Finishing the Journey Together - With Love

Things to do:

1. Practice exam - on blog.  GRADED.  Due Tuesday of Exam.
2. Our Father (on exam) - recorded for EXTRA CREDIT.
3. Extra Credit:  IPA of Gia il Sole
4. Le Violette - MP3 recording due Friday, December 17.  If turned in by exam, letter grade higher.
5. EXTRA Blue Bird IPA.
6. EXAM is Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. December 14, 2010.  Regular room.

Practice Exam

Look here.

Le Violette

Già il sole dal Gange

Già il sole dal Gange
Più chiaro sfavilla,
E terge ogni stilla
Dell'alba che piange.

Col raggio dorato
Ingemma ogni stello,
E gli astri del cielo
Dipinge nel prato.

Catalan Spanish tenor Josep Maria Carreras i Coll performs it:

Links for Today 11-30

Typing IPA.


Caro Mio Ben 1

Caro Mio Ben 2


Three Tenors singing My Way.

Sample Test Here

For your benefit:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BxavEaU0HOJZMjc4OWI2NTMtNDc1NC00ZDNlLTk1ZWQtYmExNDg5MjM5Mzdk&hl=en&authkey=CMCi5IsL

Shhhhhhh.

Lawhon Color V

Class picks words for review

We had a very good class today.

Some of the lessons we learned:

• we aren't doing as well as we thought, especially in the differences between [aw] and [ah] 
• we are making some careless mistakes
• we need to practice diction and review the reasons why we miss things

Most commonly missed words on test:

• stall
• Lord
• call
• salt
• coffin
• quality

Recurring and frustrating errors:

• using [c] for [k]
• using [x] for [ks]
• remembering that a word that ends in [i] is usually modified to [I] if it is an unstressed syllable (quality)

One of the evolving lessons involves wisdom:

• sometimes, we make mistakes because of our particular dialect
• sometimes, we make mistakes because we out-think ourselves and modify everything to [ah]
• sometimes, diction sources (Wall textbook, private teachers, pronouncing dictionary) are at odds about proper pronunciations
• we have to learn to make the best choice 

Here are the words and ideas you submitted to me.  I will choose many of them for the re-test of Chapter five on Thursday, October 14.

ipasource.com

Dr. Lawhon made me aware of this site - I'm asking if we can join as a "studio" and pay a reduced fee.

Phonetic symbols in Word Documents

This site helped me . . . maybe it will help you.

Diction Fear

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Vowels and Dipthongs

Quizlet for IPA

Quizlet is a great tool for building quizzes online.

This one for IPA Diction is not perfect, but instructional.

This is a better one.

Even better.

The Basics

Class syllabus

Class calendar

First Post

Here it is.