, to perfect the pronunciation of words, so from an early age, they master the difficulties of pronunciation.
However, for foreign students there are numerous techniques that can be used to improve their pronunciation, and to learn some of the phonetic symbols at the same time.

One simple technique is “Minimal Pair Practice“.
See the example below: