Have you ever struggled with pronouncing a student’s name? This session will boost your confidence and understanding of how to pronounce words and names of our international students. For students having your name said correctly is important to feeling accepted and embraced in your environment. This quick one hour session will leave you with the tools to feel confident and comfortable, so much so you will pronounce like a pro!
- Date: Thursday 18 May 2023
- Host: ISANA SANiTy
- Online via Zoom
- Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm (ACST)
- Cost: ISANA Members Free | Non Members $50 | Non Member + Membership (to June 30 2024) $180 Individual / $150 Associate
- Presenters:
- Neeti Sohal, a CELTA qualified communications SME
- Anshul Sethi, Study Adelaide Student Ambassador from India
- Charlene Kwok, Study Adelaide Student Ambassador from Hong Kong
- Member Resources
Neeti will focus on the physical challenges that native English speakers, especially, face with pronunciation of sounds from other languages i.e., mouth feel when forming unfamiliar sounds. This is one of the more challenging components of learning other languages (like Hindi for example).
Anshul and Charlene will provide some of their experiences and what a difference it makes to them, from an inclusivity perspective, when people at least try and pronounce their name(s) correctly. They will also follow-up Neeti’s session with some commonly mis-pronounced names/sounds and get the group to do some fun practice of names!