Pronunciation MethodsUSE EASY WORDS TO PRONOUNCE DIFFICULT SOUNDS

Strictly English believes that you already pronounce many sounds correctly that you think you cannot. For

example, a student who cannot pronounce WORLD can easily say "we're all old".  When you say, "we're all

old" quickly, it sounds the same as "world." Therefore, we believe that pronouncing "world" is more of a

challenge for your mind than your mouth. It's not that your mouth can't say "world"; instead it's that your

brain can't immediately understand the letter combination "rld" in the word "world." Once you see "r," "l,"

and "d" spaced apart with the vowels "e," "a," and "o" between them in "we're allold," it makes pronouncing

"rld" less intimidating. This is just one example of the many ways we teach you to pronounce what

only appear to be difficult words.

READ BACKWARD

Many people suffer from uneven rhythm or bad flow when speaking. They repeat words (or parts of words),

they use too many "um"s, they sound out unfamiliar words too slowly, etc. Again, this is more psychological

than physiological. When we read, we're looking ahead to the next word before we've finished the word

we're currently pronouncing because we want to understand the meaning of the sentence. Therefore, to

break this desire for comprehension which impedes clear speech, we have our clients read paragraphs

backward one word at a time. Within minutes, they are then reading forward more smoothly and more

naturally.