Secrets to Better English

Dr. Bill Burkett describes the powerful Socrates Secret and shares the riveting story of its development and implementation in his English as a Second Language classes in China. Scores of his students achieve dramatic success with Burkett's technique. Burkett states, "Jennifer was an excellent student. I taught her class the Socrates Secret and asked students to practice the 44 sounds of English in front of a mirror, stretching the speech muscles. She practiced Exaggerated Phonetic Articulation in every Talk Along (described in my previous book, A Manual for Teaching English in China, Beijing University Press, Beijing, China) I held with the class. Suddenly she transferred to Beijing because of her father's job. Jennifer e-mailed me soon after arriving, and revealed that she was placed in the advanced English class in an excellent language school. The examining teacher told Jennifer that her advanced placement was because she could pronounce her -l's and -r's without accent. Jennifer replied that the EPA training she had in my class had enabled her to master her -l's and -r's." Jennifer is just one of many case studies who have had the same near-miraculous results because of Burkett's original techniques revealed in "Secrets to Better English."