Chinese pronunciation problems can be difficult to fix for English learners and their teachers alike, especially for those from the South of China, the pronunciation problems get even harder. In this film, one of my Chinese students who happen to be from the South gets mouth and ear training to help him say one sentence to a Barista in a Sydney CBD cafe. He succeeds in fixing several pronunciation issues like the /n/ and /l/, after saying [cuppuciLO], and [low sugar], he could actually say [cappucino] and [no sugar]. Another issue was replacing vowel /æ/ with /aɪ/ and as a result pronouncing [flat] as [flight]. Chinese students also overstress the pronunciation of consonant /t/ at the end of the word adding /s/, so [flat white] sounded like [flats whites]. Another pronunciation problem Chinese students have in English is consonant /l/ especially at the end of the word as in [small], where they do not move the tongue up and so the word sounds like [smaw]. Similarly, consonant /n/ is an issue when it occurs at the word endings due to the tongue not moving and pressing against the alveolar ridge.
There is a great number of common pronunciation problems for Chinese students that need to be taught to help the students improve their listening and speaking skills. Those pronunciation problems also include intonation, syllable stress and connected speech.
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