In an ATV kit show, they interviewed an English pronunciation teacher asking him to demonstrate how he teaches English pronunciation. The teacher had two examples, the word “CAT” and CATERPILLAR”. He explained how English words can be broken down into several bits to assist with the pronunciation of the entire word. Like the word “CAT”, if we break it down to their individual alphabets – “C”, “A”, and “T”, and learn how to pronounce the the alphabets, like “C” has a “ke” sound (he didn’t explain how to pronounce words that end with “CE” or “CI”) “A” has a “ah” sound, “T” has a “Te” sound, by simply pronouncing their individual sound together quickly, one would get the “correct” pronunciation as “ket (spoken by him without written on the board)”! @_@’
By the same token, the teacher continued, the word “CATAPILLAR” can be first broken down into “CA” “TA” “PIL” “LAR”….. blablablabla…. and “LAR” is pronounced as “lur (spoken by him without written on the board)”, then we know the correct pronunciation is “keterpilur”!
With teachers like these, we may as well go watch movies instead of going to classes.
Perhaps I should take over and double their fees.
WhaUSay?!