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A visit to the speech therapist | ||
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| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4800 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 9 of 10 03 February 2014 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
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I've seen speech therapists at work a few years back. I don't know what I'd expected back
then, but it definitely didn't involve the multitude of toys and language games to help kids overcome pronunciation and language barriers. And it struck me, then, their work is very similar to that of a language tutor, albeit for kids. The kid in question, like you, EMK, was pronouncing the "th" as "f". e.g three sounded like "free". He'd say, I'm free when he meant three years old, and it was particularly cute :D But yeah, a trip to the speech therapist might be worth a shot, if at least to help distinguish the differences in foreigner's aural perception of sounds. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7135 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 10 of 10 04 February 2014 at 6:22am | IP Logged |
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I did something similar the last time I was studying in China. During the two weeks we
had off in October, I hired a voice coach--someone who worked with TV news anchors and reporters. I met with her for two hours a day and she drilled me on tones. I shouldn't have been surprised but I was because my ability to "hear" tones in other people's speaking increased dramatically. She also worked with me on some sounds, the ones that I tend to get lazy about. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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