Re: pronunciation

--- fshdt <tibbetts-al8Ev/14v5k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why teach "Dooo yoooo want ay  book?" and then later
> tell them it's
> better to say "d'y*(d*yoo) wan(t) * book?" (* =
> schwa)? Teach new
> words, new language in context as it is used in real
> life.
> 
> Dick

Exactly Dick, couldn't agree more, I use short
dialogues but not from grammar books but other
sources, for example a short track called 'Soap" on
Eminen's first CD has precisely what you are talking
about, elisions, contractions and weak forms that
they'll never hear either in a formal listening lesson
but, more pertinently,will hear in an IELTS listening
exam or a conversation between two non-Chinese
teachers in their school.

Russ Taylor


        
        
                
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