Poem-Shaped Pronunciation Challenge

"The Chaos", by Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), is a poem that reached me a few days ago via facebook. I have to admit that it was an interesting activity although too long a task to fulfill! If you are able to complete the reading until the very end and without a mistake, consider yourself a champion in phonectics!!!! I'll leave you with your task, which has the incredible and challenging statistics of not being correctly pronounced by 90% of native speakers!!!

Click to read the Pronunciation Challenge Poem

So....How was that??? Now you can listen to the correct pronunciation and double check your performance by clicking HERE. I didn't embed the link to avoid the temptation of easy cheating ;)

-ED pronunciation

More often that not, we struggle to get the pronunciation of regular verbs in the past right. Tricks to it? We need to focus a bit on phonetics to master this area.
If the chart on the left means little to you in terms of actual help, try listening to this -ED pronunciation tutorial. 

5 Golden Speaking Rules

http://www.talkenglish.com/ExtraLessons/SpeakingRules.aspx

The five speaking rules you'll find in the link can be summed up in one: "practice, practice, practice". It's never enough!

How to improve your Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing

Oxford University Press has recently published an article by Helen Stepanova about this topic under the title that follows. Read it and put her recommendations into practice.

Productive Skills: Resources for Independent Learning

How to guide

A very comple guide on how to in English, language learning wise ;)

Top Ten Language Exchange Websites to Speak in English

http://www.myenglishteacher.eu/blog/your-top-10-language-exchange-websites-for-speaking-english-fluently/

Conversation Skills

If Speaking is the issue, let me share with you 5 tips to improve your conversation skills 5_conversational_tips