hey..im bored..is there anybody who wants to talk to me..?

hey check out this website they have an online radio too :D
ww.animecourtyard.com can be nice to practice songs

hello to all..im edo, and want to learn basic languages.

Hope you could spare sometimes with me guys..

I would like also to have English and Filipino conversation.

Hi am Dr.Vinny, a medical doctor. Nice to meet u all here.

Regards

hey do you know when Skip Beat season 2 is coming out or will it com out?

Certainly that’s one thought. If that’s the easiest way to put it, great (and I’ll just add explanation to flesh it out more).

I think the fact EduFire classes are recorded will be a major virtue in that situation.

I think I’ll have to offer classes and 1 on 1 in that area specifically. What would be the best thing to call it? Intonation, accent within words, stress on syllables, proper emphasis of syllables? There’s different flavors to use but I’m not sure which one would be most correct, and most understandable to non-native speakers.

That’s the sort of issue where making sure the student masters one part seems quite vital before adding another version of the word. For that matter, I’m not even sure it’s a good idea to present a different pronciation/ usage/ meaning in the same class and on the same day. I’ll have to ask around about that idea.

I see.Whoa! I never attacked a teacher! D: Well I may act a bit crazy in Lauren-sensei’s japanese music class but I text her and she is cool about it cause her class is fun! I saved every single note of her lesson before my computer crashed. DX It seems edufire is too much for me right now. I think I’ll take a two year brake.Since I don’t have much time anyway. o-o I’ll only take Lauren-sensei’s class.Well bye everyone. (Darn I wish there were cute icon’s I could use xP)

ヴァレりーさん、お誕生日おめでとうございます。
Being with you in Enrique’s class is one of my first eduMemories :)

Well, it’s no problem at all to record a few short clips so I’ll have to think about doing that. Thanks for the tips.

I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and have lived there virtually all my life. Fortunately I’m quite accustomed to stressing intonation while keeping a normal-sounding tone. I aimed for a neutral accent while learning in school, though my style of speech, I’m told, borrows from what’s considered normal in the northeastern US (shared by much of Atlantic Canada’s English-speaking population). It seems about as neutral as anything’s going to get.

The suggestion about different sentences seems important. As for audio, well, obviously I’m not learning the language myself but, I’ve seen a bit of podcasts for English learning…. and according to those few who’ve listened to a recent mp3 I made narrating an article I wrote introducing my Sun Tzu: The Art of War material, I’m doing a pretty good job with my own voice/ audio. Surely I can use that in more than just the classroom too.

I was discussing some ideas about where to head next with my tutoring. Now that I’ve put up my website for some longer-term, strategic objectives (like teaching strategic thinking itself), I was looking at teaching something to do with languages. I witnessed my Colombian stepmother finally pinning someone down (my father) on the proper pronunciation of “psychiatrist” (the subject was the shooter in that terrible shooting at Ft. Worth).

Apparently a) this wasn’t an easy trick for her, a native Spanish speaker, and b) she’d actually been outright rejected when she asked for help pronouncing it slowly over the preceding seven years. This includes an English tutor paid by the (Canadian) government to help immigrants. The tutor insisted she should learn how to speak it quickly, by hearing it quickly; this approach was, suffice to say, not successful.

Early on when I started tutoring with SuperPass classes, I tried to target things like phrasal verbs, idioms, and vocabulary (with very light sprinkles of grammar). I’m wondering if perhaps my effort was not misplaced; there’s plenty of sources for people to learn grammar, but good speech coaches seem few enough. I’m thinking of focusing on proper pronunciation and ensuring a student walks away able to speak a small body of words well rather than a large body of words poorly.

Having said that, this is new territory for me so… tutors, how should I go about this? Thanks in advance for your various opinions.

@all thanks for the welcome back! Hope things settle down soon!

Sounds great. I’m still scraping by and not even affording a SuperPass class in current circumstances, so I may end up cheering from the sidelines, but I certainly have been hammering out PowerPoint presentations. I certainly respect the work that’s involved in making good ones.

No advice on times from me.