The Sound Segmenting Procedure
Segmenting articulation can be quite challenging on your auditory/spatial memory, as it requires you hold and keep organized multiple pieces in your head.
To help reduce the cognitive load, it’s best to memorize a segmenting procedure that you do the same every time. In this video, I break down the procedure I want you to do for Sound Segmenting.
Later on, you will learn the technique for “Movement Segmenting”.
The Sound Segmenting Procedure
- Whole
- Syllables
- Syllable - phonemes
- Syllables
- Whole
Segmenting by Phoneme
In this exercise, you will review the vowel and consonant word lists to practice segmenting each word. Since you already know one of the sounds, this task is easier than doing random words with different sounds.
Also Segmenting the same phoneme in various contexts will develop a clearer category of that sound/movement in your mind/body. And this will make it much easier for you to associate this category to a symbol later for transcription.
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🇪🇸 Spanish
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🇫🇷 French
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🇩🇪 German
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🇵🇹 Portuguese
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🇧🇷 Brazilian
Segmenting Frequency Words
This activity is the same as the one before, except now you’re segmenting a list of the most commonly used words in your target language. By segmenting these words, you are making it less work for your brain in the future to hear them when they pop up in conversation.
You do NOT have to segment all 200 words. Keep going until it feels easy, then move on to segmenting phrases. Since people blend the words in speech, it’s way more useful to practice segmenting on speech than words. But it’s also more difficult, so this is meant as training wheels for you to ease into the real deal.
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🇪🇸 Spanish
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🇫🇷 French
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🇩🇪 German
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🇵🇹 Portuguese
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