Saturday, 22 June 2013

Re: [wanabidii] Re: [PK] English Pronunciation

Anna,

I'm not really a teacher by profession; I'm an Engineering Lecturer but I teach English to new immigrants on a volunteer basis on Saturdays. Most of the words I bring here for discussion are from my class, the words that pose challenges to my students.

English is a tough language to learn because there's no formula for pronunciation. each word is memorized on its own.


For example;

The word ROUGH is pronounced as R-A-A-F    gh has an F sound

but

The word THOUGH becomes DH-O-O               gh  is silent.   Even TH becomes DH !!!!!!

If you sit in my class, you'll be amazed at all the different pronunciation problems people have around the world.


Courage




On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:40 AM, anna nyanga <luguanna@yahoo.com> wrote:
haha, Mwalimu since we can not join you in Canada to improve our difficulties!.
Lets continue with online adult learning. Iam learning better now than before!
 
But how can we stimulate former and new teachers to be on top of our observed problem?

Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 11:44 AM
Subject: [wanabidii] Re: [PK] English Pronunciation

Mwai,

I had the same problem with the word JUICE until I came to Canada and learned the correct way to do it. We all rely on how our teachers pronounce things so if a teacher does not know a word very well, we adopt the same mistake in pronouncing that word.

House Chores ?   It's simple:  Ha-u-s  ch-o-o-s     Neno hilo latamkwa kama choo

Courage


On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 5:37 AM, George Mwai <mwaigg08@gmail.com> wrote:
Maurice,

I used to have the same problem with that word juice. How then do one pronounce the word Chore  as in house chores?

mwai george


On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm back once again with a yet another word that I've noticed latatiza watu sometimes.

The word is JUICE  as in Orange Juice.

I have heard several people say:   Ju-i-s   This is wrong

The correct way is:                          Ju-u-s  or J-u-s

Very simple.

I hope this has clarified it for those who were not 100% sure about how to pronounce this word.

Courage


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