Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice, banaaaaaanas, miiiiiiiiiilk

In class with the first graders, in an effort to get them to pronounce words in English how a native says them I pronounce them slowy - as anyone would, right? Nothing special there. With the first graders though I don´t think that they get it that I´m saying these words EXTRA slowly. I think they think that you´re supposed to hang on the long I in the word rice for 3 seconds like I´ve been doing. The point of me being here is to help create a student body that speaks English but that speaks English naturally. I hope somewhere along the way these poor students learn that Sean the American was just trying to make the pronunciation clear. You don´t actually speak like that. If you come to Spain in a couple years and find an eager young person, say, working in a restaurant, who speaks English and says words like rice and milk by hanging on the vowel for a really long time, it might be my fault. Oh whatever that´s not going to happen.

Have a nice day.