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[VanIslander]

The "lesson" I can hear coming out of a nearby classroom.



That's what's happening to my pronunciation efforts.

[Michelle]

Hey,

Youch - and they wonder what is going wrong.





Michelle

[ilovebdt]

Why don't you bust in there ala Superman and show them how it is really pronounced!

ilovebdt

[tzechuk]

What is peegu?

[The Hierophant]

[cbclark4]

Sometimes you have to understand a little of the Korean speaking pattern.

I had some student that were having a hard time tacking the "s" onto the end of words; Songs, sings, Zebras etc.

So I had them say songsu, singsu zebrasu several times, holding their right arm up in the air, then as they consistantly said those mispronunciations, I had them cut off the "u" by dropping the arm, worked like a charm with huge smiles and everything.

I think I am here to correct these issues with the pronunciation. You just need the tricks and an understanding of the formulation of Korean sounds to get past them.

I really don't have a big problem with the mispronunciations when they have a grasp on a huge vocabulary. I think I can get my student to pronounce correctly, once they get it, they carry it into the rest of their vocabulary. I caught one student correcting anothers pronunciation on the playground today. It's catching on pretty good here.

Something that really helps is having co-teachers in the class, they also start practicing their own pronunciations.

cbc

[kat2]

You have to be careful not to lte them form bad habits, though. Once you learn to say piguh, instead of pig, its really ahrd to go back. One of the music teachers here, has excellent English-tons of idioms, good structure, etc. HOwver, I have a lot of trouble talking to her b/c her accent is awful. Its embarrassing to me and her when I have to get her to write something down that is quite advanced English. I say stop the bad habits and teach them correct phonics early. Its hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

[VanIslander]

[Roch]

[merkurix]

I saw the title of this thread and I thought it was too funny. I can already imagine some little mean Korean kid teasing another chubbier one with his newfound English word. I've seen it.

As far as pronounciation problems, a long time ago I had another student who kept saying: Puh-law-guh! Puh-law-guh! No matter how hard I tried, I couln't get her to pronounce it correctly.








The word was "frog."

[oneofthesarahs]

I have one student named Ryan who uses his English vocabulary solely to insult other students. It's always "Melissa pig! Damian stupid and ugly!" One day he was mocking one of the sweet but nerdy kids and said, "Danny head crazy." Danny, without missing a beat said, "Danny's head IS crazy. Ryan's head has only bad English in it!!"