How to practice is the standard of English.

After learning English for many years, have you ever been bothered by knowing every word, but you can't understand it together? No matter how hard you try to communicate with others, foreigners just don't know what you are talking about.

You think that the key to the problem is nonstandard pronunciation, but you don't know that the key to the problem is not accent, but rhythm.

English and Chinese belong to two language systems, and the big difference lies not only in pronunciation. In fact, as far as pronunciation is concerned, China people can basically be clear and correct.

But Chinese is a syllable timing language, that is, a syllable language, with one word and one sound, and the length of each sound is the same.

English is a stress-timed language, that is, a stressed language. The speed of stressed syllables is basically the same, but the lightly read syllables should be squeezed into a stressed rhythm and spoken together with the stressed syllables, and often there are multiple syllables in a stressed rhythm.

For example:

Dogs chase cats.

Dogs chase cats.

The dog chased the cat.

Dogs can chase cats.

Dogs will chase cats.

This group of sentences has three accented rhythms. Take the first sentence as an example: dog, chase and cat are stressed separately, so the pronunciation length of the three words is basically the same.

But the following example, no matter how long it extends to three stress rhythms, takes the last example as an example. In the first stressed rhythm, three light syllables, The, will and be, are squeezed in, the length of which is the same as chasing and the cats.

Then when you speak, the speech speed is obviously accelerated. In other words, each of these five examples was completed in the same time and will not be slowed down by the increase in the number of words.

Therefore, when you speak English at the rhythm of Chinese, you will naturally have misunderstandings, and at the same time, because the rhythm of English is too fast, you will often fail to understand it.

When reading, we read the words one by one with our eyes, but if we want to enhance our listening and speaking ability, we should return to the essence of language learning, that is, listening comes first.

First of all, we should train our ears to listen to the rhythm of English and find the musical fluidity of English.

Take the enlightenment stage as an example. It is best for children to learn English in the initial stage, and accumulate about 65,438+0,000 words of listening vocabulary before entering the next stage of learning.

For adult learners, this method is also applicable. Listen to any English material you can get and get familiar with the rhythm and rhythm of native speakers.

Secondly, native English speakers don't speak English word by word, they connect pronunciation into units. Then the best way is to imitate, loudly and exaggeratedly.

At the beginning of imitation, you will find yourself "clumsy" because English and Chinese use different pronunciation parts and muscle groups.

Only by imitating loudly can you train your mouth and muscles: tongue, cheeks, lips and so on. If you want to speak English as fluently as your mother tongue, you must imitate it. There is no shortcut.

Finally, hold on, hold on, hold on! Finally, I want to share a famous saying with you: "There is no skill in success. I always try my best to do my job well. " There is no skill in success, I have been working hard. )

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Author Dayu: single mother, came to Canada on October 20 13, took her children to study and work, and finally immigrated. Now she lives in Toronto, Canada. Daughter Xiaoyu: bilingual in Chinese and English, able to speak six languages, fond of playing music, good at art, admitted to the top ten private schools in Canada. The author has a profound experience and reflection on the study, life and culture of Canada. The public name of the same name is Heavy Rain and Light Rain in Canada.