English Language Pronunciation Sample Paragraph

[Pages:1]English Language Pronunciation Sample Paragraph

Each student please read this paragraph below that is in quotation marks. When the reading is finished, the tutor will correct pronunciation wherever needed. This paragraph contains nearly every sound in English.

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"Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station." -------------------------------------------------

At the Speech Accent Archive: , you can hear it spoken by more than 270 native and nonnative speakers of English and compare their accents, from Milwaukee to Zulu. The Archive demonstrates the systematic nature of accents, according to Steven Weinberger, founder of the archive and associate professor in the English department at George Mason University in Fairfax,Virginia.

(From Aug. 29, 2003 Detroit Free Press, forwarded by From: MPM2146@)

English Language Pronunciation Sample Paragraph

Each student please read this paragraph below that is in quotation marks. When the reading is finished, the tutor will correct pronunciation wherever needed. This paragraph contains nearly every sound in English.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

"Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station." -------------------------------------------------

At the Speech Accent Archive: , you can hear it spoken by more than 270 native and nonnative speakers of English and compare their accents, from Milwaukee to Zulu. The Archive demonstrates the systematic nature of accents, according to Steven Weinberger, founder of the archive and associate professor in the English department at George Mason University in Fairfax,Virginia.

(From Aug. 29, 2003 Detroit Free Press, forwarded by From: MPM2146@)@)

English Language Pronunciation Sample Paragraph

Each student please read this paragraph below that is in quotation marks. When the reading is finished, the tutor will correct pronunciation wherever needed. This paragraph contains nearly every sound in English.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

"Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station." -------------------------------------------------

At the Speech Accent Archive: , you can hear it spoken by more than 270 native and nonnative speakers of English and compare their accents, from Milwaukee to Zulu. The Archive demonstrates the systematic nature of accents, according to Steven Weinberger, founder of the archive and associate professor in the English department at George Mason University in Fairfax,Virginia.

(From Aug. 29, 2003 Detroit Free Press, forwarded by From: MPM2146@)

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