pronunciation
noun[CorU]
uk/prəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/us/prəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/B1
how words arepronounced:
发音Englishpronunciation isnotoriouslydifficult.英语的发音出了名的难。
There are two different pronunciations of this word.这个词有两种读音。
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Ways of speaking
- accented
- accentuation
- articulate
- bray
- cacoepy
- cut glass
- dialectal
- drawl
- elocution
- enunciate
- flap
- fluent
- jawbreaker
- plummy
- pragmatics
- prosodic
- prosody
- signer
- sociolect
- toned
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Grammar
Pronunciation
Pronunciation means how we say words. Most people speak the dialect of standard English with an accent that belongs to the part of the country they come from or live in. Learners of British English commonly hear RP (received pronunciation), which is an accent often used on the BBC and other news media and in some course materials for language learners, but it is also common to hear a variety of regional accents of English from across the world.…