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Teaching/learning pronunciation #61 (permalink) Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:31 am   Teaching/learning pronunciation		  
Englishuser wrote:
To be honest with you, I sometimes feel sad when I think about how this wonderful variety of English is about to disappear.


I'm totally with you on that one, EU, since I thoroughly enjoy a good old posh English accent -- about as much as I do many other English accent varieties. I'm not sure if the phonetic 'correctness' of its sounds has anything to do with it (though it helps, I suppose). What I do know is that the characteristic stress, intonation, expressions and even the voice quality that often goes with it are anything but dull and pedestrian to listen to.
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Teaching/learning pronunciation #62 (permalink) Sat Oct 27, 2007 15:11 pm   Teaching/learning pronunciation		  
Hi Alan,

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I don't know which part of the UK you are living in but my advice is don't worry too much about all these divisions and sub divisions of accent on which you place such importance. Just enjoy the language written and spoken.


Are you sure it is not important for a linguist to be alert to differences in pronunciation?

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Teaching/learning pronunciation #63 (permalink) Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:42 am   Teaching/learning pronunciation		  
It is what distinguishes a foreign speaker from a native speaker. Mother tongue has a bad influence on pronunciation, word-choice and grammar. It makes foreigners' speech unnatural.
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native attention... #64 (permalink) Wed Feb 04, 2009 23:42 pm   native attention...		  
Most of the native speakers of any of the languages do give little attention to word-chioce and grammar..yes I agree with you..Sassiek..
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Teaching/learning pronunciation #65 (permalink) Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:14 am   Teaching/learning pronunciation		  
Hi EU,

I happened to have a chance to read an artical discussing about the history of language on the planet. This artical presents a very important messege: language is changing from time to time and it changes very fast. I share this with you because I wonder what the standard of english pronounciation you think it is? Who's pronounciation can represent a specific english accent? Seems it's hard to define.

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