Crestomatía para la práctica fonética

Leer en voz alta es una práctica eficaz que conduce a ejercitar las complejas técnicas de la pronunciación inglesa.

Trata de leer, de declamar, estos textos como si fueses el político, el actor, el conferenciante, ante un público que te escucha y que debe entenderte, con sentimiento, con el ritmo y cadencia apropiados. Con cierta lentitud, saboreando los sonidos, con un estilo relajado y normal. Esto te ayudará a modular la voz, a vocalizar bien, a emitir sonidos de manera clara.

La clave de la comunicación es hablar bien, eficazmente y con buena enunciación y dicción.. Expresarse bien está ligado al éxito en la vida y es la piedra angular de las relaciones entre personas y en la sociedad en general.

Podemos practicar los sonidos leyendo, declamando, los siguientes ejemplos, despacio, poniendo énfasis en los fonemas, disfrutando de ellos. También se pueden escuchar en internet.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way –

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate –we can not consecrate – we can not hallow –this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address,
November 19, 1863