How Long Does It Take to Become an Elite… in Anything
How Long Does It Take to Become an Elite… in Anything? Popular knowledge says 10,000 hours of practicing the correct way. That was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success in 2008. Popular knowledge talks about years too – 10 years to become an expert. The first to […]
How Long Does It Take to Get Accurate and Clear English Speech?
How Long Does It Take to Get Accurate and Clear English Speech? On average it takes about 70 days of practice every day to change or form a daily life habit (Frothingham, 2019). The range for daily life habits is 18 to 254 days according to a 2009 article in the European Social Psychology […]
Assessment– Why Bother?
Article 5 English Speech Assessment? Why Bother? How important is assessment for successful acquisition of clear American English (AE) speaking? If we didn’t care about efficiency of learning, not important at all. Your money is worth a lot, but your time is worth even more. Important is determining nonnative-born individuals’ pronunciation for the 23 (some […]
Can Tongue Muscle Exercises Speed up Getting Clear English Speaking?
Can strengthening the tongue’s muscle fibers via tongue muscle strengthening exercise speed up acquisition of clear American English speaking? Muscle strengthening sure does work for other activities which use skeletal muscles. The tongue is a skeletal muscle, with slow and fast twitch muscle fibers. Nowadays, coaches of many sports require their athletes to do muscle […]
Clear Talk Mode and the Task-Dynamic Model of Speech Production
Clear Talk Mode and the Task-dynamic Model of Speech Production Why read this? It’s for people who are a little intense about getting the best out of learning. Does the nature of the speaking task, like the nature of the movement task, change the dynamics of the system? Did you ever do running in a […]
Speed Up Learning Clear English Speech- Grow Tongue Muscle Fibers via Exercises and Tactics
Speed up Learning Clear English Speech — Grow Tongue Muscle Fibers via Exercises and Tactics We will describe specific exercises and tactics which have speeded up learning and increased accuracy of English speech sounds for our student-learners (measured by assessment). First, scientific physiological information. If you know the “why” you will understand the “how.” For […]
Intro to the 15 Dimension for Acquiring Clear North American English
Why would you want to read this article? It’s for people who are a little intense about getting the best out of learning. Article One: Intro to the15 Dimensions for Acquiring Clear Talk Methodology of Clear Talk Mastery Courses Physics has its M string theory, with eleven dimensions – the explanation and theory behind all […]