Hi friends! Enjoy my recap of this week's email briefing.

Every week, I generate a quick brief about 5 interests for the week relating to accent modification and English learning. If you have a  few minutes on your commute to work or lunch break and want to consume some interesting content in the world of English learning, enjoy! This episode is going to a plug for my newsletter and a recap in audio form if that's easier to digest. Hope you find it interesting.

If you learn better from reading, head over to http://brief.lucidaccent.com/ to read the current and previous newsletters!

About the Show: AccentOutLoud is your weekly source for English communication, insights, experimentation, and inspiration. Every   Thursday (and sometimes more) I'll share my personal take on English communication, tips of English communication and what I think is important in clear communication. If you have an interest in improving your English communication, learning a speech-language pathologist's perspective on the field, or just want a uniquely interesting podcast,   you're sure to find something useful in each episode. It's my hope that you'll become a fan and gain a better appreciation and understanding of what is involved in your accent as a result!

AccentOutLoud is proudly made by me, a one-man team from Lucid  Accent Consulting. Feel  free to get in touch for any thoughts, ideas,  or feedback

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Happy Halloween Everyone!

Just a review of my Oct 30th newsletter. In this episode, I talk about a few interesting things

About the Show: AccentOutLoud is your weekly source for English communication, insights, experimentation, and inspiration. Every  Thursday (and sometimes more) I'll share my personal take on English communication, tips of English communication and what I think is important in clear communication. If you have an interest in improving your English communication, learning a speech-language pathologist's perspective on the field, or just want a uniquely interesting podcast,  you're sure to find something useful in each episode. It's my hope that you'll become a fan and gain a better appreciation and understanding of what is involved in your accent as a result!

AccentOutLoud is proudly made by me, a one-man team from Lucid Accent Consulting. Feel  free to get in touch for any thoughts, ideas, or feedback Check me out  on Instagram - www.instagram.com/LucidAccent/

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Hi  friends! Enjoy my recap of this week's email briefing. 

Every week, I generate a quick brief about 5 interests for the  week relating to accent modification and English learning. If you have a  few minutes on your commute to work or lunch break and want to consume  some interesting content in the world of English learning, enjoy! This  episode is going to a plug for my newsletter and a recap in audio form  if that's easier to digest. Hope you find it interesting.

If you learn better from reading, head over to http://brief.lucidaccent.com/ to read the current and previous newsletters!

About the Show: AccentOutLoud is your weekly source for English   communication, insights, experimentation, and inspiration. Every   Thursday (and sometimes more) I'll share my personal take on English   communication, tips of English communication and what I think is   important in clear communication. If you have an interest in improving   your English communication, learning a speech-language pathologist's   perspective on the field, or just want a uniquely interesting podcast,   you're sure to find something useful in each episode. It's my hope that   you'll become a fan and gain a better appreciation and understanding  of  what is involved in your accent as a result!

AccentOutLoud is  proudly made by me, a one-man team from Lucid  Accent Consulting. Feel  free to get in touch for any thoughts, ideas,  or feedback

Check me out  on Instagram - www.instagram.com/LucidAccent/

Check me out on Facebook - www.facebook.com/KrisWanLucidAccent/

Check out my newsletter - http://brief.lucidaccent.com/

Hi friends! Every week, I generate a quick brief about 5 interests for the week relating to accent modification and English learning. If you have a few minutes on your commute to work or lunch break and want to consume some interesting content in the world of English learning, enjoy! This episode is going to a plug for my newsletter and a recap in audio form if that's easier to digest. Hope you find it interesting.

If you learn better from reading, head over to http://brief.lucidaccent.com/ to read the current and previous newsletters!

About the Show: AccentOutLoud is your weekly source for English  communication, insights, experimentation, and inspiration. Every  Thursday (and sometimes more) I'll share my personal take on English  communication, tips of English communication and what I think is  important in clear communication. If you have an interest in improving  your English communication, learning a speech-language pathologist's  perspective on the field, or just want a uniquely interesting podcast,  you're sure to find something useful in each episode. It's my hope that  you'll become a fan and gain a better appreciation and understanding of  what is involved in your accent as a result!

AccentOutLoud is  proudly made by me, a one-man team from Lucid Accent Consulting. Feel  free to get in touch for any thoughts, ideas, or feedback

Check me out  on Instagram - www.instagram.com/LucidAccent/

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Your speaking pace is an important key component of engaged, entertaining communication. Mastering your speaking pace and knowing when to slow down versus speed up is important in ultimately communicating your message clearly. I've said it before but it's not what you say, but how you say it that is important. 

Practicing this skill is helpful to communicate certain ideas and knowing which ideas are best delivered slowly or fast is helpful to your listener. Your job as a speaker is in packaging the content in the correct context.

100 word stories

Speech rate guidelines:

Calculating your Speech Rate = # words / duration of time

About the Show: AccentOutLoud is your weekly source for English  communication, insights, experimentation, and inspiration. Every  Thursday (and sometimes more) I'll share my personal take on English  communication, tips of English communication and what I think is  important in clear communication. If you have an interest in improving  your English communication, learning a speech-language pathologist's  perspective on the field, or just want a uniquely interesting podcast,  you're sure to find something useful in each episode. It's my hope that  you'll become a fan and gain a better appreciation and understanding of  what is involved in your accent as a result!

