5 tricks improving English pronunciation for the polish

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1. 1) feet vs. fit pisk vs. pysk 2) foot vs. food kot vs. kod 3) law vs. low cooo? vs. ci 4) Australia, automatic >> ostrelja, otomatyk 5) foreigner >> foriner Video for this presentation is here. 2. PYSK VS. PISK Letter 'i' in the middle of a word most often sounds like Polish y. FIT VS. FEET >> read in Polish like fyt and fit LIVE VS. LEAVE >> read like lyw and liw BITCH VS. BEACH >> read like bycz and bicz SHIT VS. SHEET >> read like szyt and szit 3. KOD VS. KOT, SKUB SI VS. SKUP SI In spoken Polish, we soften b and d at word ends. In daily lives 'kod' sounds almost like 'kot', 'skub' like 'skup'. In English, however, you have to keep '...d' and '...b' strong! FOOD VS. FOOT HID VS. HIT MOB VS. MOP 4. COOO? VS. CI LAW VS LOW SAW VS SOW DRAW AWKWARD 5. Read au- at word's beginning like o. Australia read like ostrelja automatic read like otomtyk 6. This one you simply need to remember. FOREIGNER >> READS LIKE FORINER NIE FORAJNER, FORIGNER 7. If you want to improve your English in Warsaw join our facebook training group, join our Open English Trainings, or join our training programmes.