Silent Schwa | just like a normal schwa, only quieter

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while watching Jungle Book, all you can think is if they don t get this kid back to the human village soon, he s going to be past the critical period and then he ll never be able to fluently speak his L1. ESL Teachers:  What are your favorite minimal pairs for helping students overcome issues with pronunciation?For Arabic-speaking students, I like to use My dog likes to bark in the park. For Japanese speakers, I like I think I see a sink. Please comment belong and share your favorites.  Feel free to share any stories that go along with them! In Linguistics, minimal pairs are pairs of words (or phrases) in a language which differ by only one element.  They can be as useful for learning/practicing the phonology of a language as they are for confusing learners of that language.As I ve taught English to international students, I ve learned that students from different language groups will tend to have different problems with certain sounds.  I ve used minimal pairs to great effect in combating this.Arabic speakers, for example, often have trouble with the sound |p| as it doesn t exist in Arabic.  Thus, they will often pronounce path and bath the same way.  Japanese speakers will often have trouble with l/r or th.  Thank and sank will often be pronounced similarly.  (To work on this, I try to get them to stick out their tongues.  They love this.)Here are a small handful of the countless minimal pairs in English:sit / seat / setgrid / gradetoo / toepen / pinpath / baththin / sinthin / thingThere are, of course, many (many) more.  The next time you learn a new language, try finding minimal pairs in that language.  Not only will it help you with phonology, but also vocabulary acquisition. borborygmus (pl. borborygmi) /ˌbɔrbəˈrɪɡməs/ the sound of a gurgling stomach.  From the Ancient Greek onomatopoeia βορβορυγμός.  As you might already know, I loves me some endonyms and exonyms.  Go ahead refresh yourself.  I ll wait.Many countries call themselves something different from what we (in the English-speaking world, from my perspective) call them.  The same can apply to cities, natural landmarks, etc.  Well, someone built a cool new tool to give you a bird s-eye glance at endonyms and exonyms all over the globe.Check out: EndonymMap! An interesting topic came up in one of my classes last week.  Many languages have a special word they use for hello only when answering the phone.  Some examples are wei (Chinese), moshi moshi (Japanese), yoboseyo (Korean), and alo (many languages, including Arabic, French, Russian, Persian, Turkish, and Vietnamese).  In these languages, there is a different hello that is generally used when greeting someone face-to-face.In English, however, we say hello for both situations.  But did you know that this was almost not the case?  Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone, wanted us to say ahoy-hoy.   Ultimately, Thomas Edison s preferred hello won out.But apparently not if you re as old as Montgomery Burns In my own ESL teaching adventures, I find that likening pronunciation to a physical activity (e.g. sports) can be useful.  For example, I will ask if any students play basketball or soccer.  I then ask students if they think they can use the same muscles and skills to win a swimming match.  Of course, they say no.  I then explain that they can t necessarily use their L1 muscles to speak their target language (i.e. English), and that they need to develop what I call English Muscles in order to play this sport well.  The analogy seems to work pretty well.Today s online edition of The Telegraph has an article specifically addressing learning to pronounce foreign languages.  What do you think of it?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationadvice/10012325/How-to-pronounce-foreign-languages.htmlReading up on this subject brought up a lot health related information, which reminded I was recently introduced to alternative health solutions and I was very impressed at how safe and effective it is. Not many people consider it as an option at all, I mean I even was one of them. It feels like a closely guarded secret. If you would like a good online source, you can click here for alternative meds.

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