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B and CH for “Beach” For Fast and Easy Learning Using Human Brain Info

B and CH for “Beach” For Fast and Easy Learning Using Human Brain Info This is Number 5 in our series of recommended sequence for fast, easy mastery of American English speech sounds.  The directed instruction is for English consonants B, CH and the word “beach”. Your brain organizes the production of speech by phonetic […]

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 […]

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 […]

Intro to the 15 Dimension for Acquiring Clear North American English

Why would you want to read this article?  It’s for people who are a little intense about getting the best out of learning.  Article One: Intro to the15 Dimensions for Acquiring Clear Talk Methodology of Clear Talk Mastery Courses Physics has its M string theory, with eleven dimensions – the explanation and theory behind all […]

Accent reduction: Key Skill- Get the Vowels

Accent reduction: Key Skill – Get the Vowels Have you noticed that people are most likely to say to you “What?”  “What did you say?” after you have said a multiple syllable word? Critical information for multiple syllable words– each syllable has a meaning and there are 14 vowel sounds (some people say 17) for […]

“N” Most Frequent Consonant- Do Vocal Strength Exercise

The consonant “n” is the most frequent consonant in English. Recall all those prefixes and especially suffixes— en, an, in, ment, tion, sion, cian, etc. American positioning of the tongue for “n” requires muscle stiffness of the tip of the tongue, and extending the voicing at the vocal folds and speech volume are all critical. […]

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 […]

Get “s” and “z” for Grammar “s”

Surprising but true, along with “r” and “l” pronunciation, “s” is most difficult for native-born children in North America. It’s critical for grammar for plurals, subject- verb agreement (“I sit” but “she sits”) and for possessive (“The house belongs to Sam” and “Sam’s house.” Added to the pronunciation difficulty is that “Grammar s” is always […]

Impress Your Friends and Colleagues and the Best Reason to Master the “N”

Date: Feb. 4, 2021 Title: Impress Your Friends and Colleagues and the Best Reason to Master the “N” In the preceding blog in Dec. 2020, you learned “How to impress your friends and the best reason to master the “Th”. Now get this “Impress your friends and colleagues and the best reason to master the […]

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 […]