You Can Do It! El último empujón a tu inglés: Recent Episodes
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El método más inteligente para dar el último empujón ¿Crees que nunca conseguirás el dominio del inglés, a pesar de tantos cursos, tantos libros de gramática, tantas academias? ¿Las lecciones tan teóricas no funcionan en la práctica, al comunicarte con otras personas de habla inglesa cuando viajas fuera del país? Si es tu caso, necesitas con urgencia leer este libro y escuchar el audio que contiene. You Can Do It! incluye el método más rápido, más inteligente y más eficaz, para aprender a pronunciar inglés correctamente. Para que des, de una vez por todas, el último empujón a tu inglés.
So, there you have it. The 13 necessary foundation bricks for vowels and their combinations and the patterns of when to use them, plus consonants and patterns where they are silent.
Lets look at the following list of words that come from these foundation bricks. The ‘a’ in the first three columns says the sound of the ‘o’ like in ‘off’ or ‘or’. In the third and fourth columns, the ‘o’ says the name of the ‘o’.
Remember we learned that the ‘a’ in ‘all’ says the sound of the ‘o’. The ‘o’ in ‘old’ on the other hand says the name.
If you get into the habit of thinking ‘eks’ when you see ‘ex’, your English will sound much better.
The ‘w’ is silent before ‘r’, at the beginning of a word. Examples: wrap, wrath, wreak, wreath, wreck, wrestle, write, wrong
‘t’ is silent before ‘le’. Examples: apostle, bustle, castle, hustle, nestle, rustle, epistle.
‘b’ is silent before another consonant in a syllable such as in the word ‘doubt’. Just think ‘out’ and then put a ‘d’ in front: ‘dout’. ‘Debt’ is the same. So put these two together ‘doubts and debts’, (phonetically: ‘douts’ and ‘dets’.)
Remember, the whole purpose of the exercise is to get your brain thinking with the correct bricks. So, don’t work against it.
‘gh’ in the middle of a one syllable word is mute. Examples: light, bright, sight, might, fight, right, tight. In all those words the vowel says its name, (‘I’ like the first person pronoun) but that is not always the case
Using a derivative of the same word we can build on the pattern. Just as ‘tious’ says ‘shiss’, ‘tion’ says ‘shin”. So, the word ‘caution’ using the system (remembering the ‘o’ says its sound like in ‘or’) breaks up to ‘co/shin.’
Okay, continuing to simply add to the ‘iss’ pattern. We have many words ending in ‘tious’ for example cautious.
Now, this makes the next pattern easy. Just as ‘us’ at the end of a word is pronounced ‘iss’, the same thing goes for ‘ous’
It is much easier to become consistent and fluent if you practise words in a sentence rather than on their own. That is the reason I make up these silly sentences. Do the same yourself whenever you want to practise specific words
Okay, if you are working in a company you are familiar with the words ‘focus’ and ‘bonus’. So, I want to give you the way to pronounce those words perfectly
This neutral vowel comes into play in the middle of words too, to make the words flow. Example: “comfortable.” Pronounced: (like umbrella) cumfrtable or cumfirtable, in fact, some native speakers even drop the ‘r’ so it becomes ‘cumftable’
I think back to my 1st student who spoke Catalan and borrow an expression I learned from him in regard to that language: The neutral vowel.
If you find a word difficult to pronounce, you no doubt get more and more frustrated, the more you try, without getting the results you want. Here is a helpful hint to get there faster. Break it up and join the pieces gradually.
This can be an interesting challenge. Try saying the following words using your newly found ‘th’ sound but the focus this time is on the endings. Remember to close one ear.
Say aloud ‘They’ and ‘Day’ Did they both sound the same? Are they supposed to sound the same? The answer is ‘No.’
These two sounds are the same, like in the words ‘rose’ and ‘zoo’. Where the tongue sits comfortably behind the teeth to make the soft ‘s’, it rises slightly and pushes towards the roof of the mouth to get the hard ‘s’ or ‘z’ sound.