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๊ตฌ๋ ์ ํด๋ ๋ ์จ ๋ ๋ฒจ์ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ ์ ์๋์?
๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ํ์๋ ๋ ๋ฒจ์ ๊ณ ๋ฅด์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. "My Level" ํ์ด์ง์์ ๋ ๋ฒจ์ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ์๋ฉด ์ค๋์ ์ถ์ฒ ๋ ์จ์ด ๊ทธ ๋ ๋ฒจ๋ก ์ถ์ฒ์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. My Level์ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ์ง ์์ผ์๋๋ผ๋ "Library" ํ์ด์ง์์๋ ์์ ๋กญ๊ฒ ๋ ๋ฒจ์ ์ ํํ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
์์ ์ ๊ณต๋ถํ ๋ ์จ์ ๋ณต์ตํ ์ ์๋์?
๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณต๋ถํ ๋ ์จ์ ์ธ์ ๋ ์ง ๋ค์ ๋ณต์ต์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณต๋ถํ ๋ ์จ ๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์๋ ค๋ฉด ํํ๋ฉด์ ์๋ซ์ชฝ์์ "Review"๋ฅผ ๋๋ฌ ์ฃผ์ธ์.
๊ตฌ๋ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋์?
Speaky Peaky ์ฑ์ ์ด 3๊ฐ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ตฌ๋
ํ๋๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค.
Study methods
์ด ์ฑ๋ง ์ฌ์ฉํด์ ์์ด๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆด ์ ์๋์?
์์ด ๋ฐ์์ ์ ํํ๊ฒ ๋ชป๋ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ฑ์ด ์ ๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ํํ ๋ชป ๋ฐ์ ์ ์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด, ์๋ง ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ป์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์์ด ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ ๊ณ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด์, ํน์ sit์ seat์ ๋ฐ์์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์์๋์? Mad์ med๋์? ํน์ pleasure์ ์ ํํ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ํ๊ณ ๊ณ์๋์? ์ด ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ํ ๋ต์ด ํ์คํ์ง ์๋ค๋ฉด, ํ๋์ค๋ ์์ด ์์ฑํ์ ํํํ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ๊ทน ์ถ์ฒํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ๊ณต๋ถ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์์ด ๋ชจ์๊ณผ ์์์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ ํํ ์๋ฆฌ๋๋์ง ๋ฐฐ์ฐ์ค ์ ์์ด์. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ Speaky Peaky ์ฑ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ์๋ฉด์ ๋๋ถ์ด ํ๋์ค๋ ์์ฑํ์ ๊ณต๋ถํด ๋ณด์๋ฉด ๊ทธ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋์ฑ ํด ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค.
Speaky Peaky ์ฑ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ฉด ์คํคํ ์ค๋ ฅ๋ ๋๋์?
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๋๋ค. Speaky Peaky๋ก ๊ณต๋ถํ์
จ์ ๋ ํํ์ ๋ค์์ ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์์ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋์์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
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Automaticity (์๋์ฑ): ์์ด ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ฒ ๋ฐ๋ณตํด์ ๋งํ๋ฉด์ ์๋์ฑ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ํฅ์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฌด์จ ๋ง์ด๋ ํ๋ฉด, ์ค์ ๋ก ํํ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ฒ ๋ฐ๋ณตํด ๋์ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ์ด๋ ต์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ง์ ํ์ค ์ ์๋ค๋ ๋ป์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ ์์ด ๋ฌธ์ฅ, ํํ๋ค์ ๋งค์ฐ ํํ๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฌธ์ฅ, ํํ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๋ณต ์ฐ์ต์ ํตํด์ ์ต์ํด ์ง๋๋ก ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ์ข์ต๋๋ค. -
๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ๊ธฐ์ต๋ ฅ: ๋ชจ๋ Speaky Peaky์ ๋ ์จ์ ์์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ด๊ณ ์ด ์์๋ค์ ๋ชจ๋ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋๋ค. ์คํ ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์ด๋ ํ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณผ ๋๋์ ์ ๋ฌํด ์ค๋๋ค. ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ฉด ๊ณผํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ทธ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ํจ์จ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐฐ์ธ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํธ๋์ฒด (Amygdala)๋ผ๋ ๋์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ด๋นํ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ด๊ฒ์ ํด๋ง (hippocampus)๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊น๊ฒ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ํด๋ง (hippocampus)๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋์์ ๊ธฐ์ต๋ ฅ์ ๊ด์ฅํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฆ, ๋ง์ฝ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋์ด ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์, ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ๋๊ฐ ๋์ฑ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ธํ๊ฒ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ตํ ์ ์๊ฒ ํ๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ด์ ๋๋ฌธ์, ์ ํฌ Speaky Peaky ํ์ ์๋ก์ด ์์ด ๋จ์ด๋ ํํ์ ์ธ์ธ ๋ ๋ฌด์์ ๋จ์ด๋ง ์ธ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ emotions, feelings๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผํค๋ ๋ฌธ๋งฅ๊ณผ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ ์์ด ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๋ถํ์๋ฉด์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋จ์ด/ํํ ์๊ธฐํ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ถ์ฒํฉ๋๋ค.
There are some words I just canโt hear well no matter how many times I try to listen. Should I listen to it more? How many times should I listen to it?
We understand your frustration. There could be 2 main reasons why you canโt hear exactly as the script says. Firstly, it may be because the native speaker spoke it with inaccurate pronunciation. Speaky Peaky is using real-life videos which are not made for only English learners unlike many English text books. Therefore, English native speakers may have mispronounced or may have not enunciated the sounds. In this case, no matter how many times you listen, it wonโt be clear to your ears. But, thatโs okay. Youโre not supposed to listen to it clearly. You should guess what the speaker may have said out of the context. That is what we do in our native language as well. Secondly, you may not be familiar with the rule of emphasized and unemphasized sounds and linking sounds. If they are the issues youโre experiencing, are issues with you, try to find patterns. Here are some patterns that might be helpful for you.
