It tingles when we practice Jingles!

Dear Fellow Earthlings, It is so satisfying to see my clients' happy faces as they realize that their English pronunciations are improving so quickly. It takes even a native speaker some five years before kerm pronunciation reaches parity with other native speakers. So you can imagine how happy my "quicker" clients are when they reach target language (TL) speech motor skills application parity with native speakers of the TL in only a year or two. Until the Jingles came along, learning to speak a second language after puberty meant that one could indeed learn the language, but kerm pronunciation of that language would always have at least "a trace of accent". With Jingles training, it is possible for the learner to truly develop the means to sound exactly like a native speaker of English -- or of any other language. The key to the success of "The Jingles" is the concept of the "TRAINING MODE" (TM). By developing kerm TM, the client is erecting scaffolding that will be removed after kee has achieved a TL score of 90 on kerm Jingles. After the scaffolding is removed, the "structure" (known as the "target language allophonome") stands completed, ready for polishing. But this is only the beginning of "The Jingles" experience. Some Jingles clients continue doing Jingles training even after they have reached a score of 90 in their Jingles. This is because, for the most part, a client's ability to "say kerm Jingles" with a score of 90 does not guarantee that kerm speech motor skills application expertise extends into practical applications (done of course, in normal language known as "the regular mode"). It usually takes a year of polishing and refining kerm target language speech motor skills for a client whose TM scores in "The Jingles" have reached a level of 90 to gain the ability to apply that expertise to kerm real world, every day production of kerm TL's phonology. Over and beyond this is the fact that the way non-native speakers sound when they are speaking a language that is not their native language is that they also have to develop the depths of their TL's vocabulary, grammar, syntax, semantics, and social principles. While Jingles training cannot guarantee that the learner of a given TL will be able to perform at a level equal to native speakers in the 5 areas mentioned in the previous paragraph, it does guarantee that kee will sound so good when interacting with native speakers that kee may often have to remind kerm native speaker interlocutors that the language kee is speaking is NOT kerm native language even though kerm nativelike pronunciation would lead most native speakers to believe that it was! Steve Walker

Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

© 2013 Steve Walker, The Jingles-The Japan Foundation for English Pronunciation, Summit Enterprises.