Pronunciation and Process
Having good handwriting is as important as having good pronunciation. Why? When you’re communicating with someone, their minds should be focused on the content and meaning of what you’re saying or have written. They should not be consciously trying to figure out what words you’re trying to use. That effort […]
It always seems to be the short words which cause the greatest difficulty. The problem is not that they require more practice than longer or more complicated words, or (as sometimes happens) that their only vowel is reduced to a /ə/ in casual conversation, but because they look so easy […]
One of the important things to learn when learning English is how to guess at the pronunciation of a new word. This is one reason we spend so much time on KK and phonics. But there are other equally-important rules. Here’s one: If a word has a double consonant (two […]