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Pronunciation for IELTS Listening - how to understand fast speech
Manage episode 355104333 series 1587894
There are 7 key features of fast speech and pronunciation that you need to develop a better understanding of in order to increase your Listening Score:
- Features of connected speech (dropping sounds, adding sounds, changing sounds, weak sounds and twin sounds).
- Word boundaries
- Homophones
- Sounds that are different or don’t exist in your language
- Accents and rhoticity (‘r’)
- Minimal pairs
- Consonant Clusters
Read the full blog here.
https://ieltsetc.com/2023/02/ielts-pronunciation-tips-listening-test/
Buy the workbook guide here:
391 episodes
Manage episode 355104333 series 1587894
There are 7 key features of fast speech and pronunciation that you need to develop a better understanding of in order to increase your Listening Score:
- Features of connected speech (dropping sounds, adding sounds, changing sounds, weak sounds and twin sounds).
- Word boundaries
- Homophones
- Sounds that are different or don’t exist in your language
- Accents and rhoticity (‘r’)
- Minimal pairs
- Consonant Clusters
Read the full blog here.
https://ieltsetc.com/2023/02/ielts-pronunciation-tips-listening-test/
Buy the workbook guide here:
391 episodes
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