English Speaking Exercise North, East, South, West
Instructions: Please recite the following paragraph. Press the 'add audio submission' button to record and submit this exercise.
My family lives in the United States. The United States is north of Mexico and south of Canada. I live in San Francisco, California, which is in the western United States. One day I want to travel around the world and visit towns in eastern Italy, western Australia and southern France.
Very good effort, Juliana! This is a longer passage and has several words that present a challenge to those learning English. An example is "lives" -- it has two pronunciations, one with the long "i" sound (when it is a noun), and one with the short "i" sound (when it is a verb). In this case, it is used as a verb, so should have the short i sound.
Another example is words with "ou” spelling. Sometimes it has an "oo” sound (as in "you”) but other times it has the "ao” sound (like in "our”) -- similar to the "ão” sound in português. You would think "youth” and "south” should rhyme, but they don't...
I hope this helps. Keep practicing -- it takes time to learn a different language, and so far you are doing well!
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