Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6437 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 1 of 4 17 August 2009 at 2:07pm | IP Logged |
One tool I've found extremely useful is diagrams of mouth positions (lip and tongue positions for vowels, and tongue position and shape for consonants).
Does anyone know of a good set of such diagrams for American English? I keep wanting to be able to refer some of my European friends to one.
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Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6083 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 3 of 4 17 August 2009 at 11:30pm | IP Logged |
Hi Volte!
This isn't really a diagram, but these English pronunciation videos on YouTube were of big help to a friend of mine who's learning English. The instructor draws diagrams of the position of the tongue, and she explains it pretty well, too.
EDIT: this particular lesson shows "R" and then R+L. I especially like how she describes "pulling your tongue back into a little ball". The whole thing is really informative.
Edited by Sunja on 18 August 2009 at 4:15pm
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gbarv Groupie Cocos (Keeling) Islands Joined 5635 days ago 49 posts - 60 votes
| Message 4 of 4 18 August 2009 at 12:03am | IP Logged |
Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.ht ml
These diagrams are indeed very helpful, I hope they were available for more languages.
Edited by gbarv on 18 August 2009 at 12:04am
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