Advanced Speech Training

Author: Zhou Lei
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book carefully selects appropriate tongue twisters targeting the characteristics of each phoneme, providing comprehensive practice for every phoneme. This allows readers to consolidate the knowledge learned while further improving their pronunciation, making it accurate and fluent, and ultimately perfect. However, mastering the pronunciation of individual phonemes is only one goal of this part of the reading training. When reading a sentence, each phoneme is not isolated. While mastering the correct pronunciation of phonemes, we must also pay attention to aspects such as stress, rhythm, linking, and intonation. Therefore, in addition to training for each phoneme, we have specially added a comprehensive training section in this part. This section combines each phoneme and selects one or two short poems with clear rhythms and catchy rhythms, focusing on training in stress, rhythm, linking, and intonation. After completing the training in this part, we should aim for higher goals—to achieve greater control and ease when speaking English through further training. English poetry is the stepping stone to this goal. Since an English poem often condenses most vowels and consonants, with clear rhythms, practicing pronunciation through reading English poetry can achieve twice the result with half the effort. In the second part, we have selected ten poems by famous English and American poets to provide advanced training in English phonetics, intonation, rhythm, and stress. By repeatedly imitating and reading these English poems, readers can firmly grasp the key principles of English pronunciation and speak fluent, beautiful English effortlessly.