On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:15:05 Caio Rossi wrote:
>I think it is! I speak Portuguese and we practically have the same >vowels that you have ( if we don't count their nasal variations ), >but it's a popular assumption that we have only 5 vowels. Even >teachers in junior high say that. > >It's hard for most people to understand the difference between the >alphabet, the sounds AND the phonetic symbols. And 'semi-vowels' are >Greek philosophy to most people. I agree, in Italy it's the same (perhaps more).
>That must not be as strong in English-speaking countries, since >they're necessarily aware of the difference between pronunciation >and spelling. It's not the same in our languages: as the spelling of >a word is much closer to its pronunciation ( much more in Italian >than in Portuguese, and, due to our Italian colonization, much more >in Sco Paulo than in the rest of Brazil or in Portugal ), we can >learn to read without caring so much about spellling. >We have nothing similar to those Spelling Bee contests Americans >have, and I guess Italy doesn't either ( you must have "Guess that >Dialect", hehehe ). >Our problems here are graphic signs, something that Italians have >basically gotten rid of, but must have given you a problem to >determine where the stressed syllable of an rarely-spoken word lies. >Am I right? Yes, I think you are right!
But, I think that when someone is learning singing should better take into consideration ALL vowels he/she is going to use in his singing. When I take lessons, my teacher makes me vocalize on /a/,/e/,/i/,/O/,/u/. One day, some time ago, I began thinking: "But we are forgetting /E/ and /o/. In songs they are present, and so I need to sing them. And, not including them in vocalizings, I lack exercise".
Another thing I'd like to know is: when you repeat an exercise on "all" vowels, do you follow a particular order? There is some reason to put vowels in order? Perhaps something about phonation...
Again, with my teacher I follow the order a,e,i,o,u, but I think even this depends only from that popular assumption. Now that I think to it, with my speech therapist I don't follow this order, I want to ask her something about it (I don't know if she has another order or no-order).
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