Accent Reduction Class (Training Video 1)

Howdy class,

Here's a little video we made. It teaches the difference between the pronunciation of two words in English that are spelled exactly the same but where one is a noun and the other is a verb.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbpYqqHLAwU

English is a curious language in that the same word can be both a noun and a verb the difference being (among other things) the if the stress is placed on the first syllable of the word (for nouns) or  the second of the word (verb).

1) The exercise is to list and learn to hear the difference.
2) Practice speaking the difference.
3) Then record yourself and listen to how you pronounce the words. (Do not think about how terrible you think your own voice sounds; most everybody doesn't like the sound of their own voice.)
4) Fine tune your pronunciation.
5) We will be working with this on Monday.

You guys are great! Hope you have a wonderful Sunday!

Warm regards,
Mr. T