Chinese is spoken by billions of people in China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. The importance of speaking good English became vital for international communication with the increased role of China on the global stage. Many native Chinese speakers who enjoyed our elocution lessons had good grammar and vocabulary, but, at first, their speech was difficult to understand because of their bad pronunciation. The result of this is that often they had low paid jobs despite their high intellectual level. They told us that they were not even invited into meetings as others could not understand their speech.
We help all of them to master their speech and in this blog post, I will outline the most important recommendations for the Chinese speakers of English.
We recommend that they first start working on the correct placement of the following consonants with the video course Get Rid of your Accent Part 1:
/r/ as in “rat”, /l/ as in “Lilly” ann/n/ as in “nun”. Don’t confuse them.
Then move to fricative consonants /θ/ and /ð/ as in "think" and "that", /f/ and /v/ as in “fake”and “victory”.
Practise plosive consonans /t/ and /d/ as in "two"and "do"
Work on diphthongs:
1. /au/ particularly followed by /nd/ as in words "pound, found, sound".
2. [eɪ] as in "pay"
In our books and apps in the series Get Rid of your Accent we offer words, phrases and verses for practising a particular sound. When you practise the sound in words give enough time to every syllable, connect sounds together and pay attention to pronouncing final consonants.
When you practise the sound in phrases and verses, pay attention to the intonation and English tune, do not separate words into syllables. Learn consonant clusters, connected speech patterns and intonation with the app Fluent English Speech and a video course Get Rid of your Accent Part Two.
A few elocution lessons would not be out of place to achieve the best results.
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