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• Rock the mic … or the mike?

  
  The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More — Authority: 111
  Q: Is there a technical name for when a word is not pronounced as written because it’s a shortening of another word? For example, “mic” would normally be pronounced MICK but, it’s actually pronounced MIKE since it’s short for “microphone.” A: If there’s a word for this, we don’t know what it is. ...
  1 day ago

• Phonic Lesson Plans The First Phonics Teaching Tool

  
  4myp - Custom Promotional Calendars — Authority: 138
  In brief, phonics is teaching English sounds or the linkage between letter patterns and their corresponding sound. Phonics today is a popular methodology of teaching youngsters the easy way to read and write English. Naturally, like any other teaching techniques, there’s first the requirement of a phonic lesson ...
  2 days ago

• Language lessons, heritage questions

  
  Raising Rockstar — Authority: 106
  My father in law often bemoans Rockstar’s lack of grasp of Hakka, and speaking not a stitch of the dialect myself, I recently came up with what I thought was a best effort at trying to facilitate some learning of it. (You might guess I was rather pleased with myself, given my own knowledge of all things ...
  3 days ago

• Phonic Lesson Plans The First Phonics Teaching Tool

  
  4myp - Custom Promotional Calendars — Authority: 138
  In a nutshell, phonics is teaching English sounds or the linkage between letter patterns and their corresponding sound. Phonics today is a popular methodology of teaching youngsters the right way to read and write the English language. Of course, like any other teaching methods, there is first the requirement of a ...
  5 days ago

• An Ode to the Chaos of English Pronunciation

  
  The BlaBla Blog — Authority: 100
  New on The BlaBla Blog today... An Ode to the Chaos of English Pronunciation I recently rediscovered this poem via Poke.co.uk, and whilst they refer to it there as “English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité” the piece is actually called The Chaos. As in “the chaos that is correct English pronunciation” I ...
  1 week ago

• Complete lesson plan: debating the Stop Online Piracy Act

  
  efl-resource.com — Authority: 120
  Level: Advanced. Scope: older teens and adults. Type: for classes of 6 or more students – exchanging information; holding a debate. Skills: reading; writing; speaking; listening; pronunciation. Language focus: revising modals of deduction and speculation, and language of agreeing, disagreeing, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Vowels in the English Language

  
  Language Bits — Authority: 85
  Vowels are speech sounds  pronounced so there are no “obstacles” to airstream (unlike the way consonants are pronounced, for example). This post lists English vowels (21 in this case, although some sources list 22), both monophthongs and diphthongs. They are grouped into the long and short ones. There is also a ...
  2 weeks ago

• English Chaos!

  
  Dilemmas of an Expat Tutor — Authority: 396
  G. Nolst Trenité, aka Charivarius This amazing poem, containing over 800 notorious irregularities in English spelling, is better known abroad by foreigners than by native speakers.  (I only learned, myself, of its existence from foreign speakers.) The Chaos was written by G. Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Our word for the day

  
  The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More — Authority: 111
  Q: I grew up in rural Indiana and I’m accustomed to hearing “our” sound like “are” instead of “hour” (the way I say it). But I now hear the “are” pronunciation from many celebrities, even Hillary Clinton. Is this getting more common or am I overly sensitive? A: We think you’re being overly ...
  2 weeks ago

• I stumbled upon this astonishing poem today

  
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  Thanks to my old mucker, Bruce Haines who was President of the IPA back in the day when I sat on the President’s committee.  He now resides in Seoul so I’m sure he could have a lot of fun teaching this to the locals. It’s an astounding vocal trickery  game really that has to be read out loud. A wonderful ...
  2 weeks ago

• 5 Words Youve Got To Stop Pronouncing Incorrectly

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 735
  Unless you speak with an endearing, cool-sounding accent, you can make yourself sound like a moron if you mispronounce certain words. Using casual utterances that are OK with friends and family can create a stigma thats tough to change if you do so in professional situations such as interviews or presentations. A ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pronunciation of the Swedish å, ä and ö

  
  Swedish Blog — Authority: 103
  The Swedish alphabet consists of 29 letters. The last three are å,ä and ö. These are the only ones that differ from the English alphabet. The Swedish å-sound can either be a long sound or a short one. When being long it is pronounced like the English word fore. The short sound as in yonder. Listen to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Received Pronunciation

  
  Black Dogs — Authority: 103
  I recently spent a drunken evening and night with a linguistics professor who informed me that “pure zero-grade English” is spoken not in England, but over in Ohio and specifically in the posh suburbs of Cleveland (e.g. Shaker Heights), Columbus (e.g. Upper Arlington), Dayton (e.g. Oakwood and Kettering), Toledo ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dog daze

  
  The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More — Authority: 111
  Q: Help! My wife thinks “dog” and “log” rhyme. Our astute children agree with me that they do not. I have a neutral American accent and say “dog” with more of an “awe” sound. I look forward to your input. A: Most standard dictionaries give only two pronunciations for “dog”—the same ones, more or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pronunciation Matters – Part 2

  
  Oxford University Press ELT Global — Authority: 97
  Continuing from last week’s post about teaching pronunciation, Robin Walker , author of Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca , talks to us about the challenges of teaching and learning pronunciation. Q: What are the challenges for teachers when teaching pronunciation? RW: The main ...
  2 weeks ago

• Historic article

  
  The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More — Authority: 111
  Q: I cringe when a politician or news anchor uses “an” in front of “historic.” I was taught to use “an” before an “h” word when the “h” is silent. Am I right? I think I am, but I’m just a guy who drives the A train in NYC. A: Yes, you are right. There’s no reason to use “an” before ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don’ts in Learning Russian Language

  
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  You must have been interested to learn Russian. Have you considered language schools as one of your options? To learn Russian at language schools is one of the most suitable choices for a typical learner; but those who wanted to learn Russian in a faster way, they prefer other practical options. Would you like ...
  3 weeks ago

• Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, 2nd Edition (Klear Textbooks in Korean Language)

  
  Les Despotes — Authority: 126
  Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, 2nd Edition (Klear Textbooks in Korean Language) Review Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, 2nd Edition (Klear Textbooks in Korean Language) The Beginning Level texts and workbooks are the first of a four- level series (Beginning 1 and 2, Intermediate 1 and 2, Advanced ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why is “t” often silent?

  
  The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More — Authority: 111
  Q: I teach English at a high school in Wyoming. I was looking to justify my abhorrence of the word “oftentimes,” and I came across your piece about pronouncing the “t” in “often.” I usually point out to my students that we don’t pronounce it in “soften,” “hasten,” and “fasten , ” so why do it ...
  4 weeks ago

• SGI School Blog – Review of 2011

  
  The English Blog — Authority: 106
  Thanks for reading our School Blog in 2011 – almost 87,000 views over the last year. We appreciate it every time you visit and we sincerely hope that you enjoy the posts and improve your English a little bit every time you read, listen to or watch one of our blogs. We put a lot of effort into making the blog as ...
  4 weeks ago

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