Jingles Clients Developing at Improved Rates during 2020/2021 COVID-19 Pandemic

Dear Fellow Earthlings,

(This is the first part of a two-part blog. The second part (Installment 530) will be released tomorrow.)

It is quickly growing to be an old topic, but the Corona virus has caused many changes all over the world --

and many of these changes appear to be here for good!

One change that I personally deal with every day is how my Jingles clients -- who are for the most part

extremely diligent about trying to develop their target language pronunciations -- seem to be getting even

more diligent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For example, now that most of my clients no longer spend 10-18 hours per week commuting between work

and home, they have more time to practice their Jingles -- and to turn their attentions to the four "related areas"

that center around Jingles training:

1. Listening. 2. Speaking. 3. Communication 4. Vocabulary

Because the clients have time to relax at home, they now approach Jingles training in a more focused

manner. They are much less stressed as they practice Jingles from the privacy of their homes.

Between tasks such as doing laundry, answering emails, taking pets out for walks, preparing meals, to name

but a few, the clients love to fit in one or two online Jingles sessions per week. So "The JINGLES" just becomes

one of their daily activities, regardless of whether it is a fun-filled online session or a challenging 10-to-15 minute

Jingles at-home self-training effort.

I am amazed at how quickly my clients' English allophonomes are developing. And this includes, of course, not

only the development of their enunciations and fluency, but also of their listening comprehension skills. Regarding

the latter, the clients now jump eagerly into the task of improving their active oral/aural skills (that is, their speaking

skills) even more fervently than they did in pre-COVID-19 days.

One thing that motivates them is that (with all their free time) they are able to go online to hear every type of

possible non-native accent they wish -- knowing that as they do so, they will gain an increased ability to catch

what speakers of their target language are saying even when the sounds produced by the speakers of a majority

of creeds and cultures sound nothing like native speakers of the language in question.

Sank Good pear de Tsing koos!

(Thank God for the Jingles!)

In tomorrow's blog I will elaborate a bit on "Jingles Networking".

Steve Walker

Earthsaver and Jingles Creator

EarthSaver