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Welcome! Elin!
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 has been 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>
Intrigue - phonetic alphabet [ˈin-ˌtrēg]
Your pronunciation was a bit different with its own pronunciation. Please check it with listening to dictionary’s voice record.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrigue]
[B]elow - phonetic alphabet [bi-ˈlō]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/below]
Whenever you pronounce ‘B’, 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 ‘B’ sound explosively.
P[l]ace - phonetic alphabet [ˈplās]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/place]
A way to pronounce Alphabet ‘L’ is as follows. Open your mouth slightly. Let the tip of your tongue touch at the gum of your top teeth. And pronounce ‘L’
[R]elated - phonetic alphabet [ri-ˈlāt]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/related]
Realm – phonetic alphabet [‘realm]
Your pronunciation was a bit different with its own pronunciation
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/realm]
Lo[r]d - phonetic alphabet [ˈlȯrd]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lord]
[R]ule - phonetic alphabet [ˈrül]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rule]
[R]etinue - phonetic alphabet [ˈre-tə-ˌnü]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retinue]
Bi[r]ch - phonetic alphabet [ˈbərch]
Your pronunciation was a bit different with its own pronunciation. Please check it with listening to dictionary’s voice record.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birch]
G[r]ain - phonetic alphabet [ˈgrān]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grain]
‘R’ sound is a bit weak. I would like you to check this matter again for your better English. Especially ‘R’ sound is so challenging both to speak and teach. Particularly, the sound of R is achieved by bringing your tongue up and to the back of the mouth. When the bulk of your tongue placed on the roof of the mouth between the hard palate and the soft palate, voice the sound. ‘R!’
If my explanation is hard to understand, please watch the following seven-minute-ling video clip.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-X_9nVTxE]
[Ph]ilosophy - phonetic alphabet [fə-ˈlä-s(ə-)fē]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/philosophy]
A way to pronounce letter ‘Ph’ is seem equivalent to sound of ‘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’.
[F]lourish - phonetic alphabet [ˈflər-ish, ˈflə-rish]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flourish]
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’.
Di[v]ine - phonetic alphabet [də-ˈvīn]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divine]
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’.
D[w]ell - phonetic alphabet [ˈdwel]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dwell]
[W]ind - phonetic alphabet [ˈwind]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wind]
[W]at[ch] - phonetic alphabet [ˈwäch, ˈwȯch]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/watch]
[W]ish - phonetic alphabet [ˈwish]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wish]
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.
Go[d] - phonetic alphabet [ˈgäd also ˈgȯd]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/god]
Your way of pronouncing Alphabet ‘D’ sounds like ‘ㄷ’. Actually the sound of ‘D’ is between ‘ㅈ’ and ‘ㄷ’. Please keep you pronunciation in check thoroughly.
Ea[r][th] - phonetic alphabet [ˈərth]
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earth]
The way to pronounce ‘TH’ is to put your tongue between your teeth and you voicing ‘ㄷ’ sound. You should keep this in mind speaking not only the word ‘These’, but also ‘This’, ‘Them’, ‘That’, ‘Those’, and so on and so forth.
<Stress>
Emperor - phonetic alphabet [ˈem-pər-ər, -prər]
Please put more stress on ‘Em’ and then ‘-per-’ would sound like ‘ㅃ’. It is the key point to pronounce his word.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emperor]
Minister - phonetic alphabet [ˈmi-nə-stər]
Please put more stress on ‘M’ and then ‘-ni’ would sound like ‘ㅓ’.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minister]
Punishment - phonetic alphabet [ˈpə-nish-mənt]
Please put more stress on ‘P’.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/punishment]
Enlighten - phonetic alphabet [in-ˈlī-tən, en-]
Please put more stress on ‘L’. If you put your stress on ‘l’, ‘-ten’ sound would be much similar to the words such as ‘Mouton’ and ‘Manhattan’
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enlighten]
Earth- phonetic alphabet [ˈərth]
Please put more stress on ‘E’
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earth]
Retinue - phonetic alphabet [ˈre-tə-ˌnü]
Please put more stress on ‘R’
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retinue]
Item - phonetic alphabet [ˈī-ˌtem, ˈī-təm]
Please put more stress on ‘I’
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/item]
<Long Vowel Sound>
Below - phonetic alphabet [bi-ˈlō]
Please voice a long vowel sound after voicing Alphabet ‘l’.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/below]
P[l]ace - phonetic alphabet [ˈplās]
Please voice a long vowel sound after stressing Alphabet ‘P’.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/place]
R[u]le - phonetic alphabet [ˈrül]
Please voice a long vowel sound after stressing Alphabet ‘R’.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rule]
[W]at[ch] - phonetic alphabet [ˈwäch, ˈwȯch]
Please voice a long vowel sound after stressing Alphabet ‘W’.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/watch]
Dis[ea]se - phonetic alphabet [di-ˈzēz]
Please voice a long vowel sound after stressing first Letter ‘S’.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disease]
<Ending Sound>
Clou[d] - phonetic alphabet [ˈklau̇d]
The ending sound ‘d’ was missed.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cloud]
<Intonation>
No audio file existed on our online café. In my humble opinion, there was no noticeable matter.
<Manner>
You looked so calm and stable on the stage. And your announcer-like voice was good enough to make audience focused. I wanted to praise these things.
However unconsciously gesturing your head looked unprofessional and your eye contact was not reliable.
<Mission>
I want you to try giving audience more reliable eye contact with your hands gently placed on your belly. 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,
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