Welcome! A Little Chubby Claus!
I am honor to
have you in my Monday Euphony Presentation Class. May the year of blue ram
bring you peace, prosperity, happiness, and a good command of English!
Ahead of beginning
my comments, I would like to explain the purpose of this class. It was
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 comes to
a quantum leap of your English Presentation Skill. Let me allow check out these
matters.
<Pronunciation>
Please imitate each word by listening to voice records on the
following site.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary]
Se[j]ong, [J]apanese
The /j/ sound is made with the exact same mouth positioning as the
/ch/ sound, but the /j/ sound is voiced. A following video clip would let you
know how to pronounce ‘J’
As an English leaner, I strongly recommend you to follow each pronunciation
in any audio file though the word was driven by Korean Language. When you read
Korean Language in English way, you might come to know how to pronounce Each
Alphabet. I hope you to keep this in mind.
Bo[r]n, [R]eplace, [R]ebell, A[r]ray
‘R’ sound is a bit weak. 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!’
[Th]ird, [Th]rone
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.
[L]oot
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’
[Q]ueen
For having your
pronunciation enhance, I would like you to check your shape of mouth by the
time of voicing ‘Q’ sound. Making your lips round (O-shape) is best way to pronounce
‘Q’ exactly. And its phonic sound maybe heard like ‘Qwuh’. Listening to
pronunciations of ‘Queen, Equal, and Quality’ would be helpful to understand
this.
Inaugurate, A[p]ril, Ensh[ri]ne, Es[ta]blish, Mar[ch], Syst[e]m,
Turb[u]lent
Above word
pronounced by you was a little bit different with what I had listened to voice
records in online dictionary. Please check on these matters. Especially the
alphabet that I stressed with square brackets
<Long Vowel Sound & Stress>
Period - phonetic alphabet /ˈpir-ē-əd/
You have to put more stress on Alphabet ‘P’, and then make a long vowel sound of ‘ē’
Series- phonetic alphabet / ˈsir-(ˌ)ēz/
You have to put more stress on Alphabet ‘S’, and then make a long vowel sound of ‘ē’
Establish - phonetic alphabet /i-ˈsta-blish/
You have to put more stress on Alphabet ‘S’.
<Ending Sound>
Spann[ed]
Ending sound was missed.
<Intonation>
Your overall
intonation was similar to the audio file. However, you would better listen to
its audio file more.
<Manner>
Your tender and deep voice was enough to hook us. You looked
stable and confident on the stage. However when delivering some part you felt
hard to recite, your body was twisted and tilted as if you had obstacles to try
pouring your words into us
<Mission>
This week’s
mission is making ‘L’ sound correctly. Let us cheek on it om the upcoming
stage.
The song I like
the most is ‘Fate’ sang by Korean singer Lee Sun Hee. In the lyrics, the song
defined the meaning of word ‘Fate’ as follows.
< This is what we call “Fate”. It is something we cannot
deny. >
I had thought
that the fate between you and I is something we cannot deny.
And
the next part of that song’s lyrics goes like that.
< Will I ever experience a beautiful day like this again
in my life? You are a gift on this exhausting path of my life. >
I had adamantly
believed that you are moonlight that can light up the exhausting path of my
Moojok life.
The song ended
with these lyrics, singing.
< I
will always wash and shine this love so that it would not rust away. >
As a Euphony
assistant I will invariably wash and shine your way to the top of this academy
as I had left comment on your video clip. 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 Mondays. Thanks a ton!
첫댓글 Thank you for advice! Din~
Thank you for being a student in Monday Euphony Class!