One of the biggest hurdles for advanced learners is understanding why native speakers seem to "swallow" words. The book covers: How words run together (e.g., "pick it up"). Elision: Why certain sounds disappear in fast speech.
| Level | Focus | Example topic | |-------|-------|----------------| | Elementary | Individual sounds, basic word stress | /θ/ vs. /ð/, stress in two-syllable nouns | | Intermediate | Sentence stress, intonation for meaning | Question tags, contrastive stress | | | Discourse intonation, accent variation, complex connected speech | Tonic placement in ambiguous sentences, weak forms in spontaneous speech | english pronunciation in use advanced book pdf
However, the first page of Google results for this PDF is a digital minefield. One of the biggest hurdles for advanced learners
