Speak in front of a mirror and observe how your lips move.Here are three things you can do right now: Thus, it is clearly important for our lips to be used effectively if we want to sound clear as a bell. I noticed two things: (1) The sound comes out muffled. Try for a moment to say ‘hello how are you today?’ without moving your lips. Here’s an example to show that lips are important. You don’t want to start off by having a distracting lip issue. Whether we like it or not, we judge each other. You won’t achieve accent reduction, more like communication confusion. If you are not able or willing to use your lips to pronounce correctly, your credibility is going to be impacted. They can easily see what your lips are doing (or not doing correctly). Your lips are really the main organ that can clearly be seen by your audience, or the person you are talking to. (Well that, and you don’t wear lipstick on your teeth.) The reason your lips are so critical, so fundamentally important for your communication, is because they are on display. So you can achieve those goals and success you dream of. It’s all about becoming a crystal clear communicator. I learnt about the importance of our articulators from my accent reduction mentor, Paddy Kennedy of Kennedy Communication Studio in Vancouver Canada. These organs are of course, your secret weapon to pronunciation success. Your lips are one of your Organs of Articulation. The line ‘Pucker up Buttercup’ reminds me of the importance of using our lips in pronunciation ( accent reduction). Oh man, my tummy hurts from laughing at that scene. Thinking he has Ferris Bueller on the phone, Rooney signals to his secretary Grace that he’s onto the hoax.Īs he smugly tells the so-called Mr Peterson to ‘roll her old bones on over here’ and to ‘ Pucker up Buttercup’, Grace tells Rooney that Bueller is actually on line 2. The scene where school Principal Ed Rooney takes a call from Mr George Peterson advising that Sloane’s grandmother has passed away. Remember 1980s classic movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?
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