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SPEECH COACHING SESSIONS
CLIENT: CHEN GUANGCHENG
SESSION #63 (with Paul and Leigh)
DATE: Sunday, May 04, 2014
CONVERSATION
 Classes with Gus and Rick at Karen’s.
o Braillenote to computer and computer to Braille machine now possible!
o iPhone can speak English or Chinese!
o Next class next Thursday
o iPhone can use BlueTooth!.
o Cannot translate yet. I have two iPhones, one for Chinese and one English
 I and Danika went to Botanical Gardens. Very beautiful. Blossoms. Very
fragrant. Cherry blossoms and apple. Tulips.
 June 3 speech. Sent Matthew the speech Friday. They told me they already sent
it to translator. 3,500 words. We have to prepare it, practice makes perfect.
 Grammar Review
o tenses, past, present, and future. Regular and irregular verbs. Eat/ate
o Pronouns. Subject/object pronouns. I he she, it, we, you, they. Object
pronouns us, me, him, her, them, you
o Adverbs of frequency. Always, often, usually, seldom, rarely, 100%,
75%, 60%, 50%, 30%, 10%, 0%
o Comparatives and superlatives. Cold/cold/coldest, 1 syllable. 2
syllables. e.g famous (more famous, most syllables).
o adverb, repeatedly, finally, slowly, which two letters at the end of an
adverb? Ly. Exceptions like friendly. Compliment (new word) verb or
noun.
o articles: a, an, the (rules for use: a + consonant, an + vowel, the (3
ways: the + specific/only one and everyone knows it/second mention)
o transitive and intransitive verbs
o gerunds (some verbs always followed by gerunds. enjoy, finish, talk
about, enjoy, etc) go + gerunds. I went shopping. Skydiving.
Stimulating. Exhilarating.
o Vocabulary and stories
o prepositions of place and location
 Pronunciation Review
o deeper voice with less melody
o flow like a river
o lots of unstressed words in English
o use of long vowels
o r-colored words (burn, born, born, etc)
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o medial t (sitting)
o -ing (Weijing, sitting)
 New activities for the future
o special vocabulary, learning new words, (We really need to address the
dictionary issue.) Vocabulary of history, politics, government very
necessary. When the translator gives us the June 3 speech text, we can
work on the vocabulary in it.
o typing in English on the keyboard. Very slow. Computer speaks.
Writing in English will be a great new step!
 Guangcheng talks about the DB he has been reading. G says “I listened to the
guide dog story, but found it found it very difficult. I remember the story said
there were 10M blind people in America. And that guide dogs allow blind
people to go wherever they wish.” Digital Books come in different levels.
Leigh will find the right level.
 Guangcheng reads something of his choice and we discuss. He chose short text.
Hadley book.
“My name is Douglas Dixon. I was born November 1937 in a small town
near here. My native language is English. I speak a little Spanish, a little
German, and a little Japanese. I don’t speak those languages very well.”
Leigh complimented on syllables. Contracted version of Braille not yet. We
addressed the reading fluency problem. Shifting to the Braille contracted version
is the key to reading fluently. Talk to Karen about this issue.
Paul Meier Dialect Services
www.paulmeier.com
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