by Judy Ravin | Apr 21, 2012 | Accent Comprehension, American Pronunciation, Communication Skills, Corporate Training, Diversity, Globalization, Inclusion, Professional Development Training
If I were ‘fluent’ in a foreign language, most people would take it to mean that I’d mastered the grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and pronunciation rules of that language. I’d like to suggest another aspect of language proficiency that...
by Judy Ravin | Apr 21, 2012 | Accent Acquisition, Accent Comprehension
NPR recently published a fascinating article entitled Unfamiliar Accents Turn Off Humans And Songbirds. If you were to read this title, wouldn’t you assume that meant unfamiliar accents are a ‘turn off’ to people and birds? That’s what I...
by Judy Ravin | Apr 19, 2012 | American Pronunciation, Phonetic Language
Can you imagine an English speaking world without spellcheck? Eoin O’Carroll of the Christian Science Monitor quotes George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright, in saying “the word ‘fish’ could legitimately be spelled ‘ghoti’, by using the...
