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TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION - Mind Map

- TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE PRONUNCIATION
- RHYTHM
- Rhythm is the sense of movement in speech, marked by the stress, timing, and quantity of syllables
- Idea
- STRESS
- Stress is the degree of emphasis given a sound or syllable in speech
- You must pay attention to the vowels because one of them will be where you find the stress of a word
- Produce a longer vowel, Say the syllable louder, Pronounce it with clarity, Create a more distinctive facial movement
- INTONATION
- Intonation describes how the voice rises and falls in speech,showing an emotion
- Rising Intonation; In this case the final syllable or final group of words is accentuated. ex Wh questions
- Falling Intonation; It happens when our tone of voice decays at the end of the sentence. ex YES/NO Questions
- Online resources
- Forvo — Translations are provided if you type in a word in English, and a map is shown to give you audio clips of how people say the particular word in varying dialects
- FluentU — FluentU is an incredible source to hear natural, native English word stress—without ever getting lost or confused
- The BBC has also made its contribution with this guide to phonetic symbols, as well as videos that show how to pronounce each sound
- App Resources
- THE SOUNDS PRONUNCIATION- This app shows all the sounds of English, divided into three sections: vowels, diphthongs and consonants.
- ELSA SPEAK: ENGLISH ACCENT COACH- Elsa figures out where your pronunciations mistakes are and shows you how to improve
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