Phonetics

   

     For Spanish learners mastering the English pronunciation is the hardest part. This is why this section is, in my opinion, the most important one.  

     Depending on your level, you may need to start improving your pronunciation with the help of one of these books and CDs. We´ll be using the books and CDs to work alone at home, in order to get a better English pronunciation. My role here will be to guide you by, for instance, establishing deadlines (a chapter per week) and sort out any problems you may have. [UPDATED]

The black list of English "pronunciation abominations"

Vegetable	Friend	Aren´t	Mother	Dialogue	Busy	Warm	Thirsty
Brother	Interesting	Promise	Furniture	Over	Friday	Straight	Queue
Monday	Was	Money	Cupboard	False	Through	Could	About
Comfortable	Hotel	Half	Talk	Since	Great	Guitar	World
Work	e-mail	Would	Don’t	Cloudy	Juice	Village	Our
Walk	Keyboard	Fruit	Centre	Thought	Temperature	Tired	Cold
Most	What	Cinema	Museum	Call	Cousin	Iron (ing)	Both
Church	Enough	Cathedral	Parents	Sunbathe	Sightseeing	Saw	Shreck
Road	Famous	Minute	Favourite	Answer	Gorgeous	Cocoa	Can't
Going	Their	Secretary	Woman	Chocolate	Enthusiasm	Salmon	Chips
Child	Flower	Almost	Correct	People	Wardrobe	Garage	Fire
Shirt	Aunt	Country	Abroad	Done	Colleague	Pizza	Receipt
Airport	Women	Tuesday	Orange	Recipe	Studying	Yes	Young
Course	Autumn	Hour	Mountain	Judge	Appearance	Frustration	Listening
Mobile (phone)	Download	Dessert	Reception	Very	Cushions	Curtains	Lettuce
Armchair	Bought	Circle	Apple	Cucumber	Sheet	Business	Layer
August	Should	Menu	Science	Intermediate	Machine	Garage	Kilometre
Nurse	Square	Castle	Thursday	Café(teria)	Towards	Bridge	Burglar
Climb	Britain	Argue	Caught	Murder(er)	Environment	Government	Period
Heart

(to be continued)

"Ship or Sheep" Follow-up

The book we chose as our phonetics textbook (Ship or Sheep") is made up of 50 units. Starting on the week of the 17th of October with chapters 1 and 2, we should be doing two chapters per week in order to complete the book by the end of the academic year.

PHONETICS
          Irregular Verbs.mp3
          LIST OF WORDS WITH WEAK FORMS.pdf
          http://www.multimedia-english.com/phonetics/weak-vs-strong-forms