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Better Speech with Clear Pronunciation: A Practical Course on IPA(International Phonetics Alphabet)
Elevate Your Presence in Your Daily Speech
"Mend your speech a little, lest you may mar your fortune."
- King Lear (William Shakespeare)
Most people are not too confident to answer YESES to these questions. Our word gets mumbled that confuses ‘three’ with ‘tree’, ’month’ with ‘Mon’, ‘week’ with ‘weak’, ‘glass’ with ‘grass’... This can be embarrassing. At worse, poor speech could mar your fortune too! In this one-day short course, you will be introduced to speaking Standard English with confidence by learning how to read the IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet). You will become more mindful to articulate your words clearly, observe the right stress to the word intonation, and making connected speech effectively. When you articulate and pronounce your words well, you inevitably elevate and command others to hear you speak. Don’t miss it!
"Mend your speech a little, lest you may mar your fortune."
- King Lear (William Shakespeare)
- Do you speak with clear articulation?
- Do you ‘swallow' and mumble your words?
- Does your speech make sense to others?
Most people are not too confident to answer YESES to these questions. Our word gets mumbled that confuses ‘three’ with ‘tree’, ’month’ with ‘Mon’, ‘week’ with ‘weak’, ‘glass’ with ‘grass’... This can be embarrassing. At worse, poor speech could mar your fortune too! In this one-day short course, you will be introduced to speaking Standard English with confidence by learning how to read the IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet). You will become more mindful to articulate your words clearly, observe the right stress to the word intonation, and making connected speech effectively. When you articulate and pronounce your words well, you inevitably elevate and command others to hear you speak. Don’t miss it!
Objective
- Acquaint yourself with accurate English pronunciation by learning how to read IPA
- Learn to enunciate your words clearly
- Learn how to read phonemes of English words, intonation and syllable stress
- Know how to make connected speech comfortably and fluently
- Cultivate a habit to check and read the phonemes of English words in the dictionary
Outline
- Introduction: Global English, Standard English, Received Pronunciation (RP)
- Object of Phonetics: Phone, Phonemes, Allophones
- Branches of Phonetics: Articulatory, Acoustic, Auditory Phonetics
- Speech Mechanism in Articulatory Phonetics
- IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet & Transcript
- Minimal Pairs differentiation
- Classes of Sound: Vowels, Consonants, Sonorants
- Characterisation and Classification of Consonants
- Characterisation and Classification of Vowels
- Pronunciation Exercises, Practices and Games
- Syllable - Structure of Syllable; Word Stress; Stressed and Unstressed Syllables
- Intonation & Connected Speech
Who should attend
Professionals, executives, admin and support staff, secretaries, sales managers, supervisors, and those who need and desire to deliver clear and articulated speech daily through better grasp of reading of International Pronunciation Alphabet (IPA)
Methodology
Concepts delivery, demonstration, practice and exercise, games, feedback.
Profile of Daniel Ng
Daniel Ng is a professional trainer for adult learners for a decade. His expertise includes teaching WSQ WPLN Workplace English to adult learners, WSQ Service Excellence courses for both public learners and private organisations. He was also an adjunct lecturer teaching lifeskill and business communication courses to teenagers and adult learners at the ITE College. He is an award-winning trainer with the institute that he is training at currently.
Prior to being a professional trainer, he has over 15 years of corporate experience working with several UK and USA organisations. Working with the foreigners, he knew the importance of speaking standard English and expressing himself clearly, especially over the phones. He progressed from a manager to head of department, director and eventually running his own event management company. He developed and organised many high level C-suite events regionally. Daniel is passionate about English pronunciation and enjoys reading and teaching phonetics to his learners. He considers learning IPA important for one to express himself or herself well, especially to foreigners. He is also noted for being patient and encouraging to his learners. He helps them gain confidence in learning and applying the knowledge acquired.
He holds a degree in English with Business (BAEB), ACTA, DipTESOL (UK), Dip Marketing (UK).