AccentOutLoud is  proudly made by me, a one-man team from Lucid Accent Consulting. Feel  free to get in touch for any thoughts, ideas, or feedback Check me out  on Instagram - www.instagram.com/LucidAccent/

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Loudness, Pitch and Length are the trifecta of engaging speech. Mastering each of these suprasegmental aspects of English communication presents a speaker with the capability to communicate nuance and command attention. Without it, you may be understood in content but the delivery may be lackluster, monotonous and ultimately fall on deaf ears.

These aspects of English communication are not consistently discussed in language learning schools to the degree that I think is necessary as compared with grammar and it can communicate (even unconsciously) lack of confidence.  

About the Show: AccentOutLoud is your weekly source for English  communication, insights, experimentation, and inspiration. Every  Thursday (and sometimes more) I'll share my personal take on English  communication, tips of English communication and what I think is  important in clear communication. If you have an interest in improving  your English communication, learning a speech-language pathologist's  perspective on the field, or just want a uniquely interesting podcast,  you're sure to find something useful in each episode. It's my hope that  you'll become a fan and gain a better appreciation and understanding of  what is involved in your accent as a result!

AccentOutLoud is  proudly made by me, a one-man team from Lucid Accent Consulting. Feel  free to get in touch for any thoughts, ideas, or feedback Check me out  on Instagram - www.instagram.com/LucidAccent/

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Stumbled upon 31 Commonly Mispronounced Words and figured it would be helpful to hear a native English speaker struggle, think and learn pronunciations of words. A key insight is that native English speakers aren't crippled by the incongruencies between a word's pronunciation and its spelling. Non-native English speakers focus very heavily on this mismatch and at times, are paralyzed by it rather than being able to move on. 

Native English speakers will naturally encounter new words that they have never heard before. As the language adopts new words, there will naturally be new words or old words that become popular. Native English speakers will extract the value by hearing the pronunciation and associate it with the visual representation of the word, but are NOT crippled by any mismatch that occurs because there is ALREADY an acceptance of exceptions to the spelling.

Being comfortable with that mismatch is the key to being comfortable with English.

About the Show: AccentOutLoud is your weekly source for English  communication, insights, experimentation, and inspiration. Every  Thursday (and sometimes more) I'll share my personal take on English  communication, tips of English communication and what I think is  important in clear communication. If you have an interest in improving  your English communication, learning a speech-language pathologist's  perspective on the field, or just want a uniquely interesting podcast,  you're sure to find something useful in each episode. It's my hope that  you'll become a fan and gain a better appreciation and understanding of  what is involved in your accent as a result!

AccentOutLoud is  proudly made by me, a one-man team from Lucid Accent Consulting. Feel  free to get in touch for any thoughts, ideas, or feedback 

Check me out  on Instagram - www.instagram.com/LucidAccent/

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Ever wonder how native English speakers pick up new words? How do they break down and pronounce a new word that they just learned. I try to break down - in real time - what I pay attention to and how I use pitch to accurately learn new words.

Check out https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/ for all the words from today's episode.

About the Show: AccentOutLoud is your weekly source for English  communication, insights, experimentation, and inspiration. Every  Thursday (and sometimes more) I'll share my personal take on English  communication, tips of English communication and what I think is  important in clear communication. If you have an interest in improving  your English communication, learning a speech-language pathologist's  perspective on the field, or just want a uniquely interesting podcast,  you're sure to find something useful in each episode. It's my hope that  you'll become a fan and gain a better appreciation and understanding of  what is involved in your accent as a result!

AccentOutLoud is  proudly made by me, a one-man team from Lucid Accent Consulting. Feel  free to get in touch for any thoughts, ideas, or feedback Check me out  on Instagram - www.instagram.com/LucidAccent/

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In this episode, I ruminate over a recent journal article read about Pakistani-English and the frustrations associated with English language learning centers in Pakistan. Many of the raised concerns are factors that are not even directly related to the techniques or processes in teaching English, but based on the socio-cultural standing of the learners and country.

Although I have concerns with the methodology of the investigation, the qualitative sentiment that the author communicates is palpable and establishes some potentially detrimental concerns with predictable repercussions.

Check out the article here

About the Show: AccentOutLoud is your weekly source for English  communication, insights, experimentation, and inspiration. Every  Thursday (and sometimes more) I'll share my personal take on English  communication, tips of English communication and what I think is  important in clear communication. If you have an interest in improving  your English communication, learning a speech-language pathologist's  perspective on the field, or just want a uniquely interesting podcast,  you're sure to find something useful in each episode. It's my hope that  you'll become a fan and gain a better appreciation and understanding of  what is involved in your accent as a result!

AccentOutLoud is  proudly made by me, a one-man team from Lucid Accent Consulting. Feel  free to get in touch for any thoughts, ideas, or feedback Check me out  on Instagram - www.instagram.com/LucidAccent/

Check me out on Facebook - www.facebook.com/KrisWanLucidAccent/