Expert English Pronunciation, Accent Reduction & Fluency
If my pronunciation students have iphones or ipads, I recommend they try out Otterwave, available in the Itunes Store (it’s not free). Although the app has a British flag on it, it uses American pronunciation models. Otterwave provides a feedback loop Read More …
For Arabic speakers, the pronunciation of these 3 words can be confounding. It is a place where the Arabic vowel system and the English vowel system do not match up. I use a multi-step approach to help sort out their sounds. Read More …
You can’t teach what you don’t know. And as native speakers, we don’t have to “know” much about our L1 to be able to use it, do we? I learned about intonation by studying whatever I could find. As with Read More …
Want to hear what English accents sound like in Belfast, London, Ontario, Alabama, Singapore, Delhi and lots of other places? At soundcomparisons.com you’ll hear the same word spoken with many, many accents. It’s amazing that we can understand each other! The great thing Read More …
Just being silly! Are you correcting my grammar right now/ Do you yearn to capitalize that lowercase t in the title? Are you having one of those days, when you wish you had some kind of control over something?!?!?!?!? Print the button Read More …
I’ve been playing with different software, looking for good tools that help English learners and practitioners improve their pronunciation. Today’s post is about SoundCloud. I found the following clip on SoundCloud, put up there by someone else, and it’s the Read More …
Today a client encountered an unfamiliar word ending in -ture; I think it was overture. So we had a brief review of the pronunciation of this end syllable. It can be part of a noun, as in the word nature, or Read More …
Watch Henri the cat’s hilarious existential video, discuss the vocabulary, converse on the topics of New Wave dark films, French cinema, dark or black humor, how cultural humor differs, how cultures perceive their pets, parodies, and puns (pas de deux), Read More …
I just found a GREAT way to see what kind of materials, books, and publications are out there, and who you can borrow them from! Type in your topic, and up pops everything the World Catalog could find in library Read More …