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Sunday, 23 November 2008

Pronunciation: Difficult English words (I)


Hiya!

I thought it might be interesting to include in the blog some pronunciation exercises. Just read aloud the listed words and check their pronunciation using one of the many different online audio dictionaries available.

Here's the first exercise:

Disappearance of vowels
family - garden - Edinburgh - awful - evil - interest - history

French words
moustache - bizarre - repertoire - memoire - reservoir
decade, parade, tornado, crusade

Alternations of some vowels
clerk (both BrEng and AmEng) - clerical - Berkshire
campus
compass - borough, conduit, love, conjure
quarrel - quantity
wagon - woman - wolf - bosom - womb - tomb - who - whose
fault - coughing - Australia - author
lost - cross - golf
sugar, rule, lucid, crew, blew

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