Ray - Americanize Your Language and Emotionalize Your Speech!

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Section 2
Expressing Positive Emotions

Section 4
Characterizing Someone

Part Three
Socialize Your English

Part Four
Vocabularize Your English

Dear friend, the book Americanize Your Language and Emotionalize Your Speech is a self-study guide for developing your communicative competence in American English. It thoroughly analyzes small talk American English, which will give you access to a new world of abilities. The book can also be used as a tool for classroom instruction in conversational American English. It contains many tips that second language teachers can use to develop their students Language Management Skills.

This book presents an innovative approach to building your responsive and emotional conversational skills. It will also help you speed up the process of language interaction that can be overwhelming with the information flow in American English on the Internet. Give yourself time to get used to and adapt yourself to the peculiar way Americans express themselves. Most important, learn to respond correctly and maintain the conversational flow of English in every day communication.

We are going to help you do that without any false promises of miracles of language learning that happen overnight, in two weeks, or even in a month. Nothing can make your brain evolve that fast. We just try to make it simple and workable.

Undoubtedly, language learning is a life-long process that should be directed toward becoming more systematized, more manageable, and more creative for your immediate interaction needs. To meet these challenges, you need to develop your Language Management Skills. This important aspect of second language learning is being addressed in this book for the first time. The What and the How of such skills are presented for you in the form of an extended list called Language Management Rules that appear in bold font throughout the book. Pay special attention to them.

How can I develop Language Management Skills?

Like everything in the world, your second language and your mind that operates it have to be properly managed. You are the manager of your language, the native or a foreign one! But language management skills have to be specially developed by you by consciously synchronizing your language habits (Pronunciation, Grammar, and Vocabulary) and speech skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing). It is a hard task, but doable.

To attain this challenging goal, we will help you shape your Responsive Skills, on the one hand, and Emotionalize Your Speech, on the other. This can be accomplished only if you consciously manage to control your language habits against the confusing emotional background of your speech skills.

How will I accomplish that?

The first part of the book Americanize Your English is focused on shaping your responsive skills in American English. Be aware that American English is the language of verbal reactions. When speaking in another language, you might want to express your understanding just by nodding your head, or having eye contact with the other person. When speaking in American English, however, you need to be verbally active and respond promptly. For example, by just saying Right, you give your conversation partner support, even though it might seem to you to be out of place to say that. The lack of the responsive skills in speaking English is one of the main reasons many learners of English as a Second Language feel tongue-tied, confused, or totally lost when they are in a situation that requires immediate verbal reaction. This book is designed to channel your responsive English in that direction to empower you in communication.

Why do I need to emotionalize my speech?

The second part of the book, Emotionalize Your Speech, meets another important challenge that you most certainly will face in daily interaction in English. It represents in its objectives the most innovative approach to language learningthe necessity for a foreign language speaker to operate the language on an emotional level, or the necessity to intellectualize his/her emotions while speaking in English.

To accomplish this challenging goal, you need to put your analytical left brain and your creative right brain in synch. In other words, you need to get your stale English out of the classroom and integrate it more organically into the mainstream of American language. In Psycholinguistics, the ability to respond correctly and promptly in emotional situations is considered to be the highest level of language mastery. For example, you might have noticed that in emotional situations you would rather speak in your native language than in English because emotions stand in the way of your immediate self-expression. Emotions remove the control of the mind, and you start speaking sporadically in desperate haste to express yourself. As a result, you start speaking toxic, uncontrolled, polluted English that has not been loaded up with the feedback of the appropriate emotional language responses. So, you need to learn how to react in emotional situations quickly and naturally.