Dinh Nguyen

Teaching Pronunciation
Tracy Hirata Edds
March 10, 2015
Directions: Provide information about your sound in the chart. Be sure to give proper credit to your sources by having either a link or
citations with each piece of information. This allows people to follow-up on your sources for more information. Information may come from
texts, articles, websites, or other credible resources.

Sound

How to Articulate

Similar
Sound in
Vietnamese

Similar
sound /m/ in
English

Possible
Confusion
With Sound
In
Vietnamese

Examples in English
Words/Phrases

No confusion
Words

Phrases

/m/

To create the m sound, the lips

are pressed together, causing
the air to be blocked from
leaving the mouth. The soft
palate drops, allowing air to
pass out through the nose. The
sound is voiced, so the vocal
cords vibrate while producing
it.

Sentence
s

Initial
Medial
Final
map
human clam
man
lemon
climb
make
woman lime
mad girl
rock climber
juicy ham
She is mad at her friend.
The rock climber used
ropes.
We had ham for dinner.

Websites with Helpful

Information

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/en
glish.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/gr
ammar/pron/sounds/con_other_1.shtml

http://www.rachelsenglish.com/videos/m-consonant-m

- http://sozoexchange.com/ipa/category/consonants?
currentPage=2

- Words, phrases, and sentences:

http://www.home-speech-home.com/m-words.html

http://www.pronuncian.com/Lessons/Default.aspx?
Lesson=22