Personalised Language Coaching
Is proper pronunciation important?
It really is, and here
is why. This is one area where a small investment
can give a big return.
I provide online accent reduction courses. To do so, I use
phonetic text to ensure the process is as clear and
cost-effective as possible.
This is how we do it:
- Review all the sounds of English with you and make sure that you can correctly pronounce and recognise all of them.
- Practice putting the sounds together with the proper stress and make sure that you can do that correctly too.
- Learn to accurately pronounce a range of everyday phrases.
Resources that I use for this can be found here (free
downloads)
To book a free getting-started session or a paid
learning-lesson on-line, click here.
Simon Vickers
Background
Speech consists of a set of sounds used to communicate ideas. It
works because the sounds are standardized, a bit like Morse code or the HTML code used to make this website.Mainstream American and British English speech uses a
particular set of sounds, and other languages use other ones.
Students of English need to be taught to pronounce the right
sounds of English in the right way so that the average native
speaker can understand them clearly.
Phonetic text offers a clear and logical method for learning
the sounds of English with ways of assessing skills and
identifying where improvement should be made, objectively.
Phonics does not, as it uses illogical conventional spelling.
I use phonetic text to make everything straightforward.
So here is what I propose to improve your spoken English in a
webcam work session:
- go through the list of the sounds of mainstream British and American speech together,
- see which of the sounds you have difficulty with,
- establish which of the documents I use for teaching would
suit you best and agree on a personal study programme.
Please have a look through this website to understand the
how, what and why of my method (click "Back to homepage" at
the top of this page).