Hi everyone, and welcome to this special Chinese speaker's edition of Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.

In the coming months, I'll be publishing these special podcasts to help direct certain language groups to the resources that

group of speaker will find the most helpful. This podcast is an overview of issues that

Chinese speakers are likely to face when they are learning to speak English. The transcripts for this

show are online at www.orgoncion.com, and all the episodes mentioned

during this podcast will have direct links from this show's transcripts. Also, I'll put links

at the top of the page to all the free sound lists mentioned during this show.

I've taught a number of Chinese speakers from a number of regions of China, and I know that

Chinese speaker from different regions have different specific issues when speaking English.

Many of you learned English with a British accent, which will mean you learned they are sound and are controlled vowels in particular, differently than I teach them.

If you did learn English from an American speaker, you will have different issues.

I'm going to make generalizations about native Chinese speakers in this podcast and not differentiate

between all the differences groups of Chinese speakers have. That would simply be too confusing

and take too much time. I hope you all understand. Chinese speakers have a number of difficult challenges when speaking English. Many of these

issues I've already created podcasts about, so you can pick and choose which areas you would like to

work on first. Although there are lots of sounds to work on, I have taught many Chinese-speaking students who have made wonderful progress in their pronunciation skills through practice, practice, and more practice.

Remember, you need to train your ear just as much as the muscles in your mouth.

Spend plenty of time listening to audiophiles, especially at the muscles in your mouth. Spend plenty of time listening to audio files,

especially at the beginning of your practice.

Many of the consonant fricatives give Chinese speakers problems.

Fricatives are sounds created when air is forced out of the mouth through a small opening.

These sounds include the voiced and unvoiced TH sounds,

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