How to Enjoy Elocution?

Elocution does not have to be a long and exhausting practise. It works whe it is consistent.

It can be a lot of fun.

Do not wait for a perfect moment.

Let’s say you have a spare 5 minutes before starting an important meeting or task, or you are waiting for something.

Waiting can be boring.

Instead of another coffee or useless social media scrolling, take your phone and start practising with the app for 5 minutes.

Listen to amusing sentences and verses, repeat, record yourself, and then listen to how your speech becomes more precise and clear.

I recommend downloading all our apps to give yourself a variety of practice:

British English

American English

Do not wait for a perfect moment, practise one lesson today for 5 minutes.

Try not to miss a day of elocution practice.

Warmly

Olga Smith

How to Pronounce the /w/ Sound?

/w/ sound does not exist in many languages, for example, in Hindi, Russian, French, and Hebrew.

My native language was Russian, and it took me 6 months to strengthen my lip muscles in order to pronounce this sound correctly without thinking about it. In the past, I was substituting it with the /v/, and people could not understand me. As you can see from the examples below, the meaning of the word changes if the pronunciation of the /w/ sound is incorrect:

wet - vet, west - vest, whale - vale, wane - vain, worse -verse, wheel - veal.

If you want to achieve great results, practise the long /u:/ sound for three days, Lesson 2 and then /w/ sound, Lesson 25, in the apps:

·        Elocution Lessons

·        Get Rid of your Accent

·        Business English Speech

You will feel your lip muscles getting used to the forward position. The practice will take 10-20 minutes a day.

269. How to Start American Accent Training

What app to choose?

We recommend starting with the American Accent App. With this app, you master pronunciation and articulation to achieve speech clarity.

Then move on to the Fluent American Speech and an accompanying video course, Get Rid of Your Accent Part Two, to master speech fluency, sentence stress and difficult speech patterns such as word endings and consonant clusters.

These two apps and two video courses are essential for accent reduction.

For those who want to master their presentation skills, we recommend 4Ps Power. Pitch, Pace, Pause app.

How to Start Training

  1. Explore common pronunciation challenges for your nationality in the American Accent App

  2. Begin with the video course to see how sounds are formed in the mouth. Use the mirror to check that your speech organs match those of the teacher in the video.

  3. Follow up with practice using the apps

  4. Focus on one lesson at a time and practice for 20–45 minutes per day

  5. Continue for three consecutive days

  6. Move on to the next lesson after three days