Accent Reduction- Get Inspired to Master These English Speech Sounds
Accent Reduction- Get Inspired to Master These English Speech Sounds Here is some information about the English language which will give you inspiration for mastering particular sounds: The most frequently spoken consonant is “n.” The “e” is the most commonly used letter in the English language. Furthermore, as many as one in eight of all […]
Presentations: Get and Use These Five Kinds of Evidence
Presentations: Get and Use These Five Kinds of Evidence To support or back up your viewpoint or recommendations, use these 5 kinds of evidence: Personal experience or story Analogy Judgment of Experts Examples Statistical Facts Rerun from March 28, 2016
English Communication: Get More of Backstory for Those Unusual Spellings of English Words
English Communication: Get More of Backstory for Those Unusual Spellings of English Words Does understanding how changes came about in the English language make the pronunciation and spelling easier for you? Yes! It gives you the patterns for whole sets of words. And, oh my! … the reasons for changes in the English language are […]
Successful Speaking Means You Must Provide Evidence for Your Viewpoint or Recommendations
Successful Speaking Means You Must Provide Evidence for Your Viewpoint or Recommendations Evidence is what makes what you have to say interesting and believable. Evidence makes your presentation persuasive and memorable. Rerun from March 21, 2016
English Communication: Fascinating Reasons for Those Unusual Spellings for Some English Words
English Communication: Fascinating Reasons for Those Unusual Spellings for Some English Words You know that for as much as 70-75% of words in English, the pronunciation follows English language rules tied to the spelling of the word. But what about the other words? Why are they spelled the way they are spelled? Knowing the patterns […]
Let Your Voice Ring Out During Presentations
Let Your Voice Ring Out During Presentations Greater volume means everyone can hear all your speech sounds and can understand all your words. Wonderful is that when your voice rings out, the volume is a trigger mechanism. The rest of your body will follow, and you’ll gesture more, emphasize more, and hand movements and facial […]
English Speaking Skills: Understanding Gets You to Pronunciation Mastery- Important Reasons for Some Strange Spellings
English Speaking Skills: Understanding Gets You to Pronunciation Mastery- Important Reasons for Some Strange Spellings Here are two sets of words which give you a sample of words in English that do not follow the rules of pronunciation or spelling of English. Corpse and corps Horse and worse About 70% of the words in English […]
All Speakers Think They Speak Louder than They Do
All Speakers Think They Speak Louder than They Do That’s because they are hearing themselves through the bone structure of their head as well as through their ears. Rerun from March 7, 2016
Accent Reduction: One of Hottest Job Skills is Fluency in English and Another Language
Accent Reduction: One of Hottest Job Skills is Fluency in English and Another Language Are you working to get accurate, fluent English? Fluency in English and another language is one of the hottest job skills in the U.S. As early as 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor noted that translators and interpreters would be one of the […]
Impact of Low Volume Voice During Presentations
Impact of Low Volume Voice During Presentations Audiences interpret low volume as the speakers having low conviction or low interest on their topic. Audiences say to themselves, “If the speaker isn’t interested, I’m not either.” Then the audience stops paying attention to you. Rerun from Feb 29, 2016