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02/08/2023

Speak with confidence 🔊🔊 find out why clear and beautiful, professional speech matters, and share your reasons below. 👇🏻👇🏻

Cheers 🥂 to warm holiday memories!!
12/24/2022

Cheers 🥂 to warm holiday memories!!

12/18/2022

👋Time to say goodbye to those embarrassing mispronunciation and hello to clear, confident English speaking! Get your 30% 🎁holiday discount now!

The summer grassis all that remainsof a soldiers’s dreamMatsuo Basho 1689
03/04/2022

The summer grass
is all that remains
of a soldiers’s dream
Matsuo Basho 1689

American English “Short O” is NOT pronounced like the conventional Russian, French or Spanish O.💡It sounds more like an ...
02/10/2022

American English “Short O” is NOT pronounced like the conventional Russian, French or Spanish O.

💡It sounds more like an “Ah” as the letter “a” in the word “mama”👩‍👧

I often quote Manfred Spitzer who is a german neuroscientist who studied the brain and how we learn. He makes this point...
02/08/2022

I often quote Manfred Spitzer who is a german neuroscientist who studied the brain and how we learn.

He makes this point which I think is so important in learning pronunciation.
🧠The brain requires repetition and novelty.

You can’t just fead the brain the same stuff, over and over again, because the efficiency declines quite quickly.
But you do need repetition to learn, so your neurones fire 🔥 together.
However you do it, you have to provide your brain with new things, interesting things, NOVELTY.

✴️That can be different books covering the same material it can be different teachers, different content, different learning activities but you do need the REPETITION.
📸 🙌

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02/05/2022

🗣🙊Articulation focuses on pronunciation and talking.

I stumbled upon this video where you can see how the sounds are produced in your mouth.
Everyday speech has become very lax and casual – it’s not out of the ordinary to use slang words and misarticulate phrases like want to (wanna) or don’t know (dunno).

However, articulation is incredibly important during a speech delivery.

👩🏻‍🎓I always try to remind my students that their speeches don’t come with subtitles 😬

An audience doesn’t have a pause button⏸
They cannot rewind and play back a speech for clarity.

‼️That’s why it’s so important to articulate every word as clearly as possible – your voice is the channel for your message.  

🎥The video is world's first high fidelity animation of the human speech organs by Speech Graphics.

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🤔💭What is the best way to get your thoughts in the right order? 📚👀Reading, of course! Thistable will not only help you t...
02/03/2022

🤔💭What is the best way to get your thoughts in the right order?

📚👀Reading, of course! This
table will not only help you to organize your thoughts but to organize the words in your English sentences too 🎀
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Tuesday February 1 marks the Lunar New Year for 2022 🐅- celebrated in China, East Asia and across the world. 🥂So Happy C...
02/01/2022

Tuesday February 1 marks the Lunar New Year for 2022 🐅- celebrated in China, East Asia and across the world.

🥂So Happy Chinese New year everyone!!!

🎼The Chinese language sounds very beautiful to me. I started to learn Mandarin a couple of years ago and I was impressed with how much importance they give to learn Proper Pronunciation FROM THE START.

🚨Tones are crucial in understanding one another in context. They can instantly turn your kindness into a misunderstood assault 😰of words or make a deep thought sound like you never went to school 🤪

Practicing your tones is the greatest foundation you can lay for solid Chinese pronunciation.

How old is the English alphabet?Before we get to the history of specific letters, let’s talk a bit about Old English. En...
11/30/2021

How old is the English alphabet?

Before we get to the history of specific letters, let’s talk a bit about Old English. English was first written in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc runic alphabet, also known as Anglo-Saxon.
English has always been a living language, changing and evolving with use. But before our modern alphabet was established, the language used many more characters we’ve since removed from 26-letter lineup.

☠️The six that most recently got axed are:

Eth (ð)
The y in « YE » actually comes from the letter eth, which slowly merged with « Y » over time. In its purest form, eth was pronounced like the TH sound in words like this, that, or the. Linguistically, « YE » is meant to sound the same as THE but the incorrect spelling and rampant mispronunciation live on.😜

Thorn (þ)
Thorn is in many ways the counterpart to « ETH ». Thorn is also pronounced with a « TH » sound, but it has a voiceless pronunciation—your vocal cords don’t vibrate when pronouncing the sound—like in thing or thought.

Wynn (ƿ)
Wynn was incorporated into the English alphabet to represent today’s « W » sound. Previously, scribes used two « UU » characters next to each other, but preferred one character instead and chose « WYNN » from the runic alphabet. The double u representation became quite popular and eventually edged wynn out. Ouch.😬

Yogh (ȝ)
Yogh was historically used to denote throaty sounds like those in Bach or the Scottish loch. As English evolved, yogh was quickly abandoned in favor of the gh combo. Today, the sound is fairly rare. Most often, the gh substitute is completely silent, as in though or daughter.

Ash (æ)
Ash is still a functional letter in languages like Icelandic and Danish. In its original Latin, it denoted a certain type of long vowel sound, like the « I » in Fine. In Old English, it represented a short vowel sound—somewhere between A and E, like in CAT.

Ethel (œ)
Ethel also once represented a specific pronunciation somewhere between the two vowels O and E, though it was originally pronounced like the « OI » in Coil.

This post originally appeared at OMG Facts

I am a devoted podcast listener. They are a great learning tool. You can listen to shows about history, engineering, phi...
11/25/2021

I am a devoted podcast listener.
They are a great learning tool. You can listen to shows about history, engineering, philosophy and, as you can guess, language.
How exactly you use podcasts is up to you — whether it’s reinforcing your existing language skills or using them to pick up new grammar and vocab — but here are some tips to help you along your way.

💡Use Podcasts That Focus On Learning

💡Slow It On Down

💡Focus On What You’re Listening To

💡Keep A Notebook For New Vocabulary

💡Check The Transcripts

Here are some of my favourites:

🎙Lex Fridman Podcast

🎙Huberman Lab

🎙The portal

🎙Hardcore History

🎙Bookademy

🎙Сережа и микрофон

Let’s all share a podcast that had an impact on you or helped you get through a rough time in your life?

10/28/2021

What daily goals do you set for yourself?

If we only focus on our big goal it seems so far out of reach.
That’s why setting mini goals or daily goals is KEY 🔑 and you should celebrate those goals.
If we feel like we’re making progress each day, even in baby steps, we will succeed 🤩

Improve your pronunciation by:
🗝 Repeating words that challenge you
🗝 Making a schedule of 5 min a day to record and listen to yourself.
🗝 Hire a coach to help you through your roadblocks.

💌DM me your most challenging word 🤐to receive feedback 💫 in ways to help you reach your pronunciation potential!

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