(MATESOL& MT) Identify which English sounds may cause problems for you. Any suggested resources to improve your pronunciation? by Hsueh Chu CHEN

I cannot differentiate the vowel sounds in bad and bed! :(

hsuehchu — 2021-01-14 08:49:24 UTC

Rebecca

It's hard for me to tell the difference between /æ/ and /e/.

2021-01-14 09:04:54 UTC

There are three sounds of different letters I sometimes get confused: the sound of letter "j", the sound of letter "g" and the sound of letter "y".

2021-01-14 12:17:57 UTC

About letter g:

LIU TING Dora

I cannot differentiate between /e/and /ə/and/æ/.

2021-01-14 12:19:45 UTC

LYU SIMIN Yum

1.I can't distinguish the sound /u:/ and /u/, for me I think there is no difference when I am reading like good, school. I think "o o" presents t he same pronunciation.

s11363551 — 2021-01-14 12:21:28 UTC

2.I think I also have trouble in silent consonant because I think there is no rules to indicate which letter has no sound.
3.I think the useful resource is e-dictionary because each time if I don't know how to read a word, I will look up to the dictionary and check the IPA
Lu Yunjie

1.the difference of \ɒ\ \ʌ\ and \ə\

s1136363 — 2021-01-14 12:22:31 UTC

2.I can't distinguish which word has \uː\ or \ʊ\
https://www.zhihu.com/zvideo/1259610193090453504
HUBINGYU Caroline

CAI MANTING

s1136360 — 2021-01-14 12:22:53 UTC

I sometimes feel confused about
/ɒ/ /ʌ/ and /e/. I have also learnt some KK before so it makes me even more confused about phonetic symbols.

1. -ths, like months, dun know whether I should pronounce /θ/

2021-01-14 12:24:31 UTC

2. -ks, like desks, asks, sometimes sounds weird when words end with 'sks'
-WANG QIYAN, Anastasia

I can't figure out when "oo" words have long sound and when "oo" words have short sound, eg: good & school

2021-01-14 12:28:16 UTC

Connie

I can't be very sure about the vowel /e/ or /eə/ in a word many many times.

s1136397 — 2021-01-14 12:30:36 UTC

Suzy.

s1136368 — 2021-01-14 12:31:25 UTC

I feel confused about the two sounds of ''th"

Yulia

s1136389 — 2021-01-14 12:31:39 UTC

I am not sure about the sound of letter L,
Lara

I can not differentiate the sound between /i/ and /i:/, e.g., seat and sit.

2021-01-14 12:32:16 UTC

ANNE WANG JUNYA

I feel confused about the two sounds about /i/ and /ei／.

2021-01-14 12:32:23 UTC

2021-01-14 12:34:19 UTC

For me, sometimes /ɜ:/ and /ə/ make me confused.
Rachel

2021-01-14 12:34:37 UTC

I can not differentiate two consonant well.[θ]、[ð]

YAO PEIRU

Antonia

I don't know how to pronounce the er sound in more British way

s11363432 — 2021-01-16 13:48:47 UTC

kaka

s11364002 — 2021-01-18 07:53:50 UTC

In the word"air",the consonant (not a vowel) "r" is put behind vowels"ai", do they can be a diphthong /eə/? BY Charlie

My mouth always cannot pronounciate the sound |æ| in a right place, and the sound I made always like |e|. And I also cannot pronounciate |l| correctly somtimes. Sunny-GUO DAPENG

2021-01-21 10:07:15 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVp3RKERxg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68HT9jn3qnM

2021-01-21 10:34:29 UTC

The phonetic features of the target language users are imitated by the shadow following method

keithlyn…

L sound

2025-02-07 12:12:44 UTC

I feel it is a bit difficult for me to pronounce 'L' sound. I want to pronounce it very accurately !

-Hammer

I can pronounce word with experience but not familiar with IPA

2025-02-07 12:13:21 UTC

I can’t distinguish the sound /e/ and /æ/

ezhang496 — 2025-02-07 12:14:13 UTC

flq

2025-02-07 12:15:00 UTC

I felt like I have some problems in writing the IPA….

Becky ZHONG Qing

2025-02-07 12:16:43 UTC

It is difficult for me to differentiate n and l because it does not exist in my mother tongue. So, I use some tongue twisters to practice.
For my students, it is also difficult to differentiate the vowel sounds in bed and bad. They may find it’s easier to pronounce bad because that vowel sound exist in Sichuan dialect.

