{"id":1891,"date":"2014-01-11T16:46:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1891"},"modified":"2014-01-11T16:46:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:46:50","slug":"dz-and-zd-how-to-cheat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1891","title":{"rendered":"\u00f0z and z\u00f0 (how to cheat)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English can present a learner with some tricky consonant sequences at times. An example is the sequence <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u00f0z<\/span>, as at the end of the word <em>clothes<\/em> for example. \u00a0Resist all temptation to break up the sequence with a vowel, resulting in a pronunciation like <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8kl\u0259\u028a\u00f0\u026az<\/span>! \u00a0If you can&#8217;t manage the sequence, just get rid of the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u00f0<\/span> and say <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">kl\u0259\u028az<\/span>. \u00a0Native speakers do it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The sequence <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">z\u00f0<\/span> is just as tricky. \u00a0What native speakers quite often do is turn this into a long <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">z<\/span> sound. \u00a0So for example the phrase<em> is that<\/em> gets produced as <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026az z\u00e6t<\/span>. \u00a0As long as you don&#8217;t pause at the end of the first word, you can get away with this too. \u00a0But don&#8217;t say <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026a\u00f0 \u00f0\u00e6t<\/span> instead.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2014_01_11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English can present a learner with some tricky consonant sequences at times. An example is the sequence \u00f0z, as at the end of the word clothes for example. \u00a0Resist all temptation to break up the sequence with a vowel, resulting in a pronunciation like \u02c8kl\u0259\u028a\u00f0\u026az! \u00a0If you can&#8217;t manage the sequence, just get rid of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":100,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1891\/revisions\/1893"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}