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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing summer. Our thoughts go out to those of you affected by Hurricane Irene.
Both of us had the opportunity to travel out of the country for our vacations (Italy and France) and enjoyed listening to and trying to understand new languages. We appreciated the challenges of attempting to speak another language and learning the correct stress and intonation patterns! |
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Product Updates
 We are excited to announce the September 19th launch of the RULES BY THE SOUND (RBTS) online platform! There is a yearly subscription of $100/person (that is under $9/month). Listen to all 63 sound-loaded stories, recorded one sentence at a time, and then the story in its entirety. Your students can read pronunciation tips and watch a video for each sound. They can listen to each sentence and then record their own, with an option to compare their production with the native speaker's. Initial feedback from our field-testers has been overwhelmingly positive! This is great way to reinforce the stories in the RULES BY THE SOUND book. You will be able to preview it before purchasing.
Our introductory rate of $75/year per person is offered for any subscriptions registered by September 30th. Tell your students about this exciting new training tool! Site licenses are available for classroom use.
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Top Ten Tips for Pronunciation and Effective Communication
- Identify a speech role-model
- Get a professional's opinion
- Video or audio-record yourself
- Solicit feedback from those you trust
- Project your voice
- Pronounce your sounds clearly
- Speak at a slightly slower rate
- Use appropriate intonation
- Practice whenever, wherever, and with whomever you can
- Practice idiosyncratic stress rules when reading
Read more about these tips here |
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In the News
For those of you who missed our announcement this summer, Marjorie's regional accent course at Boston Casting has been receiving a lot of attention in and around the Boston area. Marjorie was featured in the Sunday Boston Globe on July 10th, and was interviewed on the Fox 25 TV morning show news on July 13th. She was also quoted in the Sunday Globe education section for an article on public speaking.
Marjorie has been collaborating with Fumihiko Urano, M.D., Ph.D. of UMASS Medical Center to develop language and North American accent training materials for Japanese medical researchers. Their bilingual scripts/scenarios featuring idioms and pronunciation tips via podcasts will be featured in an upcoming book published by the distinguished Yodosha Publishing Company in Japan. Stay tuned for more information at http://www.yodosha.co.jp/en/. |
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Conference News
Lynda and Marjorie will have a booth at the International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) Convention in Boston on September 30-October 2nd. Please stop by if you are attending. Learn more about this conference.
The American Speech-Language and Hearing Convention will be held in San Diego on November 16-19, 2011. Marjorie will be attending so contact her if you will be attending. |
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Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker Lynda Katz Wilner
ESL RULES, LLC
410.356.5666 |
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