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Lecture 1: A Good Way to Improve Your Ear
ne way to improve your listening skills is to practice pronunciation of "real" English. As your tongue improves, so does your ear. For six or seven years you have often heard English with every letter clearly pronounced. You can understand other students, but understanding Americans or the British or Australians is difficult. Why? In your memory, like in a computer's memory, you have information about how you think English is pronounced, but much of this information is incorrect. You expect to hear I got up at eight, /ai gt p t eit/, but a native speaker says |