Expert English Pronunciation, Accent Reduction & Fluency
Every English word has its own rhythm and stress pattern. Use these worksheets to record words that have the most difficult stress patterns for you! Stretch a rubber band to help you feel how to lengthen and strengthen the stressed Read More …
During the last two centuries, many phonetic systems were developed by linguists who wanted to document and compare all the language sounds they encountered in their studies of world languages. They aimed for a comprehensive set that would represent every Read More …
I have a theory about this. I’ve been teaching English pronunciation a long time, so questions like this come up, over and over. Here’s my thinking. We know that listening to speech is nothing like reading a written text. They Read More …
If we use our first language sounds, rhythms and tones when we speak the words of another language, this causes “accent”. We often do this without realizing it because we learned those sounds and tones while still in our mothers’ Read More …
If your first language makes a tongue flick or tap on the roof of your mouth for the R sound, then you are going to be working on the sound of R in English. If you already follow my lessons, Read More …
Is it possible to learn phonetics without having learned phonics first? My son has problem with pronouncing English words. I wanna teach him English pronunciation from scratch. Is teaching him phonetics useful? Answer: Yes, it is possible to learn phonetics Read More …
These two sounds, D and TH, differ in location—where they’re made, and in manner—how they’re made. /d/ is created by pressing the blade (front top part) of the tongue up firmly against the roof of your mouth, behind your upper teeth where the alveolar bumps are. Read More …
Proficient bilingual toddlers enjoy greater cognitive benefits that their monolingual peers, a new study reports. Read more here: Switching Between Languages Pays Off for Bilingual Toddlers
How much English vocabulary is still Germanic? Answer by Peggy Tharpe: Found this on the internet…so it must be true. The study, published in 1973, offered this breakdown of sources: Latin, 28.34 percent; French, 28.3 percent; Old and Middle English, Read More …
Here are the ways stressed and unstressed syllables differ in American speech. Duration: stressed syllables are longer; unstressed are shorter. This forms a contrast in duration that is fundamental to native speaking Energy: stressed syllables have more energy or power Read More …