English pronunciation for children

Elocution kids aims to help you teach your child the basics of British English Elocution. Elocution for Kids in manageable 30 minute lessons with maximum attention and focus on your child's weaknesses. Start Date:   Continuous Enrolment Duration:   6 weeks (30 minutes per lesson) Number of Lessons:    6 x 30 minute Price:   £140 (£23.33 per 30 minute lesson) Level:   Beginners to Advanced At the end of the course, your child may transfer to our LAMDA for Kids Elocution Courses, if desired. Our One-to-One Kids' Elocution Lessons cover: ·          The basic sounds of BBC English ·          English articulation exercises ·          Increasing flexibility in speech organs ·          Developing m...

The adolescent grunt is an amazing utterance. Interestingly, it appears to be culturally and linguistically universal. Moreover, it is particularly prevalent in young adolescent men learning English. Often, it is accompanied by lack of facial gesture or expression, which makes it even more difficult for the receiver to understand what is trying to said.   For such a significant and universal utterance which occurs at a set age and does not seem to be gender specific, you may wonder why this linguistic landmark does not feature in the stages of language development. Let’s see, we start with crying at birth, cooing at 6 weeks, babbling at six months, intonation patterns at eight months, one-word utterances at one year, two-word utterances at 18 months, word inflections at 24 months, question and negatives at 27 months, rare and complex constructions at five years, mature speech at 10 years, and . . . the single sound...

Elocutionkids aims to help you teach your child the basics of British English Elocution. By bringing together the expertise of elocution teachers, specialised English teachers,  LAMDA  teachers, and speech and language therapists under one umbrella as ‘Speech and Language Practitioners’, we aim to pool, share and to simplifying our knowledge to help you meet your child’s speech, language and communication needs in an accessible and affordable way. \ In this Elocution Practice, you will learn about the importance of strong vowel sounds for British English Elocution.  You will be introduced to four important vowels.  You will also learn the special phonetic symbols for these vowels which come from a specialised sound alphabet called 'The International Phonetic Alphabet' - the 'IPA' for short. These important vowels are: Ah   (it sounds like 'R'!) / ɑː / Aw   (it sounds like 'Or...

Elocutionkids aims to help you teach your child the basics of British English Elocution. By bringing together the expertise of elocution teachers, specialised English teachers,  LAMDA  teachers, and speech and language therapists under one umbrella as ‘Speech and Language Practitioners’, we aim to pool, share and to simplifying our knowledge to help you meet your child’s speech, language and communication needs in an accessible and affordable way. Today, many children are exposed to more than one language or are overseas speakers where for them English is a Second or Additional Language.  For these children, developing English speech sounds and language may seem delayed due to the intrusion of their own native language or accent. For other children, English speech and language difficulties may occur as a result of several factors.  For all these children and young people, their difficulties in c...

Elocution kids aims to help you teach your child the basics of British English Elocution. This course will help your child to   learn English   and to prepare for the challenge of English testing in Selection and Entrance Examination at 11+ with confidence. Today, many children struggle with learning English. They find it difficult to hear, distinguish and form the sounds, intonation or the stress and rhythm patterns of simple spoken English words. This in turn affects their ability to spell correctly or to write using correct English grammar. It may also affect their   spoken English   as listening and speaking correlate. Faced with the rigours of selection and entrance examination in English, it is not surprising that many children are unsuccessful if there are weaknesses in any of these areas. This 'Learn English Online - Aural Training for Selection and Entrance Examinat...