Monday, October 12, 2009

La pronunciación

Description:
This lesson is designed to assist Spanish 101 students with beginning pronunciation of the vowel sounds in Spanish.

Objective:
Students will be able to match audio and visual productions of Spanish words with their corresponding written vowels and reproduce words in Spanish using the Spanish pronunciation for the vowel sounds.

Step 1:
Click on "La presentación" below to open the link to Los Sonidos en español. Once there, choose las vocales, then alta. Choose la "i". First play the sound on the model and watch the movement of the tongue when the vowel is pronounced. Then play the human model to hear the vowel produced and watch the movement of the mouth. Finally, play each word and repeat after the model. Then go back and choose la "u" and do the same exercises. When finished, go back a choose media to practice la "e" and la "o". Finally, choose baja to practice la "a".

La presentación

Step 2:
Clink on "Practica con los videos" below. Once there, click on "Las Vocales" under topics and compete steps 1-4.

Practica con los videos

Step 3:
Click on the "Quía" link below. Once there, you will be asked to enter a username and password. You can skip this part and go right to "Sart now". Complete the practice for las vocales.

Quía

Step 4:
Click on the link below for "Voxopop". Choose "Record a new session". You will be prompted to create an account. It will only take a minute. Then you will be returned to "Record a new session". Here you will sumbit a message of yourself repeating the following phrases. You may wish to print this page first or have it open separately so you can see the phrases to be repeated.


hasta tal nada mañana natural normal fascinante

me qué Pérez Elene rebelde excelente elegante elefante

sí señorita permiso terribe imposible tímido inteligente

yo oso con como noches profesor señor generoso

uno usted tú unicornio mucho Perú Lupe unidad

">Voxopop

19 comments:

  1. this was really fun! i loved it!

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  2. i really liked how in step 1 they had a computer model but then had a person saying the same thing. Also the different angels were very helpful. I also like how they had the silent model because it made you say it to yourself and see which one it was.

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  3. I really liked this assignment and found it interesting to see how the mouth moves when pronouncing vowels. It was not a hard assignment, but I though it was helpful and a good switch from regular assignments. i enjoyed it!

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  4. The activity was not extremely easy but not hard either. I really enjoyed it because it helped me pronounce words. But I still sound very white.

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  5. I liked this exercise because I felt that it really helped me grasp a physical aspect of the pronunciation of vowels in Spanish.

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  6. Being able to see the way the persons mouth moves when they say the vowels really helped me understand how the sounds should be made. It was interesting because when I just saw the mouth move without sound I could guess the word although when I heard the sound without seeing the mouth it was hard for me to tell what vowel was being said.

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  7. it was fun watching the peoples mouths and trying to act it out. it really helped with really accenting those different vowel sounds.

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  8. I really enjoyed doing this activity. I feel that i learned a lot about vowel sounds and how to pronounce them. It was fun and a different, beneficial way of learning!

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  9. These activities were very helpful. It is good to see demonstrations on how words are suppose to be pronounced. It is also good to see the common mistakes that most people run into when speaking the language. All in all it was very helpful!

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  10. This assignment was very interesting and helpful in pronouncing words better.

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  11. I liked the video clips of the mouth pronouncing A E I O U it really helped me out.

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  12. This was very helpful. I learned new ways to pronounce words in a way that was unknown to me. It was also fun and interactive.

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  13. I enjoyed this exercise because it allowed me to practice spanish in the comfort of my own dorm. Also, seeing the physical mouth movements of each vowel sound allowed me to pronounce my own spanish vowels more precisely.

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  14. this assignment was fun an very helpful on seeying how to pronounce words in spanish.

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  15. It helped watching the people's mouths from all angles and watching the videos without sound then having to select which word they were saying. The more I practice the more I should be able to pronounce certain words better. I got it done regardless of my internet connection being lost for three days.

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  16. The video clips of the mouth pronouncing A E I O U helped me understand how to speak more properly and watching the clips without sound helped me memorize it.

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  17. I really didn't think I was gong to be able to read people's lips, but when I was doing that module I was surprised. This may have been because in Spanish there is a much greater definition of vowels, where in english they can at times blend together and look the same. This helped me realize how the mouth is supposed to move when you're pronouncing words in Spanish, as opposed to English.

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  18. This was very helpful, I really enjoyed it. It helped me a lot with pronouncing the words.

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  19. The video clips help me out a lot, and the video clips help me with the the pronouncing the A E O I U.

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