英文發音的問題20 POINTS

I am a hong kong student going university in New York right now. I have been here for app. 5 years. I also have the same problem regarding to the American enounciation (not pronounciation)as you have right now. I am still working on it and I think I can share my experience with you and give you a heads-up.

I did a summer internship in one of the biggest insurance company last summer. However, due to my "HK" accent, other interns kicked me out from the presentation to the CEO. After several conversations to the HR, I got back the chance to the presentation finally. Since this incidence, I determined to get rid of my HK accent.

I talked to a Phd in English at my university. He suggested me that I should seek help from the theater department, rather than English dep. The English dep. only can help you out for the writing, grammar, or (you know, something very English like the English classes we have in HK. :P) The difficulty I (we) have, right now, is not about we dont know how to say the word, but is about how to TWIST our tongue and lips. I know how to say ABC, but I cannot manage my tongue as native speakers can. (think about in HKese, we dont have the "th" sound. I know the "th" sounds like the "f", but I cannot place my tongue correctly.)

Then, I talked to a professor at theater dep. Fortunately, the professor used to be an actor at Broadway and a vocal trainer (it is a profession to train people how to give a speech.) He let me audit in his theater class and practise like other students did To my surprise, there was another student from Russian with the same problem with me. In the class, we learnt how to twist my tongue. My whole semester-length training was like a hell. Everyday I had to recite Shakespeares sonnets for more than 50 times, not to mention about other fundamental trainings. Even the professor made a joke that I was like Eliza in My Fair Lady. (I strongly recommend you to watch this movie for the lessons of enounciation.)

Last but not least, I have to say that not just non-native speakers have accents, but have ordinary Americans. In my class, one of my buddies wanna pursuit a job as a weatherman on CNN. However, he has a very strong NY accent, which is the "ae" and "e". (American, mostly, pronounce "hot tea" as "heart tea".)Such accents will definiely be the roadblock to his career path. And he is still working hard on it.

In summary, I think the best way to get rid of HK accent is to attend some classes from a professional vocal trainer, the theater dep. or lingulistic dep. at the university. I surprised all of my professors with my improvement just in a semester. I hope that my experience will give you some heads-up.

Pardon my frequent mispelling.

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你的母語唔係英文,唔可能完全發音似美國人.
再者你想扮到自己美國番來好勁英文咁,唔係整係睇發音,
用字方面都好重要,idioms,slang我地唔識都.
你有冇外國人同你補習,
你有冇fd係國際學校
好難去學架wo,
我唔想撥泠水,但環境,天份好重要.自學唔會達到水平,除非有天份.
去美國讀最好,一定會有美國口音.

你要學習國標音標,就可學習標準讀音

http://www.englishfree.com.cn/tw/FlashStudy/yinbiaostudy.asp

看動畫,學音標↑

就算老師都可能發錯音,未必教到你正確讀音[有D老師一直係香港接受教育,少跟外國人溝通,所以自己出錯都不知道。

而你學好音標之後,就可以去查下英文網上字典D發音,果到會有寫拚音,學左音標你自然就好容易掌握到正確發音。

希望我可以幫到你=]

音標=拚音

It's kinda hard for chinese people to learn english, especially it's accent. The younger you start learning english, the better you will get... For now, except actually going to the US to learn it, you can perhaps watch some movies in English with Chinese subtitles. Therefore, you can practice saying it out and also understand what that certain phrase means...

++Hope it helps =]

英文發音，今天己因不同地區而各自發展。你醉心於美國人的水準，那也是人之常情，因為英文近年大大流行，美國人可說功不可沒呢！
言歸正傳，要有美國人的水準，第一，要知道美語發音的特色；第二，要多聽多說。
美國人說英文的特色，因為加上黑人的因素，現在很難界定。例如 he don't care一短句，在美國是標準句，但英語則是 he doesn't care 才對。又以發音來說，美國人傾向把字的音節都會讀出，如 history 一字，美文有三個音節，但英文則不讀中間 o 的音節，而祇讀兩個音節。但話得說回來，英文和美文，應是最接近的語文了。
要學美國人的英文發音水準，就像要學任何語言一樣，都是要去實踐的。如果你能夠在美語的環境裡，不出半年，你就有美國人的英語水準了。

多些練習美國人的英文發音。

e d係美國人的特性,冇係唔可以擁有

2008-02-06 17:11:21 補充：
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