Try Using These Super Current Phrases
Speech Tip for today, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020 on website www.ClearTalkMastery.com Okayyyy. Speech tip today is your using words and phrases which caught my ear in the last several weeks on media. I love these words and phrases. For those of you trying to improve your English speech enunciation or pronunciation, each of these has […]
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 […]
Accent Reduction – Why Does English have 2 or 3 Words for the Same Thing
Blog published 08062020 | By Dr. Antonia Johnson Accent Reduction – Why Does English have 2 or 3 Words for the Same Thing Have you ever wondered why English often has two or three words for the same thing?. These different words allow us to express ideas with different degrees of formality. For example “help” is an English […]
Strong Verbs
Strong Verbs Do you want to make your communication direct and to the point? Consider using those verbs that describe movements of the human body. These are great substitutions for abstract verbs. Here’s a list for you: bear, blow, break, bring, call, carry, cast, catch, come, cut, do draw, drive drop, fall, get, give go, […]
SUFFIX “Y” — Soooo Useful!
BLOG for Saturday, June 13, 2020 TITLE: Suffix “Y” – So USEFUL! To speak clear and accurate English for unfamiliar multiple syllable words, first you need to divide the unfamiliar word into syllables. There are eight rules to do that. Most important is to look for the prefixes and suffixes first. Many English words end […]
Accent Reduction – The History & Backstory to English’s Wonderful Triplets and Doublets
Accent Reduction – The History & Backstory to English’s Wonderful Triplets and Doublets Have you ever wondered why English has so many words that come from other languages? Have you ever wondered why English has words – often two or three- for the same thing. These triplets and doublets allow us to express ideas with […]
English Speaking Skills: Come and Get It: Memorable Colloquial Phrases From All Sections of Newspapers
English Speaking Skills: Come and Get It: Memorable Colloquial Phrases From All Sections of Newspapers Don’t you love it when something you enjoy has an additional benefit? It’s like “Buy one, get one free” or BOGO as our media likes to call it. I love to read newspapers. Now colloquial phrases leap out at me […]
English Speaking Skills: For Sure Current Colloquial Phrases
English Speaking Skills: For Sure Current Colloquial Phrases Students have asked me every year for some current good colloquial phrases. I haven’t been able to provide them easily. Getting them from current popular media of movies and television shows would mean hours of viewing with the specific purpose of directly listening for them and writing […]
English Speaking Skills: Finally! An Awesome Way to Find Excellent Colloquial Phrases
English Speaking Skills: Finally! An Awesome Way to Find Excellent Colloquial Phrases How to make your English speech – spoken or written—more interesting? It’ s easy: Use current colloquial phrases. The problem is knowing which ones to use. Books are written in every decade of the last half-century about colloquialisms and what they mean and […]