Blog Participation #3

Dear Students,

    On our previous class, we discussed the alveolar stops:

Here are some useful videos for you:

1. /t/ vs. /d/ sounds

2.. /n/ sound

3. Song showed in class:

On the comment section below,  after pronouncing the /t/ and /d/ sounds in English, Do you feel any difference with Spanish?   How?

Blog Participation #2

Dear Students,
We are still becoming familiar with the consonant sounds in the English Language.  One of my favorite youtube channels is Rachel's English.   Here she explains the IPA alphabet and provides examples of the consonant sounds and words with each one of them.  It is important to pay attention to the spelling of the words and how different they are that represent a single sound.

Please answer the following questions in the comment section below:
1.  What consonants are the most difficult for you?  Why?

Regards,
Prof. Eva

Blog Participation #1

Hello Dear Students,
     I think Youtube is a great resource for improving our pronunciation and it may definitely help you with this course.
I would like you to watch the video below and post a comment answering 2 things:
1.  What do you find interesting about the video?
2.   What differences do you see between  American English and British English (this video is from a British speaker)?
3.  Why do we make mistakes when pronouncing a word?

Course Syllabus

On the link below you will find the course syllabus.  This is an abbreviated version of the final syllabus that will be uploaded to the LLS soon.
Phonetics 1 Syllabus

Regards,
Prof. Eva

Contact Information List

Hello Again!
Please complete the contact information list on the link below, with the number assigned to you.
Phonetics 1 Contact List

Thanks,
Prof. Eva

Welcome!

Welcome to our Phonetics 1 course.  This course will help you to recognize English sounds and how they are produced, and it will consequently help you to improve your pronunciation. It will hopefully help you to sound better than Steve Martin in his Pink Panther's role: