[etni] Fwd: re: Teaching ABC by Visual Mnemonis
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From: Ilana Rosansky <ilanar49@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Teaching ABC by Visual Mnemonis
You didn't get the FULL gravity of the situation at ALL!!
In the example provided:
He misses ALL the vowel sounds! (that are different from Hebrew).
That is, on 'eruption', he diphthongizes the /ee/ to /eey/
unnecessarily, doesn't get the short 'u' but does what most Israeli's
do which is to turn the short 'u' (as in up) into a 'patach' and does
the same MIS-formation of the end of the word (tion) also turning the
sound into a 'patach' AND he gutteralizes the English 'r' into a
'resh'.
Other than that, Gee Whiz... it's 'close'!! [not]
And THAT is why our Israeli politicians, who think they know it all,
sound like such blubbering idiots when they insist on speaking English
in public forums such as those televised by the international media...
Dr. Ilana Rosansky
Laurin wrote:
> Bravo to your husband for finding a mnemonic key for eruption and –
> I’ll bet – lots of other words besides. And if, as Ilana so gravely
> warns (“God help us!”), he pronounces it with a guttural resh, is that
> such a tragedy? Somewhere -- as English teachers -- we have to face a
> trade-off between a pupil’s learning a word with a less-than-perfect
> accent and not learning it at all. Granted, in a perfect world,
> everyone would speak English like the BBC, but in that world a lot of
> other things would be different too. Mnemonics, yalla!
> Self-Access English Learning Center
Ilana wrote:
> Oh, God help us all!
> And I'll bet he pronounced it that way too! /eeroppshen/ (with a gutteral
> resh)!
> And that's precisely what the original poster was talking about : (
> And why so many Israelis pronounce English so baaaadly!!
Marlene wrote:
> That's my husband's method. Here's how he remembered the word
> "eruption" - e=ee in Hebrew an island. So you have the visual of a
> volcanic eruption on an island. rup=sounds like Danny Ropp, the
> weather forecaster and "tion" sounds like tooth in Hebrew.
Laurin wrote:
> Kol hakavod for doing the research into the
> inspiration for our method of teaching the
> ABC. Yes, it was a study involving the teaching
> of the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet to English
> speaking students. Details follow.
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