{"id":5030,"date":"2023-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2023-01-30T01:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T01:16:41","slug":"what-a-viral-tweet-can-teach-us-about-english-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-beginners-and-kids\/what-a-viral-tweet-can-teach-us-about-english-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Viral Tweet Can Teach Us About English Pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-beginners-and-kids\/what-a-viral-tweet-can-teach-us-about-english-pronunciation\/#How_a_primary_school_student_beat_adults\" >How a primary school student beat adults<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-beginners-and-kids\/what-a-viral-tweet-can-teach-us-about-english-pronunciation\/#Lessons_for_us_as_tutors\" >Lessons for us as tutors<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-beginners-and-kids\/what-a-viral-tweet-can-teach-us-about-english-pronunciation\/#1_Pre-vocalic_R_sound\" >1. Pre-vocalic R sound<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-beginners-and-kids\/what-a-viral-tweet-can-teach-us-about-english-pronunciation\/#2_Connected_speech\" >2. Connected speech<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/teaching-beginners-and-kids\/what-a-viral-tweet-can-teach-us-about-english-pronunciation\/#Thats_it_for_now\" >That\u2019s it for now!<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>Last year, a tweet from Japan went viral. It featured a picture of a piece of paper that had English words on one side and Japanese approximations of those words on the other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u521d\u3081\u3066\u82f1\u8a9e\u3092\u805e\u3044\u305f\u5c0f\u5b66\u751f\u306e\u8033\u304c\u3059\u3054\u3044\u3002\u3053\u306e\u611f\u899a\u3092\u5927\u5207\u306b\u3057\u3066\u307b\u3057\u3044\u306a\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CcZThucAvm\">pic.twitter.com\/CcZThucAvm<\/a><\/p>\u2014 \u3053\u3042\u305f\u3093\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\u3053\u3042\u3089\u306e\u5b66\u6821 (@KoalaEnglish180) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KoalaEnglish180\/status\/1548214902489497600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out the words were written by a primary school student \u2013 most likely the child of the person who posted the tweet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the caption, this was the student's first time hearing English. Yet they were able to accurately capture the sounds they heard much more accurately than most Japanese adults, which is why the post gained so much attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why was this the case? And what can we learn from this as English tutors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_a_primary_school_student_beat_adults\"><\/span>How a primary school student beat adults<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kids have an easier time learning the sounds of a new language, which helps explain why our primary school student did so well. But that's not the whole story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese uses a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/15\/safety-country-and-other-funny-english\/\">loanwords<\/a>, which are words borrowed from other languages, such as English. A classic example is the word \"salad\" \u2013 you might have students who keep saying \"salada\" even though you keep correcting them. That's because they think \"salada\" is the true English word!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If I got a dollar every time someone said \u201csalada,\u201d I\u2019d be a millionaire!&nbsp;<\/p><cite>Engoo Tutor from Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/25\/persistent-pronunciation-issues\/\">system for spelling Japanese words in English<\/a>, which can give Japanese people the wrong idea of how English letters are pronounced.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adults, who are used to loanwords and this spelling system, have to put in more effort to learn the proper pronunciation of English words. But children have the advantage of starting fresh, making it easier for them to learn the correct sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lessons_for_us_as_tutors\"><\/span>Lessons for us as tutors<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are actually a lot of interesting aspects of pronunciation that our primary school student picked up on. We\u2019ll focus on two main lessons we can take away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Pre-vocalic_R_sound\"><\/span>1. Pre-vocalic R sound<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A \u201cpre-vocalic R\u201d is an R sound that comes before a vowel. There are two words in the list which have pre-vocalic R sounds: \u201creally\u201d and \u201cpretty.\u201d Many Japanese students pronounce them like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Really: Lee-yah-lee<\/li><li>Pretty: Plee-tee<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, the primary school student approximated the words like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Really: Wee-lee<\/li><li>Pretty: Pwee-lee<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So while adults tend to pronounce R\u2019s as L\u2019s, the child chose to pronounce them as W\u2019s instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also how some English-speaking children their age pronounce their R\u2019s: e.g. \u201cpwetty pwease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this isn\u2019t correct either, it\u2019s still more accurate-sounding and easy-to-understand than the adult versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching insights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, we don\u2019t want our adult students to pronounce