Bạn có tự tin là mình phát âm chính xác?? Trong tiếng anh, nếu bạn phát âm sai, không những người nghe không hiểu, đôi khi có thể mang tới cho người nghe sự hiểu lầm, mang tới cho bản thân bạn những rắc rối không đáng có.
Mình lấy ví dụ cho các bạn nhé
Beach vs bitch AND Sheet vs shit
Please remember that “bitch”, “shit” are very very bad words in English
Hầu hết các bạn sẽ nói là sự khác biệt giữa chúng là âm dài và âm ngắn (long and short vowel). It is wrong perception.
So what should you do to fix it up??? Let watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fxj3dwT8Og
Đoạn video trên chỉ là một phần nhỏ trong bộ giáo trình: The American Accent Course – 50 Rules You Must Know. Đây là một bộ giáo trình học qua video với Lisa Mojsin, M.A Director of Accurate English School, nó được áp dụng phương pháp giảng dạy hiện đại. Bộ giáo trình này gồm có 4dvds với 50 bài giảng khác nhau chỉ ra các lỗi sai mà hầu hết người học đều mắc phải và giúp bạn có thể phát âm tiếng anh giọng mỹ một cách chính xác (an authentic American accent).
Để bạn đọc có đầy đủ thông tin về The America Accent Course – 50 Rules You Must Know, H.N.Club xin tóm tắt nội dung của 4DVDs như sau:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc2M4Js6-Gs
Video 1 - American Vowel Sounds - 10 Rules You Must Know
Learn to fix all of the most common vowels mistakes that non-native speakers of English make.
Commonly confused sounds are reviewed in detail.
British and American vowels are compared.
Speak with confidence and avoid potentially embarrassing mistakes and misunderstandings such as "fool" and "full," "cop" and "cup", "robber" and rubber," "beach" and "bitch" and many others.
Learn the phonetic symbols so that you can use your dictionary more effectively.
Learn the common spelling rules for the difficult vowel sounds.
Video 2 - Difficult Consonant Sounds - 15 Rules You Must Know
Fix the most common consonant errors.
Practice the difficult sounds in word pairs and sentences.
See the correct mouth positions.
Video 3 - Word Stress, Rhythm and Intonation - 15 Rules You Must Know
This is most important of the four videos. Learning these 15 lessons is the quickest way to improve your accent.
Learn how to create the natural rhythm and melody of American speech.
This video teaches you all the rules you need to know about correct stress and reduction of words.
Learn the most common rules about syllable stress.
Learn about rising and falling intonation and pitch.
Contains exercises which test your knowledge of American word and sentence stress
If you only buy one video, this is the one that will have the greatest effect on your accent. Without correct rhythm and intonation, your speech will be difficult to understand and will sound foreign, even if you are pronouncing all of the individual words correctly.
Video 4 - Advanced Lessons - The Final Steps to an Authentic American Accent
Develop natural sounding speech.
Find out about other important exceptions that you need to know.
More information about the videos:
Each topic (50 total) consists of a lesson that:
clearly shows you how to create the sound correctly
shows you the common mistakes that non-native speakers make and tells you what NOT to do
has sample words for you to repeat
has sample sentences to practice the new sound in context
Advantages of this method:
Focuses on the most important rules so that you can get results quickly.
Practical and efficient method to help you speak clearly and confidently in a very short time.
Easy to follow and easy to understand.
Over 4 hours of viewing.
Instructor, Lisa Mojsin, has over 20 years of experience training Hollywood actors, television newscasters, employees of Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, UCLA doctors, USC professors and law students, and hundreds of engineers, lawyers and business professionals from all different language backgrounds.
How to get more info on this DVD course and have it, please visit http://vn.360plus.yahoo.com/ieltsacademic/
Author: thinhtvdhtm@gmail.com
