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 – Get the Syllable Accent Stress Rules for French-Latin Suffixes
Accent Reduction – Get the Syllable Accent Stress Rules for French-Latin Suffixes I like finding the patterns in English pronunciation. Based on academic learning and experience, I’ve learned that about everything has a pattern. I’ve been looking for the pattern for syllable accent stress when suffixes are added to English words for quite some time. […]
Accent Reduction – Finally- the Keys to Suffixes and Syllable Accent Stress (Germanic vs French-Latin suffix rules)
Accent Reduction – Finally- the Keys to Suffixes and Syllable Accent Stress (Germanic vs French-Latin suffix rules) Have you ever wondered why when you add a suffix onto a root word, sometimes the syllable accent stress stays on the same syllable as the root word and sometimes it moves to the syllable next to the […]
Accent Reduction- Get Inspired to Master These English Speech Sounds
Accent Reduction- Get Inspired to Master These English Speech Sounds Here is some information about the English language which will give you inspiration for mastering particular sounds: The most frequently spoken consonant is “n.” The “e” is the most commonly used letter in the English language. Furthermore, as many as one in eight of all […]
Tips for Teleconferencing
Tips for Teleconferencing Use emotion in your voice. Emphasize emotion so you don’t speak in a flat tone. Use metaphors and similes to create word pictures for others. Rerun from 07/28/2014
Accent Reduction: Why Your English Speech is Difficult to Understand Even Though You Live in an English Speaking Country
Accent Reduction: Why Your English Speech is Difficult to Understand Even Though You Live in an English Speaking Country What you are saying: “I have been trying my best to improve my English. I went to an ESL class and I had a private English tutor about four times. I couldn’t succeed. I think […]
Three of the Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Indian Speakers
Three of the Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Indian Speakers In India, about 10 percent of the population are English speakers. Of these, 226,449 speak English as a first language, while 125,000,000 speak English as an additional language. About 4 percent of the population consider themselves fluent Our Indian students live in: Boulder […]
Three of the Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Chinese Speakers
Three of the Most Commonly Mispronounced English Sounds for Chinese Speakers In Asia, the number of English-users has surpassed 350 million, equal to the number of people who live in countries where English is the dominant language: the United States, Britain and Canada. More Chinese children now study English — about 100 million — than there are Britons. […]
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 […]
Getting the American Accent : “Never Say Never”
And this from Raul, on Facebook Hi Antonia,Would you please do a video and use as a topic “never say never”. I believe the majority of us think we are not going to go further into learning clear English speech. However, life pushes us to take more instruction and classes on this subject. Our jobs demand more […]