ACCENT TRAINING & PHONETICS

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Will updatesoon

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Lesson 1: The /ɑː/ Sound as in "car'



Long Vowel /
ɑː/




Speech organs Position

2

Open your JAW ,relaxed lips ,flat tongue pulled back a little,

The sound made in the back of your mouth


Words


Look at the mouth diagram to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound

Highlighted bold letters pronounced as [ /ɑː/ ]


ar ( r is silent ) ----- art , arms ,bar ,mark , arch , bark , dark

ear , er ,al ,au ----- heart ,Sergent, clerk ,derby ,psalm, laugh

a before s , n and th --- bath , castle ,fast ,glass ,disaster , rather , enhance


Sentences


1. The marble bird-bath was hidden in the tall grasses near the path.

2.let's park our car at Barbara's as the car park is rather far from the theater.

3.At last Margaret's anxiety passed and she chanced a disastrous dance with a laughing sergeant.

4.I'd rather take a chance and let my father drive me to the garage in his fast car.

5 .Hard-hearted Margaret was reading psalms in the dark .

6. As an office boy i made such a mark that i was given the post of a junior clerk


Verses


Barbara's car is a jaguar
and Barbara drives rather fast.
Castle ,farms and draughty barns,
She goes charging past

when i, good friends,was called to the bar,
I'd an appetite fresh and hearty'
But i was, as many barristers are,
an impecunious party....

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Always Speak Slowly [it doesn't matter whether its American English or British English]

If you have an accent when you speak English, then slowing down your rate will give you more time to get your tongue and lips into the correct place to form sounds. When you pronounce sounds correctly, your accent will naturally decrease. This means that speaking more quickly will give you less time to think about how to form sounds and will result in a heavier accent. The goal is not to speak TOO slowly, but to speak slowly enough so that you can speak clearly and be easily understood.
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