their R\u2019s like W\u2019s! However, we can use W sounds to help them pronounce R sounds correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is because the W sound prepares your mouth to pronounce R sounds. Say the following pairs of words to see for yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wade, raid<\/li><li>Whale, rail<\/li><li>Wide, ride<\/li><li>Wing, ring<\/li><li>Won, Ron<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You may have noticed that when you make W sounds, you <a href=\"https:\/\/tfcs.baruch.cuny.edu\/w\/\">stick out your lips and make them round<\/a> as if you were making an \u201cooh\u201d sound. Then, all you need to do is to curl up the tip of our tongue and you\u2019ll be able to make an R sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more help teaching the R sound, check out these free resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/24\/r-and-l-pronunciation\/\">R or L? 3 Easy Ways to Teach Students the Difference<\/a><\/li><li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PDKWscOgl7U?t=22\">video of a speech language pathologist explaining the R sound<\/a><\/li><li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/engoo.com\/app\/lessons\/ielts-speaking-test-preparation-level-8-discussing-friends\/unYJqBtJEem9M4t1bR-sTQ?category_id=P6-s6hpMEemrUL__RArmKw&amp;course_id=drH4urLREemum0PLgTsKcw#exercise-1\">minimal pair exercise<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Connected_speech\"><\/span>2. Connected speech<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dConnected speech\u201d is when we pronounce a group of two or more words as if they were one word. In other words, we connect them together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, English learners are not aware of connected speech and pronounce each word separately, resulting in pronunciations that sound like the ones in the middle column below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Phrase<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>What learners sound like<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>What these phrases should sound like<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>A lot of<\/td><td>\u201cA. Lot. Of.\u201d<\/td><td>\u201calotof\u201d or \u201ca-lo-tof\u201d<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Not at all<\/td><td>\u201cNot. At. All.\u201d<\/td><td>\u201cnotatall\u201d or \u201cno-ta-tall\u201d<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>I don\u2019t know<\/td><td>\u201cI. Don\u2019t. Know.\u201d<\/td><td>\u201cIdonknow\u201d or \u201cI-don-know\u201d or even \u201cI dunno\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, our primary school student picked up on connected speech, linking the words correctly in their approximations. They even seemed to pick up on two different kinds of connected speech!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Catenation: This is when you connect two words, because the first one ends in a consonant and the second starts with a vowel. The primary school student did this with \u201ca lot<sub>\u2334<\/sub>of\u201d and \u201cnot<sub>\u2334<\/sub>at<sub>\u2334<\/sub>all.\u201d<\/li><li>Disappearing sounds: This is when D and T sounds disappear in between other consonant sounds. The primary school student successfully skipped the T sound in \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d spelling it out as something closer to \u201cI dunno.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching insights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You can watch these short British Council videos to learn more about the different types of connected speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N2Au0UdymCU\">Mini English Lessons: Connected Speech (part 1)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uzlIcTJyJ1s\">Mini English Lessons: Connected Speech (part 2)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Next time you notice your students saying each word separately, let them know about connected speech! Teaching them about it will improve their pronunciation and their listening skills at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Thats_it_for_now\"><\/span>That\u2019s it for now!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a lot more pronunciation tips we can share related to this tweet, but we\u2019ll let you get back to your lessons for now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on why students struggle with pronunciation and how you can help, check out these blog posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/13\/english-pronunciation-why-your-students-find-it-hard-and-how-you-can-help\/\">English Pronunciation: Why Your Students Find It Hard And How You Can Help<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/25\/persistent-pronunciation-issues\/\">Loanwords and Romanization: Lesser-Known Culprits Behind Persistent Pronunciation Issues<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/how-japanese-korean-and-taiwanese-brains-perceive-word-stress\/\">How Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese Brains Perceive Word Stress<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/18\/robotic-sounding-student-teach-them-some-rhythm\/\">Robotic-Sounding Student? Teach Them Some Rhythm!<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tutor.engoo.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/29\/backchaining\/\">Backchaining \u2014 How to Get Difficult Words to \"Roll off Your Tongue\"<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you found this post helpful and would like to see more posts on pronunciation, let us know through Tutor Support. Happy tutoring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, a tweet from Japan went viral. 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