Promote your business-make a video

Posted by on 06 Feb 2020 | Tagged as: blog

Promote your business-make a video

Do you want to promote your small business or your great idea or your knowledge about a subject?

Making a video to post on the internet may help a lot.

You need to speak yourself  at least for part of it so that people will see that you are a real person.

But you might need a Spokesperson’s voice for your business too.

If you do use one, why not get the voice of Jay Beacham?

He’s  helped businesses over the years with their narration needs.

Here are a few examples:

The Make It Easy Toothpaste dispenser company : https://soundcloud.com/jay-beacham/make-it-easy-read-1

The Gozunder Toilet Seat Riser company : https://soundcloud.com/jay-beacham/gozunder-toilet-rise-read-final-read-1

Suzann Capra Grabina and her “Speak With Ease”
English Accent and Pronunciation Lessons : https://youtu.be/mDeMevCR3Is

The Southwest Science Foundation’s radio program that promotes it’s projects and science center:  https://soundcloud.com/jay-beacham/science-quest-program

Or you can use his voice for your radio or Television ad : https://soundcloud.com/user-528363945/jay_beacham_multisoundvarious_styles_94mp3-audiompeg-object

Voice overs in English and German.

Need a spokesperson voice?

Get Jay Beacham

http://jaybeacham.com/

We already have voice talents!

Posted by on 30 Jul 2016 | Tagged as: blog

As I’ve gone out to acquire voice work, I hear:  “We do everything in house.”, “We have the radio station do it all for us.”  “You’re not this voice or that.” , and other reasons why they won’t even listen to me.  

I might be the best thing that ever happened to their company, but if they won’t even listen, how will they know?

“I understand that Mel Blanc went into Warner Brothers every week for three years trying to get heard. The main guy wouldn’t listen to him and then died. The new guy who took over, listened to Mel and Mel went on to make Warner Brothers.
The first guy had lots of voice people but not Mel and he was something special.
I could be too. You won’t know if you don’t listen to me.
Need a voice talent?”  posted at  Jay Beacham Services on May 23. 2016.

So I may be a Mel Blanc. 

I do voice work in English and German and a few other languages.

 Listen to me now.

https://soundcloud.com/jay-beacham

 

Which language do you want to read this in?

Posted by on 22 Feb 2016 | Tagged as: blog

Which language do you want to read this in?

anaezinewebs photo

When you go to this site,  you get the choice of about 15 languages to read about it.

I followed the English and the German to the next page.

It looks interesting.

http://www.anaezine.webs.com/

 

Check it out.

Okay, I’ve checked this page a few times.

I looked at the German scripts as I speech German.

But how is it pronounced?

You surely need to buy the program for that feature.

How much is that?

I’ll find out and let you know.

I recorded my take of  “Those were the Days” on the Sing Snap Karaoke site online.

And thought,  “What about the Russian? After all it was a Russian song “By the Long Road.”

I found three versions on You Tube in Russian and listened after I’d found the lyrics.

The trouble with Russian or Greek, is that is uses a different writing.

 Дорогой длинною

I can’t read that.

But I found a phonetic set of lyrics and a translation to English.

Dorogoy dlinnoyu

That made it easier but my oh my those sounds.  Not even sure if I hear what the ladies are singing.

I found a solution so  can learn it and how to sing it in Russian.

In the box are some icons.  The speaker icon when clicked, the words are spoken.

https://goo.gl/ND0X2E

(Another cool thing that’s unrelated but useful is Google’s URL Shortener )

A child learns by only hearing.   For me hearing someone say the words in the language is really important.

I can read along and learn how to spell at the same time.   Spanish is much easier for me but I still need that

hearing how it is said.

So I’m going to study the scripts that are free and use the pronunciation tool and see what happens.

Maybe I can later upgrade and get it at this site.

If you buy the e-book, the system is explained and has 30 days of English scripts.

You can get the scripts at Anazine for free and upgrade packages are explained in it.

