Month: April 2015

Judy Thompson’s interesting Venn diagram showing the mismatch between English’ Latin-based script system, and English’ phonetic sound system. Our poor students!

  Teach Pronunciation? Dump the IPA! Get Judy Tompson’s truly ingenious, highly practical, totally student friendly EPA for teaching the sounds of English, free on her website.Click to Download Source: EPA Vowel Color Chart | Thompson Language Center

One of the reasons it sounds different when you hear someone speaking a different language is because the actual sounds they use are different; they have a sound code that’s specific to that language Source: How bilinguals switch between languages Read More …

When presented with English words containing either of these sounds, brain imaging studies show that only a single region of a Japanese speaker’s brain is activated, whereas in English speakers, two different areas of activation show up, one for each Read More …

Source: English Laboratory | Thinking and Dreaming in English  

Click on the image to view the video and see how Peggy helps students master the pronunciation of initial and final R sounds in English.