Top 10 Ways to Improve Your English Pronunciation
hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is Alisha and today we’re
going to talk about 10 ways to help
improve your pronunciation this is gonna
be a good one
I think so let’s go sing along to a
favorite song alright so the first tip
for improving your pronunciation is to
sing along to a favorite song so if you
should add though this favourite song
should be in your target language so if
you’re studying English pick a favorite
English song and sing along to that song
or try to sing to the song just from
memory too so singing along to your
favorite song can help you with
pronunciation can help you with the
rhythm sometimes of the language you’re
trying to learn so it can be really fun
and it can be a good way to practice
your pronunciation in a sentence I like
singing along to my favorite songs read
out loud the next tip for your
pronunciation is to read out loud so
reading out loud you can choose
something that’s interesting for you and
you’re in English if english is the
language you’re studying so pick
something maybe it’s a news article or
maybe it’s a book you’re interested in
maybe there’s an author you’re
interested in find something in your
target language in English and try
reading it out loud so don’t just read
in your mind but read the words out loud
speak them so that you can get
comfortable pronouncing those words and
you can try reading the same passage or
the same sentence multiple times to make
it smoother so this can be a really good
tip for and I think it also improves
your natural ability to pick up grammar
too because if you’re reading something
like in a book for example you can kind
of pick up the natural rhythm of grammar
and you also slowly get a feeling for
the correct ways that words should
connect together so this I think is a
really good tip in a sentence I
sometimes read out loud to practice
pronunciation
that’s true repeat lines you hear in
TV shows the next tip is to repeat lines
you hear or the words you hear in TV
shows or movies things like that so this
means not only words don’t only repeat
single vocabulary words yes maybe you
find a vocabulary word that is really
interesting or it sounds funny or
something like that but by repeating a
full sentence or a full line in a TV
show or in a movie you’re putting the
words together so not just one word but
making a whole sentence so feeling kind
of the flow of your language that you’re
studying so this can be a better way to
actually practice making sentences and
repeating sentences instead of just
words so you can repeat after characters
and TV shows I sometimes do this when
I’m like watching Japanese TV and then I
try and spit it back out it’s hard to do
sometimes when it’s like the first time
you’ve heard a word or the first time
you’ve heard a grammar point but you can
still understand that sentence it’s
interesting so try to say it and it’s
kind of fun actually
in a sentence try repeating lines from
TV shows to practice practice speaking
in phrases not single vocabulary words
the next tip this is very similar to my
TV show tip is to practice speaking in
phrases not in vocabulary words not just
single vocabulary words even if you’re
not repeating lines from TV shows when
you practice speaking don’t just speak
in noun so sometimes for example I’ll
hear people just use noun like they’ll
use a noun and maybe a verb like I
tomorrow Beach something like that and
yes we can probably guess based on that
how like the the meaning the speaker’s
meaning but you need to practice making
a whole sentence so yes you know those
words I tomorrow in beach and the
listener can probably guess what you
mean but you need to practice all those
little words in the middle like like I’m
going to the beach tomorrow so make a
full sentence practice making full
sentences don’t only
just single vocabulary words make the
whole line it’s really good
sometimes I think my students get
irritated like they’ll like I forced
them to practice full sentences like so
I’ll say like mmm
have you ever been to Germany and
they’ll say yes I’m like okay for the
purposes of practice can you make a full
sentence and they’ll say I have been to
Germany like that’s an extreme example
but like I try to push that you know
making the full sentence it’s it’s silly
sometimes but just trying to do that
okay so in a sentence
speaking in entire phrases is helpful
for practicing the rhythm of a new
language speak a lot with your teacher
and ask them to be strict with you on
words okay so the next tip is to speak a
lot with your teacher and ask them to be
strict with you so this is kind of two
tips in 1 1 speak with your teacher so
if you have a teacher make sure you’re
speaking in their class if you if
wherever possible sometimes I’ll have
students join my class and maybe they
feel shy or whatever and they don’t
speak very much but please speak with
your teacher so that your teacher can
correct you your teacher can give you at
least if they’re a native speaker or
maybe even if they aren’t a native
speaker your teacher can give you
corrections and if you don’t speak your
teacher cannot help you in most cases so
please speak with your teacher and if
you like you can tell them please be
strict about my pronunciation so
sometimes people will say please help me
with my pronunciation specifically and
then I can stop them every time they
make a mistake and we practice that
sound especially 80h sounds like that
like using using your mouth a little bit
differently can be really uncomfortable
for some people but if you’re a teacher
can point out those things like th
sounds the this that these those those
th sounds ending ER sound
practicing those with your teacher can
