Without voice modulation, you would continuously speak in a single pitch or tone. You would not be able to express doubt or ask questions, and you certainly couldn’t crack a joke. The problem is that when most people get up in front of an audience, stage fright causes their effortless, ...
RELATED ARTICLE: Don’t Try JUST to Think in English – Speak It Out Loud!We all speak our native languages fluently, quite naturally. The speech formation happens instantaneously and we don’t actually differentiate between a number of subsequent processes taking place when we speak....
In the similar way, Telugu people say "bard" when they are supposed to say "bird". This can be corrected easily again through thorough reading of phonetic and stress marks of the word. So..go through phrases. We all can speak English. But to understand a language well, we need to ...
You can also learn a lot from your own native language and the accent speakers from your country have when they speak English. For example, native French speakers often have a hard time with the English letter H at the beginnings of words or forget to pronounce the S at the ends of ...
I can speak, read and write fluently in English. Hindi, Konkani, Marathi and Kannada. Apart from them, I can read a little bit - maybe 30% of Gujarati and Telugu. Konkani, for the uninitiated, is the state language of Goa and my mother tongue. It has been one of the latest ...
He has lived in the United States for a couple of decades now, and he is an American citizen. He has told me that English is by far his favorite language, and that he even THINKS in English. He has to mentally “shift gears” to speak Malaysian or Telugu. I have met his parents,...