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anglorthoglots
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Date: 02/16/2009
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nói tiếng Anh cần có aspiration
What does this mean?
To aspirate is to pronounce English with the sound /h/. Here I mention the sound /h/ that follows a consonant ( /khar/ in the word 'car' ; /then/ in the word 'ten' and /phen/ in the word 'pen'. The native English speakers do this very naturally because they start listening to this nuance at their very early stage o language development in the brain, so the children can just pronounce it just right. However, being English speakers whose English is Foreign language (EFL), most of us pronounce such words with the lack of aspiration which makes weird pronunciation. So be aware, then we can perfect it.
The rule is: in English phonetics, there are 3 consonants: /k/, /p/, /t/ which should be aspirated when pronouncing , then sounded: /kh/, /ph/ and /th/ in such cases as follow: 1. They begin a one-syllable word: tea /thee/, / pea /phee/, key /khee/, and they are single consonants , not clustered consonants ( /sp/,/pr/,/pl/, /st/,/sl/, /sk/,/kr/...). 2. They begin a stressed syllables in a multi-syllable word: /PHEE.pl/ in the word 'people',/PHEP.per/ in the word 'pepper', /KHAR.kas/ in 'carcas', /THAR.tar/ in 'tartar' ..etc..
So next time when you speak English, I am sure you do this right, for your speech would sound unnatural without aspiration. You can test the aspiration in your speech this way: take a piece of paper , hold between your thumb and index finger, put the piece of paper about 1 inch from your lips, blurt out the sound / khar/, and then /car/, you will see the difference in which /khar/ pushes the paper fluttering away, while /car/ does not.
I once went to an Asean country on a mission, meeting with colleagues who all spoke English fluently. However, I was a bit taken aback when they sounded: most farmers can afford KARS; don’t give TIP to staff in the dining hall; the TIDE will rise high in the afternoon. Whereas, KhAR, ThIP, ThAID would have sounded immediately intelligible to me.
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http://anglorthoglots.mypodcast.com/
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