Three Tips For Native English Pronunciation
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
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today’s video i will give you three tips
for improving your pronunciation there
are many videos on the internet I’ve
made a few - about difficult sounds and
difficult words to pronounce but it’s
one thing to listen to these videos and
hear different sounds that are difficult
and it’s another thing to actually
improve yourself so today I’m going to
give you three tips that will help you
improve your pronunciation today let’s
get started
tip number one is to listen to English a
lot listen to English music listen to
English podcasts listen to videos like
this watch TV shows watch movies hear
English as much as possible and I know
this isn’t speaking this is only
listening but the more you hear native
English the easier it will be to hear
your own voice and to hear the your own
mistakes that you make so the more that
you hear English the more that you will
know specific sounds that are difficult
for you and you’ll be able to make them
yourself
and make them correctly the more you
listen that’s how we learned as children
we listen to our parents speak so much
for years and years and years we
listened to our parents speak and when
you grew up you to have a perfect accent
in your native language
so it’s possible in English if you
listen listen listen listen a lot let’s
go on to number two my second tip for
improving your pronunciation today is a
technique called shadowing a shadow is
something that appears when the sun is
shining so when the Sun is high in the
sky and there is a tree on the other
side there will be a dark area that’s
called a shadow so a Shack the technique
of shadowing means to repeat directly
after someone else speaks for example if
I said I loved learning English right
after I
finish the sentence you say I like
learning English you repeat the same
sentence after me or today is a
beautiful day today is a beautiful day
I’m going to book a lesson right now I’m
going to book a lesson right now so this
technique of shadowing helps you because
the native sounds are clear and fresh in
your mind you are not practicing after
the video finishes you are practicing
immediately after the native speaker
talks now you can do this with words or
with sentences for example I could say
the word sheet and you say immediately
sheet I could say the word beach and you
say beach beach beach sheet sheet you
say exactly after me and this helps you
to remember quickly and easily those
sounds let’s go on to number three
number three is something I recommend if
you want to improve your pronunciation
immediately and you are really serious
about having a native accent or at least
a better accent than you have currently
the number three tip is to record your
own voice speaking English now I know
this can be a little scary because no
one likes to hear their voice recorded
me included when I went to my videos my
voice sounds so strange it’s not the
same as I’m used to hearing but if you
want to improve your pronunciation
immediately I recommend recording your
voice with your phone with a computer
with anything and listening back to your
own voice you don’t need to share it
with anyone you don’t need to show
anyone you don’t need to put it online
unless you want to this is only for your
help so recording your voice helps
because you can train your ear to hear
your own mistakes when you hear yourself
say words that are not exactly correct
you can easily change your accent
because you can hear your own mistakes
but a big problem a lot of English
learners have is that they can’t even
hear their own
stakes they know that their accent isn’t
perfect but they’re not sure which
sounds are wrong or which words are
sounded out incorrectly so I recommend
to record your voice record your voice
saying a few short sentences you can
even read it sentences and record them
listen to them back and try to see which
sounds are difficult for you record your
voice again and again and see if you
improve I have a feeling that it will be
very easy to improve your pronunciation
quickly if you record your voice I hope
these three tips were helpful for you
let’s go over the tips for improving
your pronunciation one more time the
first one is to listen to English as
much as possible the second one is to
use the technique of shadowing repeating
directly after a native speaker and the
third one is to record your own voice so
that you can hear again and again
different mistakes that you make so you
can improve quickly let me know in the
comments below are any of these
techniques new to you and when you try
them out let me know your success
stories I’m very excited to hear how
your pronunciation is improving I’ll
talk to you later
goodbye