Toadino2
Member
- Joined
- May 10, 2015
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Italian
- Home Country
- Italy
- Current Location
- Italy
I'm new here, so let me know if I should post somewhere other this thread than here, or anything else ![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I'm Italian, and, as many English people know, all Italians add many little vowels while they speak (especially at word boundaries). I've discovered it a little time ago, and I'm trying to fix this problem, but it's not so easy... every time I try I almost get angr because that little vowel seems to appear from nowhere even if I try to do everything I can to stop it. I've tried to say the entire word before and the consonant then, not-bounded... but I've discovered I add that vowel even to isolated consonants. I've tried to pronounce a longer consonant, but it doesn't work. I've tried to close my mouth when I complete a word: I don't add a vowel, but a P. Surely a more horrible pronunciation.
Could someone give me advice? I need to learn it because this summer I'm having a two-week holiday in Edinburgh, without my parents (to go to English school), and I don't want other people to laugh while I speak![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I'm Italian, and, as many English people know, all Italians add many little vowels while they speak (especially at word boundaries). I've discovered it a little time ago, and I'm trying to fix this problem, but it's not so easy... every time I try I almost get angr because that little vowel seems to appear from nowhere even if I try to do everything I can to stop it. I've tried to say the entire word before and the consonant then, not-bounded... but I've discovered I add that vowel even to isolated consonants. I've tried to pronounce a longer consonant, but it doesn't work. I've tried to close my mouth when I complete a word: I don't add a vowel, but a P. Surely a more horrible pronunciation.
Could someone give me advice? I need to learn it because this summer I'm having a two-week holiday in Edinburgh, without my parents (to go to English school), and I don't want other people to laugh while I speak