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Post by Colin McDonald on Mar 7, 2004 20:28:06 GMT -5
Firstly, Let me say this is a great product. The best of its type that I have found and both my girls are learning to read with the help of the Reading Lesson book.
I have a question regarding the pronunciation of some words. I am Australian and I guess Americans must pronounce some words quite differently to those of us down under.
Specifically, in lesson 13, the book introduces the sound "O" an in so, go and no.
Strangely, the book suggests pronouncing a number of other words with this second sound for "O".
The book says, "You remember that the letter O makes the sound [o] as in octupus. The letter O also makes the sound [o] as in old."
In Australia, we pronounce the "o" in old in the same way that we pronounce the sound "o" in octupus.
Similarly, for the words sold, hold, bold and gold, we pronounce the "o" as in onctupus.
There are also the words more, store, boy, toy. The book indicates that these words should be pronounced using the "o" as in go sound. In Australia, we would pronounce these words differently, as in the sound that "a" makes in ball. I'm not sure if this is a good example for you as I'm not sure how Americans pronounce the word ball.
I'd be interested in anyones thoughts on this.
Regards Colin
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Post by charan langton on Mar 18, 2004 11:50:36 GMT -5
You are quire right about the difference in the way vowels are pronounced in US, UK and Australia. I welcome all your comments about what you think is the right way of saying these is in your country/region and I will try to incorporate these in the next edition.
Remember: these sounds are just proxies, or menmonics. They are there to make child aware of individual sounds, in her own regional accents, and start reading words.
In sounding out new words, most children use wildly inaccurate sounds and are still able to read the word correctly in his or her native accent.
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