Archive for the ‘Pronunciation’ Category
English Salon
Posted by: pterodidactics on: 23 October, 2008
This morning when I arrived at work I was told they wanted to set-up an English Salon. Sadly, I didn’t get a facial and my nails painted, but what I did get was the conversion of the school library (which is quite small and not used much) into an English room where students can come [...]
Good pronunciation is a real eat.
Posted by: pterodidactics on: 9 October, 2008
If you’re ever looking to give an example to your student of which pronunciation matters, take a look at this recent news story. Basically what happened was the French foreign minister went to Israel and tried to be a little bit sycophantic, telling a newspaper reporter that Iran wasn’t going to be a threat to [...]
Katakana English
Posted by: pterodidactics on: 1 October, 2008
Katakana English is the bane of my existence. For the initiated, this basically entails children trying to transliterate English words into the Japanese syllabary used for foreign words. The trouble is though that being a syllabary rather than an alphabet, it is not reducible to the same extent as roman lettering, and words are often [...]
