Re: Chinese learning English

Not being American but British, I looked up the
pronunciation for "business" in the Merriam Webster
online dictionary as my pronunciation accords with
Dick's. It said there that you can say /bizniz/ or
/biznis/ but again the "i" in the word was NOT
pronounced. 
I use IPA in lessons before as I have mentioned before
and I wonder if Ria did what I have done in the past
on occasion and made the mistake of putting the
pronunciation of the word into symbols by reading
silently rather than speaking aloud, perfectly
understandable but a warning that we have to be
careful  with even the simplest of words when we are
explaining pronunciation, especially in a way when we
can't actually hear the result.

Russ Taylor
--- Stephanie Noke <araxy-Z02xGKUfPWYS+FvcfC7Uqw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ria, I also say /biznus/ (cannot show shwa) and, to
> be honest, I've never heard anyone pronounce the
> /i/.  Also, I am interested to know how you show the
> difference between voiced /th/ and unvoiced /th/ and
> similar differences using only "English" phonetics?
> Thanks.
> Stephanie




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