I love baseball. As a boy, I enjoyed hours of just tossing a bouncing ball against a wall and catching it. In basketball, a missed shot becomes a rebound. The stock market climbs and falls. Movement governs many activities.

Movement back and forth through pronunciation can enable you to master English . Enunciate aloud the all-capital syllables in a few short texts repeatedly according to plan and you’re on your way. ( Insert native language in Slowly , My Job , Conquer , The Cat .)

Slowly

SLOW LY and CARE FULLY

My Job

My JOB is NOTDIFF I CULT. It is a CHALL ENGE.

Conquer

CON QUER ENG LISH by CON QUEST. E NUN CI ATE OF TEN E NOUGH to GET the KNACK.

The Cat

The CAT COOKED a GOOD CAKE as the COOL GUY KICKED the GOAT.

The COW said QUICKLY: “OK,COOL GUY, GET lost, KEEP away. GIVE me the KEY.”

She opened the GATE for their GAME of ‘Fly the KITE’, after which she CALLED a CAB to GO. The END . Thank you.

Language starts with speaking and hearing. Remember childhood? There was radio, movies, television, music, books, and always, daily conversation. Mastery came from listening and imitating. School added grammar and literature. Vocabulary expanded.

Now you are either (a.) a foreign-born student (b.) an immigrant with misunderstood accent (c.) anyone other just valuing good pronunciation

Each situation – abc - suggests learning or relearning. English? It is the second-language taught in the most lands and serves international commerce. Pronunciation? Speaking and listening provide the surest path. Fast? Language learning is long term.

Mastering English long term is offered here by pronunciation with emphasis on three essentials:

enunciate, pace, understand

Persuade (or enlist otherwise) a native English-speaker to help you advance through a series of objects – a sentence, phrase, or other wording. Your coach will pronounce an object at least three times, using each essential. You imitate one by one, When Y You pronounce and repronounce until speaking each essential like the native, and move on to the next object.

At enunciate, pronounce all capitalized syllables firmly. Gloss-over words uncaptalized (the,is,a,and,etc).

At pace, imitate how your coach blends and stresses sounds.

For understand, think of English meaning, compared with your native language if other than English. If you respond calmly and confidently to this third challenge while maintaing Enunciate and Pace, you demonstrate thinking in English, To the coach, you spoke “like a countryman.”

Your collection of well-spoken pronunciations can grow toa ative-speaking collecctionas you employ the same essentials consecutively after daily listening, conversation and readings.

Object #1 (“first grade”): Slowly (text)

Notes to Coach and Learner:

enunciate: LY ;stress ”D” (in AND)

pace: stress SLOW, CARE; briefen FULLY to FLEE

Learner:

understand: think in English words

Object #2 (“(8 th grade”): My Job (text)

Notes to Coach and Learner:

enunciate: stress JOB, CULT,ENGE

pace: combine “isn’t”, “It’s a”

Learner:

understand: think in English words

Object #3 (“high school”): Enunciate (text)

Notes to Coach and Learner:

enunciate: OF TEN, NOUGH, QUER, KNACK

pace: pause between the sentences

Learner:

understand: think in English words

Object #4 (“freshman”): The Cat six opening words

Notes to Coach and Learner:

enunciate: “kih” in CAT, COOKED, CAKE; “gih” in GOOD

pace: as enunciated

Learner:

understand: think in English words

Object #5 (“sophomore”): The Catthe rest of first sentence

Notes to Coach and Learner:

enunciate: “kih” “gih”

pace: as enunciated

Learner:

understand: think in English words

Object #6 (“junior”): The Catsecond sentence

Notes to Coach and Learner:

enunciate: “kih” “kihwih” “gih”

pace: pause after QUICKLY:

Learner:

understand: think in English words

Object #7 (“senior”): The Catthird sentence and closing

Notes to Coach and Learner:

enunciate: “gih” “kih”; in END, stress “D”

pace: pause after KITE

Learner:

understand: think in English words

Object #8: common expressions

Hello, Nice to see you, How are you?

Your name? I’m, See you soon

Please, I have a question

Sorry, Thank you, Where’s?

Was nothing, Bye, That’s it

I love you. How do you say?

Object #9: lyric one-liners

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas

Take me out to the ball game

God save the queen

Oh, say, can you see by the dawn’s early light

This land is your land

Let me call you sweetheart

Roll out the barrel

When Irish eyes are smiling

It’s a long way to Tipperary

By the light of the silvery moon

I’ve been working on the railroad

Casey would waltz with the strawberry blonde

Be kind to your web-footed friends

The caissons go rolling along

Deep in the heart of Texas

You’re a grand old flag

Give my regards to Broadway

East side, West side, all around the town

I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy

From the halls of Montezuma

For he’s a jolly good fellow

Rain, rain, go away

She’ll be coming round the mountain

Anchors aweigh

Happy birthday

You’ll never walk alone

Yes, we have no bananas

We won’t come back till it’s over, over there

PS: The plan can function as well with any other language.