All Blog Posts Tagged 'pronunciation' (2)

Welcome to all the new students tonight! Great to see so many coming! We managed to do two of the planned three activities... Paulina's silent phone worked just fine (despite slight technical problems with private chat), and then we had a look at some <-mb> words which are pronounced without /b/, such as "climb" (the list below; entire notecard on SLactivities). Lots of all kinds of problems here: not only the /b/-less pronunciation, but also troublemakers, such as "tomb" /tu:m/ or "womb"… Continue

I'm not certain how you see the title of this blogpost on your screens... With three Polish-accented letters it may be quite a challenge to your graphics card :-). I was recently asked about this strange name of the city in central Poland (in which I'm going to have a plenary presentation on Second Life pronunciation teaching in exactly three weeks, BTW). Below is part of my answer, with a snapshot of the this word from John Wells's pronunciation dictionary. Hope this helps (or vice versa :-)… Continue