SOUNDS YOU GENERATE WHEN YOU COMMUNICATE (PART B)
IMPROVING A FOREIGN ACCENT
Most humans speak their native language instinctively without the awareness of the oral movements involved.
Learning another language entails learning “new” sounds.
How do we learn a new sound?
We learn through sound training, which includes a few phases:
Sound Identification
We need to adjust our ears to the sounds of another language and identify the ‘new’ sound.
This may sound ‘easy’ but since sounds are abstract and cannot be ‘seen’, we need to animate the sound and visualize it’
Visualization
How do we visualize what we hear?
By showing the sound in writing while hearing it. Color coding the sound is helpful.
Sound Production
Once sound identity is established, physical production can be shown. Sometimes, the mechanics of our articulators [ lips, teeth. Tongue and palate] are not visible, so sound is taught through listening called ‘ear training’ and imitation.
Sound Discrimination
Comparing similar sounds to sharpen the discrimination process.
Now that TARGET sound is identified, we integrate it into words and continue to practice with a mirror and/or listening guide to achieve comfort with the sound and increase its usage.
Check our “Accentuations“ Sound Lessons & Practice Sheets to acquire correct pronunciation in English.
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We often overlook the subservience of workers to whims of upper echelons, medical dictates, and peer approval. Just look around you.
Recent global events prove that many ‘workers’ stifle personal choices, comply dutifully, and remain obedient.
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In Leviticus, Jubilee marks Liberty- the end of enslavement, the annulment of debts, the ‘turnover’ of Ancestral Lands, and the
re-start of an era.
Biblical Jubilee opposes blind submission, scorns personal subjugation and encourages renewed strength of spirit.
Jubilee Year aims to reminds us of our transitory life span, fluidity of existence, and impermanence of material goods.
It asks us to oppose senseless dictates, dismiss false ’trends’, frivolous notions, and social pressures.
It asks us to recognize the Creator and sole Owner of Earth who directs events, in whose Universe we voyage.
In acknowledgment of His Laws, wisdom and protection, we form a partnership of faith & Values.
We are thus fortified to disentangle from restrictive bonds. expand our minds, and freely forge a path.
Strong values allow us to better withstand Human domination, defy control, suppress fears, and live by Truth and conscience.
This realization is true freedom!