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This is a fantastic idea! Do you mind if I share that with my English students?
by phrasemix 13y ago
This is a fantastic idea! Do you mind if I share that with my English students?
- argumentum 13y agoI wouldn't take the risk .. he might sue you for copyright infringement.
- malandrew 13y agoCertainly. I have another excellent trick for you that I was able to use to teach my all my Chinese students back in the day how to pronounce the word "usually", which is a notoriously difficult word for Chinese speakers. Exploiting the technique above, start with a word in the language of the audience that share phonemes with your target word. From there you essentially play something similar to Lewis Carroll's "Doublets" game from the end to the beginning. So for the word "usually" I would usually start with the city in China, "Guanzhou" and proceed as follows (excuse my poor man's phonetic spelling): Gwan-jo Gwan-jo Gwan-jo Gwan-jo Gwan-joooo Gwan-joooo Gwan-joooo Gwan-joooo Gwan-joooo-aaaa Gwan-joooo-aaaa Gwan-joooo-aaaa Gwan-joooo-aaaa Gwan-joo-a-lee Gwan-joo-a-lee Gwan-joo-a-lee Gwan-joo-a-lee joo-a-lee joo-a-lee joo-a-lee joo-a-lee yoo-joo-a-lee yoo-joo-a-lee yoo-joo-a-lee yoo-joo-a-lee The repetition is performed until your student(s) ha(s|ve) properly pronounced the current temperoary utterance.