The JINGLES provides you with tools to choose -- and then use!

Dear Fellow Earthlings,

The JINGLES offer the non-native speaker of English the opportunity to set kerm (his or her) own pronunciation goals. If kee (he or she) wishes to sound like kee is a native speaker of, say, England English, all kee has to do is develop kerm JINGLES to the 90-level. Once kee can do that, then kerm pronunciation will sound like that of a native speaker of England English.

But even within a given dialect of English, choices regarding pronunciation have to be made. For example, non-native speakers find themselves puzzled with the following three words: "either", "efforts", and "consumers"

By checking online dictionaries, these puzzled non-native speakers discover a wealth

of information about pronouncing such words, complete with written pronunciation

symbols, explanations, and sound byte samples.

If these seekers of proper pronunciation are lucky enough to speak a European

language similar to English, they are often able to imitate the sample pronunciations

they encounter with a great deal of accuracy.

On the other hand, people whose native languages are non-European often do not

have sufficient speech motor skills development when it comes to producing nativelike

English -- that is, the English spoken by native speakers of English in England,

the United States, Canada, the Falkland Islands, Australia, and New Zealand. It is

such people who can benefit most from Jingles training.

When such people find themselves incapable of pronouncing certain English words despite their efforts to practice them using information from books or the internet, they should try The Jingles. Before they know it, they will be pronouncing every English word they utter with phonological accuracy that approaches and (if they persist in their efforts) even reaches that of native speakers. Therefore, whether you choose "either" with "I" or "E" as the vowel, "efforts" with "or"

or "er" as the vowel, and "consumers" either with or without a y-sound between the "s" and

the "u", the fact that you have been doing Jingles training will guarantee that the "th" of

"either" will be perfect, the final "s" of "efforts" will be audible, and both the "N" and the final

"z" sound in the word "consumers" will help you pass yourself off as a native speaker of

English!

Steve Walker Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

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