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Familiarise with sounds of English language PART 3 of 4

CONSONANTS HAVING EQUIVALENT SOUND VALUE IN INDIAN LANGUAGES

consonant b f h l m n s

words book, bat, boy father, friend, form have, horn, he love, lean, learn man, mother, month no, nine, nothing sing, single, so

OTHER FAMILIAR SOUNDS

IPA Symbol Words ringer, sing, drink thing, teeth this, breathe, father she, sure, emotion, leash yes, young bed , red, men Sit, sing, ring, calendar

OTHER FAMILIAR SOUNDS

IPA Symbol Words run, enough, gun, just put, wood, foot, good Father, arm, large, Her, bird, burn, worm see, knee, cedar, cede soon, through, goose, root my, wise, fly, now, how

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OTHER FAMILIAR SOUNDS

IPA Symbol Words

near, here, beer. deer, dear boy, joy , hoist, foil, coin, coil

In several words vowels are indeterminately pronounced. They are almost inaudible

diff(e)r(e)nt lab(e)l comp(a)r(a)ble mem(o)rable mem(o)ry vict(o)ry hist(o)ry sev(e)n

sev(e)r(a)l op(e)n mor(a)l int(e)rest sim(i)lar Lib(ra)ry t(o)night

Stressed and unstressed syllables

castle company compare computer folder comparable comparative bombard

grass (No stressed syllable) grassland god (No stressed syllable) goddess diploma director dirty rust (No stressed syllable)

Consonants are generally pronounced. Yet a few of them in some words become almost inaudible. Inaudible sounds are put in brackets

futu(re) compa(re) cas(t)le folde(r) bom(b) bomba(r)d

chris(t)mas san(d)wich mus(t) be the firs(t) three you an(d) me we stopp(ed) for lunch you shouldnt (h)ave tell (h)im.

Words forming part of a stream in a sentence are merged while speaking.

fish and chips a chair and a table one of the

fishn chips a chair n a table one (o) the

connected speech

That's an interesting idea. Are you coming out tonight? It's the tallest building.

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