Chinthaka
- Content
- Clarity - like Brian Tracy
- British style of speaking
Aim - for the viewers to feel:
- confidence in me
- interested in what I have to say
/p/ /b/ vs. /f/ /v/
- piːfiː
- biːviː
- fifty pounds
- Matthew's fine
- my father's favourite pen
- my friend's balloon
- from my point of view, from his point of view, from our point of view
- it's very big business
- the fashion business moves very fast
- my facebook account is private
- formula
- the objective is to manufacture them cheaply
- briefly
- he wants to influence politics
- VAT
- your Skype photo confused me
- it depends on the fabric
- it defends the city
- one per feature, filling, fact, function, farm, foot, form, face, file, phone, foundation, fear, fare
- pfiː, pfɪ, pfe...
/pr/
- product(s), process, properties, previous, prioritise, priority, priorities, price
- profit(s), profit and loss, the profit part, the net profit, the gross profit
- price first or product first?
/tr/ sounds like "chr"
- trust
- country
- travel
- /spr/, /str/, /skr/
- /ʃr/, /θr/
- use morewords.com to find examples to practise
sip vs. ship
- siːʃiː
- see, sea, she
- election, position, decision, opposition, discussion
- discuss social issues in the discussion
- she's taking a new direction
- she's very specific
- smashed
- short-sighted
- 10 million cash
- it's a sheep, ship, shelf, shack, sharp knife, shoe, shop, shame, shiny car, show, shower, sheer drop, share, sure thing
vet vs. wet
- viːwiː
- go away
- the view from the board
Pronunciation of X
- /ks/ excuse, explain, export, exploit, except, exclude, mix, next
- /ks/ (with a vowel - an exception) execute
- /gz/ exit, exist, exactly
Schwa
- collect
- perform, percent, performance
- professional
Miscellaneous
- campaign