Improve Your Pronunciation (1949)

once sh to me members of the junior senior classes have this banket this a time for good food and fun A Time Walter what language is that what just Mee have to turn up the I'll stop the recorder what's the matter I couldn't understand you have you written your speech sure see is this what you were saying sure you see I'm toast Masher for the banket you are what toast Masher oh Toast Master then you'll want everyone to understand your speech won't you and you'll want them to think well of you because your pronunciation is right just reading was there no you're not Walder the page reads once a year the members of the Junior and senior classes have this banquet this is a time for good and what you said reads like this that doesn't make sense no you have to say the words as clearly as they are written but I don't get it people understand what you say do they understand sure sure they do what about yesterday do you remember calling Frank you told him to meet you yeah yeah cor Ashton stub that's right Ashton and stuben but Ashland and Schubert was where Frank waited for over an hour did he no wonder who was mad well maybe it has some trouble being understood besid as everybody else yes many persons have trouble being understood take your friend Don for example remember the other day you asked Don where he was going I'm going to s CL you still didn't know the answer to your question that's it try writing what it sounded like going to sence SL I'm going to science lab you see he needs pronunciation help as much as you do and so do some of your other friends you called Jane to ask for a date what did she say what was fine where I meet you what did she say then there was Bill telling you about a movie he had seen yeah it's St at the Orum theater a real genuine Thriller but how can you put much stock in what bill says when he uses pronunciations like theater and genuine or remember in class when Betty was reading poetry I'm going to read The Village Improvement parade by Vasa Lindsay gun salute and crowds and pigeons fly bronze toic bars go striding by shouting Glory amid the Canon oh you could understand all right but who wanted to listen so pronunciation is more than speaking clearly to be understood you want to be right and you want to sound natural you want others to respect what you say because it is right yeah but how can you learn isn't there an instruction sheet here somewhere one that came with the machine yeah sure here it is that's it and somewhere in it are some rules to improve your pronunciation what are they what's one of the rules well pronounce every syo what's that got to do with let's look again but let's read the rule one syllable at a time turn on you're going too slow again per noun eie it's hard to go so slow keep trying l r e so uh B now put it all together pronounce every syllable now try it easily and naturally pronounce every syllable that's better is that all the RIS too I mean uh is that all there is to it that's the first rule pronounce every syllable now for the second pronounce each sound correctly what's the difference between that and the first rule read it pronounce each sound correctly that means each sound in every syllable and no extra sounds that's what I'm doing that's what you're doing well let's look at the rule Now read it again pronounce each sound correctly is there any difference between P R and P O P O it's a short o sound pronounce pronounce each sound now is there any difference between sound and sound sound sound each sound cor correct correctly is that what you mean that's it Walder so I should pronounce every syllable and pronounce each sound correctly what else you'll find those two rules very helpful but if you want really skillful speech apply the next as well use accepted pronunciations you mean ways indicated in the dictionary yes correct sounds and accents that's easy let's think a moment how do you pronounce this adults or adults or this coupon or coupon do you wrestle or wrestle live under a roof or roof catch or catch kin or can air or ER maybe we do make mistakes pretty often or often I get it use the dictionary for accepted pronunciations yes Walter but don't exaggerate you can keep all the rules and still sound natural and that's our fourth rule use natural pronunciation yes natural well those are your rules for pronunciation and if you put them into practice you'll do very well that's great if it works will my speech be improved if I use these rules will I be understood will people want to listen to me what about Don would the rules help him that first rule pronounced every syllable I'm going to science lab much better we know what you said oh that be fine where I meet you what about pronouncing each sound correctly oh that will be fine where shall I meet you that's it it's found at the Orum theater a real genuine Thriller use accepted pronunciations try theater genuine I see it's done at the Orum theater a real genuine Thriller gun salute and cwds and pigeons use natural pronunciation as you speak when you're not reading poetry gun salute and crowds and pigeons fly bronze homeric bars go striding by shouting Glory amid the canonade not if the rules work for other people maybe they'll work for me give them a try let's listen to that recording you started to make yeah yeah once a year the members of our Junior and senior classes had his banket once a year the members of the Junior and senior classes have this banquet this is a Time