okay so why don't you go ahead and  

drop in the chat where you are from  while i reposition everything here

hello in the Dominican republic anyone else  

yes it is afternoon here it's lunchtime  here in the u.s u.s eastern time

and hello all right so i am trying to figure  out here they changed the live stream and  

i have a presentation um to share with you i just  cannot figure out for the life of me how to share  

this with you all so let me try this here um  okay popped the chat out that is helpful and

all right i'm happy to review your  accent thank you all for being here  

all right and can everyone hear me okay

hello Maria all right well even though we  are having some technical difficulties i'm  

having technical difficulties because i  cannot figure out how to share my screen  

um we're going to just go ahead i just wanted  to touch base quickly with everyone here  

um i'm actually going to try to pull this up  on my phone too to see how this is looking um  

this is something i want to start weekly which  is having a question and answer with you all  

to answer any questions that you have i'm also  thinking about um changing things up a little  

bit and maybe doing um like a weekly class and i'm  thinking of doing smaller group maybe on facebook  

so that um those of you who are interested could  get a little bit more um more help with that  

all right so i'm checking on my phone here  thanks for bearing with me with all of this  

new stuff well there i am okay perfect um okay  great so everything's working i just cannot  

figure out how to share my screen so i'm gonna go  ahead and just go through my presentation with you  

um verbally and then for next week i'll try to  figure out how this is um how is this working okay  

someone's saying they'd like to have zoom okay  um i can see how that would work i do use go to  

meeting which i love um and i'm thinking about  doing that as well the thing that's nice about  

facebook is that a lot of people um are  already on the platform and it's sort  

of easy for people to join you would be shocked  how many problems i have with virtual classes um  

even though everything works so much better  now and it did before there are always issues  

with people logging into certain platforms which  makes it a little more difficult all right so um  

let's see here moving my coffee you know important  things all right so lessons that we've been having  

um a lot recently are the shorts so let's  start there and talking about the shorts  

this week so far my facebook name is at Tarle  speech let me put that in the chat and actually  

at Tarle speech is kind of the easiest  way to find me on all social media i am on  

um linkedin i have a uh company page there i  am also on facebook twitter instagram i post to  

flipboard and i just started posting to pinterest  for all of you crafters out there and people who  

are into um fixing up their houses and  things i find a lot of people go there  

um so um i'm sorry i'm trying to look back at  these classes to query yes you can say query that  

is perfect okay so i've been doing a lot of shorts  i'm really loving this format this week we had  

reciprocity resilience myriad and today was  banquet so what are you all thinking about  

the shorts is everyone loving those um do you  think that i need to change anything i think  

the biggest um complaint that i'm getting  from people and i'm sorry is that it takes um  

a little bit of time even though there's  such short lessons to get those going  

um and then also i just get so many requests and  i do really try to get to all of the requests  

it just takes me a while so thank you all for your  patience on that so loving the shorts that's great  

okay um i do have a preview for next week and  for next week we have bouquet um inalienable  

and coerced so those are some good shorts that are  um coming up okay let me just check the questions  

here again um can you stress the ow sound martin  can you give me a little more information on  

that i'm not 100 sure what you are um asking  and i will definitely try to get back to that  

oh my gosh eddie thanks telling me i'm just like  cnn i'm trying i didn't want you to see this mess  

behind me i had this cute little vignette set  up over here you can see but my computer did not  

cooperate um okay all right okay so that's number  one the shorts it sounds like people are really  

liking those i like them i think it really um it  gives people a short quick way to practice so with  

a lot of my students that i'm seeing um seeing  currently their biggest issue is just practicing  

um and time to practice because it does um take  a lot of mental space just to remember to do that  

um and so i always suggest please subscribe on  social media again it's at tarle speech describe  

to subscribe to me on most social media  channels and you will get a daily reminder  

to practice just by watching a video even if you  don't watch the video it kind of like you know  

pops into your head like oh yeah i've got  to practice my english and my pronunciation  

um today so um that's really good to do that and  the shorts again they're short and quick i love  

it and that sort of for those of you who are new  to my channel that is really what i've always been  

um really interested in is short and quick  so when i started i had the minute of speech  

and those were very short lessons um again  they're they've gotten longer over the years  

as i've gotten um more technical questions um and  you know that's just always been my driving force  

is just short and quick and free on youtube i want  to always keep it free so that people who can't  

afford my classes or english classes for that  matter can practice each week with my lessons  

not only can you practice your pronunciation  with me which is sort of the crux of my channel  

but you can um also really practice your listening  so you can try to um listen to the video a few  

times and see if you catch more and more each  time you listen to those okay so it sounds like  

people are liking the shorts um again funny  and practical so thank you and thank you  

um for the compliment that you like my  accent i appreciate that um carmen i do offer  

private coaching classes information is on  my website and let me pop that into the chat  

um so there you go um i sell my classes  in packages of five and the reason i do  

that again i know everyone's busy busy and that  way you can take about five classes really give  

them great information and go and practice  on your own my classes are all a coaching  

model i teach you what to do and then you  go off and you practice to make it a habit  

my classes that i offer are for sounds which  are vowels and consonants i suggest most people  

start there and then i move into word stress and  syllable stress and stress exception rules and  

then the last class is on intonation and pitch and  i'm actually going to add some information i've  

