BERBERENGLISH

Introduction

• Method of learning

• The Phonemic Alphabet

• The Speech Organs​

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Long vowels

• The [ɑː] sound as in “art”

• The [uː] sound as in “move”

• The [ɔ:] sound as in “walk”

• The [i:] sound as in “see”

• The [ɜː] sound as in “work”
   

• The [ə] neutral vowel (schwa) as in “teacher”

Semi-Vowels

• Semi-vowel [j] as in “yes”

• Semi-vowel [w] as in “water”

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Plosive Consonants

• Plosive consonants unvoiced [p] as in “pat” and voiced [b] as in “bat”

• Plosive consonants unvoiced [t] as in “test” and voiced [d] as in “did”

• Plosive consonants unvoiced [k] as in “key” and voiced [g] as in “glue”

Difficult Speech Patterns

• Consonant clusters

• Voiced and unvoiced endings for plurals and third person singular

• Past tense verbs ending with “ed”.

• Glottal Stops /ʔ/

• Neutral vowel (schwa) /ə/

• Strong and weak forms of words

Additional Speech Exercises

• Maintaining correct pronunciation

• Difficulties in pronunciation of the speakers of world languages

• Warm-up exercises

• Vowel comparison chart

• Consonant comparison

• Pronunciation of London Underground stations and place names

• Pronunciation of British place names

• Strong and weak forms chart

Short vowels​

• The [ɪ] sound as in “sit”

• Comparison [ə] - [ɪ] and [ɪ] – [i:]

• The [ʌ] sound as in “must”

• The [ɒ] sound as in “hot”

• Comparison [ɒ] - [ɔ:] and [ɒ] - [ʌ]

• The [e] sound as in “set”

• The [ʊ] sound as in “wood”

• Comparison [ʊ] and [u:]

• The [æ] sound as in “flat”

Nasal Consonants and Nasal Plosions

• Nasal consonant [m] as in “smoke”

• Nasal consonant [n] as in “nine”

• Nasal consonant [ŋ] as in “sing”

• Nasal plosion [tn] as in “button” and [dn] as in “suddenly”

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Lateral Consonants and Lateral Plosions

• Lateral consonant [l] as in “alone”

• Lateral consonant [ɫ] as in “cold”

• Lateral consonant [tl] as in “gentle” and [dl] as in “middle”

Connected Speech Patterns

• Consonant elision

• Liaisons – Compound nouns

• Liaisons – Phrasal verbs with adverbial particles and prepositions

• Liaisons – Continuous verbs with adverbs or nouns

• Liaisons – Words with prepositions

• Liaison of vowel to vowel

• Linking /r/

• Intrusive /r/

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Diphthongs

• Diphthong [əʊ] as in “coat”

• Diphthong [eɪ] as in “late”

• Diphthong [ɔɪ] as in “toy”

• Diphthong [ɪə] as in “nuclear”

• Diphthong [aɪ] as in “fly”

• Diphthong [ʊə] as in “tour” and triphthong [jʊə] as in “fuel”

• Diphthong [eə] as in “pear”

• Diphthong [aʊ] as in “loud”

Fricative Consonants

• Fricative consonants unvoiced [f] as in “flower” and voiced [v] as in “very”

• Unvoiced consonant [θ] as in “three”

• Voiced consonant [ð] as in “this”

• Unvoiced [s] as in “sweet” and voiced [z] as in “zebra”

• Unvoiced [ʃ] as in “shirt” and voiced [ʒ] as in “vision”

• Unvoiced consonant [h] as in “hello”​

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Affricates

• The [r] sound as in “red”

• Affricates unvoiced [tʃ] as in “cheap” and voiced [dʒ] as in “jeep”

Flow of Speech

• Neutral flow of speech

• Sentence stress

• Intonation and inflection

• Onomatopoeia​

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Ps (Power, Pause, Pace and Pitch)

• Power

• Pause

• Pace

• Pitch

• Summary of the 4 Ps