Re: Pronunciation

The other factor in favour of using IPA is I would also get my students to 
write down the IPA symbol set for the English of their choice, AND the IPA 
symbol set for Chinese. 

(For those who would like a copy of ?Chinese Pinyin in 6 minutes.wmv?it?s now 
available on the P@P networks)

By comparing the two IPA symbol sets we could then use standard Chinese 
characters to represent various sounds (a great help for slow starters and for 
those less fluent in IPA transliteration) 
   
  Li Yang from crazy English did a similar thing which tends to encourage 
Chinese pronunciation.
   
  This works for the simple sounds, for the ones where there was no comparative 
sound, well, the students had to learn the specific new (to them) phoneme. Good 
or bad, the only model for this usually was me. 

  It must have been better than not learning them.
Now, that?s what I did. Care for a bit of the other piece of apple?



Regards,

Tsc Tempest DCA
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People's Republic of China
Zhuhai SEZ, Guang Dong





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