Welcome! Belle!
I am honor to have you in my Monday Euphony Presentation Class. May the blue ram bring you peace, prosperity, happiness, and a good command of English!
Ahead of reading my comments, I would like to explain the purpose of this class. It is expressly designed for checking each person’s presentation manner on the stage. On Mondays, presenters would convey what they had memorized during a week. Keeping gestures, pronunciation, stress and chunk between words in check will come to a quantum leap of your English Presentation Skill. Let me allow check out these matters.
<Pronunciation>
Before let us see what mistakes you made, I want to praise you, Belle. I was possessed by your awe-inspiringly excellent presentation. Only a few mispronounces are unnoticeably found.
Li[f]e - phonetic alphabet ‘ˈlīf’
For pronouncing Alphabet ‘F’, your jaw is in need of opening nearly closed. The upper side of your bottom lip is pressed a bit strong by the bottom of the top teeth. And then you need to push air out of your mouth between the top teeth and your lips bitten by the top teeth, voicing ‘F’.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life]
Stri[v]e - phonetic alphabet ‘ˈstrīv’
Your overall ‘V’ sound is week. Though you were good enough on the stage, I would like to check on this matter.
The way to pronounce ‘V’ is much similar to ‘F’. For pronouncing Alphabet ‘V’, your jaw is in need of opening nearly closed. The upper side of your bottom lip is pressed a bit strong by the bottom of the top teeth. And then you need to push air out of your mouth between the top teeth and your lips bitten by the top teeth, voicing ‘v’.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strive]
[P]osition - phonetic alphabet ‘pə-ˈzi-shən’
Your pronunciation of the word ‘Position’ was good enough. Pointing out your ‘P’ sound as a problem would be overshooting the mark, I know. But as a euphonic point of view, I want to help you to improve your pronunciation better than now. Your ‘P’ sound is a bit week.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/position]
Whenever you pronounce ‘P’, make it sure that you should build up pressure in your mouth by trying to exhale keeping your lips together. After that you need an explosive action to exhale and voice ‘P’ sound.
Though the following video clip is going to explain the differences between the sound of ‘P’ and ‘F, it is enough to teach you how to make an explosive action.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhdPywS1H1o]
[W]indow - phonetic alphabet ‘ˈwin-(ˌ)dō’
Please make sure that pronouncing Alphabet ‘W’ need the following steps. Please make the lips narrow as like O-shape. Close to each other without the lips touching. Then move the lips and mouth further apart when you voice ‘W’ sound.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/window]
Virtuous - phonetic alphabet ‘ˈvər-chə-wəs, ˈvərch-wəs’
It sounded like virturous. In the middle of your pronouncing ‘Virtuous’ you unintentionally put ‘R’. Please check it by listening to following sound file.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/virtuos]
<Long Vowel Sound & Stress >
[W]ooden - phonetic alphabet ‘ˈwu̇-dən’
Please put more stress on ‘W’ and then voice a long vowel sound.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/please]
<Ending Sound>
No ending sound was missed. Good job!
<Intonation>
Your overall intonation was quiet similar to the audio file. Excellent!
<Manner>
You look so calm and stable while delivering your presentation. What with stunning smile on your face came audience’s full attention. But eye contact was not reliable sometimes. And shaking your crossed hands also worked to the audiences in the same way.
<Mission>
I want you to try giving audience more reliable eye contact. That is all. Let us check on this matter on upcoming Monday.
What better way is there to enhance your English in a short time than to attend Euphony Classes, especially Monday Class? Please be on the stage on upcoming Monday. Thank you so much.