American English: How to lose your accent in 7 lessons: 2015

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Thursday, November 12, 2015

1.16 Antonyms 1

Learning opposites makes languages easier.

Exercise 1: Recite each word aloud, going across the row.

Exercise 2: Create a sentence for each one.

1. increase 2. decrease

3. inhabited 4. uninhabited(un-in-hab-i-tid)

5. inferior 6. superior

7. inside 8. outside

9. intelligent 10. stupid

Metric conversions: Weights, Measurements (metric), American Currency & Time

Numbers 3: Metric conversions: Weights, Measurements (metric), American Currency & Time

Exercise 1: Practice saying the list out loud.

[= (equals)]

One pound (lb.) = (equals) 16(sixteen) ounces (ounsez) (oz.)

One Metric Ton (tuhn) (mt) = 1,000 kilograms (kgs) = 2,205 Pounds (lbs.) = 1.1 American Tons (tuhn) (t)

One ounce (ounse) (oz.) = 28.35 grams (g)

One inch (in) = 2.54 centimeters (cm)

One foot (ft.) = 12 inches (in) = .3 meter (m), (three tenths of a meter) or decimal (des-uh-muhl) point three.

One yard (yahrd) (yd.) = 3 feet (ft.)

One mile (mahyl) (mi) = 5,280 feet = 1.6 kilometers (ki-lom-i-ters) (kms.) = 1,760 yards

Cardinal numbers, Ordinal numbers and Wedding Anniversary stones

Numbers 1: Cardinal numbers, Ordinal numbers and Wedding Anniversary stones

Exercise: Recite each word aloud, project your voice to the back of the room. Go down the columns and then across. Take a deep breath.

Cardinal number	Wedding Anniversary	Ordinal number
Zero(zeer-oh)
One(wuhn)	Gold(gohld)	First(furst)
Two (too)	Garnet(gahr-nit)	Second(sek-uhnd)
Three(three)	Pearl(purl)	Third(thurd)

1.10 Dialogue 1: Standard American Greetings and basic questions. (partial dialogue)

Exercise 1: Practice until they are easy. The first of many dialogues, practice these basic greetings.

Exercise 2: Distinctly recite each series of greetings and responses aloud. Then switch characters and try again and again until it flows.

Alex: Hi, how are you?

Tom: Fine, my name is Tom, nice to meet you.

Pete: What s’up? What’s the matter for you? Where are you from?

Alex: Cleveland (kleev-luh). Hello, good morning. How you feeling? Better?

Pete: Better. Jet-lag. Where’s the coffee? What time is it? What do you do?

Alex: It’s seven in the morning. The coffee is in the back. I’m your tour guide, remember? Here’s my card.

1.9 Compare and contrast 1

Compare (kuhm-pair) and contrast (kuhn-trast). These words are often confused.

Exercise 1: Practice until they are easy.

Exercise 2: Create a simple sentence for each word.

Bet (bet)

Bed (bed)

Boat (boht)

Bought (bawt)

Bolt (bohlt)

Bold (bohld)

Bald (bawld)

This is a partial list of colors which list includes familiar colors as well as colors from the tapestry of America. I'm sure in later editions I will have little holographic paint chips but until then you might want to look up colors you don’t know. During lessons I'd often look up many different colors like chartreuse and magenta.

Exercise 1: Recite each color out loud.

Exercise 2: Create a sentence for each color.

Exercise 3: Research each color, frequency and origins.

Almond (ah-mond)

Apricot (ap-ri-kot)

Aquamarine (ak-wuh-muh-reen)

Auburn (aw-bern)

Augusta green (aw-guhs-tuh green)

Avocado (av-uh-kah-doh)

Azure (azh-er)

Directional, Navigational and Action terms

Visitors and drivers often get confused about directional terms. I asked a student who had been driving for a year, if she knew what the word yield meant, she said, speed up?

Stay alert when driving and don’t drive and text. By the way, yield means, let the other driver in, they have the right of way.

Exercise 1: Recite the words below aloud.

Exercise 2: Create a simple sentence for each word.

Action (ak-shuhn)

Alongside (un-lawng-sahyd)

Aside (uh-sahyd)

Back (bak)

Backward (bak-werd)

Behind (bee-hynd)

Chop (chop)

Clap (klap)

Coast (kohst)

Cuddle (kuhd-l)

Cut (kuht)

Dive (dahyv)

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Study with American English and the Hollywood tutor.

Just filmed.

Friday, September 11, 2015

American English Student

A student gave me a compliment yesterday. He said that he wanted to work for an hour or so since he has a big job interview tomorrow in San Francisco and the last time we worked together he woke up the next morning and was speaking English the best he had ever spoken. He said his articulation was crisp and that he was saying new words.
I was speechless for a moment, thinking how great that was to hear and how wonderful it is to be able to do that.

Monday, September 7, 2015

Nine degrees of force

Or stress

Rate of movement

Time

Gestures

Space

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Waking up and smelling the coffee.

Morning

Friday, August 21, 2015

The Ear

Please listen.

Friday, August 14, 2015

Hollywood vespa

Zoom zoom

Scrabble

Iced coffee, Big Lebowski, American English and Scrabble.

For those hot days.

Friday and iced coffee.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Emerson, Hollywood

Sunset Blvd

Monday, July 27, 2015

American English can be fun.

Friday, July 24, 2015

American English: Visiting Hollywood.

Will I see stars on Hollywood Blvd.?

Sunday, July 12, 2015

American English

Friday, July 10, 2015

American English, the Hollywood tutor, Mitch Rubman

Good morning.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

American English by Mitch Rubman

Its more than just an a to z pronunciation guide. It increases your vocabulary quickly and effortlessly.
It's also snapshot of modern Hollywood and covers dozens of specific categories through lists of words, new words with sentences and funny real dialogues.