Pronunciation / 発音 How Now Brown Cow?
“How now brown cow?” is a phrase I heard from my mother at a very early age, most probably because of our surname. It wa...
Pronunciation / 発音
Pronunciation / 発音 
Awareness / アウェアネス What’s That Sound?
As I have written before, there are many things which don’t help your pronunciation of English sounds (phonemes), below ...
Pronunciation / 発音 I’m sorry, could you say that again?
As I wrote before, there are many things which don’t help your pronunciation of English sounds (phonemes), below are a c...
Pronunciation / 発音 How Do You Read This Word?
As I wrote before, there are many things that don’t help your pronunciation of English sounds (phonemes), below is one o...
Pronunciation / 発音 How Do I Know I’m Saying It Right?
One of my students asked me how do they know they are pronouncing a word correctly when they practise alone. That was an...
Communication I said バス, not バス!
One of our students wants heart to heart communication with the native English speakers she meets through work. Understa...
Communication 「ネイティブのように話すこと」について想うこと
今日は「ネイティブのように話すこと」についての私の考えをシェアしてみますね。 「ネイティブのように話すこと」については賛否両論あるとは思う。 LとRとか練習したほうがいい音はあるけど、個人的には、「ネイティブのように話すこと」に重きをおくよ...
Pronunciation / 発音 Is “Close Enough” Good Enough?
For a native English speaker learning Japanese, there are few new sounds to learn and practice; ら (ra)、り (ri)、る (ru) 、れ ...
Pronunciation / 発音 発音を間違えたら、気が付かないうちにとんでもないことを伝えていた！
まだ、英語において発音の大切さについて気が付いていなかったとき、ある単語の発音を間違えたら、気が付かないうちにとんでもないことを伝えていました。発音、特に日本語にはない英語の音の発音には気を付けたいものです。
English as a communication tool / ツールとしての英語 Accent Bias is Everywhere
I often mention in my classes that I’m from the north-east of England and I used to speak with a strong accent and diale...