I'm Liu chunsheng

2025-02-07 12:16:46 UTC

It's not easy for me to read IPA / dʒ/ , /ʒ / and / ð/ without their words.

Dolores DENG Leyi

s1156410 — 2025-02-07 12:17:14 UTC

hard to differentiate “than” and “this”

lxy

s1156203 — 2025-02-07 12:17:58 UTC

differentiate between

me either - Tan Hao

ppvw5h6d4n — 2025-02-07 12:18:00 UTC

/r/ sound is difficult

Because in Cantonese we seldom roll our tongue in speaking

https://youtu.be/2IctK2lCm-w?si=P3hLA5f-e9cfQ6ag

Lee Yu Mei

fdvscgyrbk — 2025-02-07 12:18:11 UTC

I am Fiona. It is hard for me to produce r sound.

Tang Yan Chuen Grace

s1156211 — 2025-02-07 12:18:12 UTC

I find it hard to distinguish voiced vs voices less th, and hard to distinguish ʊ and uː.

to practice pronunciation, I like to use ELSA Speak, which it evaluates your pronunciation and provides you immediate feedback on accuracy.

this link provides some rules for me for when to use the voice/vocied th: h

this video helps me to better pronounce them

https://youtu.be/iPw_GeiDC_8?si=LEtx2rlTcrDOrwWt

I'm here

2025-02-07 12:18:52 UTC

I'm not sure when to pronounce a sound with longer time and when with shorter time

-WU Rujun

differentiate /s/ and /θ/

2025-02-07 12:19:18 UTC

It’s difficult for some Ss to differentiate the pronunciation of /s/ and /θ/

JIANG Yuanyong

s1156417 — 2025-02-07 12:19:19 UTC

Katy Ho

The sounds of th might be the most difficult pronunciation for Chinese EFL.
There is no similar pronunciation to the th sound in Chinese

I'm Song Xiaorong.

2025-02-07 12:19:21 UTC

I have difficulty pronuncing or differenciate the nasal sound /ŋ/. I think it's related to my dialect.

2025-02-07 12:19:24 UTC

I am Chen Yingying. One main problem with my students’ pronunciation is that they don’t know how to distinguish thank and sank.

2025-02-07 12:19:29 UTC

I am a bit confuse when I pronoun three and free, I think they are similar…

Chong Wai Yin

2025-02-07 12:19:36 UTC

I find it’s really hard for me to pronounce the th sound

2025-02-07 12:19:39 UTC

Milan

I couldn't differentiate the pronunciation of G and J before

2025-02-07 12:20:00 UTC

I had problem differentiating letter sound ‘z’ and ‘j’ and one day it just hit me. I used the the BBC broadcast audios a lot to practice listening as a bachelor student.

GAO

m，n sounds

2025-02-07 12:20:13 UTC

I'm Wang Panpan. I suppose m &n sounds are difficult for me to pronounce.

Huang Minxiang

2025-02-07 12:20:21 UTC

I think /ð/ and /θ/are difficult for students to speak.

2025-02-07 12:20:28 UTC

It is different for some students to pronunce /æ/ and /e/. I will provide some videos from native speakers and students can have a high-quality and clear input. I will also elaborate the manners of articulations with which they can experience by themselves. I will give clear feedbacks to their performance as well then they can make improvements on pronunciation.

Wang Jiateng

Diamond

s1156413 — 2025-02-07 12:20:30 UTC

How to differentiate the pronunciation between British accent and American accent, especially those words without ‘er’ sound.

I have noticed that many Chinese speakers have difficulty saying the R sound, especially when they say my name

2025-02-07 12:20:46 UTC

https://youtu.be/Ml1VTjLN1Mc?si=VSrDi4r-Qv3T4uqO

Roberto

2025-02-07 12:20:52 UTC

I can't distinguish /z/ from /dz/

GONG Xue

Hong Jiaying Keira

s1156735 — 2025-02-07 12:21:00 UTC

I tend to pronounce /ʒ/ as /dʒ/…

selejdian — 2025-02-07 12:21:11 UTC

“th” sound is one of the most challenging ones for most Chinese people.

