ELTWeekly Vol. 3 Issue#103 | October 31 | ISSN 0975-3036
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The book ‘Better English Pronunciation’ by Thakur K B P Sinha has been published by the Vijay Nicole Imprints, Chennai.
This book focuses on the practical side of pronunciation while discussing the English consonants, vowels and diphthongs.
The book attempts to help readers to pronounce correctly the words of everyday use viz. flowers, trees, vegetables, spices, diseases, ailments, professionals, specialists, countries, capital, cities, inhabitants of a country, its language, currency, etc. It also contains a huge list of generally mispronounced words with their correct forms along with a small dictionary of useful words and their pronunciation.
The following are the salient features of the book:
- Necessity of Sound Symbols
- Strong and Weak Forms of Words
- Pronouncing R in Different Positions
- Pronouncing Words Ending with Common Inflections like -logy , -graphy , -ation……….
- Pronouncing Common Flowers, Fruits……
- People,Land and Currency
- Words Generally Mispronounced
- Selected Useful Vocabulary
- American Pronunciation.
The Hindu: “The more technical among the three volumes is Better English Pronunciation by Thakur KBP Sinha, which requires the reader to get a grasp of phonetics before attempting to pronounce words properly. 244 pp, Rs. 150″.
Get more details of this book at http://www.vijaynicole.co.in.
To order the book, please send an email to Madhavan at vijaynicole@airtelmail.in.
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