[General] Pronunciation for Chinese student.

[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

[Tdol]

What level is she and what problems does she have?

[thedaffodils]

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.)

[dOlier]

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.

[dOlier]

Originally Posted by thedaffodils

I assume if she can insist everyday in three months,

[Anglika]

I think daffodil must mean "practice".

[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.

[Raymott]

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".

[thedaffodils]

Originally Posted by Raymott

I think you mean "persist" not "insist".

Raymott, thank you for your correction.

[leungss]

I am a Chinese and my recommendation is that you should focus on voiced consonants (especially Z) and intonations.