Session No. 1

1. Watch your inflection at the end of sentences, it goes up in Korean making it sound like a question to Brits, so try  to make it go down, almost grumpy sounding as you're making a statement.

2. 'G' in the middle of the word sounds more like 'NG', work G making it harder especially in the middle of words (WM)

3. Read the dictionary out loud for words containing 'R/L/SH sounds, and 'DGE' which is the sound in 'judge', and over practice those words with the letters Word Initial (WI), Word Medial, i.e. in the middle of a word (WM), and Word Final (WF).

4. Work on consonant clusters, especially containing R and L, e.g. BRown, BLack, GRill, GLass, buRL, buRN.

5. Words with a double consonant are slightly elongated, e.g. graSS, baLL, meSS, gaFF, and if it's just one consonant it's slightly shorter.

6. PLOSIVES: aspirate the air at the end of the consonant, e.g. P/D/B/T/K/G, release the air to make the sound heard.

7. Watch out that intrusive schwa vowel! The very slight 'ew' sound that creeps in between consonants where there are 3 consonants together, e.g. STRing becomes STewRing, and between words that end on a consontant and begin with a consonant, e.g. reaD Books, not reaD-ew-Books. 

8. Slow down to avoid the intrusive schwa between words and create variety in stress as just now every syllable has the same stress and rhythm, so work on really pronouncing the ends of words to increase their sound and stopping the schwa.

9. 'His' not 'Hees', remember Scottish vowels have a more open mouth position, you do the more American style as your learned. 

10. More rounded lip position for 'SH'.

11. Practice reading aloud from the paper, and listen to sounds you're not sure about your IPad to get the correct sound cos English has lots of weird rules about sounds, it may apply to one word, but another that looks the sane written down is pronounced differently!

Main summary to sound less Korean: try to eradicate that intrusive schwa 'ew' from between consonants, change your inflection from rising to either neutral or downwards, and strengthen those plosives /PDTDKG/ and strengthen the glides /R,L/ and the fricatives /SH and DGE/