Teaching African Students How to Learn a Foreign Language

Video Transcript

" Hello my name is Hakeem Lavelle I am here on behalf of Expert Village to do a how to video on teaching a foreign language. Now we are at the portion where it comes to teaching someone from the sub continent of Africa. Now teaching such students can be challenging sometimes. Two things that you have to watch out for are adaptation and accent, the latter not being so much of a challenge as opposed to other languages because most languages outside of English normally have accent so time is a solution for such a thing. Now adaptation getting people to adapt to making sounds that they are not use to making. That is tough especially if they have been saying it for a long time if these sound do not exist in there languages and they never said them before. I have encountered students where it is impossible to get them to say the sounds of zzzzzzzz or to get them to go between there teeth and go vvvvv and then also gutteral sounds the sounds in the throat getting them to just distinguish between hh and aa. Getting them to say apple instead of happle and being able to do it consistently. These can present minor but frustrating challenges because it takes much time to get someone to adapt to making the sound that they are not used to making and to get to be precise with it. Thank you!"