The document discusses the importance of pronunciation in English, highlighting its role in effective communication and understanding. It covers the differences between British and American English in pronunciation and spelling, as well as the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for learning accurate sounds. Additionally, it explains vowel sounds, the concept of syllable stress, and the classification of consonant sounds as voiced or unvoiced.

1. Pronunciation is the bridge between you and a native English
speaker. It is the first thing that anyone notices about you,
when you start to speak. It connects you. Without clear
pronunciation, messages can get lost or confused. The listener
might even start to feel frustrated because they don't
understand what is being said
.
Pronunciation: is the way in which a word is
pronounce

2.  When you learn to make the correct sounds, your
English will become easier to understand.
 You will speak English more quickly
 It will also help you listen to English better
 Your confidence will grow, you can understand other
and you will start more conversations, and improve
faster

3.  While you writing a text, you may have found your
text editor marked a spelling as incorrect. Yet, when
you checked it in a dictionary, the spelling was in fact
correct. This can often be accounted for by the
differences between British and American English, like
center in American and centre in British
 The key spelling difference between British and
American English is the letter omission in American
English.

4.  British and American English differ even more regarding their
pronunciation.
 You directly know the difference between British and American
accents when heard like water
 The most important differences in pronunciation Rules for British and
American English
 1)Don’t say ‘r’ In British English you only pronounce /r/ if it is before a
vowel sound, so you do say it in ROCK, PRETTY & COVERING, but you
don’t say it in WORK, HARD or MOTHER.
 In American English you say all the written ‘r’s, so WORK, HARD &
MOTHER, so it’s one of the main differences between most British and
American accents

5.  Practice with native English speaker
 And use IPA the international phonetic alphabet

6.  IPA stands for International Phonetic Alphabet. It is
useful for teaching and learning English. The previous IPA
chart uses symbols to represent the different sounds.
 Some of the symbols are from the Greek and Latin
alphabet. When you check a word in most British
dictionaries, you can look at the pronunciation of the
combined consonants and vowels by checking the symbols.
For example, the pronunciation for the word “coat” is
written as kəʊt.
 So you need to be familiar with the IPA chart to understand
the pronunciation.

7.  when you see letters in an English word they won't
always be pronounced the same way
 now there's 26 letters in the English alphabet right ,
but there are 44 different sounds that's why we have to
use the IPA ; to help students when they're studying
English pronunciation

8.  but there are way more English vowel sounds some of
them are long some of them are short and some of
them are just lazy

9.  English vowels (a, e, i, o, u) can be pronounced with
different lengths and sounds. The difference between
short and long vowels has to do with the placement of
the tongue and the position of the vowel in a word.

10.  Diphthongs are sounds that change from one vowel
sound to another but in the same syllable. so watch
the position change as I make each of these sounds

11. the top row and h are unvoiced consonant
sounds which means that the sound is made
by air moving from the back of your mouth
through and out your lips then all the rest of
the consonant sounds are voiced.
which means that the sound is made here
with your vocal cords you can feel it
and
unvoiced sounds use just air
you can't feel anything

12.  The website ipa.typeit.org has a handy keyboard for
typing out the phonetic symbols.
 Be aware that you need to use a Unicode font in your
document, email or webpage, otherwise the phonemic
symbols may not appear correctly.

13.  the emphasis we place in a specific syllable of a word
when pronouncing it.
 In English words that have more than one syllable, we
usually don’t pronounce every syllable with the same
weight, so each syllable in a word can be stressed or
unstressed.

14.  Let's take 3
words: photograph, photographer and photograp
hic. Do they sound the same when spoken?
 No. Because we accentuate (stress) ONE syllable in
each word. And it is not always the same syllable. So
the "shape" of each word is different.

15.  There are two very important rules about word stress:
1-One word, one stress. (One word cannot have two
stresses. So if you hear two stresses, you have heard
two words, not one word.)
2-The stress is always on a vowel.

16.  In English speech, consonant sounds can be classified
as voiced or voiceless.
 Voiced sounds are those in which the vocal chords
vibrate.
 Unvoiced sounds do not create a vibration. You can
feel the vibration by holding a finger to your upper
neck as you speak.
 For example, the first sound in pan is voiceless and
in ban it is voiced.

17. Amman Arab University
Department of English Language and
.
Translation
This presentation was done by:
Basim Ali Qasim
Abdalaziz AL-Salamat
Ruba Ateah
Supervised by : Dr. Khaleel Al-Bataineh

18.  https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/faq.htm
 Book:Lexicography : An Introduction