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Fine Tuning Your English Pronunciation
英語のネイティブは日本人の発音についてどう思っているのでしょうか。アメリカ人にその点について聞いてみました。原文のままです。今回は３部構成の第一弾です。
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1.日本人の英語発音
発音は英語圏で育っていない限り難しいですよね。ですがやっぱりいい発音で英語を楽しみたいですよね。そんな方は私だけではないと思います。アメリカ人の友人の意見をシェアすることでみなさんの発音の学習に関してなにか学びがあればいいと思います。
2.Fine Tuning Your English Pronunciation no.1
Fine Tuning Your English Pronunciation
Before I begin, let me tell you two very important things to remember when learning English; first of all, especially in America, not everybody pronounces everything the same exact way. It’s confusing but, depending on which part of the country you’re from, then you’re going to pronounce things differently. Secondly, pronunciation is different from accent. It’s important to hone your English skills to make yourself understandable, but please don’t aim to take away an accent, it’s part of who you are and where you come from, and that’s important.
So now that i’ve said that, i think i can narrow it down to three practices that will make your pronunciation easier for native English speakers to understand.
1.End with -eh instead of -oh
When i hear Japanese speak English, the most common difficulty in pronunciation is how they end their words. For example, let’s look at love, pet, and hotel. In Japanese English or Engrish as i’ve heard it called, love sounds like la-vu. There’s an extra emphasis on the end of the word, and the extra sound becomes noticeable. Now think of pet, in Japanese it’s pet-to, again the end of the word is really noticeable. Again for hotel, in Japanese it’s ho-te-ru. There’s an emphasis on the sound at the end of the word.
In English we tend to end our words with little to no emphasis on the ending sound. But I think if you listen closely you can use tools in Japanese to make the pronunciation easier. Try adding an -eh to the end of the word instead of -oh or -u. The sound tends to be shorter and quieter. Try it out with
Love
Pet
Hotel
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3.まとめ
いかがだったでしょうか。今回は３部構成の第一弾、第1パラグラフを紹介したので、またこの先続きをみなさんにシェアできたらと思います。
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それではみなさん、いい発音をめざして英語を楽しんでいきましょう！
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