The feedback, that our teachers gave us concerning our Pecha
Kucha presentations, is, in my opinion, a valuable opportunity that helps us
students a lot to improve our pronunciation. Not only did they recommend us to
check out the right pronunciation of various words, but also which sounds we
should particularly focus on. According to the feedback, I should, apart from
some words, improve my “v” and “f” sounds. Therefore, I have done the exercises
that are shown in a video on the website http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/pronunciation/mp4/con_voiced_5.mp4.
What I liked about it were the two perspectives used in the video that show the form
of the lips while a sound is produced. I think that this makes it easier to
study the proper pronunciation of certain sounds, especially the “v”. Apart
from training specific sounds, I also looked up the proper pronunciation of the
words which I mispronounced during the Pecha Kucha presentation. I used the
website memidex.com because it provides not only American pronunciation of
words, but also of British ones. At the moment, I’m looking up the
pronunciation of tons of Porter words which could be relevant for our oral
exam. I hope that I will be able to pass and to show improvements
which I have made concerning my pronunciation in the course of the semester.
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