When scientists ask very bright physics majors at the "best" universities certain questions in certain ways, answers betray that despite lots of knowledge to the contrary, people tend to think that plants get their "food" from the soil, for example.
Or when asked to consider what physical forces are acting on a pen that's been tossed in the air at the vortex of an arc, students tend to believe that there is some force still acting on the pen from being tossed by the hand.
Even you and I, if we quickly imagine viewing ourselves walking on the earth from a distance away, we will see ourselves walking "on top" of the globe.
Well, what's interesting is that we so often do, but there are different levels of knowing.
How many people repeatedly press an elevator button when they're in a hurry?
@JimReynolds Oh, you know, before my teacher mentioned that the earth is round not flat, I don't even have the concept of "the earth". I mean, it's just "land". :-)
I'd say that 45%+ of my colleagues here, continue to do the same things while believing that they are helping students improve pronunciation. And 45% just ignore it.
Oh, you mean why I think it'd be a bit more challenging for him, learning Chinese and Thai?
I think it's about something I came up and think of as "language distance".
(Which I found out last year that some other people also think of language distance, too. Though I came up with it myself, independently.)
Not languages are the same. For example, I think it's fair to say that a German guy or a Frenchman should find English easier than a Thai or a Chinese guy will find it.
So, when I read that he thinks speech is just "connected sounds and silences", I thought to myself that there are good chances that he may think that all languages sound the same, just with different phonemes.
Hence, my (non-serious) comment.
One feature of Thai and variants of Chinese is that most of the words are monosyllable.
So, I'd say that the two languages are syllabic-based in speech.
(But some linguists labelled Thai as a stress-timed language, to which I don't completely agree, but I can see their point. Our language is changing. I posted an answer on Linguistics SE about that once.)
I cannot answer this as a linguist. However, being a native Thai speaker, and being someone who educated himself about linguistics much enough to have some idea on stress-timed vs. syllable-timed (acoustic phonetics is one of my particular interests), I believe that I can provide some good inform...
I don't have the background knowledge to deeply process it all quickly. But I think I get much of the major points.
For example, I don't even know what prosody is, technically.
I could guess something about rhythm/tempo.
Pronunciation levels
beginner: a learner in early stages of learning the language, whose pronunciation and general language skills are both still rather low
pronunciation elementary: a learner at intermediate to advanced level in general language skill, but whose pronunciation is difficult for an untrained person of moderate goodwill to understand, requiring a lot of reliance on context and gesture
pronunciation intermediate: intermediate or advanced learner whose pronunciation is comprehensible to an untrained person of moderate goodwill,
Though I'd refine that, probably. Some people may have perfectly good will, but are uncomfortable with the prospect of having trouble understanding someone.
I am just listening to qualifying over and over and seeing what I notice.
Qualifying
1. Allow a pause before beginning the sentence. 2. Stress the whole word more strongly relative to "allows" 3. Stress the first syllable more strongly than the others, and the third syllable gets a minor stress. 4. The first vowel sound in qual is pronounced for a longer period: quaaaaaaaaalifyyying. 5.
Yes, and it would be even more interesting to get some feedback from others.
And where I've made choices that others might perfectly well make differently, and where my choices would pretty much reflect most native speakers' choices.
That all gets really interesting.
I think for elsewhere, you can easily hear how we pronounced it differently.
When we find a few points where you are not sure how you sound differently than me, but I hear a significant difference, that's our opportunity to try shadowing, and for me to try different ways of describing the difference, pointing your attention in different ways.
I suppose that, since you will get more familiar with the text, you can make one with the clarity of 418, but the more relaxed and perhaps natural feeling of 419.
But I dunno.
You decide all of that. My value is my ear and pointing to places I hear differences.
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So, tell me about you, what are you? who are you? Where are you from? Who is your creator? What is your driving card licence number? Are you married? Do you have children? What are your interests? etc etc.
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