Hi everyone, I had planned to write some blog-style comments on learning Japanese pronunciation while I was over in Japan, but I'm afraid I was far too busy...
Dear Alex Interesting posting thanks. I remember years ago when I was living in Germany. I had previously been living in France for two years and was pretty...
Alex wrote: "Any suggestions why "hitori" is often pronounced "sh'tori"? I asked a Japanese friend and she insisted it wasn't true, until we sat down with...
Johnathan (or Alex, my gmail account makes it a little unclear) writes about some of the classical features of spoken English that many natives allegedly deny...
Hi Sue, I agree with what you say about the 'reigning language'. I suppose the ability to learn and use language is probably genetically hard-wired into us,...
Hi, I think part of the problem with "hitori"/ "sh'tori" is that I'm looking at a written representation, and worse, one using characters from a different...
Hi folks, Have a look at this website - Forvo.com. It's the first Web 2.0 that I've seen for pronunciation, and since Web 2.0 is the in thing at the moment...
Alex, I agree Forvo looks limited in usefulness. How helpful is it to have the prn of "Life" - 'made by an anonymous subscriber to Forvo.' Forgetting the...
Hi Dennis, I think the advantage of hearing words as spoken by anonymous subscribers is that they may be more real than the standardised choices of 'experts'....
Alex, Very grateful for reference to The Chaos. I first came across it as a student in the 60s. We were given a transcription of in 2L plus, or some such...
Alex, 2L Plus was a transcription system invented, I believe, by Peter McCarthy. When I was a postgraduate student at Leeds - in the 60s - we were supposed to...
I'm quite intrigued by this 2L-Plus. I can't find any reference to it on the Internet. I suppose a lot of transcription systems have come and gone over the...
Alex, Since you are interested, I'll rummage around in my so-called archive (the ex oil tanks room in the cellar) and see what I can find. The first few lines...
Hi folks, I'm going to give some pronunciation workshops to a group of improv actors ("Whose line is it anyway?" kind of thing). The focus is going to be on...
Alex, You've explained why my ham attempts to sound Indian sound Welsh. Don't know if it is of any use, but the intonation patterns of my native Norfolk,...
Hi Dennis, The Welsh - Indian accent confusion seems to be pretty common. As it's a question that's bound to come up in the actors' workshops I've been...
Hi everyone! The latest edition of TESOL Quarterly has a focus on the role of theory in TESOL in general. I find that pronunciation is the area with the most...
Dear Alex The questions you ask (Can theory help teachers? Which theories can make a difference? Should teachers bother?) have some points in common with the...
Hi Piers, Sorry about the tabloid subject line - I just like stirring. I was really interested by your post, and I've been studying your PhD over the last...
Dear Alex Thanks for your thoughts (and kind words). You asked about what an articulatory diagram or other representation for teaching vowels might look like....
Hello Does anyone have contact details or can anyone put me in contact with Mark Hancock please? Thanks in advance Anna Anna Bernard EFL Lecturer Ecole...
Hi J.Murphy, You sent your message to the Moderator e-mail, rather than posting it on the site, so I'm copy-pasting it across. To respond to posts, click on...
Hello J. Murphy I think you have been rather unlucky to meet so many teachers with so little knowledge. Having prior knowledge of linguistics and so, I feel,...
Hi Piers, Got to be honest, I haven't had time to check out the articulatory diagrams yet, but will do soon! I suppose a basic question in my mind is this: all...
Hi Anna and J. I think I've worked in different places that coincide with both of your experiences. A central factor seems to be the market for EFL teachers. ...
Dear Alex ... I'd say that sometimes they are, but often not. Which is why teachers have had to develop pedagogical grammars of language (whether they call...
Dear IATEFL PronSIG Members, I am a PhD student researching the teaching of English pronunciation in primary and secondary education in Cyprus. I would like to...
greetings to all from a pronsig newbie, thank you all for presenting your enjoyable and informative discussions. if there is any interest amongst you in...