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English is like a song. Even in one word, a sound can go up and down. This is because there are stressed syllables and unstressed syllables. Let me explain what syllables are first. A word can be composed of multiple syllables. For example, โMatterโ has 2 syllables -- Ma / tter. โPronunciationโ has 5 syllables -- pro / nun / ci / a / tion. In one word, there must be at least one primary stressed syllable. In a long word, there can be multiple syllables and there is one primary stressed syllable and sometimes there is one secondary stressed syllable. When a syllable is stressed, that should be pronounced as it is originally supposed to be pronounced. When a syllable is NOT stressed, the sound becomes very weak and the sound changes; the unstressed sound is called schwa sound (ษ). When syllables are not stressed, you pronounce it more softly and at a lower tone. Letโs take โpronunciationโ as an example. The 4th syllable, โaโ is the prime stressed one and you pronounce it as โeyโ and the secondary stressed syllable is the second syllable, โnunโ, so you pronounce it as โnสnโ. You should pronounce the rest of the syllables more weakly. Especially, the first and the last syllables become a schwa sound (ษ).
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Once you get each word right, the next one you want to pay attention to is linking sounds. When you speak English sentences, some sounds are linked. Here are some examples;
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When the /t/ and /y/ are next to each other, for example, donโt you, the sounds become one to the 'ch sound' /สง/. This makes the phrase "don't you" /doสntyu/ to be pronounced as "donchou" /doสnสงu/.
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When the /d/ and the /y/ are next to each other, they are pronounced as a 'j sound' /สค/. This makes the phrase "did you" /dษชdyu/ to be pronounced as "dijou" /dษชสคu/.
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Sometimes, a sound is removed from a word. For example, when a /t/ or /d/ is between two other consonant sounds (but not the first sound of a word), the /t/ or /d/ can be omitted.
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In the phrase "kept going," the /t/ is between two consonant sounds and can be omitted. So it is pronounced as โkep-goingโ
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In the phrase โSam's firstโฟdayโ, the /t/ can be omitted. So it is pronounced as โSamโs firs-dayโ
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When a word ends with a consonant and the next word begins with a vowel, or when a word ends with a vowel and the next word begins with a consonant, the consonant and vowel sounds blend. For example, โpressโฟenterโ is pronounced as โpresenterโ and โfixโฟitโ is pronounced as โfi-xitโ
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Why do I need to do dictation?
Sometimes you may think you have listened to all the words correctly when, in fact, you didnโt. By doing dictation, you will be able to learn what sounds are familiar to you and what sounds you cannot listen to well. This will help you objectively evaluate your listening skill and you will know which sounds you need to focus on. I understand that this might take a long time and can be tedious, however, this method has academically been proven to be effective.
Suggestions
์ ๊ฐ ๊ณต๋ถํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ์์์ด ์๋๋ฐ ๊ทธ ์์์ผ๋ก ๋ ์จ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์๋์?
๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ฃ ! ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์ธ์! (hi@speakypeaky.com) ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค! ๐
๋ ์จ์ ํ๋๋ฐ ์ค๋ฅ์ ์คํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ด์. ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํด์ผํ์ฃ ?
๋ฒ๊ทธ๋ ์คํ์ ๋ํด์ ์ ๋ง ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค. ์ต๊ณ ์ ๋ ์จ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ ํฌ ํ์ด ์ต์ ์ ๋คํ๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ์ค์๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋จผ์ ์ดํดํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ ค์. ๋ฒ๊ทธ, ์๋ฌ๋ ์คํ๊ฐ ์๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ ์จ ํ์์ง์ ์์์ ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ ์๋จ์ (!)๊ฐ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฒ์ ํด๋ฆญํ์ ์ ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ ์๋ ค์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ์จ์ ๋ํ ์ค๋ฅ๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ๋ฉด hi@speakypeaky.com๋ก ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ๋ณด๋ด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
์ฑ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์์ด๋ก ๋์ด ์๋ค์. ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์๋์?
์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ด ์ ์ ๋ํด์ ๋ง์ ๋
ผ์๋ฅผ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๋ก์๋ ๋ ์จ์ ํด์ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋นผ๊ณ ๋ ๋ค ์์ด๋ก ์ฑ์ ์ ์ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ์ด ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ๋ค์ด์ค์๋ ์ฑ์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ต๋ํ ์์ด์ ๋ง์ด ๋
ธ์ถ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ข๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ฑฐ๋ถ๊ฐ์ด ์ฒ์์๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ์์ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง ๋ช๋ฒ๋ง ์ฌ์ฉํ์
๋ ๊ธ๋ฐฉ ์ต์ํด ์ง ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ ์ฑ ์ฌ์ฉ์ค ์ดํด๊ฐ ์๋๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด hi@speakypeaky.com ๋ก ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
App features
Can I review the previous lessons I have studied?
Yes, you can review any lesson you want at any point in time!
I want to see the list of lessons Iโve studied.
If you want to look at all the lessons youโve studied so far, please visit "Review" in the bottom bar.
When I get my pronunciation evaluated, I donโt get a 100 even though the app types exactly what I say.
First of all, donโt feel frustrated! If you get over a 90, your pronunciation is great. Even if the app understands you perfectly, our app evaluates how well you pronounce, not how much the app can understand you. That means, even though your speech is understandable, it doesn't mean your pronunciation is 100% perfect.
Iโm using an Android phone. The pronunciation evaluation feature doesnโt work. The mic does not seem to be working.