May 19, 2012

Pronunciation practice for s endings

The video for Day 17 of English Success allows you to practice identifying and pronouncing the various sounds of this word ending.

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What is your native language, and what sounds in English are not in your native language? My father is from Argentina, so his native language is Spanish. Many Spanish speakers have difficulty pronouncing the z sound /z/ because Spanish does not really use that sound. Can you think of an English sound that your native language does not use? Tell us about it on the web page for this video.

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Thomas Edison said that he didn’t fail; instead, he found 9,000 ways that a light bulb will not work. How can this kind of optimism help English learners?

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#OnTargetEnglish #day17 When I speak, I still have grammar errors and mispronunciations, thousands maybe. I need to learn from them.

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