تخفيف اللكنة للمتحدثين بالعربية

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Accent Reduction for Arabic Speakers

5 English pronunciation tips for Arabic speakers who want to improve their English accent:

1) /p/ and /b/

• Arabic speakers can easily make /b/.
• /p/ is made with more air and less voice (if you put your hand on your neck, you shouldn’t feel vibrations when saying /p/).

• pen – Ben
• pack – back
• poured – bored

2) /f/ and /v/

• Arabic speakers can easily make /v/.
• /f/ is made with more air and less voice (if you put your hand on your neck, you shouldn’t feel vibrations when saying /v/).

• • fine – vine
  • fan – van
  • few – view

3) R

• R is made with the tip of the tongue curling back in the mouth. We don’t touch the top of our mouths when pronouncing a R sound in English.

• We only pronounce a R sound when there is a vowel sound after it: Really, Tree, Carry

• We don’t pronounce a R sound when there is no vowel sound after it: Car, Learn, Here

4) TH

• This is made by putting the tip of the tongue by the back of the upper front teeth.

• Keep the tip of the tongue relaxed.

• Compare:

• T – tin – thin
• D – den – then

5) Vowel sounds

• Arabic only has a few vowel sounds. English has about 20.
• Arabic speakers need to be particularly careful of the various O vowels:

• Notice the difference between the ‘o’ sound in:

• Long Moving Vowel /əʊ/ – go, no, so
• Short Steady Vowel /ɒ/- dog, not, hot
  
• Long Steady Vowel /ɔː/- door, core, four

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