Welcome! Intellectually Competent John!
I am pleased to
have you in my Monday Euphony Presentation Class. 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.
In your Moojuk history,
not a day goes by without delivering presentations on the stage, not a week
goes by without being on the stage, especially in my class. All your blood and
sweat for having your English skill improved soon pay off. And this will become
a driving force to get ahead in your lifetime in not only Moojuk, but also in
your department.
<Pronunciation>
Please imitate each word by listening to voice records on the
following site.
[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary]
From this momentum on, I am going to
explain how to pronounce each word, more than how to make each alphabet sound
correctly.
Koryo
Korean Alphabet
As an English leaner, I strongly recommend you to follow each pronunciation
in any audio file through 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.
Ide[o]l[o]gy
The alphabets ‘O’ should
sounds like ‘ㅓ’, not
‘ㅗ’.
[A]d[o]pt
The first alphabet in
this word ‘A’ should voice like ‘ㅓ’, and ‘O’ must sound like ‘ㅏ’.
Neo-Con[f]ucianism
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’.
H[ea]rt
/ea/ must sound ‘ㅏ’. What if you pronounce this like ‘ㅓ’, most of foreigners would wrongly and mistakenly understand that
word as a ‘Hurt’. For your better knowledge, the alphabet ‘U’ in that word
pronounce like ‘ㅓ’.
Pre[v]ailed, E[v]ent
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’.
<Long Vowel Sound & Stress>
From now on,
rather than showing each phonetic alphabet, I will let you know stress and long
vowel sound on words with simple method.
Red colored character = It is the alphabet you ought to put stress on.
Underlined
character = It is the
alphabet you must voice long vowel sound.
Highly, Economics,
Go-vern-ment, Aristocracy
<Ending Sound>
A few errors were found, and these were just meagre things that
you are able to fix. Good job!
<Intonation>
Rather than
pointing out problematic intonation, I would better recommend you to read books
more than now. While listening to your presentation, I came to know that you
had practiced with it. However, overall sentences were not familiar with you.
This is the testament that you ought to read book out loud more than now.
<Gesture>
‘And’, this is
the best keyword that leads your presentation successful. Personally, when I
read this word, I often gesture with my both hands. Especially if the ‘And’ was
put between nouns, stretching and rising both of your hands can be helpful to
understand your presentation. And at the same time, you can manage your speed,
this is because gesturing something on the stage means you are now having to
think the story, and try making storytelling.
<Manner>
John, your hard work and sweat for being a good presenter on the
stage touched my mind profoundly. You will soon be able to get over your weak
point, including stage-phobia and gesture.
<Mission>
Your last aim was making and performing the
proper gesture up to content of your presentation. Your goal was almost
accomplished! Good job! It will leave much nothing to be
desired if you pay attention to making ‘R’ sound correctly and to doing gesture
more actively. Let us see how much improve your presentation skill on your next
stage!
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. I
cannot thank you enough for all that you have done in my class. Thank you so
much.