The America Accent Course-------The 50 rules you must know
The Consonsant Sound Rules
Rule One : Full Pronouncing Every Consonants
Rule Two: Voiced and Voiceless Consonants
Voiced Consonants : Pronouncing with vocal cord vibration
Voiceless Consonants : Pronouncing without vocal cord vibration
RULE : Vowel is longer before voiced consonant
Rule Three : The "th" Sound
The pronouncing tip : 1.the tip is the tongue touches the upper teeth with the air flow coming out
2.don't touch too hard to let air flowing
The voiced consonant "th" : /ð/ The voiceless consonant "th" : θ
Rule Four : TheAmerican "L" Sound
The American "L" sound is prolong and softer
Tip : Keeping tongue touch upper palate in the end of phoneme
Rule Five : The American "R" Sound
RULE : "R" is never silent And just curl tip and pull it back
Tip ： The British English usually simplify the "R" if it's last letter of the words and silenting it while it following with consonsant phoneme
Rule Six : The American "W" Sound
RULE : Round your lips and let air flows out I.E. wait for me——"ROUND LIPS"
PS : qui——/kw/
Rule Seven : The "V" and "W" Sound
RULE : The lower lip touches the upper teeth
PS : The phoneme of "V" is similar to "W" , the only difference is mouth and vibration
Rule Eight : The "S" and "Z" Sound
Cation : The "S" is voiceless consonant with "Z" is voiced consonant
RULE : The "s" in the end of word pronouncing voiced ("Z") when it follows voiced while pronouncing voiceless when follows voiceless("S")
I.E. Book-------Books bag---------bags laugh---------laughs
Rule Nine : The Stop and Continuant
The "Stop" : The consonant produced when we stop air flow(holding the tongue and the teeth or close lips)
The "Continuant" : The sound we can continue air flow as long as we want when we pronouncing
I.E. JOB----------stop YES------------continuant
RULE : 1.Prolong the continuant
2.Don't release the stop before a consonant(just like close mouth stop replace stop consonant)
3.The stop usually pronounced by"T" or "D" in the end of word
Rule Ten ： "T" between Two Vowels
RULE : "T" between two vowels is a fast "D"
Rule Eleven : "T" followed by "N"
RULE : Hold the "T" followed by "N" , and simplify the other phoneme.
I.E. written---------writtn mountain---------mountn
Tip : The phoneme between "T" and followed "N" would be omitted
Rule Twelve : The "ING" Sound ———————————————CHECK AGAIN
RULE : The "ING" Sound is pronounced with back of tongue touch upper palate
Rule Thirteen : "TR" and "DR" Sounds
RULE ： 1. The "TR" sounds like a short "Chr" I.E. Tree Try Introduct
2. The "DR" sounds like a short "Zir"(cn) or "Jr"(en) I.E. Dry Dress Dream
Rule Fourteen : "TU" and "DU" Sounds
RULE : 1. The "TU" phoneme "tʃ" [Followed vowel is "tʃu" ]sounds like "Ch"(en) or "Qi"(cn) I.E. Actual Statue Nature
2. The "DU" [Not stressed phoneme] sounds like "J" I.E. Graduate Educate Schedule
3. The "T" followed by "you" sounds like "tʃu" I.E. want you---------wantʃ you
4.The "D" followed by "you" sounds like "Ju" I.E. would you----------woulj you
Rule Fifteen : "ED" Endings
RULE : 1. If last letter is "T" or "D" , "ED" is a separate syllable I.E. Waited------waited ; Need--------needed
2. If last letter is voiceless , "ED" become a "T" sound . I.E. Stopped-------stopt ; Worked-------workt
3. If last letter is voiced , "ED" become a "D" sound . I.E. Robbed--------robd ; Used----------used