be a really good way to work on your
pronunciation so in a sentence speak a
lot with your teacher they can correct
you and help you improve try recording
yourself speaking
play it back the next tip for practicing
your pronunciation is to try recording
yourself speaking and listen to it play
it back and listen to it so this it
might sound a little bit strange but
when we’re speaking maybe we don’t hear
certain things that certain maybe our
little idiosyncrasies or our the little
special things that we do when we speak
maybe we don’t hear them as we speak but
when we listen to ourselves later we
notice them so for example when I watch
this video when I watch any of these
videos I notice little things that I
didn’t notice at now when I’m filming
the video so the same can apply to your
pronunciation when you listen to
yourself speak you might hear something
that you don’t notice when you’re
speaking so this can be a good way to to
kind of remove yourself to go outside
your body a little bit and listen to
yourself from the listeners perspective
so this might be a tip to try in a
sentence sometimes you hear yourself
more clearly on a recording do shadowing
exercises all right the next tip for
pronunciation is to do shadowing
exercises so a shadowing exercise there
are text books and and I think resources
on the web so on the website I’m
actually I think you could use the
website any English listening or
anything in your target language when
you listen to that as the speaker is
speaking you quickly repeat back what
the speaker is saying so as you’re
listening to it you repeat it almost
immediately so you’re trying to to match
their pronunciation as closely as
accurately as possible this is called a
shadowing exercise so I’ve seen some
cases where people are textbooks will
recommend doing you know 15 minutes of
shadowing each day or something like
that or maybe you can do a shadowing
exercise listening to a podcast or
listening to the news or something you
might find on the website here so that’s
a really good way to work on your
pronunciation and to get familiar with
you
using those sounds kind of more
naturally the way a native speaker would
so this can be a good tip to improve
your pronunciation in a sentence
try shadowing a native speaker to
improve your pronunciation chat with
native speakers so yeah the next tip is
to chat with native speakers so chatting
with native speakers of course is a
great way to make friends
be to pick up new vocabulary see to get
familiar with grammar and slang but also
it can help your pronunciation not all
native speakers speak with exactly the
same pronunciation so you might hear
slight differences depending on the
country depending on the region in a
country and native speaker comes from so
there are many different kinds of
pronunciations or many different there
are many different pronunciations but
when you chat with native speakers you
can kind of understand the different
pronunciations that are out there and
maybe it can help you be more consistent
in your presentation in your
pronunciation too so this could be a
good way to improve your pronunciation
but of course it’s important in general
for learning a language I think in a
sentence chatting with native speakers
is an important part of learning a
language do pronunciation drills the
next tip is to do pronunciation drills
so if you know that there is a sound if
you know that there’s something that you
always struggle with try drilling it so
do a drill to drill something means to
repeat a lot so you might hear this word
used for like like sports and fitness
like you drill a skill you which means
to practice something a lot and
intensively so if you know that there’s
like the th sound is really difficult
for you maybe take ten minutes and do a
pronunciation drill on those sounds for
you know every day for a month or
something so if you know that there’s a
specific sound that’s difficult for you
consider trying just some very specific
pronunciation drills so that can mean
just making that sound repeatedly or
maybe reading a text out loud that
a lot of that kind of pronunciation I
think you can find a few different ways
to drill to practice intensively those
parts of pronunciation that are
difficult for you so in a sentence
try doing pronunciation drills for the
sounds you have trouble making find
words that are particularly interesting
to you so I think maybe this is the last
tip is to find words that are
particularly interesting to you so maybe
there’s a word that sounds really funny
or maybe you found a really long word in
English or a really interesting word a
word that has an interesting history
whatever if you can find words that are
interesting to you then maybe you can
put some extra emphasis on pronouncing
them correctly so if you’re actually
enjoying the words that you’re learning
then I think it’ll become more important
for you to express that accurately in
your speech and so focusing on those
words maybe and in pronouncing those
words correctly perhaps that can help
you apply that same pronunciation in
this interesting word
maybe the pronunciation of that word or
some of the parts of that word you can
find that in other words in other places
throughout your target language so if
you enjoy a particular word and focus on
expressing that word pronouncing that
word accurately it can help you maybe
apply that pronunciation in other parts
of the language so give it a try
in a sentence take extra care to
pronounce words of particular interest
correctly that’s the end so those are
ten tips to help you improve your
pronunciation if there’s anything else
that you do to work on your
pronunciation or if you have any
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