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Pronouncing T – Practice the poem with the audio

Pronouncing T – Practice the poem with the audio

by Heather Chetwynd | Feb 11, 2022 | Accent Modification

Pronouncing T varies between languages. For example, where the tongue makes contact with the top of the mouth varies, as does the angle of the tongue and the air expelled. In this poem, the T sounds are primarily made at the beginning of the words. In this case, the T...
How our Language Influences our Perceptions

How our Language Influences our Perceptions

by Heather Chetwynd | Jun 2, 2021 | Culture and Values

There is a word in German – umwelt – which refers to how different organisms and beings experience reality. Numerous conditions influence our perception of reality – faith, assumptions, education, culture, physical considerations, character traits, concepts we hold,...
Coaching people from other cultural & linguistic backgrounds

Coaching people from other cultural & linguistic backgrounds

by Heather Chetwynd | Nov 5, 2020 | Business Communications, Culture and Values

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...
Canadian accent is shifting, changing how we pronounce words

Canadian accent is shifting, changing how we pronounce words

by Recommendation of Heather Chetwynd | Aug 18, 2015 | Accent Modification

I am always correcting my daughter’s pronunciation of MILK which always sounds like MELK. It is a losing battle since I realize that language changes and clearly the Canadian accent is shifting. I just hadn’t realized that MILK is one of those words. The...
How Accents and Language Change

How Accents and Language Change

by Recommendation of Heather Chetwynd | Apr 27, 2015 | Business Communications

Language changes whether we like it or not. I was forced to pronounce WHEN, WHICH and WHERE with air after the W, even though nobody I knew did it. But that was considered correct when I was young. And, as we know, what is considered correct is the language of...
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