Pronunciation: Basic American English Pronunciation (1 book 2 CDs)

Author: Zhai Shizhao
Publisher: Kaipingwenjiaoying Chubanshe
Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: The author pinpointedly identifies various habitual pronunciation errors that Chinese learners of English often make and arranges extensive targeted corrective exercises to achieve a transformation from Chinese-style pronunciation to American-style pronunciation, creating miracles—speaking beautiful American English in a Chinese environment. This book has the following features:
1. The writing of this book is based on the concept that the importance of teachers should be fully recognized. Only teachers who grew up in a Chinese environment and speak beautiful English truly understand the root causes of Chinese pronunciation problems and can propose effective solutions.
2. By comparing Chinese and English phonetics, the book identifies the differences and, through highly targeted training, cures habitual pronunciation errors.
3. The example sentences used in this book are not only excellent materials for phonetic training but also superior language resources for learning spoken English.
4. This book is only suitable for those willing to put in hard work to speak beautiful English. Perhaps you have put too much effort into breaking through the English listening and speaking bottleneck and have taken many detours under traditional teaching methods, but don’t despair. The authors of this book have years of living experience in the United States and deeply understand the blind spots and obstacles Chinese people face when speaking English. They adopt unique intensive and reinforced training methods to address the unique pronunciation difficulties of Chinese people, which will inevitably break through the phonetic challenges and help everyone find confidence and a sense of learning English, entering a virtuous cycle. As long as you practice hard using the unique methods and techniques provided in this book, you will surely uncover the language talent you have long buried, because everyone is originally a genius. Our belief is: if you can speak fluent Chinese, you have the potential to speak fluent English. With proper training methods, anyone can speak beautiful English.