Recommended reading

This book is an excellent source of both descriptive and practice material for (American) pronunciation. You can find it in the Biblioteca de Lengua Inglesa:

• F Leng Inglesa G/CELTEA.

21 accents

21 accents by a professional actress. Many actors/actresses are trained on a variety of accents, and this training involves things we discuss in this class. We'll work with it in class.

Phonetic fonts (PC/Windows users)

If you have trouble using phonetic fonts, check out Luis Luque's email on the course webpage. Many of you send me assignments in Word format, which is fine. To make your document completely compatible, you can save it as a .pdf file.

In Word, go to Archivo > Imprimir and click on the PDF button. That I will read alright.

Unit 1: The PowerPoint presentation

Unit 1 Fonética contrastiva

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Speech perception

A very interesting scientific field, related somewhat to the topics of Unit 1, is speech perception. Many dog owners firmly believe that their pets understand (a very basic version of) human language. What do you think? Click on the image and it'll zoom in.

Who are The Who?

I was surprised that the other day, in the course of one of my many classes, I mentioned the rock group The Who and nobody knew who the heck I was talking about. If you watch CSI: MIAMI or CSI: Las Vegas the theme song in both is a song by this group.

As an English instructor, I feel you have to check this video out:

Plans for next week

Oct 26, 27, and 30 there will be a special pronunciation session instead of regular class. This is part of work for a doctoral program, so your regular attendance will be greatly appreciated. If this is not enough, I am ready to bribe you with extra credit for attending these three sessions. A promise is a promise.