He XiaoLan

2025-02-07 12:21:13 UTC

Some students from mainland China would get some difficulties in some voiceless consonants .e.g:k/t

Some students from Chaoshan cannot pronounce “r” due to their mother tongue.

s1156448 — 2025-02-07 12:21:18 UTC

I find it’s hard for my students to pronounce th sound accurately.

2025-02-07 12:21:55 UTC

I have doubt regarding the schwa sound, it is introduced to me that it is used to replace the vowel sound in the non-stressed syllable, is this rule 100% applicable to all the words? Or is there any exceptions?

-KONG Qingjie

2025-02-07 12:22:22 UTC

It's difficult to differentiate and pronounce th sound.

–zpl

2025-02-07 12:22:46 UTC

I think it’s not easy to differentiate the pronunciation /e/ and /e^/. And i am not conscious enough about a and e in some words.

—Wendy

The sound /n/ &/l/

2025-02-07 12:22:58 UTC

My name is Hu Minxuan.I think most people from the southern part of China especially those from Human province and Sichuan province may find it difficult to pronounce these two sounds【如何不再【/l/和/n/傻傻分不清】+【口语1V1辅导】|英语发音|英语口语|英音|FanfaniShare-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/PWmY6Km

/ʌ/&/ə/

s1156209 — 2025-02-07 12:23:45 UTC

ZHU JIA DAN

2025-02-07 12:23:49 UTC

It’s hard for me to pronounce r and ŋsound sometimes.

Jenny

Shi Junying

2025-02-07 12:23:52 UTC

I find it’s really hard to pronounce the sounds that are not used in Chinese.

Zhang Zhiting

ezhang496 — 2025-02-07 12:24:12 UTC

It is very hard for me to differentiate /e/ and /æ/, /ʒ/ and /ð/

Padlet Activity

2025-02-07 12:24:32 UTC

I’m Reda:

1.The most difficult vowel and constant:

-/æ/

-to distinguish/ʃ/, /ʒ/ and /dʒ/, /tʃ/

Difficult to pronounce the TH sound.

2025-02-07 12:25:18 UTC

My name is LIANG QING.

s1156837 — 2025-02-07 12:25:43 UTC

I think it is difficult for me to pronounce the th sound. Here is a very useful website for beginning learners.https://www.ixl.com

-Qin Jie

s1156409 — 2025-02-07 12:25:44 UTC

I think the “th” sound is easily mispronounced as “s”.

Wu Jiaxin

A fun tool...

2025-02-07 12:25:45 UTC

XU Xiang here...

Azure TTS, it's a text to speech model which have quite a decent library with a amount of voice models trained from different regions' voice.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-speech

For example, if you make a German voice speak English, then it will pronounce /k/ as /kt/

2025-02-07 12:25:49 UTC

Liu Zijia

I don't know when there is ‘sion’ in a word

which sound I should pronounce/ʃ/ /ʒ/ /dʒ/

495408364 — 2025-02-07 12:26:19 UTC

th sound is always difficult for Chinese learners. Someone will pronounce it like f s d

Lian Xiaoling

2025-02-07 12:26:46 UTC

We can use some online tools and apps to practise it, like QingTing English application. We can search a lot of TV series, then imitate the original lines.

Zhao zihan

it is hard to differentiate/s/ and /θ/

nv7pshkhzv — 2025-02-07 12:27:51 UTC

Zora

I can not sound "sh" and "ch" very well (/ʃ/ and /tʃ/)

2025-02-07 12:30:29 UTC

Tian Yuanyuan

bjdfmycjnh — 2025-02-07 13:48:07 UTC

Sometimes it is for some students to pronounce/v/. For example, they will say /faiw/ instead of /faiv/.

Xu yingying

s and θ sounds

2025-02-09 10:00:40 UTC

I sometimes pronounce /θ/ as /s/. It's a bit hard for me to differentiate the two sounds.

Chen Mengke

2025-02-14 12:06:07 UTC

I cannot differentiate the first consonant in genre and the first consonant in judge.

Difficulty for beginners or immediate learners to practice word stress

s1156211 — 2025-02-14 12:10:38 UTC

Most of the pronunciation online resources focuses on consonant and vowels. And Cantonese in particular do not have lots of multisyllabic words. Therefore lots of my friends and students are not aware of that.

During my teaching time, I notice that my students are struggling with /tr/,/dr/ sound.

s1156790 — 2025-02-14 12:14:05 UTC

Liu Xuefeng