Sing Your Way to Better Speech: A Jingle Sequence for the Improvement of Articulation and Rhythm in Speaking

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E. P. Dutton, Incorporated, 1939 - 209 Seiten
From the Introduction: "One day, several years ago, I stood before a group of women, some young and some not so young, who came to me weekly for training in speech and voice. It was a difficult class, curiously unresponsive....They were willing to drill, but they did it listlessly, without a spark of animation. They looked at me as if to say, 'How can this technique be of any practical value to me tomorrow morning in the office?' I wondered how it could myself. Suddently, with the inspiration which is supposed to be born of desperation, I put the opening 'babble exercises' to the tune of 'Jingle Bells' and stood there before them, singing and beating time. It was magic....By the end of the first few bars they were singing with me, singing with gaiety and abandon. They forgot they were practicing speech sounds, they were just having a good time....The singing of these repetitive sounds in this joyous way not only trained the ear to hear the forty sounds of the English language and to recognize the physical formation but also helped to free the muscles of the vocal mechanism for response in voice and speech production. Although some time had been spent practicing the exercises for breath control, it was not until they sang a jingle that they realized the importance of breathing and controlling the outgoing breat, for all discovered that they did not have enough breath to sustain the phrase...."

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How to Make the Sound hw m as in whip Words
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How to Make the Sound f as in fit Words Phrases Jingle
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How to Make the sounds th 0 as in thin d as in that
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There is a Tavern in the Town
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The Tongue and Gum Consonants
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