One of the toughest things for people learning English is pronunciation. Despite English having an alphabet of only 26 letters over a thousand different sounds can be created with them, making English one of the simplest and yet complicated languages in the world. At Smith’s 英会話 Hirakata we make it a priority for students to […]
Decorating the Smith`s school of English Fuse with Cyclamen
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。 日本語のメインサイトはこちら This week, I put these beautiful red Cyclamen シクラメン in our English school in Fuse, Higashiosaka 東大阪布施. The Japanese name, シクラメン is taken from the Latin original name when the flower first came to Japan during the Meiji period, but contrary to Cosmos コスモス and Carnation カーネーション the pronunciation 発音 in English is quite different […]
Showing students how to pronounce English properly 2
In an earlier posting of mine, “Showing students how to pronounce English properly”, I wrote about how I showed a student of mine how to properly pronounce the sounds “er” (as in “waiter”) and “ir” (as in “birthday”), as well as “th” (as in “the”) using the Smith’s curriculum. You can read about it by clicking […]