Dianna
how to figure out how to pronunce the vowels in three-or-more-syllables word? the phoincs rules i find from the internet seems just cover at most two syllables
Feb 9, 2011 2:13 PM
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You can't figure it out. You have to look in the dictionary.
February 9, 2011
Hi Dianna, There is a free online talking dictionary of English pronunciation. Just click over the pink words to hear them spoken at www.howjsay.com/index.php?word. There are many rules for pronouncing vowels and this site explains them very clearly http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/phonics.rules.html Here are the podcasts you can listen to http://www.englishpronunciationpod.com/feed.xml
February 9, 2011
This guy is quite something in phonetics so far I found: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTM0MzE2NTU2.html
February 9, 2011
Are you a phonetist? You mean "phonics" right? I remembered your former question I answered; see, Eliot's answer was what I was talking about; the rules; you gotta get the "intuition" by mastering the language (phonetics) little by little. Interesting, 3 or even more stresses? To me the first challenge is to find which one is (the first) stress.
February 9, 2011
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