Today, I learnt how English prosody works in speaking. I think it is important to start learning to speak by complying with the English prosody, or the natural intonation. In other words, I need to think and speak at the same time. The concept of thought groups is a helpful way to speak naturally. Units of English meaning usually comes in group of words, not in a single word.
I need to listen to or watch the videos or TV news to appreciate how native speakers express themselves in thought groups. To identify the key words in long sentences, I need to listen to the syllable that sounds longer, louder, and higher. When I am stressing the sound, I am giving myself time to think and express myself.
I also learnt that there are 44 phoneme sounds in English that come from the 26 alphabet letters. There are two main groups of sounds: 20 vowels and 24 consonants. I can practise and learn to sound them. This will help me to deal with the unknown words that I've never seen before.
The link that contains fashion terms can be found at http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/ITC/ .
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