Today I was really looking forward to the yoga part because I seriously needed to relax.
However, our lovely instructor had other things in mind. ;)
We started in on the basics of IPA. For those of you who don't know what that is, refer to back to this post: http://voiceandarticulation.blogspot.com/2012/08/yog.html .
So here are the notes from that session (which turned out to be less scary than I thought, and overall interesting) :)
So, as you can see, we've only scratched the surface. I'm actually really excited to find a way that will enable me to pronouce (properly) words and phrases from all over. Not just English. We didn't go into the advanced stuff yet, beacuse she didn't want to blow our heads off. :P
Expect to see some notes on dipthongs and such though, pretty soon.
After a session of IPA tutorial, we got into my favorite part: the yoga and breathing exercises.
New Favorite/Most difficult Exercise:
- Lying flat on back
- Hoisting legs up into air over your head
- Possibly until feet touch ground above your head
- Breathing into back and sides
- Trying not to crush your neck and head with your enormous lower half...
And I'll close on that note.
Words to Contemplate:
Dipthong
Ampersand
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