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There is nothing we can help with. This question asks for your experience.
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Mar 05, 2009 22:09 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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Describe the specific difficulties in English pronunciation
met by a group of learners known to you.
This is what I have come up with for this question.
The problems for learners of English are mostly related to the differences between their language and English. Since the two languages belong to two different linguistic families, there are a lot of differences in terms of syntax and word formation, which give rise to a lot of common errors produced by the students . |
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Mar 05, 2009 22:30 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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For making my pronunciation better I'm watching films in english and listening radio. The most curious thing is when I am listening British films or radio my accent is getting more british and vice versa when american's.
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:40 am Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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| I have come up with this but Now I think we need plenty of examples what can you all think of? |
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| #6 (permalink) Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:22 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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| Tom c wrote: |
| I have come up with this but Now I think we need plenty of examples what can you all think of? |
Are you asking us to do your homework for you? |
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| #7 (permalink) Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:24 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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| No i am asking for opinions of others not for people to do my homework for me thank you very much. |
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| #8 (permalink) Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:46 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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| Tom c wrote: |
| No i am asking for opinions of others not for people to do my homework for me thank you very much. |
What about punctuation and spelling mistakes? Is that way for improving your English? I'm not quite sure!
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| #9 (permalink) Sat Mar 07, 2009 14:19 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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| Yes I would say that is part. I just thought it would be good to get everyone thinking to see what we can all come up with. Its just a bit of fun. |
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| #10 (permalink) Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:31 am Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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Sentence structure and spelling seem to be the biggest errors that I see on the Forum.
Writing " I " as " i " being the most common.
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| #11 (permalink) Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:57 am Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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| Kitosdad wrote: |
Sentence structure and spelling seem to be the biggest errors that I see on the Forum.
Writing " I " as " i " being the most common. |
Yes, and writing "english" instead of "English" is also a huge problem. |
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| #12 (permalink) Mon Mar 09, 2009 13:58 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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I would say, they should have a computer program to automatically correct "i" and "english" to "I" and "English". :)
Slava, are you reading this? ;)
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| #13 (permalink) Mon Mar 09, 2009 17:13 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Kitosdad wrote: |
Sentence structure and spelling seem to be the biggest errors that I see on the Forum.
Writing " I " as " i " being the most common. |
Yes, and writing "english" instead of "English" is also a huge problem. |
Hello Bill and Jamie,
As you are native speakers, especially Jamie is a linguistics professor, I'd like to ask you a question: How many English words can a US/UK highschool student command? I mean to say how many words they can recongize, read and use properly. In China, about 4,000 words are required for a college student to pass a test called CET4. But even though we have passed through this examination with high scores, I find it is still very hard for us to communicate with native speakers. So, I think the certification of CET band-4 is useless. What Jamie used to say to me are right, he suggested that I should read alot of material and absorb alot of natural English.(And I am doing exactly what he suggested me to do now.) By the way, the greatest obstacle of mine to improve my poor English is that I rarely have opportunities to utilize the vocabulary I learnt.
Best regards,
Shi Weiqiang
Please feel free to comment on my post. Thanks in advance.
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| #14 (permalink) Mon Mar 09, 2009 17:26 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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| I will be moving to China in August to Xi-an which I am hoping to learn a lot about the colleges there for my son. |
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| #15 (permalink) Mon Mar 09, 2009 17:31 pm Difficulties in English pronunciation |
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| Tom c wrote: |
| I will be moving to China in August to Xi-an which I am hoping to learn a lot about the colleges there for my son. |
Hello Tom, nice to meet you and welcome to China. :) I hope you will enjoy your journey. It's 0:29am in my area(GTM+8Hours), so I have to go sleep. Good night.
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