Exercises in soud segments, intonation, and rythm.

Each concise explanation of the pronunciation of the sound is followed by a single word, sentence & intonation exercises.

Addressed to an educated user of English, the book, together with a set of two audio cassettes, offers a 'Teach Your-self' course in the pronunciation of English words. Written in a non-technical language, it contains considerable amount of practice materials too.Part I deals with important facts about the pronunciation of English words and the principal attributes of good speech; Part II contains a pronouncing dictionary of some 2,500 commonly used, but often mispronounced, words of English and about 60 foreign words and phrases often used in Eng-lish. The selection of the words and phrases is based partly on research and partly on the authors' long experience.

[P] as in pie, happy, hope - [b] as in bell, rubber, globe - [m] as in my, summer, come - [n] as in no, monday, then - [h] as in hat, behind, whole, shifts of accent - [hw] as in why, whisper, somewhere, homonyms - [w] as in water, one, quite, between - [v] as in vest, of, several - [f] as in photo, office, laugh - [d] as in dog, window, could, pronunciation of terminal ed - [t] as in ten, center, might terminal ed pronunciation practice - [l] as in lady, follow, well - [r] as in right, hurry, store - [s] as in city, person, rice pronunciation of final s - [z] as in zoo, easy, lose pronunciation of final es - [y] as in yes, million, amuse - [k] as in character, american, steak - [g] as in go, example, egg - [i] as in me, beat, chiefly contractions - [e] as in say, they, make - [u] as in too, shoe, fruit homonyms - [o] as in old, coal, sew.