Do native English speakers learn how to pronounce a word by phonetics? Hello,there all. In Chinese, we have pinyin. And using pinyin to know how a word sounds is the way native Chinese speaker use.

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Do native English speakers learn how to pronounce a word by phonetics? Hello,there all. In Chinese, we have pinyin. And using pinyin to know how a word sounds is the way native Chinese speaker use. But, in English. Many native English have no idea about what is phonetics. So, how do native English speakers know how a word sounds? And, if learning phonetics is necessary for learning English, how could I do a self-study in phonetics. Thanks

2 apr 2013 20:53

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There is a famous reading program for children called "Hooked on Phonics." They have many products you could try.

9 aprile 2013

the book "eats, shoots & leaves" by Lynne Truss p. 15" There was a comical moment in the fifth year when our English teacher( author's) demanded, " But you have had lessons in grammar?" and we all looked shifty, as if the fault was ours. We had been thought Latin, French and German grammar; but English grammar was something we felt we were expected to infer from our reading -which is doubtless why I came a cropper over "its" and "it's".

3 aprile 2013

They don't study photetics, they just imitate, repeating after their mother. More then that, they don't study grammar as we study it. The English don't have a slightest idea what Present perfect, Participle, Adjective or Pronouns are. I am not joking. In Russia we have to learn the spelling of the most difficult word and write dictations at school. I don't know about that in England.

2 aprile 2013

We learn pronunciation simply by listening.

2 aprile 2013

Usually Mum and Dad talk to their children, or in the rare cases when they can't somebody else will. Phonetics needs reading, which is a skill acquired later in life.

3 aprile 2013

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