Hi welcome to the advanced pronunciation course.
My name is Mariana Lafón and I'm gonna be your teacher.
So who am I?
I am from Mexico and I currently live in Mexico city.
I am an actress, a theater producer and I'm a drama an English teacher.
I studied my masters in acting in London where I learned about vocal technique,
phonetics and phrenology.
And I also learned about the English language and the English culture.
And I want to share all that knowledge with you.
So what will you learn in this course?
You will learn about fast and slow speech.
You will look at connected speech: Assimilation, Elision and Elipsis.
We will also talk about strong and weak forms.
And also formal and informal contractions.
Now we will look at stress and intonation.
You will practice and you will apply it in conversation.
Also for conversation, we're going to talk about how to show attitude
with intonation and stress
and we're going to talk about repeat questions
so you can keep the conversation going.
We're going to look at foreign words in English,
Foreign words are words that we take from other languages
and we apply to our daily vocabulary.
And finally we're going to look at British and American vocabulary and slang.
So you can sound more fluent and more natural.
In this course, you will have special resources.
You will have close ups so you can look at what I'm doing with my mouth
and you can imitate exactly what I'm doing.
You'll have role play so you can listen to different speakers and different accents.
And finally you will have extra material that I designed for you
so you can keep practicing.
What will you need for this course?
You will need a recording device.
So this can be a voice recorder, your phone, your laptop.
You will need a hand mirror
so you can look at what you're doing with your articulators.
And you will need a notebook so you can take notes.
Don't forget to download the IPA. Quick guide.
The IPA stands for International Phonetic Alphabet.
This is a quick guide that I designed for you.
And don't forget to download the workbook and the answer key.
Also. Don't forget to check out
the intermediate and basic pronunciation courses.
Are you ready to start the advanced course? I am. Let's go.