Commitment- Doorway to Clear English Mastery

  Commitment Doorway 17 to Clear English Mastery Article 17 for series Elements of Clear English Speech Mastery Hey you, nonnative speaker of English, what’ll get you to change to clear, not “What did you say?” English? Key to new learning, new habit is commitment, past and present. First, social bonds to family or school […]

Assessment– Why Bother?

Article 5 English Speech Assessment? Why Bother? How important is assessment for  successful acquisition of clear American English (AE) speaking?  If we didn’t care about efficiency of learning, not important at all.   Your money is worth a lot, but your time is worth even more.  Important is determining  nonnative-born individuals’ pronunciation for the 23 (some […]

Accent Reduction: Top–BESTt–Strategies for How to Learn Accurate Clear English

Accent Reduction: Top–BEST– Strategies for HOW to Learn Accurate, Clear English These are strategies that work for both efficient and quick and also long lasting change: It takes 70 days of practice every day to change habits– in this case, from accented English to clear easy to understand American English.  That is 10 weeks of […]

Three Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Spanish Speakers

Three Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Spanish Speakers  Nearly 20% of Americans speak a different language at home. About 47% of the foreign-born  population are Hispanic. The Latino population has doubled since 1990. Florida is home to the third highest total of Latinos, or 22.8 percent of the state’s population. California and Texas are home […]

How to Figure Out What An Intelligibility Score Really Means

When native U.S. English speakers talk just above a whisper, they measure about 50% intelligibility. What does this mean to you? A score around 50 percent for an international person means that listeners have to strain to understand them. It is about the same as listeners trying to get information from a native speaker talking a […]

Why is Intelligibility Important?

A key question for you is: What do you want for your English speech communication skills? Probably first on your wish list is for people to understand your words. The professional term for that is “intelligibility.” Wikipedia states that intelligibility is a measure of the degree to which speech can be understood. Most important is that you […]