SMART Speech: 5 Practice Techniques for Teachers and Learners of Pronunciation

by Geoff Lindsey

We’re all masters of our mother tongue. But most people cannot transfer this mastery to new languages or dialects: invisible neuro-physical and emotional blocks get in the way. This book – with plentiful online audio examples which can be accessed online – explains the techniques I use with students, teachers, actors and other professionals, to tackle those blocks and make changes in pronunciation possible. It’s a SMART approach, which will train you to go Slow, to do More, to Anticipate, to Repeat and to Turn. Whatever your mother tongue, whatever your professional or educational goals, these techniques offer greater control over your speech – and will also feed back into your listening skills. Use them and enjoy!

41 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 19, 2016

Reviews

[Sasha S · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's really a brochure, not a full-length book. Read it in less than a couple of hours. Nothing exceptionally revealing here, pretty much everything you've heard before and is pretty much common sense. Reminded me of self-help books with a bit of filler to pump up the volume, but the whole content can be summarized in a page or two. It's not bad content, it's good to see it structured, but I expected much more detail.
The only "interesting" thing I was glad to see (which I knew before and to which few people pay much attention) is that pronunciations shouldn't be studied only on individual words, but on whole phrases, as transitions between the words are just as (or sometimes more) important as pronunciation of words themselves.

Other than that, I respect Geoff Lindsey a lot and enjoy his youtube content, but this should have been a blog post, not a book.