First year english, yike´s

[finnmom]

Hi

My boy started english this year at school! He like´s it, has a good memory and all, but.......
PRONOUNCING is going to be difficult They have these instrunction´s of pronouncing the word under each new one´s, nothing simble, more like symbol´s for all the way´s of pronouncing different letter-pair´s .

Theacher had said that you have to pronounce the word´s like it´s said in the below, my ds take´s everything like it´s said So if mom say´s it´s like this, he wont believe it because he read´s it differently... For exemple:

Yesterday we argued about pronouncing boy(the "help" looked lot like bci, only c turned on the other direction) so I said "boi" and he insisted it´ll be bci Or a boat(help looked like beut, only e turned on different direction): I told him it´ll be like "bout", he thought it was more like beut ;D

THIS IS GONNA BE FUN ;D ;D ;D

I have to call the theacher about this, she has to think what kind of a instruction´s she´ll give to my adhdér Seem´s like theacher´s dont know everything Amazingly ;D

I´ll let him practice when we´ll be on Majorca, let him order something or like that.... I want to show him how fun and practicall it´s to be able to communicate on other language´s too

[rosyred45]

AWWWWWW Marja, he must sound so sweet tryinmg to pronounce the things.

Just wondering, do you listen to music in English? Like pop or rock n roll-Elvis and such. Just wondering, maybe if he listened to it, it might help his pronunciation.

I can sing LaBamba-which is spanish. I have no idea what I am singing, but I have the accent down pretty good as far as I can tell. as long as i don't sing it in front of someone that speaks spanish a tells me I'm singing something bad ;D

Good luck Marja, by the way, how is he doing going throught alphebet and with numbers?

[camismom]

Give the boy credit for trying... and you for learning. I have heard that English is one of the most difficult languages to learn. We have so many different pronunciations and ways of spelling. "I before E except after C", etc.

Boa is "bo-ah", two syllables. But add a t to it and it becomes "boat", long sound and one syllable.

I can imagine how confusing it could be!

[finnmom]

Kaiti and Christy, thank´s for reply

Apparently they have a cd of the text´s of the book, I get it tomorrow, so he can hear these thing´s from there too. I called to that theacher; she was kind a amazed to hear about my problem´s But supportive and seemed like she understood

Kaiti; he does listen music and we have some dvd´s where they talk english and there is a finnish text, so that´s an opportunity... He has just learned to say his name, AAAWWWWWWWW He´ll have the number´s next

I guess it´ll be fine after all.

[rosyred45]

AWWWWWW, that's so sweet. OK, so what is the difference in proununciation o fhis name in Finnish as opposed to English? Is it a big difference, or just the sounds.

BTW when I was in HS, we got to pick our "German" name, so I went with Katja, since the teacher says that is the closest to Kathrine.

[finnmom]

Hmmmm... pronounsing the name; mayby the biggest difference is that we say SA-mi and you would propably say sa-MII so the pressure(?) is on the first part, not on the last part as in english. Plus A is not pronounced like it is in english, hard to explain

But I was trying to say that he has learned the prhase to introduce himself: my name is..... and some other thing´s too, they´ll continue tomorrow, so let´s see what come´s next

[rosyred45]

I understand now.

My name is Kaiti
How are you?
I am fine, thank you.

Jeez, now I'm sitting back in 9th grade trying to remember what it was like when the teacher would rattle off something in German and the only thing we understood was Deutsch. Even then we thought she was saying Dutch

[Allanque]

finnmom said:

Hmmmm... pronounsing the name; mayby the biggest difference is that we say SA-mi and you would propably say sa-MII so the pressure(?) is on the first part, not on the last part as in english. Plus A is not pronounced like it is in english, hard to explain

So I guess his name in English would be Sammy? The scary thing is, how you would pronounce it in English depends on where you are. Is he learning American English or Queen's English (British)? Then again, in American English the pronunciation of his name would change in just about every region.

[AnneM]

This is interesting ... ! Hmmm ... my son is also often called 'Sammy' by quite a few people (especially those he has known since he was tiny).. but WHERE is the accent? I would actually say the accent is on the FIRST bit - the SAM bit ...

... Oh but I can imagine how difficult English must be as a "new" language ... GOOD LUCK SAMI!!

[rosyred45]

A little off topic, sorta, but Mike wants to learn German, so I'm trying to remember what's what and how I learned it.

I want Marja back, she can tell me how they strarted Sami.....obviously, I'm going over the pronunciation of the letters and numbers, but what next?

[AnneM]

Kaiti ... if my memory serves me right ... I think next you need to go over the "i, you (both types), we, they, she, he" etc. and THEN start bringing in the verbs ...

[rosyred45]

I think your right, BUT my first German teacher Frau ****'s she was so incompetent. I was just going over the letters with Mike and realized she's an idiot.

She told us to pronouce "W" double V, not weh......

[AnneM]

hang on ....

... but the Germans DO pronounce a "W" as a "V" ...

[rosyred45]

Oh I know that, but she said to say "duble ve" sounds kinda frenchish.....oh I can't think of how to write it

[lllex]

Kaiti it does sound french "W" is pronounced doobleh vay - at least that's the way my French teacher taught me.

Laura