How To Improve Your Pronunciation Speak Clearly
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm do you have a strong accent
when you speak English let me help you
today when I was living and teaching
English in Korea a lot of my students
were really worried about their accent
they were worried that other people
couldn’t understand them when they were
speaking English and they wanted to get
rid of their accent or at least they
wanted to speak in a more understandable
way so I gave them a lot of tips but one
of these tips was more useful and
possibly new to them so I want to share
it with you all as well this tip is to
practice speaking like a robot really
like a robot a robot speaks in choppy I
am a robot kind of speech choppy it
doesn’t sound natural
but this style just for practice not in
real life at home when you’re practicing
this style is going to help you separate
the sounds to help you focus on the
sounds that give you trouble the main
key is to use natural pronunciation and
break it into tiny robot sections so
let’s take one sentence as an example
and I’m going to demonstrate how you can
use this to practice pronunciation at
home and to help get rid of your strong
accent so that other people can
understand you let’s talk about this
sentence I don’t want to eat dinner as a
native speaker I’m not going to talk
like that I don’t want to eat dinner I’m
going to say I don’t want to eat dinner
I don’t want to eat dinner so this
second way this natural style is the one
that I want you to break
in two different sections and speak like
a robot with those sections
let’s practice you could say I don’t we
don’t say that tea I don’t wanna eat
dinner I don’t want to eat dinner I
don’t wanna eat dinner when you break it
down into these sections you’re hearing
each sound each natural sound not I
don’t want to eat dinner you’re hearing
each natural sound I don’t wanna eat
dinner and even though you’re speaking
slower or more like a robot than a
native speaker would this is going to
help you to improve your pronunciation
when you can hear each sound and when
you can improve each sound so at the
beginning when you’re practicing at home
when you’re practicing in this video now
you can start to practice I want you to
speak slowly and clearly and use the
natural pronunciation but break it into
different sections so when you say I
don’t wanna eat dinner to a native
speaker maybe they’re gonna say oh that
guy sounds like a robot so the goal the
key is to speed it up at first when
you’re at home practicing say it slowly
I don’t wanna eat dinner but then you
can speed it up once you master each
section you can speed it up I don’t want
to eat dinner I don’t want to eat dinner
I don’t want to eat dinner
I don’t want to eat dinner I don’t want
to eat dinner you can say it faster and
faster so that when you do speak English
outside your home or with other people
they’re gonna be able to understand you
so this is my robot technique for today
I don’t recommend speaking like a robot
to other people but when you’re
practicing with yourself when you’re
practicing maybe with someone else at
home in a private place this is a great
way
to isolate each sound isolate each
natural sound thanks so much for
watching this video and if you are not
on my website at the moment I’d like to
hear your feedback about this I’d like
to hear your opinion what do you think
about this kind of private robot
technique breaking it down and then
speeding it up and saying it faster let
me know in the comments below in the
comments below this video so that I can
hear your opinion and we can share with
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