Pronunciation Workshop Instructor：Paul Gruber Introduction： （01 ：17-02：27 ）When you learned English as a second language, you kept many of the sounds and speech rules from your first language and you were continuing to use them when you speak English. This is what gives you an accent. You were using the sounds and speech rules from your native language instead of the sounds and speech rules of English. This program will show you and train you on how to use these sounds and speech rules correctly and showing you how to correctly form new sounds by changing the position of your tongue or changing the shape of your lips. These small changes are going to make very big changes in your speech. How to Practice（ 02 ：35-03：15 ）Speak slowly Use a Loud Voice Exaggerate Your Mouth Movements What would you be doing is retraining the muscles of your mouth in your tongue to move in new ways, which will produce a new pronunciation patterns. These new speech patterns will slowly and eventually involve into your own spontaneous fast speech, but it is important that you start out going very slow. The Key to Success（03 ：15-05：15 ）Being aware of your errors Recognizing mistakes when you hear them When most Americans speak you will notice that we seem to open our mouth a lot and there is a great amount of mouth movements. Arrangement of this program（05 ：15-05 ：45 ）During the course of this program, I will begin by addressing consonant sounds and then later on we’ ll work with vowel sounds. Now vowel sounds, as you know, are A E I O and U, like ahh, ohh, eee, ehh, ihh and ooo. And consonant sounds are basically all the other letters’ sounds, like b, ch, s, t, f, g, sh, w a...
