First, it has been a long time since I last posted. For that, I am sorry. My life got very, very busy and every time I tried to sit down to write, I had another thing that needed doing.
I do hope all of you are still working hard and practicing your English! I'm still practicing my Japanese!
As a reward for your patience (if this is a reward), I will tell you a short story about me.
When I started speaking (as a child) I had a strong British accent.
This is the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen of England. Pretty awesome, eh?
No one knows why. My parents were born in Canada and I was born in Canada. Our first language was English too. It was confusing.
Also, I could not pronounce 'L' or 'R'. Crazy, eh?! An English speaker who could not pronounce the letters that many Korean and Japanese speakers also have trouble with.
So, when I was a child, I took about two years of pronunciation training. It was actually called speech therapy, but it is almost the same as pronunciation practice. In those two years, I learned how to properly shape my mouth and move my tongue so that I could speak those difficult 'L' and 'R' sounds. Hooray!
Now, I am super happy to help my students learn how to speak any English letter or combination of sounds in the English language. I love to use what I remember from my personal training to help my students.
Why not have a teacher who actually has experience with the same frustration and stress that you have?
If you can't find a teacher that understands your frustration, we can fix that!
If you would like to contact me to arrange a trial lesson, please do! You can email me at englishispersonal@gmail.com or you can respond to this message.
Talk to you soon!
Matthew
englishispersonal@gmail.com
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