常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

My impression on a special lecture

Prof. Mastusaka gave us a special lecture; The sounds in English and Japanese, at Senshu University yesterday.

I thoroughly enjoyed his wonderful lecture, and learned two things from it.

The first thing that I learned is the fact that a mastery of English sounds to the point of automatic control was not that difficult to be achieved as we might think. Prof. Matsusaka "eased" our concern in that respect by giving us some specific keys to clearing away our stumbling blocks.

The other thing is about English intonation per se. Intonation has some features; stress placement (nucleus), pitch accent, and the sound length. I was able to confirm that all these elements go in cahoot with each other and make a melody of English.

Being deeply impressed with his English, I want to reach that level exhibited by Prof. Matsusaka in the future. So, I should improve my English phonetic skills more. (amphibian)