As a trained phonetician, I have had great pleasure training my fellow tutors at the City Lit how to include learners with some hearing loss in language classes. EDI is at the heart of everything I believe in. Around 50% of the UK population older than 50 years have some hearing loss- and also younger learners might be affected. Posting videos and recordings on a platform, making sure you speak clearly and students can see you for lip reading are just a couple of examples to make participation for all learners possible. Many thanks to our amazing deaf department for their suppport.

https://www.citylit.ac.uk/blog/the-secret-to-speaking-like-a-native-it-starts-with-pronunciation

It‘s been such a great pleasure working again with the extraordinarily talented Alex Lowe on this dramatic project. Can’t wait for the recording to come out! Thank you for a wonderful collaboration also to Ian Page and Simon Kiln. What a wonderful evening of recording.

https://www.alexandralowe.co.uk

https://ianpageconductor.com

What a fantastic mix of learners at my German pronunciation workshop at the City Lit: Opera singers, students who have just started learning German, fluent German speakers! Well done for having made it to the City Lit on a Friday night! 🙃🇩🇪
In the first session we covered the difference between vowels and consonants and how they are produced as well as the German vowel system.

https://www.citylit.ac.uk/blog/the-secret-to-speaking-like-a-native-it-starts-with-pronunciation