Impress Your Friends and The Best Reason to Master a Perfect “Th”
Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020 This is Blog #192: Impress Your Friends and The Best Reason To Master a Perfect “Th” In the preceding Blog #191 on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 I listed the 100 most frequently written words in English from the Oxford English Corpus (OEC) from 2013 from counting from 2 billion words from […]
100 Most Common English Words – And What To Do With Them -Yay!
BLOG #191 Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 100 Most Common English Words– And What to Do With Them- Yay In this blog you will find a list of the 100 Most Common English words. Studies that estimate and rank these look at written texts. This list comes from the Oxford English Corpus (OEC) from 2 […]
When do you emphasize the syllable with the root word?
Website Speech Tip FOR Tuesday, AUGUST 25, 2020 Do you want to understand why sometimes you are supposed to put the word syllable accent or stress on the same syllable as the root word and sometimes you are not supposed to ? English Pronunciation: Have you ever wondered why when you add a suffix onto […]
English Speech Pronunciation: How to Say Words Ending in Y, LY, Ful
Published August 24, 2020 by Dr. Antonia Lawrence Johnson and Clear Talk Mastery, Inc. English Speech Pronunciation- How to Say Words Ending in Y, Ly, and FUL- Inherited from German Have you ever wondered why when you add a suffix, that little syllable at the end of word, sometimes the word syllable accent stress stays […]
English Speaking Training: Why Some English Words Have Strange Spelling –Etymological Spelling
Blog # 179 for Wed. Aug. 12, 2020 English Speaking Training: Why Some English Words Have Strange Spelling –Etymological Spelling Did you ever wonder why some words in English have such strange spelling? The strange spelling gets in the way of accurate English pronunciation. For most English words, maybe up to 70 to 75%, you […]
Feeling stuck? Are you bothered by some speech sounds which are not accurate American English?
SPEECH TIP for Saturday, August 01, 2020 Feeling Stuck? Are you bothered or annoyed by some speech sounds which are not accurate American English? Of all the things you can do now to make those sounds accurate, what should you concentrate on? The answer is muscles and coordination of muscles. These are the mouth muscles […]
Feeling Stuck? Is your English pronunciation accuracy the same as 1 year ago? 2? 3? 5? 11? 17?
Blog #177 for Sat. Aug. 01, 2020 Feeling Stuck? Sooo, think about it? Is your English pronunciation accuracy the same as 1 year ago, or 2, or 3 or? ?? Think back to the last time you took a class to improve your English speech pronunciation. Are you the same now? The same can be […]
What is the secret to fixing the problem of consonants at the ends of words which are hard to hear?
Speech tip on website for Sunday, July 26, 2020 What is the secret to fixing the problem of consonants at the ends of words which are hard to hear? 3 secrets Make the muscles in the mouth you need for those sounds stiff and hard. Pronounce quick consonants quickly and slow consonants slowly. Make the […]
Of All the Things You Can Do to Get Clear English, What Are the Most Important?
BLOG # 176 for Saturday, July 25, 2020 Date of blog: Saturday, July 25, 2020 Title of blog: Of All the Things You Can Do to Get Clear English, What Are the Most Important? Of all the things you can do to get clear English, what are the most important? Let’s talk muscles. You need […]
Prevent Speech Mistakes
Title: PREVENT SPEECH MISTAKES. For the speech tip for today, Thursday, July 16, 2020 –What can you do to prevent making a speech pronunciation mistake? This advice helps all our coached and subscription student learners. It can help you now. It is exactly what native-born North American English speakers do. When you realize you […]