Adastra Speech - Thinking About Speaking
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I’ve been working on the consonant chapter of my book and sometimes it’s difficult to know when to stop going into details. I find it fascinating that English has so many possibilities for pronunciations of what look like simple letters. Today, I’m going to go into details of fi…
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Top 20 These are the top 20 most frequently requested words from my Meetups, "American English Pronunciation Q&A.” There’s one on Mondays and one on Tu…
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It didn’t matter how perfectly that test taker pronounced the word “ladder truck” or how it was used in a grammatically correct way in his sentence, th…
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You may have to learn to breathe differently for different languages to achieve the sound you want to create.
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...and sounds, and words, and meanings - I guess I shouldn’t have regret about not starting my book sooner because I have had time to answer more quest…
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You’re surrounded by speech all the time so why doesn’t it just soak in automatically? You have to know what to pay attention to. Awareness is the firs…
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Someone asked me if I had any tips for listening to someone who speaks with a strong accent. I do! First, everyone has an accent, everyone speaks with …
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The starting point for instruction is always the speech evaluation. The results of the evaluation provide the top speech features to work on prioritize…
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