Speak English Clearly Confidently
so you want to speak English clearly and
confidently I’m Emma from English and I
can help you your pronunciation and
clear expression is so so important if
you want to speak English clearly and
confidently but it’s not only the
English sounds that are important so
that you pronounce your words correctly
but it’s also the word stress the
sentence stress pause and intonation
that can affect the meaning and the
clarity of your English sentences word
stress is making one syllable in each
word stronger and it can affect the
meaning of the words in English for
example these words advise and advise
sentence stress is making words in a
sentence stronger and clearer without
this stress we’d sound like robots do
you like banana milkshakes
do you like banana milkshakes adding
stress pores and intonation to your
english sentences will make them clearer
and easier to understand so why is all
of this important well if you find
listening to English difficult these are
the magic keys that will unlock your
understanding of spoken English for
native speakers stress pores and
intonation come naturally they listen
learn and copy the sounds and patterns
of English from when they’re children
but non native speakers who learn
English in a completely different way
find it difficult to learn and practice
the patterns of spoken English if you’re
a non-native English speaker you
probably have two main problems firstly
native speakers speak too quickly and
it’s difficult for you to understand
them secondly it’s difficult for native
English speakers to understand you
because you speak English with an
unnatural pattern or rhythm but for
non-native English speakers it’s not
easy to learn how to correctly pronounce
words or which words should be stressed
in a sentence or which syllables should
be stressed in a word but I’m going to
show you a new way to study today that
will make it so much easier for you to
practice your spoken English
it’s called the imitation technique or
sometimes it’s called shadowing and it
works so well with my private students
they’ve had so much success with it that
I wanted to share it with you today so
how does the imitation technique work to
imitate something is to copy something
so you’re simply going to copy what a
native speaker is saying you just need
an audio recording of the native speaker
talking at normal speed at their natural
pace it’s really simple all you need to
do is listen to the first sentence and
then pause it and repeat it exactly as
you hear it copying the stress pause and
the intonation used by the speaker so
why does this technique work because it
teaches you to listen to the sounds and
patterns of English you’re not reading
the words and guessing how to pronounce
them or how to correctly stress the
words in the sentence you’re hearing
them exactly as they should sound and
you’re imitating them you’re copying
them creating those same sounds yourself
now this is exactly the same way that
children learn to speak from their
parents by imitating or copying someone
else when you practice with the
imitation technique you will reduce your
accent and pronunciation problems
quickly and you’ll become a clearer
english speaker when learning to speak
English confidently it’s so important to
practice and improve your pronunciation
and to become familiar with the patterns
of English and I’m going to help you do
exactly that in this free email training
course in every lesson I’ve created a
training video that will help you to
practice
this technique all you need to do is
click the link below and go to my
webpage and write your name and email
address in the box then I’ll send you
five free lessons to practice the
imitation technique so that you sound
like a confident comfortable natural
English speaker so what are you waiting
for sign up now for my free imitation
lessons so that you can speak English
clearly and confidently