Chinese Student 1 12 American English Accent Evaluation
today I’m going to work on an audio clip
that someone from China has sent me hi
Rachel I’m a Chinese student hi Rachel
I’m a Chinese student I heard am instead
of I’m so you need to really make those
two separate sounds for the diphthong
and the AI as in buy diphthong and I’m
you see the jaw drops more for that
initial sound and I’m learning English
no again I heard and am learning English
now I’m I’m learning English now I’m a
sophomore now here he says I’m a
sophomore and I do hear the two sounds
of the diphthong I a little bit better
but it’s a little too fast I I’m at I’m
is what I heard
I’m I’m a sophomore in a normal
University I’m not quite sure here what
the name of the university was I don’t
know really a hundred percent if it was
an English word or Chinese it did sound
like the English word normal but I
didn’t hear a dark L I heard a bit of an
R sound at the end which is a common
mistake for people whose native language
is Chinese so make sure that that ends
in the dark L if it is in fact the word
normal all all all normal University
that means I’m going to be an English
teacher two years later good um the word
that I heard a shadow vowel after the
word that before the word means that'
means that uh means there shouldn’t be
any kind of vowel sound between those
two words that the tongue moves up here
into position for the T or D sound that
instead of pulling down and letting air
escape to make that sound the word
simply stops
within that tongue movement that means
and then you bring the lips into the
position for the M and continue the
sound that means that means that it
means I’m going to be an English teacher
two years later the rest of that sounded
good a note about the phrase two years
later that refers to something that
happened in the past two years after
something else that happened in the past
but since we’re talking about the
present and the future we say in two
years that means I’ll be a teacher in
two years this time I record a small
passage and I want to and I wonder if
you can help me to give me some stress
cheon’s my pronunciation or intonation
okay in general really your accent is
pretty great but I do want to point out
everything so I will say on the word -
you said it a few times in this phrase
it sounded a little bit like a mixed
vowel between an ooh and an E - - it
needs to be just a pure ooh - ooh ooh so
for that the tongue needs to be more
relaxed than how you are holding it I
think when you say the word - it is a
little bit harder for me to diagnose
since I can’t see your mouth just based
on what I hear with the ear I’m saying
in that move owl for the word - your
tongue needs to be more relaxed the word
suggestions give me some stress cheon’s
I hear suggestions suggestions with a CH
sound what I need to hear is a little
bit more of a good with the jaw good as
in gap with the J as in jar suggestions
now the good sound isn’t terribly strong
but there is a closing in the throat so
my throat is closing their suggestions
before the jaws in jar set
suggestions suggestions give me some
stress cheon’s
my pronunciation or intonation you say
suggestions and then the next word I’m
not sure if it’s on or of but it would
be on suggestions on my pronunciation
also the word pronunciation
pronunciation or I hear pronunciation
pronunciation I need to hear that extra
Eve owl pronunciation then you can help
me improve a lot thank you so much
excellent the one thing I would say
there and this might be an issue of the
audio device and not actually you is the
improve I could hear a little bit more
of that voiced V sound oh and I’m going
to read it yes a small passage on the
word read I hear some more like rude
rude or where the corners of the mouth
aren’t coming out enough e e to free up
that sound to make the e as in she vowel
read