Transcript I`d like to present

Useful presentation phrases
&
Common pronunciation errors
Heeyeul Kwon
December 16th, 2014
English Seminar
Technology Management Lab
Department of Industrial Engineering
Seoul National University
Introducing the topic
 I’ll be speaking about the techniques of data mining
 I’m going to give a talk on several important mechanisms of data mining
 I’d like to talk to you about the applications of data mining in medical industry
 I’d like to present recent development of new data mining techniques
 I’d like to review serious aspects of recent accidents in mining industry
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Getting into the details
 Well then, what is data mining? Let’s begin with that.
 To begin with, I’d like to point out some of the problems of data mining techniques.
 I’d like to start with a discussion of data mining
 Let me begin by explaining what I meant by preprocessing
 First of all, I think it would be better to start out by making several comments on the present
business environment.
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Why Koreans are making English pronunciation errors
1.Different phonetic spectrum
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Certain sounds do not exist in Korean
2.Weak variation in prosody
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Monotonous
3.Segmental sound
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Korean character = one syllable
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Different Phonetic Spectrum
1. Consonants (1/2)
Missing
R
F
V
TH
Z
SH
Alternative
L
P, Wh
B
S, D, T
J, G
S
 Examples
Original words/phrases
Mispronounced words/phrases
reaction / reference
leaction / leference
“Brown rice please”
“Brown lice please”
phenomenon / feature
penomenon / peature
“Add me on Facebook”
“Add me on Pacebook”
value / various
balue / barious
“I can’t hear your voice”
“I can’t hear your boice”
thought / theory
tought / seory
“Think before you speak”
“Sink before you speak”
zoom / Zach
joom / Jack
“Zero coke please”
“Jero coke please”
shelf / seashell
self / seasell
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Different Phonetic Spectrum
1. Consonants (2/2)
 Examples
th sound
t or d sound
z sound
s sound
weather
wetter
zoo
Sue
there
tear
zip
sip
three
tree
buzz
bus
than
tan
prize
price
those
toes
zeal
seal
thick
tick
maze
mace
thank
tank
eyes
ice
thin
tin
rise
rice
then
ten
advise
advice
with
wit
raise
race
leather
letter
his
hiss
path
pat
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Different Phonetic Spectrum
2. Vowels
- e and ae
 Examples
e sound
ae sound
pen
pan
men
man
said
sad
Original
words/phrases
Mispronounced
words/phrases
beg
bag
“He’s the bad guy”
“He is the bed guy”
left
laughed
“You are so dead”
“You are so dad”
dead
dad
bet
bat
Ben
ban
HyPOthesis vs. HyPOtheses
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