Check it out:

http://payhip.com/b/cgJE

If you want to upgrade the product, order from:

http://jaybeacham.com/jaydon/

Why more than one language?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/02/how-being-bilingual-rewires-your-brain/?utm_content=bufferf1bc7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

How to learn a language

Posted by on 03 Aug 2015 | Tagged as: blog

 

How to learn a language?
It depends on who you are, the way that is best for you.
Berlitz said learn the words you already know in a language.
Some are the same as in your language, some you’ve picked up over the years.
I find watching movies is a good way to become familiar with a language.
I’ve found that often subtitles are wrong.
Singing songs is the best for me but I’ve used all methods.

Let’s look at my learning German.
I started with a record course that my Aunt Jewel gave me and my brother.
I don’t think I learned anything from listening to it.
Then I took German in 8th and 9th and10th grades.
The lady teacher in 8th and 9th grades lived two blocks from me and she was a native born German.
I learned a little. We had readings and tests and a language fair at a distant university( I recited a German poem I think)
We learned some songs that I remembered later. By 8th grade the school had a language lab that consisted of tape recorded lessons that we listened to through earphones. I used those too.
In 10th grade, the man instructor had learned German as a soldier in Germany.
His methods were different but I saw that the things he taught had been in the course work in the earlier grads but I’d not remembered
the information.

Then when I was 19, I was called as a missionary and assigned to the German Zone of the Language Training Mission at BYU in Provo,Utah.
I was there for two months.
They wanted everyone to “live the language” meaning to just speak it.
How? by learning two phrases: “How do you say this?” “Wie sagt man das?”
and “What is this?” Was ist dass?”
We attended morning and afternoon classes.
The teachers were returned missionaries proficient in the language.
Part of the instruction included standing and the instructor saying a phrase and then telling us to repeat it aloud after him.
“Wiederholen”
That worked well for most of the students.
But one fellow who’d been there longer than me, a Brother McOmber, never got very excited when his progress was slow.
He was older than the rest of us. He’d been a welder by profession.
His brother had been here too. The brother was a straight A student in school
and on scholarship to the University before the mission.
He failed at this “repeat me” method and left in mental breakdown because he couldn’t learn that way.
And we had classes in the evenings with native speakers who taught us the culture and their particular dialect.

Then I lived for 22 months in Austria speaking mostly German as a missionary.
Much of the German I spoke was about religion.
By the end of the 22 months, I found it difficult to speak in English
and two years later failed an English proficiency exam at BYU but got a B+ in German.
I’d not spoken or read much in German in those two years.

Later while living in Cottage Grove, Oregon, I met a retired railroad man.
He was from Italy and of course spoke Italian.
At 17 he and his family moved to Brazil so he learned Portuguese.
When he moved to the US and started work for the railroads, he learned English and Spanish.
The company would send all new Spanish speaking employees to him or English speakers wanting to learn Spanish.
He taught them those two questions (What is this? and How do you say this?) in the two languages
and the sent them to speak only the language to be learned for two weeks.
At the end of which time, they could get by in the new language.
Then it was just a matter of learning more vocabulary and phrases.

I’ve taken a French course and viewed courses in French, Japanese, German, Spanish and Italian on TV public broadcasting.
some are better than others. Now there are things online like courses, podcasts, translations, pronunciation, etc.
Some are better than others.
I’m learning other languages by learning to sing songs in those languages.
I ask for help with the pronunciation from native speakers who are also singers.
This is like the native speakers at the language training school.

I’ve looked at the Spanish and English  and French courses some have.
The phrases would be well to learn but without a pronunciation guide of little value.
I know some Spanish but other words I’ve no glue how to say them.
A child copies what it hears but if it never hears, it can’t copy.
For adults learning another language, it must be heard or spelled phonetically.

I even need help sometimes with German words that are new to me as I’ve never heard those word spoken.
If I just fake a pronunciation, then I sound like a Japanese friend told me, I’d be speaking Niglish(a derisive term for Americans speaking Japanese like Americans) when with the heard voice most of the time a person can get their tongue around the word and sound like a native.
As a radio announcer in English, there were times when people corrected my pronunciation and they were right, I’d just not heard the words said right and hadn’t practiced saying the words the right way.
Japanese is easy if spelled phonetically.
Chinese or any other languages that has say squares, tells no one what is being said or how it should be said. It’s just squares to a non-speaker.

How to learn a language?

Well that’s different for each person but there are many ways to learn a language.

Find what works for you and start.

And find a Native speaker who you can practice with.

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