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Hey guys and gals! Depends on the students, but I don't get much into terminology in class beyond "noun, verb, subject, object, adjective, adverb" and some useful verb vocabulary such as "future, continuous, perfect, auxilary...." Sometimes the terms used by my students are misleading. For example, ...

Hey there! Two points on Actors and their pronunciation. In the first place, those actors mentioned, as well as all actors, go through voice training, where they learn to interpret, pronounce, change accents, project etc. Thus, their voice is an instrument that they use in their art, and probably us...

Hey there! And she just might be right, in her "book" such things would not be "proper English" unless they were included in dialogues between characters with a specific dialect. However, as all seem to agree, that teacher will be doing a great disservice to her students in teaching them to pronounc...

Hey there! This “r” “l” thing among Asians is a curious phenomena….how is it that the Japanese and Chinese always make the switch over between these two sounds? But I mean always, they never fail to change the l for the r. Is it really them making the mistake? I wanted to share a discovery I made wi...

Here we have the end of the theory and a transition to the practice. My name is not revel. I have an odd name that is particularly difficult for Spanish people to pronounce. Instead of saying “nice to meet you”, I usually hear “oh, that’s a difficult name to say, does it have a translation to Spanis...

Here we get into the nitty-gritty of pronunciation. Let’s first remember that communication is usually not done with individual words. If I enter a room and say “Hello”, yes, I am communicating. The same would be true of “Goodbye”. Words like “yes” or “no” or “you” or “me” also serve as complete utt...

It must be noted that millions of people speak English every day and manage to understand and make themselves be understood. Not all of those English speakers are native speakers and among the native speakers there are thousands of ways of using the language. Any student of English should understand...

Hey everyone. A lot of people have questions about teaching (or learning) pronunciation. I don't have all of the answers, and pronunciation is pretty difficult to teach through a message board, but I did want to offer, especially to teachers, some notes concerning the implementation of pronunciation...