Proficient English through International Phonetic Alphabet ( http://www.hkich.com  )   A unique crash course on learning English as a second language  with a focus on rectifying common flaws of locally (Hong Kong) spoken English and a promise of a new insight into language learning and an experience you probably never had    This course shows you plainly and directly how you can speak English -grammatically correct -phonetically sound -phrasally fluent and -tonally expressive    This course provides you with ample drills and exercises to rid your acquired old and unwanted habits and re-form your new and correct ways in spoken English that you and your friends can be proud of 1.      How is your English?   -if you speak English         -flatly, monotonously        -intermittently, word by word instead of phrase by phrase        -uniformly, making no provision for strong/weak or long/short sounds;  -if you speak English by direct translation from your thoughts in Chinese;  -if you drop all or most of the consonant sounds, (middle or end-sound); -if you find it easier understanding your local friends instead of native speakers;  -if your pronunciation shows no difference (where it should) between these (among hundreds of others) words: bad and bed pick and peak fool and full count and can’t mission and vision there and dare three free and fee kill keel and queue fill feel and few Then, changes are you are speaking English‘a la Hong Kong style’.  This course can effectively help you rectify these problems.   2.      What went wrong? An average child in Hong Kong spends over 20 continuous years learning English, with a result still far from satisfactory. Clearly, there must be something wrong either with the way English is being taught or the one teaching it. I firmly believe that in the case of Hong Kong, both counts are true.   3.      Arrangements:  The class: Basically, this is a personal couching of one-to-one situation, having said that, small classes (maximum 5 learners per class) can be arranged if and when desired.  The session: You may choose the length of a session according to your own needs: 60-minute session, 90-minute session or 120-minute session The place: You may designate your place of preference (your home? your office? etc.), alternately, we will agree on a place mutually acceptable. The frequency/date/time: Again, you may choose your own frequency/date/time of preference, as long as it doesn’t clash with my class-time. The payment of fees: No pre-payment of fees is required. You pay as each session ends and you are at liberty to discontinue our arrangement after any given session.   4.      Suited candidates: -teachers of English (specially at Primary and Secondary levels) -executives (at companies where a good spoken English counts) -lovers of English language (wishing to brush up their English) -students (Primary 3 and upward)   5.      I am  Uncle Dominic (speaking English, Spanish, Putonghua and Cantonese) mobile: 9128 8649 email: dominiclien@yahoo.com.hk  (September 2009)    Read on for additional information                 ↘↘                                                                                                                ↘↘ Why International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)?   English is not a ‘phonetic’ language, where constant sounds are applied to spelled words; therefore, a tool is needed to help us ‘pronounce’ each and every word in English. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is such a tool. Unfortunately, IPA is not taught in Hong Kong schools as part of the official curriculum, this results in:       -Hong Kong students not being able to use a dictionary as a pronouncing tool; -Hearing different pronunciation for one word, Hong Kong students have no way to verify the right from the wrong, (majority of teachers being no help in this regards, as they themselves were brought up under a similar if not identical environment). IPA improves and perfects your English pronunciation to become more conversant with your future professional and social encounters, as it helps you -to phonetically pronounce all English words (100%) -to read European languages such as: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese etc. (95%) -to read Romanized form of most Asian languages such as: Japanese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Indian and Tagalog (95%) -to read Putonghua pinyin (70%) -to read Germanic and Russian lines of languages (30%)

 

國 際 音 標 班 （IPA）
(International Phonetic Alphabet for English Language)

基於絕大多數的香港中小學課程內容﹐不包括國際音標一科﹐一般香港學生學習英文字的發音﹐只好和學中文字一樣﹐一字一字的背記; 查閱字典﹐也只是為了解意而已﹐並非為了發音。

學習國際音標﹐不單能解決您英文發音的全部問題﹐它還能幫您﹕
* 直接閱讀多種拉丁語系的歐洲語言﹐如:意大利﹐西班牙﹐葡萄牙文等
* 直接閱讀多種用羅馬文拼寫的亞洲語言﹐如:日文﹐印尼﹐馬來﹐印度﹐ 菲律賓文等
* 直接閱讀德文和蘇聯文系的多半音韻
* 直接閱讀多半普通話拼音

課程重點﹕
* 全套英文選用的國際音標音符
* 每個聲母(consonant)和韻母(vowel)的正確發音
* 指導及糾正個別學生的發音困難
* 重音(accent)﹐聲韻(pitch), 音韻(intonation)
* 英文發音的四大指引
* 學習英文第二語言的一般難題

課程長度﹕一般學習者可在十節(每節兩小時)內﹐掌握國際音標的技巧

報名方法
全年均接受報名。(歡迎自組小組上課)

授課語言﹕ 英語及廣東話授課
學費﹕ 面議 (以人數而定)
報名方法﹕ 請先致電預約時間


有關課程之查詢及報名可致電: 星期一至五11am－1pm 25717571 或 91288649 (Dominic先生) 或電郵: ses@hkich.com

 

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