20090103, Article, Picture, 台中/高雄/台北
發表於 : 週日 12月 28, 2008 12:18 pmHappy English Club 電子報 本報由Host Master Team編審
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Time：第10次例會，2009年01月03日（週六）下午2:30-5:30 [高雄 6-9]
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14:30~15:00 Free Talk
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Host: Paul Tsai
10 tips to improve the way you speak English
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Many deserving candidates lose out on job opportunities because of their vernacular accent.
Can I 'neutralise' my accent?
Yes, you can. All you need to do is train yourself to speak English as comfortably and perfectly as you speak your mother tongue.
How do you train yourself? By inculcating certain practices in your daily lifestyle. These will get you closer to sounding like a native English speaker and equip you with a global accent -- and you will speak not American or British English, but correct English.
This is the first step to learn any other accent, be it American or British or Australian.
Lisa Mojsin, head trainer, director and founder of the Accurate English Training Company in Los Angeles, offers these tips to help 'neutralise' your accent or rather do away with the local twang, as you speak.
i. Observe the mouth movements of those who speak English well and try to imitate them.
When you are watching television, observe the mouth movements of the speakers. Repeat what they are saying, while imitating the intonation and rhythm of their speech.
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Questions
1) Why do you think Taiwanese English accents are hard to overcome for second language learners?
2) Which of the tips proposed will you find the most useful?
3) Do you think English teaching in Taiwan should focus more on speaking?
4) Share some of your most commonly mis-pronounced English words with your group members.
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Time：第10次例會，2009年01月03日（週六）下午2:30-5:30 [高雄 6-9]
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
14:30~15:00 Free Talk
15:00~16:00 Speaker Session - Adi
16:00~17:15 Topic Discussion
17:15~17:30 Happy Time
Host: Paul Tsai
10 tips to improve the way you speak English
[ATTENTION: BECAUSE OF COPYRIGHT CONCERNS, WE CANNOT REPRODUCE THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE. PLEASE VISIT THE SOURCE TO READ AND PRINT THE ENTIRE ARTICLE]
Source: http://in.rediff.com/cms/print.jsp?docp ... accent.htm
Many deserving candidates lose out on job opportunities because of their vernacular accent.
Can I 'neutralise' my accent?
Yes, you can. All you need to do is train yourself to speak English as comfortably and perfectly as you speak your mother tongue.
How do you train yourself? By inculcating certain practices in your daily lifestyle. These will get you closer to sounding like a native English speaker and equip you with a global accent -- and you will speak not American or British English, but correct English.
This is the first step to learn any other accent, be it American or British or Australian.
Lisa Mojsin, head trainer, director and founder of the Accurate English Training Company in Los Angeles, offers these tips to help 'neutralise' your accent or rather do away with the local twang, as you speak.
i. Observe the mouth movements of those who speak English well and try to imitate them.
When you are watching television, observe the mouth movements of the speakers. Repeat what they are saying, while imitating the intonation and rhythm of their speech.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Questions
1) Why do you think Taiwanese English accents are hard to overcome for second language learners?
2) Which of the tips proposed will you find the most useful?
3) Do you think English teaching in Taiwan should focus more on speaking?
4) Share some of your most commonly mis-pronounced English words with your group members.
例會須知
參與例會，請自行列印當週的討論文章並帶至現場，圖示如下：
請將社團網站，加入我的最愛
http://www.happyforum.org/
新竹，每週六 (2008年8月起)
Hsinchu, Every Saturday
from Aug, 2008
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
台中，每週六 (2008年7月起)
Taichung, every Saturday
from July, 2008
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
高雄，每週六 (2007年4月起)
Kaohsiung, every Sunday
from April, 2007
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
台北，每週六 (2005年6月起)
Taipei, every Saturday
from June, 2005
Place：
viewtopic.php?t=15
