Showing posts with label voiced. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voiced. Show all posts

Friday, 4 November 2011

More on pronunciation

Here are some videos about the pronunciation of English sounds.

This is a link to the excellent BBC Learning English website. You can practise lots of things at different levels. This is the link to the section on pronunciation.

This is a simple video about the pronunciation of final -ES (plural, third person:







This is a similar one, but a bit more difficult:





This one is about voiced and unvoiced consonants. You will not understand everything, but you can try. By the way "unvoiced" is the same as "voiceless" (sonidos sordos, sin vibración de las cuerdas vocales).

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Voiced and voiceless sounds

Los sonidos son o bien sonoros (voiced=con voz) o bien sordos (voiceless=sin voz, también llamados unvoiced). En los primeros vibran las cuerdas vocales; en los segundos no. Es importante entender esta distinción, que explico en la tercera grabación de este enlace. En la segunda os digo cuáles de los sonidos del inglés son sonoros y cuáles sordos.