Episodes
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Flat /a/ vs. the ash /ae/
This is a new version of the /a/ and /æ/ episode from last year. You can find the minimal pairs and the sentences from this podcast by clicking on this link: http://homepage.mac.com/matthewtapple/EnglishPronunciation/Personal86.html Thanks for listening!
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New Introduction for 2007
I should apologize for not making any new shows...it's been almost 10 months! This show is an overview of my plans for this year's podcasts. **Reminder to my listeners** This podcast is primarily aimed at my students at Doshisha University, in Kyoto, Japan. However, if you have any comments…
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Reduced Forms (3)
This is the third in a series of four podcast episodes about reduced forms in English. In this podcast, we look at the pronouns "he," "him," "his," "her," and "them." When we speak English quickly, the sounds of "h" and "th" are often not pronounced. We also listen to the various ways in which to...
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Rokko Oroshi
"Rokko Oroshi" is the official "fight song" of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team. The song was written a long time ago, but only recently in the past twenty-five years or so has it become traditional to be sung at ballgames. During the seventh-inning stretch, fans at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya...
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Reduced Forms (2)
This is the second of four podcast episodes about "reduced forms." In the previous episode, we practiced saying verbs phrases such as "have to," "got to," and "ought to" by using the reduced vowel "the schwa." In this episode, we add "gonna" (going to) and "ask 'em" (ask them) as we practice…
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Reduced forms (1)
This podcast is the first of a series of four podcasts designed to help learners of English better understand spoken, fast English. English is a "stress-timed" language. That is, the individual words in English are often not fully pronounced when the stress of the sentence does not fall on the...
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Take me out to the ballgame
This is the number three song sung by people every day in the U.S. (after the Star Spangled Banner and "Happy Birthday"!). The words and music were written by people who had not been to a baseball game! The writer finally saw a game over 30 years after he wrote the lyrics. The song itself was…
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The schwa
The schwa is normally represented in the IPA symbol inventory as an upside-down backwards "e." It occurs in English in unstressed syllables, either in single words or in a group of words. This podcast episode will give you plenty of practice with the schwa sound as it occurs in various...
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Who's on First?
This is a famous "English manzai" routine from the 1930s and 1940s. While the English is a little fast, the words are fairly easy, and the comedians say the same words over and over. You can read the script in class in Week 7. Can you guess who is the つっこみ and who is the ぼけ?
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Back vowels
This episode covers the most changeable of the English vowels: the "two 'o's" and the "two 'u's." I speak Northeastern North American English; I cannot demonstrate the British English accents for the back vowels. Please keep that in mind when you listen!
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/a/ and /ae/
These sounds can be confusing, because about 150 words are spelled the same in UK and US English, but are pronounced differently. For example, "path," "chance," and "example" are pronounced with /a/ in the UK and /ae/ in the US. On the other hand, a single "o" is usually pronounced /a/ in the US....
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Casey at the Bat
We listened and watched the video of this famous poem in Eigo Bunka Jijyou classes during Week 3. The video was a little different from this. You can read the poem I gave you in class, and listen at the same time to this classic poem about Mighty Casey and the Mudville Nine.
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/I/ and /e/
This is the second podcast about English pronunciation. Click here for /I/ and /e/ minimal pairs and practice speaking the sentences.
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Front vowels /I/ and /iy/
This podcast episode will help you distinguish the sounds / I / and / iy/. Listen carefully and try to repeat the sounds. There are also words with these sounds, and there are sentences that you can try. Finally, the final sentence is one of the most difficult tongue twisters (早口言葉) in the…
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Welcome! A message to my Doshisha students
Welcome to Eigo Bunka Jijyou! Please listen to my self-introduction. See if you can answer these questions: -- Where do I come from? -- What musical instruments can I play? -- What did I study in university? -- When did I come to Japan? -- Where have I lived in Japan? -- What is my wife's…
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