

Remember mispronouncing sounds at the ends of words makes your English unclear and also negatively affects your grammar (past tense endings and plural endings). For example, words like ‘work’, ‘walk’, ‘take’, ‘part’ etc etc. Do it slowly and make sure you get good word endings every time.ĭo that every morning for 5 days and then say the following:Īfter that, change the phrases and insert words that you need to use often. This is all about helping you get better control.ģ] Every morning, practice this sentence out loud 10 times. They are for practice and for exercising your mouth. It doesn’t matter if your practise phrases don’t make sense. Then when you are very good at this, add another word. Now practice them with another word – making excellent /t/ sounds. Practise these words out loud making a good /t/ ending. Practise OUT LOUD! Feel the difference between different endings.Ģ] Start with words and then build up to phrases!! When you’re speaking, start to listen and feel the endings of words. The answer is you need to get better control over pronouncing sounds at the ends of words.ġ] Start by paying more attention to the ends of your words. When speaking in sentences it is more difficult and they drop some sounds at the ends of their words. Many speakers of Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Cantonese can repeat single words beautifully with correct endings but the problem arises when they speak in sentences. If you aren’t making word endings clearly then many words will be unclear and you will sound like you have poor grammar in your spoken English. other grammatical markers like the 3rd person.

distinguishing one word from another (eg plan vs plant, fine vs find).good past tense endings (eg miss vs missed).Good word endings are essential for clear English. Speakers of Malaysian English and Singaporean English also often don’t pronounce the sounds at the ends of English words clearly. Speakers of Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Cantonese and speakers of other languages of South East Asia often have some difficulty pronouncing sounds clearly at the ends of their words. Burmese: စကားလုံး (my) ( ca.ka:lum: ), ပုဒ် (my) ( pud ), ပဒ (my) ( pa.da.Do you sometimes have problems pronouncing the ends of word clearly in English?ĭid you know that improving your word endings is a great way to quickly improve your speech clarity in English!.Hebrew: מלתא c ( melthā, meltho ) Syriac: ܡܠܬܐ c ( melthā, meltho ) Arabic: كَلِمَة (ar) f ( kalima ) Egyptian Arabic: كلمة f ( kilma ) Hijazi Arabic: كلمة f ( kilma ).The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. Word ( countable and uncountable, plural words) Doublet of verb and verve further related to vrata. Homophone: whirred ( accents with the wine-whine merger )Įtymology 1 The word about signed in American Sign Language.įrom Middle English word, from Old English word, from Proto-West Germanic *word, from Proto-Germanic *wurdą, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om.( General American ) enPR: wûrd, IPA ( key): /wɝd/.( Received Pronunciation ) IPA ( key): /wɜːd/.
