It begins with Communication...

Immigrants coming to Australia from non-English speaking countries are experiencing both significant change, (a new culture and new language) and stress, (assimilating into the community, work and education).

Australia is home to hundreds of cultures. Multiculturalism is one of this country’s great strengths. Multiculturalism promotes equity for non-English speaking communities from diverse backgrounds and newly arrived refugees and migrants.

Many new arrivals are finding that the English skills required to gain entry to Australia are not enough to be able to converse in the workplace (or socially). In today’s world, a major key to success is effective communication. In every speaking situation you are judged by what you say and how you say it. If you are difficult to understand, it could present difficulties for you when speaking to clients or colleagues at work, when speaking on the telephone, or when conversing with friends and at social gatherings. Pronunciation and accent can be learned with our easy to use programs.

Become a Hearsay Tutor

The Hearsay Spoken English Tutor is a simple and easy tool that can be taken by the church and used as a cross cultural ‘bridge’ into the community. It provides the opportunity for Christians to build relationships within this cross cultural group and potentially share the Good News of Christ with them.

The Hearsay Spoken English Tutor can equip individuals in your church who are willing to invest about an hour per week assisting and tutoring immigrants in Australian English pronunciation.

You don’t need to be a language expert to be a Hearsay tutor. You don’t need ANY qualifications! All you need is to be able to give an hour or so a week to sit and talk! By using the simple tutor’s tools you can help your student speak English clearly and be understood. Our goal is to equip ordinary people from within the church to be Hearsay English Pronunciation Tutors.

There are many thousands of migrant people across this nation who are looking for this need to be met. This is a service that will bring a sense of belonging and connection to the local community. But for the church it has the potential to be so much more! This one-to-one tool, is an easy way to initiate conversation providing an opportunity for those who have a heart for mission to build long term meaningful relationships. Through these relationships your people can introduce their students to your church, its life and ministry and of course to their greatest need - Jesus.

The rewards can be life changing.

 

How does it work? As easy as A, B, C.

The Hearsay Spoken English Tutor is a complete software package for teaching Australian English pronunciation to speakers of other languages. ESL Teachers, Government Instrumentalities, Migrant Settlement Programs, Economic Development Organisations, Libraries, Educational Institutions, Hospitals and Business Migration Agencies are using this resource extensively.

A: Assess your students current pronunciation.

B: Prepare a personalised lesson plan automatically with the intuitive Tutor’s software.

C: Set aside an hour a week to meet with your student/s to tutor their pronunciation and conversational skills.

View the CopyCat Demo Video to see how simple the process is!

 

Australian English Pronunciation Tutor's Toolkit

The Hearsay Spoken English Tutor’s Toolkit contains the Hearsay CopyCat tutor's tool and 2 Mouth Gym PCvideoCDs.
(PCvideoCDs operate on any PC using Windows 98/SE or later.)

Hearsay CopyCat which provides the framework for ‘Pronunciation Assessment’ by comparing the student’s pronunciation with that of the video presenter.

• Easy and Effective
• Watch the Lips, Hear the Pronunciation, Copy the Speaker
• Quickly Assess Foundational Phonics
• Produce and Print Personal Lesson Plans
• Extensive Documentation
• Over 300 Video Clips Provide Pronunciation Tutoring
• Easy to Follow Assessment and Teaching Guides
• Certificates of Proficiency to print for students.

A Sound Board provides an opportunity to compare and work on problem sounds, to build and decode words.

Hearsay Mouth Gym which provides practice tasks for pronouncing consonants, consonant blends and vowels, both alone and in combinations and in a sentence with correct English pronunciation modelled by a native English speaker. Regular practice is a simple, yet powerful way to improve English pronunciation and accent.

Hearsay Mouth Gym combines more than 40 video clips to show lip movements of all basic sounds and more than 1000 audio clips of combinations to provide an excellent work-out for the ear, tongue and mouth.

Two Mouth Gym PCvideoCDs are included in the Tutor's Toolkit.

Note: once you've purchased your Hearsay Tutors Toolkit and registered it at hear-say.info you can purchase additional Mouth Gym PCvideoCDs for your students through your Tutor Login at hear-say.info. You will then receive a special Tutor's discount.

This is a mixed mode CD which can also be used on an audio CD player or mp3 player.

Also included are the Quickstart Guide, Comprehensive Software Manual and two additional copies of the Hearsay Mouth Gym PCvideoCDs for students to purchase from you for home practice.

Additional copies of the Hearsay Mouth Gym are available for purchase by registered Hearsay Tutors. Each student should purchase their own copy of the Hearsay Mouth Gym from their Tutor.

 

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