Many of us sound / speak "Kenyan" but when need be we can "sound" British...<br><br>This helps...<br><br>Improve Your Pronunciation with BBC Learning English <br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRmGvmeY1U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRmGvmeY1U</a><br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:58 AM, waudo siganga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emailsignet@mailcan.com">emailsignet@mailcan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Thanks for bringing this out Bw PS. The TV stations also need to do<br>
something about poor English pronounciations by some of their<br>
newsreaders. It is common to hear, for example, "wrecked havoc" instead<br>
of "wreaked havoc". Other simple words such as "cap" for the kofia which<br>
is supposed to be pronounced same as "cup" is instead pronounced "cape"<br>
as in sheng. Another example is "liaise" which phonetically should be<br>
pronounced li-ye-z but the newsreaders seem to have other ideas. There<br>
are millions of examples, so to speak. The worst part is that listeners<br>
and school children pick up these wrong prounciations and everything<br>
gets propagated. In the age of ICT perhaps someone can point out to the<br>
newsreaders that there are websites (e.g. Dictionary.com) that can help<br>
them with prounciation.<br>
<br>
Waudo<br>
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On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:11 PM, <a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a> wrote:<br>
> All of today's newspapers had several grammatical errors. At this time<br>
> and age of ICT, is it not too embarrasing to have such errors? We have<br>
> thousands of English majors without jobs. It is time for media to be<br>
> thorough in what they do by utilizing our many graduates without jobs.<br>
> As a Kenyan I get embarrased to see such errors.<br>
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