Assessing Pronunciation – Prosody, the Music of the Language
When I do a pronunciation assessment, I look at three key areas. The first two are the ones that come to mind when most people think about pronunciation. These are the individual sounds - also called “phonemes” or “segmentals” - the vowels and consonants. I wrote...
Assessing Pronunciation – Vowels & Consonants
When I do a pronunciation assessment, I look at three key areas. The first two are the ones that come to mind when most people think about pronunciation. These are the individual sounds - also called “phonemes” or “segmentals” - the vowels and consonants. The other...
Coaching people from other cultural & linguistic backgrounds
The North American concept of personal space Many coaches working in English-speaking environments were born and raised in another cultural and/or linguistic environment. And the reverse is also true, especially in Toronto, where roughly 50% of the population was not...