Dearest creature in creation, Study English Pronunciation
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27555)
Philippines
March 5, 2020 4:35am CST
If ever you are wondering how I talk, I do speak very well. In my native tongue as well as in English.
Why?
Two reasons.
For one, my grandmother was among the first students of English taught by the Thomasites teachers second decade of the past century.
Oh boy! I could speak English as a child and my classmates did listen in horror.
For another, I had a professor who made us recite this English poem. There's a video. Listen and learn.
After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud
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6 responses
@Mavic123456 (21891)
• Thailand
5 Mar 20
Good for you. English is a universal language and for that you are equipped with the major language acceptable to most countries. Congrats.
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@Mavic123456 (21891)
• Thailand
5 Mar 20
@eileenleyva I am still learning and practicing.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
5 Mar 20
Perhaps you are just a little insecure. Your posts and responses, thus far, are all right.
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@Mavic123456 (21891)
• Thailand
5 Mar 20
practice makes perfect. grammar is not the majority of importance, the best is confidence. If you are confident there will be no problem. You can still study the structure.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
I have a decent pronunciation, but from times to times, I speak with Hungarian or Romanian accent.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
5 Mar 20
Accents are interesting actually. Makes the English language sound richer.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
@MALUSE I learned not to care about the accent, anymore. In our part of the world, there is a culture of making fun of something that is different from you. So, if you speak Romanian with Hungarian accent, you will be ridiculed by some Romanians, and vice versa.
As for Turkish people who live in Germany, I heard them talking to each other in a mixture of German with Turkish. Something similar at the mixture of Hungarian and Romanian I was speaking when I was a child. I was born and raised in a place of Transylvania where Hungarians are only a few. Now I live in Szeklerland, were Szekelys(part of the Hungarian nation) are in majority. Now I rarely use Romanian words when I speak Hungarian.
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@rappeter13 (8608)
• Romania
5 Mar 20
@eileenleyva Every language is interesting with different accents.
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@Orson_Kart (8301)
• United Kingdom
5 Mar 20
I am English but I have a regional twang that makes it difficult for some to understand me.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
5 Mar 20
It would be fascinating to listen to you.
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
5 Mar 20
I can write good English but I cannot promise to speak articulately.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
5 Mar 20
We are in the Philippines. Accent does not matter. Nor baroque. Just speak.
Check the video of the poem. It's very helpful.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
5 Mar 20
@Alexandoy What crazy religion is that?
Here's an excerpt.
'Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;'

Here's an excerpt.
'Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;'1 person likes this
@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
5 Mar 20
@eileenleyva a crazy religion for a crazy person like me.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
5 Mar 20
That is fascinating! I don't have a problem with any of that, because I am a native English speaker who was educated in the 1950s and 60s - I must therefore be in the 10%! I don't even have a problem with the few Greek words in this poem.
There are, however, a few problems with the grammar of the text that introduces it.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
5 Mar 20
Here's the problem of the students studying English pronunciation.
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