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Schwa Mill: The American English Pronunciation ShowAuthor: Fluent American
The Schwa Mill is a show from Fluent American (www.youtube.com/fluentamerican) where we provide you with free techniques, secrets, and resources you need to sound natural in American English, including tips on vowel sounds, consonant sounds, linking, intonation, and our four key concepts: placement, pitch, breath, and weak vowels. Let's take on your American English accent together!Want video? Get daily video podcasts on American English pronunciation, Monday through Friday, with Wake Up American Language: en Genres: Education, Language Learning Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Secret To SPEAKING So People LISTEN
Monday, 26 January, 2026
Video version: https://youtu.be/R5u5Qt3BIMoWondering what challenge to overcome in order to become a better speaker and communicator? Wondering how to speak more naturally with richer emotion? Before you think about what to do with your face, your mouth, or tongue, or breath, think about patterns. What words and parts of words are you giving space to? What are you doing with your pitch? What direction are your pitches going in?Welcome to For Word, the platform dedicated to guiding you towards better spoken performance. We're constantly looking at techniques to add more vocal variety to how we talk by incorporating more softness and firmness to our, furrowing eyebrows, smiling, raising and lowering pitches, adding pauses in order to convey frustration, sadness, joy and nervousness, and considering how to add more breath to everything we say. Let's see how these elements of contrast, body language, and other elements of communication can lead to richer expression.In this video, we're especially paying attention to patterns involving pitch and how to break them#performance #poetry #speaking
