Interview With Author Kaiman Lee

1. What inspired you to write this book? My wife and I pondered in 1990 what to do after retirement, and decided to teach English since that was the subject I was most interested in and scored the highest during my primary school years.  

2. What exactly is it about and who is it written for? Through 31 years of analysis of English words and the synthesis of their similarities, the book, LEEK English Pronunciation Method, was published in 2022.  It is for Chinese who want to learn English in the simplest and easiest way, by being able to pronounce virtually any English words seen in advertisements, news media, and product labels, etc.  

3. What do you hope readers will get out of reading your book? Be able to pronounce virtually any English words without memorization, but by using a method that can easily be learned.   

4. How did you decide on your book’s title and cover design? The title represents the content of the book directly.  Leek is a kind of green scallion, the seeds of which are in a globe that when wind blows hard, they will fly all over, even to the end of the world.  It is hoped that when the book is translated to other languages, people in other countries can use the identical method and learn English pronunciation. The cover design is supposed to be beautifully simple and simply beautiful without bells and whistles.   

5. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers – other than run!? I can relate only to pure hard work.  I developed the pronunciation method from scratch, without having learned or influenced by any other pronunciation method, which forced me to create something unique.    

6. What trends in the book world do you see -- and where do you think the book publishing industry is heading?  I think artificial intelligence (AI) will take over a lot of so-called creativity in writing books. The volume of new books will be overwhelming that their values will diminish, and to stand out apart from others will be even more challenging.  

7. Were there experiences in your personal life or career that came in handy when writing this book?  I was not born smart, so all my life's accomplishments are through hard work.   

8. How would you describe your writing style? Which writers or books is your writing similar to? The book is actually a copy of all the class-room teaching material projected on the screen. I don't know if there are other books like mine.   

9. What challenges did you overcome in the writing of this book? I put all English words that I knew and those I should know in an Excel file, separated the words with similarities into groups, combined small groups into bigger groups, and ultimately two parts emerged: two vowel arrangements, "consonant, vowel, consonant, E" plus "double-vowel"; and two consonant arrangements, prefixes and suffixes.  Then, the basic pronunciation method became the first part.  The challenge is it took a very long time to collect, analyze and synthesize.    

10. If people can buy or read one book this week or month, why should it be yours? Only people who know little English, but want to learn English from the very foundation up would benefit from reading my book.  

About The Author: A pioneer in computer aided design for architecture from 1970 to 1990 and chief engineer to 2000, Dr. Kaiman Lee's second career is in English teaching, having created the world's most complete and easiest-to-learn English pronunciation method. 

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