Speech, but not as i know it.

Today was my last day with julie. We spent an hour and half together cuz after waking up at 8am and having to walk around downtown and do lundry as well, i didn't think i would be able to get up at 3pm tmrw especially since i had to do some hours for WCD. Well, i'm gonna get up at 3 anyways tmrw except i saw some stray trades and figured i need them. Last week, we got kicked out of one of those viewing rooms so we went to the student academic resource or whatever-it's-called place so we could use the anatomy room. Today, i took her there since i didn't want a repeat of last weeks episode. I think St*ph thought i was tutoring julie when i came over last week and j*ff asked me this week just to verify. Of course she did come later to interrupt my session, not sure if she wanted to find out specifically what was going on but she came at that time cuz julie and i were doing a couple of dialogues like we were reheasing for a play.

Enougha that. Bottom line, i do an improvement and this became pretty obvious today with the dialogues and 3 news articles i had to read. The articles are torture...too much concentration required. However, i was suprised to see how i would have previously said something a particular way and how i say it currently. The interesting part is when i get confused about which one is the ole way and which is the new way, hahaha. But then it's just not a matter of speech, i see a big change in terms of comprehension of the cultural indoctrination underlying every single word or phrase or sentence. I actually think comprehension is 80% when it comes to this but of course, everyone pays no attention to it. The focus is put on the mechanical and technical aspects such as producing the speech itself. I've realized if a person can understand how mood and situations can affect stress and intonation, it would make a LOT of difference. That is because once the comprehension is taken care off everything flows or, the sounds may have to be mastered for everything to flow.
I'll say for a grad student, i think julie did a pretty good job. Of course, looking at AAT approach and ravin's approach as well, i think she does have some things she might need to work on but otherwise, she was good and evidently better than these actors who become trainers. And at her level, i think she did do a good job and i'm glad. I wish we coulda accomplish more but i'll keep working on stuff myself for the time being.
Time for my lunch break or 'izit' midnite break.