been doing more and more on voice in that class um  and that really helps people sound a lot clearer  

um and avoids misunderstandings which again is  kind of what i'm all about which is just being  

practical you don't have to be perfect you  just have to be clear and get your point across  

okay um let me peek back again um where where did  i attend college i went to kent state university  

which is not a big university in um ohio um  college was kind of new in my family not a lot of  

people had gone before me my brother started  going to college and all of my cousins went to  

college so it's not a really well named well-known  university but i got a great education and it led  

me here to all of you um can i say dominican  republic sure ready i'm going to say it three  

times dominican republic dominican republic so  with that you want to stress the word number one  

dominican and then unstress republic word number  two dominican republic um inevitable is pronounced

inevitable inevitable um my class is  not on zoom that i teach currently i do  

use um go to meeting which i really really like  because it provides a recording and a transcript  

after a written transcript for everyone to  review again um i can use zoom if people  

want i've also really been liking teams because  a lot of my business um clients use teams and  

so it just is easier for them to hop onto  teams it's already on their computers um  

oh candy that's the nicest comments and i'm  a blessing in your life thank you i really  

appreciate that i also just want to say you  were all so amazing 99 of the comments that i  

get on my channel are questions or really nice  comments and i really appreciate it because  

this is a labor of love i love doing this i  love that i can offer this free service to  

everyone on youtube and that you can come and just  learn um every day with me this summer i think i  

have videos scheduled through the end of october  i mean the end of september every single day  

um just because i got such great  questions from everyone um let's see  

all right i'm not an english professor i'm  actually a speech language pathologist by  

training so not only do i do this i  also work with children often times  

um and i work on many things with them i've worked  in schools i've worked in clinics and in hospitals  

i work a lot on um oh pronunciation and  just general language i've also done some  

communication devices which i really really love  for students and children who are non-verbal um  

mr devil hey how are you you give me so many  good suggestions okay um inquiry and inquiry  

i think they're exactly the same i think one  is the british spelling um all right and then  

mr dash mr purple dash um i think you're  a man i don't know maybe you're a woman um  

we is pronounced just like the word we  and i have that on my list to make a video  

um okay right and white here's my tip here  watch my mouth for white this is for grc k  

white and then i'm going to go to  those square tense lips for right white  

right so for white my tongue is just flat on  my mouth white and for right the tip of my  

tongue is down you can also flip your tongue  back it just kind of depends on the person  

um okay same for rows and woes um again think  about square tense lips don't pucker too much for  

the r that leads to mistakes okay a shot i just  made a video for sandwich you have two choices you  

can say san witch or sand which so you can either  say the d or skip the d whichever you prefer um

okay you can understand me completely thank you  helmer i think one of the reasons is is that i  

work with people um who don't speak english as  their native language i also work with people  

who don't have the best hearing or people who may  struggle with language in general so i always aim  

to over pronounce i also aim to pause more and i  also really try to focus on a focus word which is  

one word in my sentence that is louder  longer and higher which kind of highlights  

what i am talking about um yeah uh minerva i  highly recommend that you tell someone trusted  

at work in the u.s um i i mean most people's  families are of course originally from the us  

so most people in the us know people who  don't speak english as their first language  

um so we don't want to embarrass anyone by  saying oh that was wrong but if you tell someone  

they will for sure help you and tell you what  you said incorrectly one of my favorite stories  

i worked with a few doctors from south america  and they struggled with their pronunciation  

they were native spanish speakers and they were  so embarrassed by it they didn't tell anyone  

they finally told the office where they  worked all the secretaries and the nurses and  

even the pharmacists and then they got  lists of words um to work on so that  

was really helpful but you just have to tell  people and then they will they will help you  

um hr4 oh yeah i've been doing this a very long  time um i think i've been on youtube oh gosh i  

can't even remember how long now but i've been  doing pronunciation training for like 17 years um

indubitably sidewalk walker is indubitably  that's a funny word i'm sorry if i'm missing  

some of you this is going kind of fast fast  um inextricable for eddie inextricable um

minerva sorry about that find a different person  and just kind of ask again um oh my gosh biceps  

and i don't know this other word break eye  breaky i'll look that up i'll write that down

okay um let's see oh yeah i think most  people um appreciate a good accent in the us  

and again if someone asks you where you're from  i think people are just sort of intrigued by it  

um and it's a very common sort of conversation in  the u.s to be like oh where is your family from  

because again most of us were not born here our  families were not originally from um the us um  

let's see all right my spanish i'm better at  reading than i am at listening and speaking it's  

embarrassing i've taken so many years of spanish  i also practice my spanish um with my language  

learning apps and i'm just afraid to speak  it which isn't that how it always is i mean i  

hear that from all of my students it's just um you  know i get nervous um let's see hello in brazil um

let's see what are my plans for the channel um  i'm continuing um with my heteronym lessons for  

the um weekly for a while i found a bunch  of them um people are really really liking  

those and i think really surprised by those and  heteronyms are words that are spelled the same  

but they are pronounced differently and they  have different meanings um and i'm going to  

give you a little preview of those that are  coming up in a bit i also want to continue  

um with as many shorts as i can get to um and  then two for tuesday two for tuesday homophones  

those have been a fan favorite for a long time  i plan to continue with those and i really want  

to do some more lives maybe once a month um and  like i said really expand into some small group