A brief discussion on the general pronunciation rules of consonant letters and combinations of letters in Chinese and English

In these years of practice in English classroom research found that the majority of teachers pay attention to vowels and letter combination of pronunciation and spelling, ignoring the guide students to sum up the consonant letter and letter combination of the pronunciation rules. In fact, both of them can really reduce the burden of learning English, improve learning efficiency. I have accumulated a number of these years to accumulate some consonants and letter combinations of the pronunciation rules, now presented to the vast number of front-line teachers, is willing to share with you.

One, the letter C in the word two kinds of pronunciation

1. When the letter C is in front of e i y, C sends/s/,

City, Cinch, center, cease, cycle,

Certain, cent, cell, cite, ceiling

2. In other cases, C sends a/k/tone.

Can, act, CUP, club, credit, cream

Ii. pronunciation of wh

In general, when the WH is followed by the letter O, the WH sends/h/tones, such as: Wholly,who, whose, whoever

When the WH is followed by other vowels, the/w/tones are issued. Where which wheat what, white, when,

Third, the word ending in MB, the end of B are not pronounced

For example: Tomb dumb bomb comb lamb climb the end of B does not pronounce

Four, the pronunciation of the letter combination kn

When the KN letter combination appears at the beginning of the word, k is not pronounced.

For example, knock knee know kneel knot knowledge

Five, the letter L pronunciation

(1) The letter L is often not pronounced after the vowel a, and before the consonant f or V, that is, the combination of Alf or ALV. For example: calf calf half half behalf benefit halve split

(2) When the letter L is preceded by a vowel letter A or O and is positioned before the consonant letter K or M,

L usually don't pronounce it,

Folk people; yolk egg yolk; calm calm; Palm Palm; Stockholm Stockholm (the capital of Sweden)

Talk Talk; walk walk;

Six, the pronunciation of W

When W appears in front of the consonant letter R, W does not pronounce, only sends the sound of R, think about, we often say a word is what ' s wrong with you? The wrong is a very typical example.

For example: wrack wrecked vessel wrist wrist, wrist joint wreck wrong wrong wring pinch, twist write wrote

Seven, the letter G when does not pronounce

1. When the letter combination GN appears before or at the end of the word, g is usually not pronounced,

Sign logo foreign foreign design resign resignation gnat small insects

Align line reign dynasty gnarled multi-section

And when the GN alphabet appears in the word, g is usually pronounced.

Designation accused signature of signing

2. When the letter combination GM appears in front of or at the end of the word, g is usually not pronounced.

Paradigm Example

And when the GM alphabet appears in the word, g is usually pronounced.

paradigmatic example

In addition, in most cases, the/d/of T in a word is a pronounced feature of American English. For example, the/t/of better matter water later letter is pronounced as/d/. I'll Be you later. I feel much better.

"Learning Strategies" is the first important goal of English curriculum, because learning strategy is the guarantee of improving learning efficiency and developing autonomous learning ability. Therefore, we should consciously guide students to discover laws, summarize laws and solve the practical problems in phonetics, so as to cultivate students ' ability to learn and develop.