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Main
Menu for
DVD-3
with
links to
four Sub-Menus.
Below are menus for:
Guide to Consonants and
Practice Material
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List
of Operative Words.
Operative
Words
practiced in sentences. |
Consonant Energy
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Consonants
have tremendous Musical Values
that often go undiscovered in untrained speakers. Realizing these
musical values makes your speech more sonorous and more persuasive. For
the ESL student they are important keys to gaining American rhythm
patterns and intonations. For example, learning to sustain the legato
qualities in the "N" and the "M" is very pleasing and
musical, and brings forth a fullness to your speech. For speakers from
countries where the native language is spoken in a more staccato
rhythm, the very act of just lengthening their "N's" and "M's"
will alter their overall tempo-rhythm. The results will be much closer
to the music of American speech.
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Critically acclaimed
Animations introduce each of the consonants. |
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| Animations
show: Tongue
Movement and Points of Contact for Feeling or Vibration. |
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Introduced here, is the
Voiced 'N'. |
Yellow
indicates where Vibration
is felt, in the Tongue Blade, Upper Gumridge, Nose Bone,
and Vocal Cords. |
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N
Word
List
GREEN
letters are Legato or Sustainable Consonants. Green for "Go".
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N Sentences |
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1)
Playing the Consonants for
Full Musical Value
Repeat:
2) Using the Consonants to
Support the Meaning |
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Animation
for D
Play
this D
drumbeat on the springing away of the tongue from the upper gumridge.
Feel a pulsation in the tongue. |
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D
Word
List
RED
letters are Staccato or Plosive Consonants. Red for "Stop".
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D Sentences |
1)
Playing the Consonants for
Full Musical Value
Repeat:
2) Using the Consonants to
Support the Meaning |
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Animation
for GD
Still
picture at Right, shows the
first drumbeat G,
which will move into a
second drumbeat D. |
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GD
Word
List
Feel
each
drumbeat as a separate event.
Feel the double tap-tap. |
GD Sentences |
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1)
Playing the Consonants for
Full Musical Value
Repeat:
2) Using the Consonants to
Support the Meaning |
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A
Black Background
Title Card
separates each segment in the program,
for easy indexing. |
Contents of Consonant Energy
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Overview
of Consonants
N / M / V / F / Z / S
B / B-V / P / D / T
T as D / G / K
PT / KT / GD / BD
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More Consonant Energy
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The Consonants are traditionally
recognized as the sounds which shape and articulate our speech.
When someone is said to have "sloppy speech" or is hard to understand,
generally it is because they have underplayed consonants. At the other
end of the scale are speakers who are overly precise, sometimes
described as "clipped speech". Some ESL speakers, in their diligent
efforts to "speak clearly", will give too hard a treatment to some
consonants.
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People
learning ESL need to
clearly distinguish between the Voiced and Unvoiced
pairs of consonants, like "B" and "P". Most ESL learners
need to work on getting more vocal cord vibration into their
Voiced Consonants. The Animations showing points of contact with the
lips, the teeth, the tongue, the gums, and the hard palate will not
only help your articulation, but will conduct strong vocal cord
vibration. The results will be consonants that are both strong and
sweet.
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Animation
of DG
A
combination of the D drumbeat
with the ZH resonance. |
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DG
Word
List
Use
a
light, quick, energetic staccato treatment. |
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DG Sentences |
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1)
Playing the Consonants for
Full Musical Value
Repeat:
2) Using the Consonants to
Support the Meaning |
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Animation
of DZ
Press
the
tongue against the upper gumridge for the D drumbeat and peel
the tip down a bit as the Z vibrates just before the tongue
springs away. |
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DZ
Word
List
Use
a
light staccato treatment--
without sustaining the Z. |
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DZ Sentences |
1)
Playing the Consonants for
Full Musical Value
Repeat:
2) Using the Consonants to
Support the Meaning |
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Contents of More Consonants |
TH
/ TH / SH / ZH
NG / NK / NG
L / W / Y / R / H
DG / CH / DZ / TS
DL / TL |
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