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I'm teaching a Chinese ESL student, who needs to improve her pronunciation. (She works in California for a big multi-national).
Can any body suggest any advice, techniques, excercises ?
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Originally Posted by dOlier  I'm teaching a Chinese ESL student, who needs to improve her pronunciation. (She works in California for a big multi-national).
Can any body suggest any advice, techniques, excercises ?
Thanks | Hi! I would suggest let her imitate audio files, eg. BBC, VOA, read out by a certain native speaker from every single word to tone time and again. And then let her read it out for you, you can correct her pronunciation.
I assume if she can insist everyday in three months, her pronunication will improve. 
(I'm not a teacher.)
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Originally Posted by Tdol What level is she and what problems does she have? | She is quite advanced, her spoken English is good, but some of her pronunciation - L's and R's, and combined consanants - is very bad.
(We were discussing Palin & Alaska and she could not pronounce "oil-drilling").
She was recently told at an job interview that she would not be promoted because the interviewer could not understand her. |
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Originally Posted by thedaffodils I assume if she can insist everyday in three months, |  |
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Hi dOlier,
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. Yes, I mean 'insist on practising'. A Chinese friend, whose pronuniciation is good, once told me if I could practise in this way, my pronunciation would improve. | | The Following User Says Thank You to thedaffodils For This Useful Post: | |
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Originally Posted by thedaffodils Hi dOlier,
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. Yes, I mean 'insist on practising'. A Chinese friend, whose pronuniciation is good, once told me if I could practise in this way, my pronunciation would improve. | I think you mean "persist" not "insist". | | The Following User Says Thank You to Raymott For This Useful Post: | |
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Originally Posted by Raymott I think you mean "persist" not "insist". | Raymott, thank you for your correction. |
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I am a Chinese and my recommendation is that you should focus on voiced consonants (especially Z) and intonations.  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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