You are your voice
We talked (a bit) about others judging us by our language command.
Here we have another point of view. Could you seem taller if you talked with different articulation or tone? 🙂
Open you mouth and your soul flies out…
Probably the best free web service/site/podcasts that I have stumbled upon these past years is the BBC Learning English:
Pronunciation tips
Try them and tell me what you thought about it. Do you have something else in mind?
Working on my voice,
They judge you by your language, they do
As a mentioned a bit earlier, I attended a meeting this week. An international one, in which took part people from 10 different countries. While there were 27 of us, only two were native speakers, or the so called bearers of the language.
I overheard (not to be mistaken with eavesdropped 🙂 ) that during a break between the panels, some of our colleagues were judging the intelligence of the others by… their knowledge of English. And those judges were not the natives, mind you!
So, they do not judge not only by your appearance, clothes, height, weight, beauty, what-else-not, but also by your vocabulary and grammar. They put you in these categories of theirs and no matter how well you can express yourself in your own language, you shall be considered a half-professional till you learn every rule of the English language (European English might count if you would use your charm).
Strange or not?
What a longtime English teacher Patricia Ryan wants to tell us (them) is:
Don’t insist on English!
She has a point, that lady 😉
Your not-that-grammarly perfect,
AWARDS
Just English 