Archive for the “Speaking skills” Category

29 01 2012

Pronunciation help is on its way

Posted by Christine in Pronunciation, Speaking skills, Tool, tags:

Need help with your pronunciation?  Try this simple tool.  Type in a text, press ‘say it’, listen – and repeat.

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27 06 2011

Interjections – a big word for those little words

Posted by Christine in Speaking skills, tags: ,

Punctuation marks made of puzzle pieces
Creative Commons License photo credit: Horia Varlan

Interjections are short exclamations, like ah!, oh!, um …  It’s not bad to know some of them!

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26 04 2010

How to Be More Diplomatic

Posted by Christine in Communication, Quick and Dirty Tips, Speaking skills, tags: ,

Would you like to learn how to be more diplomatic?  Then let the Public Speaker help you.

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01 03 2010

Improve your pronunciation

Posted by Christine in Pronunciation, Speaking skills, Videos, tags: ,

EnglishCentral is a new website with a growing library of subtitled videos.  They are grouped into three levels of difficulty.  Topics covered include Business, Daily Life, Dining/Food, Social Life, Travel and Technology.    Why not plug in a microphone and record the lines you hear and read and check out your pronunciation and speaking skills?

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