a的第三音和o的第一音

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Hello there，

please may I ask if anyone has any thoughts on English pronunciation.

For example - 'water' would be pronounced by my children as 'w-au-t-er' (not the'ah' sound)

'What' would be pronounced 'wh-o-t' not 'wh-ah-t'

Should I just, for example teach that 'a' can make an 'o' sound & so forth?

I am very new to all of this, thank you

Kind regards
Lyn


回答：Dear Lyn,

For most people the third sound of the A is the same sound as the short sound of the O. Some regions do have a distinction. The third sound of the A can be heard in "ma, pa." I did not tell my children that O and A said the same sound.


This can unnecessarily muddle the image for children. I just taught specific
phonograms and the possible sounds that each one can make. When I dictated
"water," I would tell them to use the /a-A-ah/. I did not discuss the similarity to the sound in "hotter."

For thinking to spell you want your children to think the third sound of A for
"water." They can say the word normally. In some regional accents, it sounds
more like "au" in regular speech. The English speaking world has some variety of
accents, but we largely share the same uniform spelling standards. For spelling
we exaggerate words to match actual spelling. For reading, we say the word as
we would in normal speech. In this way we connect the same code to the two
applications. For more information on the think to spell concept see SWR
starting with page 78. This is also covered on film in Volume 2 of the Hidden
Secret DVD.

Blessings,

Wanda Sanseri

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是不是phonics更接近美国发音？

又学到一个原则，不要把简单的事情弄复杂