YOUR PRONUNCIATION COUNTS

There is no reminder that knowing how to correctly pronounce words of a language is as important as knowing the language itself. No matter how much grammar or vocabulary you know unless you pronounce words correctly your utterance will remain incomprehensible. So, more attention should be given to this aspect of language learning. With the ample activities that the sites below provide, improving one's pronunciation has become very easy.

interactive activities from CUP to help you improve your intonation.

Task:

Go to: http://tinyurl.com/4d59se click on 'intonation'. You can then listen to some short conversations. The conversations are animated so they show you where the intonation goes up or down.
Listen to them and then try to copy them. Pay careful attention to the intonation. You can get more practice at developing your intonation using clips from movies. Find a clip of a movie you like and try to copy the rises and falls in intonation of the speaker. You can find lots of film clips on YouTube.

You can also try some of the other activities on the site that deal with word stress and sentence stress and learning the phonemic alphabet.



Nik Peachey