Pronunciation Practice (Record your voice and send me the video)

Yes, this blog is about imrpoving WRITING with samples and good books, but sometimes students want to check their accent.

You can reduce your accent
You can make your voice sound more like a native speaker

Here are the tips.

1.  Find a teacher's video that you like to watch.
2.  The video should show a teacher showing words and speaking the words.
3.  YOU can turn off the volume of the video and say the words when they co on the screen.

4.  Take a video of the screen, showing the words, and you can talk.  
5.  Put the video on youtube and send the link to me .... I'll listen to your pronunciation and look for ways to reduce your accent.

Yes, put your voice on video (the camera can point at the screen.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3FKXUAs4GE  video 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF7UcpO5vF4    video 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYgGT4mpCL8

Video 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vAOqyASBKo

video 4

What do you believe about yourself?

It doesn't matter what someone says about you.  The most important thing is what you believe about yourself.

F. Fortunato

You can't live through the opinions of others.

Listen to the accurate feedback from others but listen to yourself.  You know what you should be doing.

To see ourselves as others see us... but then do something about it.

We have that eternal voice that guides us.

People who go to jail have a long record and they know that it didn't work or 

how many time s do you have to do it until you realize that you can't get ahead doing that?


i'm depressed  i have low esteem

i can use my depression to go on disability and feel sorry for myself.

why would I do it?
You have the power to go either way.

If you go the easy way, what is there to life?
You have no challenge, no goals, no money and you will be a bum.

Lesson 2: More charts, 26 February 2014

For Weds.   I plan to go over these charts

Lesson 1: Pronunciation chart 25 February 2014

We read this chart together today

HOMEWORK (for Weds)

HOMEWORK (for Weds)

This blog was started because a nice mother asked me, "Can you call my son by Skype and teach him English?"  So we had our first lesstion today with a pronunciation chart.  

1.  Each lesson is about 10 to 15 minutes long
2.  The student does clear reading.
3.  The books need to have photos or pictures.
4.  Sometimes the student selects the books.

This blog will be a record of what we studied together.  Then his future teachers will know what we accomplished.   Of course, the student's accent and confidence will be the ultimate test of "how good is the teacher"?

Here is a free download of a chart.


I guess this is an easy way to show that the student did a lot of pronunciation work today.


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Note to other TEACHERS:  Where can we find comic books?   I found the following information online, but I can't find the actual downloads.  The links that I visited show groups of pages, but I'd rather send the entire ebook so that the student can look at the book without being online.

Here is the info I found.  Please see if you can find a better source of ebooks and comic books that are scanned.  We need books with pictures.   Tin-Tin, Asterix?  Superman?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A0LEVxiVfQxTSB4AGBBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzYnZ0NXVnBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NXSU1DMF8x?qid=20070925042144AAvnJZj

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A0LEVxiVfQxTSB4AGBBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzYnZ0NXVnBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NXSU1DMF8x?qid=20070925042144AAvnJZj

Tintin can be downloaded here http://bookyards.blogspot.com/2007/07/ti... 

Asterix from here http://bookyards.blogspot.com/2007/08/as...

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Thanks to everybody. 

but still i do not have a torrent program, and therefore i chose this answer

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  Mr. Vincent Van Jessup answered 7 years ago
  torrentbox.com 
• mininova.org 
• demonoid.com (which is offline this morning, looks like) 
• zcultfm.com 
• These have a lot of comics. I've seen a lot of tintin, some moebius, disney, various American superheroes, vintage horror comics, etc. 
• To further search on your own, just remember, most comic book and comic strip files online are offered in two formats: .cbz and .cbr 
• A few are offered as pdf's, but that's a very slim minority. You will need to download a free comic reader -- FF View, Comical, Comic Lover, etc -- to view cbz's and cbr's.
  Source(s):
  bittorrent site with tintin books and video torrents; download with azureus, bittorrent, etc:http://www.mininova.org/tor/588319 
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• http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=t...
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  Sammc670 answered 7 years ago
  Try the link below. 
• There were a few books near the bottom of the search list. 
• You need a torrent program to download them (like utorrent).
  Source(s):
  http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=a... 
• www.utorrent.com
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  dlt answered 7 years ago
  Try www.gutenberg.org 
• www.librivox.org
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  mishue answered 7 years ago
  if you want to read them there are some manga in this site 
• www.mangavolume.com 
• download them here 
• www.mangatraders.com
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  ~♥ KinomiyaMichiru ♥~ answered 7 years ago
  If you know the title of the comics you are looking for,a great place to find them is through the P2P programme, eMule.
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  eMule
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  cdf-rom answered 7 years ago
  I don't know about downloading them, but Superman Thru the Ages is a site with great classic Superman stories on line for free. They have stories that go all the way back to 1939 that you can't afford to buy, but you can read them here. 
• Plus, they have on line Superman novels and a never before published story, The K-metal from Krypton. 
• This was written in 1939 and would FOREVER have changed the relationship between Clark and Lois. It was the First appearance of Kryptonite, the first time that Superman lost his powers, the First time he learned he was from Krypton, and he revealed his secret identity to Lois! 
• Think what a difference that would have made in the comic book world, not just the Dc universe, but the difference to all writers! The publisher (National, at the time) bought it from Siegel and Schuster, and then refused to publish it! They wanted to keep Superman with no weaknesses at all, keep him ignorant of his origin, and keep the Clark-Lois-Superman triangle going...! 
• And now you can read it for FREE. Enjoy! 
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In other words, I don't know where to go now.   Can someone who reads this blog send me some suggestions?   I want to download a complete comic book so that I can send that book to my student and then we can listen to the student reading the book.