Practise English Pronunciation

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It has been a while since we have focused on English pronunciation practice. Today we will focus on words that end with an OGG or EEK sound. Normally, when you listen to enough native English, you will pick up the correct pronunciation, but as always with English there are some words which you pronounce completely differently to the written words.

It’s one reason listening to words is superior to reading them. When you read you are usually using an inner voice to [vocalise] those words in your head, often we make assumptions and mistakes that result in incorrect pronunciation. When you listen to a native English speaker, you are being given a lot of additional information during your learning.

There are a lot of letters (Grapheme) that suggest they should have a certain sound (Phoneme) when you read them but the actual sound is quite different. Here in the UK if you are a very young child in the education system you might well learnt the relationship between words and sounds using phonics.

Our approach to solving this relationship between what you read and how you pronounce it, is to use listening, lots of listening.