Hello Alan!
First of
all, I would like to say thank you for taking my Monday Euphony class. And It
is my absolute pleasure to study with you.
Let me
intoduce the purpose of this class briefly. This class is expressly designed
for helping the presenters in terms of their pronunciation and stress of each
word, intonation of yours, manner on the stage and so on and so forth.
And here
are some constructive and helpful comments on your presetation. I hope the
comments might drive you to the betterment.
<Pronunciation> (If you are not sure about the sound of any
words of its kind, I recommend that make a visit to the following website, http://www.merriam-webster.com)
I found
several words in which I think you made a mistake.
“Ropes” starts with [R] but in your
presentation the [R] sound was rarely heard. And “relatives” (you made a same mistake again. Please keep this in
check) sounds like pronouncing the word in the way that you speak in Korean.
The word, “poor” originally
winds up with [R] sound, but in
yours there was no [R] to be found.
Lastly, ‘live’ has a minor problem. At the end of the sound of the word, there
ought to be [V] sound, but the sound
was barely caught.
<Stress>
Most of your
presentation have right accents. I found one mistake which has a weak accent. ‘Threatened’ has a
weak accent. In actuality, you pronunciated it correctly and did not miss any
sound. However, since the word you said has a monotonus accent, it does not
sound like that of Enlglish. Pleas keep this in mind.
<Intonation>
This time,
you tried the same part to that of the last week. Thanks to this, I could
evidently see the improvement of the intonation of yours. Keep your momentum
going.
<Manner>
If you smile
a bright smile, your presentation would be far better.( Same comments with the
last week.)
And this is your mission.
Thank you.
첫댓글 thank you always