Proficiency?? There’s More to the Story!
Proficiency?? There’s More to the Story. Article 9 The burning question is: How Long Does It Take to Become Proficient for English Speech? Here’s more of the story. Becoming highly proficient in AE (American English) speech communication includes more than skills for accurate pronunciation and enunciation of AE consonant and vowels. But the […]
How Long to Get Proficient English Speech?
How Long to get Proficient English Speech? Deliberate Practice –Article 8 One of the first questions most instructors for American English (AE) get from nonnative-born new students is : “How long is it going to take until I am proficient at speaking English.” That simple question about how long does it take to become proficient […]
K and T English Sounds
We continue our series of recommended sequence for American English consonants and vowels. For practice this is Number 2. Deliberately practice with this video with the intention of getting better. Don’t do this practice in a mindless manner. Just a couple of minutes. This SECOND speech tip is our chosen one for systematic learning. It […]
P and B, Start– or Refresh with These Speech Sounds
Today we begin the series of recommended sequence for consonants and vowels. Deliberate and focused practice is best. Imitation is the easiest way to learn. Watch, listen, and do! Accuracy is everything! This FIRST speech tip is our chosen Number 1 for systematic learning. Brain organizerer is that the Quick speech sounds in English are […]
How Long Does It Take to Become an Elite… in Anything
How Long Does It Take to Become an Elite… in Anything? Popular knowledge says 10,000 hours of practicing the correct way. That was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success in 2008. Popular knowledge talks about years too – 10 years to become an expert. The first to […]
How Long Does It Take to Get Accurate and Clear English Speech?
How Long Does It Take to Get Accurate and Clear English Speech? On average it takes about 70 days of practice every day to change or form a daily life habit (Frothingham, 2019). The range for daily life habits is 18 to 254 days according to a 2009 article in the European Social Psychology […]
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 […]
Pronunciation Tactics or Techniques To Speed Up Learning Clear English Speech
Why you should grow tongue muscle fibers using pronunciation tactics or techniques to most efficiently acquire and maintain clear American English speaking. Understand this: By the time native-born children are 4 to 5 years old, they typically have a 1,500 to 2,200-word expressive vocabulary (Barnes, 2022). They pronounce most sounds correctly but may still have […]
Can Tongue Muscle Exercises Speed up Getting Clear English Speaking?
Can strengthening the tongue’s muscle fibers via tongue muscle strengthening exercise speed up acquisition of clear American English speaking? Muscle strengthening sure does work for other activities which use skeletal muscles. The tongue is a skeletal muscle, with slow and fast twitch muscle fibers. Nowadays, coaches of many sports require their athletes to do muscle […]
Clear Talk Mode and the Task-Dynamic Model of Speech Production
Clear Talk Mode and the Task-dynamic Model of Speech Production Why read this? It’s for people who are a little intense about getting the best out of learning. Does the nature of the speaking task, like the nature of the movement task, change the dynamics of the system? Did you ever do running in a […]