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Vocabulary: speech - English lesson
The way we speak influences our relationships with the people around us...
Language and tongues have two functions: expressing oneself, and of course, communicating with other people. Expressing your thoughts clearly, making oneself understood and heard correctly is fundamental.
To speak |
To say something |
Articulation/ enunciation |
To articulate/ to enunciate |
To pronounce |
To utter -> an utterance |
Pronunciation |
To pronounce something correctly/ wrongly |
To mispronounce a name |
Unpronounceable: difficult to pronounce |
A tongue twister |
stammer/ stutter
To be quiet/ to shut up |
To keep quiet/ to be silent |
A speech defect |
To lisp/ have a lisp/ speak with a lisp |
To have a nasal voice/ Talk through one's nose |
To stammer/ to stutter |
Speech therapy/ speech therapist |
Working with a speech therapist
LANGUAGES and ways of speaking:
A language/ a tongue |
Formal/ informal language |
A sound |
A foreign language |
Ancient/ modern languages |
A dialect |
Slang/ slangy |
Colloquial/ familiar language |
Baby talk |
To speak fluent English To speak English fluently |
French speaking/ a French speaker |
An English speaker |
A German speaker |
A Spanish speaker |
- His mother tongue/ his native language
- To speak with a Greek accent
- To have a strong accent
- To have a good/ poor accent
- It's said that...
- That goes without saying...
- So to speak,
- That's saying a lot!
- I told you so !
- You're telling me!
- A tongue-twister: she sells seashells by the seashore, and the shells she sells are seashore shells, I'm sure !
Hope your tongue isn't totally twisted and your brains not totally meddled...
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