Pronuncia - Lettura
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
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