English Pronunciation Case Study: One Corporate Client's Journey
A Biostatistical Engineer from Life Sciences; native language Mandarin Chinese
Before
- Inability to communicate in English with clarity and ease.
- Lacked the ability to understand others when being spoken to.
- Others had difficulty understanding and hearing messages.
- Lacked confidence for speaking and presentation engagements.
- Performance appraisal consistently indicated the need to improve communication skills.
During
- Used audio cues to "tune ear" for accurate pronunciations.
- Submitted multiple personal recordings for assessment and coaching.
- Participated in every session and self-paced practice assignments.
- Improved nasal consonant sounds and intonation.
- Eliminated extra vowel sounds.
- Recognized words with silent syllables.
- Joined online sessions that incorporated live visual cues.
After
- Recent performance appraisal comment on remarkable communication skills improvements.
- Able to self-correct mispronunciations.
- Better understanding of spoken messages due to correctly identifying pronunciations.
- Speech improvements enabled successful working relationships with other business groups.
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