Take a moment.
Imagine you’re presenting on the BBC.
Now clear your voice, and read the following poem out loud:
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear—
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
Sword and sward, retain and Britain—
(Mind the latter, how it’s written).
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak.
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
How was that?
Reading English is a joy, is it not?
The above is just part of a poem.
If you want to hear how it should sound then click here.
Make sure to check the words you were unsure about.
Confident pronunciation is really important.
Until next week!
Having confidence that your pronunciation is correct can really set you apart from others
This week’s three tips:
SOMETHING TO AVOID 🫣
🤦🏻♀️ “I am come for table”
What?
✅ “I am comfortable”
Ahh, you’re comfortable. I’m glad to hear it.
👉 “COMF-tabol”
COMF → like comf in confortable (With an m not n, and drop the “r” sound).
ta → like a soft ta (unstressed, almost swallowed).
bol → like bul but very quick and weak, almost like bel.
SOMETHING TO SOUND CONFIDENT 🧐
👔 Business expressions
“To trip over your words”
To stumble, hesitate, or make mistakes while speaking.
He knew his material, but he kept tripping over his words during the presentation.
SOMETHING TO WATCH 👀
NEXT STEP ➡️
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The Crystal Clear English Team
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