Speech Tips
Accent Reduction – How to say the s and sh sounds – Tip 77
In this video Dr. Antonia Johnson shows how to pronounce the s and sh sounds. She uses the word associate as an example.
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Set-Up for You for Your Presentation
Set-Up for You for Your Presentation
Hello Everybody,
- Don’t let the audiovisual staff run your show. Turn the lights up bright, so you are displayed better.
- Don’t hide behind the lectern. Get out front. Be dynamic.
- Do use a microphone. A hands-free, cordless lavaliere is the way to go. But if that is not available use a handheld mike. If only a lectern mike is available, boost up your gestures, enthusiastic voice, eye contact, and interaction. Or if only a lectern mike is available, consider using the best of your projecting voice.
English Language Communication- Did you know this about foreign-born people in the US?
Did you know this about foreign-born people in the US?
For this last installment about interesting facts about people with English as a Second Language, here are data to satisfy your curiosity!
A recent study by the Pew Research Center indicates that Asians have recently passed Latinos as the largest group of new immigrants arriving to the United States.
Figures from the new U.S. Census data indicate a slightly faster pace of growth in the foreign-born population, which increased to 40.8 million, or 13 percent of the U.S.
Last year’s immigration increase of 440,000 people was a reversal of a 2011 dip in the influx, when many Mexicans already in the U.S. opted to return home.
Many of the newer immigrants are higher-skilled workers from Asian countries such as China and India. Immigrants with bachelor’s degrees or higher rose by more than 4 percent to 9.8 million.
Other notable statistics:
- Nearly 35% of U.S. physicians are foreign born
- U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that
- 28.6% of US non-native born individuals held positions in management, professional, and related occupations
- 24.6% were in Service occupations (in order of prevalence are food preparation and serving related occupations, personal care and service occupations, and health care support occupations
- 20% of Roman Catholic priests working in the USA were born in a different country. Estimates are that 300 more arrive every year and that the enrollment of foreign born men into U.S. seminaries is increasing yearly.
Be sure to watch our English Speech Tips videos and Accent Reduction Tip videos for more English pronunciation and accent reduction exercise.
Accent Reduction – How to say the b and br sounds – Tip 76
In this video Dr. Antonia Johnson shows how to pronounce the b and br sounds. She uses the word brother as an example.
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Jolt them with a headline!
- It should be one sentence.
- It should hint at information that makes them curious or shocks them and makes them want to hear more.
- It should dramatize the topic.
