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Unidentified audience member – I’m a
singer and an instructor. One thing that you brought up in here
were some of the vowels used for specifically European speaking
students. In the western part of Canada, I don’t know if you
realize, but we have a very, very high population in that greater
Vancouver area of Asians, which is a big ESL challenge. Now that’s
not even a Western language. I missed the talk early on Thursday
AM in Indian classical singing, because we also have a very high
population of East Indians in the mainland as well. [….click
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Carol Eikum – I have a question that I don’t think I’ve
ever heard asked anywhere, and I have waited a long time to hear about it. When
I was a freshman in high school, my dentist took off my braces after
4 years of torture. He said to me "your tongue is now too
big for your mouth," and sent me on my way. I think this is
a topic because I recall one of my teachers saying to put the tongue
behind the lower teeth; but it doesn’t fit there. I have since
encountered many students who have had that; they show me the size
of their tongue to their mouth. This is a big diction issue; I have
a little bit of a lisp as a result, and I have to do things to let
the tongue stay forward in a different way than a voice teacher
would be intuitive to ask me. Has anyone heard of this, studied
it, or anything about it? Audio
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Melissa Malde – You mentioned the tongue trill (rolls r), and I have
many students that can’t roll r’s, and I’ve always
assumed that that’s a tongue tension issue. Audio
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