Learn English like a Baby How to Sound Native

Today you are going to learn tips on speaking
English like a native from studying how babies

learn to speak English.

I’ve been teaching English for over 10 years,
but it’s only in the past year that I’ve

had the chance to watch my son start to pick up language.

He’s 20 months and his language skills are
exploding.

I’m going to give you three tricks to help
you study the language the way he is working on it.

Are you ready to go to play yard Stoney?

Are you ready to go?

Are you sure?

Uh-oh! What did you drop?

When a baby is first experimenting with language,
it’s babble, la, la, la, ba, ba, ba.

Stoney had almost no sounds developed.

He had an AH vowel, and he had m, mama, and a B, baba,
baba.

What he seemed to be imitating and playing
with more than sounds was stress.

So many students get hung up on the sounds.

I actually think stress is more important.

Stress relates to rhythm and intonation.

These make up the feeling of English more
than the sounds do.

Somehow, I don’t know how, he got obsessed
with the song ‘Mambo Italiano’.

The chorus goes like this: Hey mambo, mambo
Italiano.

At this point, he can kind of say ‘hey mambo’.

But he cannot say ‘mambo italiano’.

Instead he says something like “Hey Mambo….."

He really gets the intonation and stress down. It matches the song perfectly.

The sounds aren’t there. But the feeling is there. It’s the feeling of the sentence.

As he gets better with sounds,

as he learns them, he’ll go back and fill them in if he’s still singing this song.

But for now, it’s “Hey Mambo!”

Pretty amazing. A year and a half and he’s matching the pitch and the stress.

This is something I encourage my students
to do.

Think about not just the individual sounds
but also think about the overall feeling of the sentence.

How are you?

Uhhh.

How are you.

The feeling is, everything connected, pitch changes smoothly, uuhhh, scooping up then down.

Uuuhhh. How are you?

Practicing sentences this way helps you practice the feeling.

Uh, how are you?

Uuuhhh

Are you willing to practice phrases that are just on ‘uh’?

Babies are laying a foundation of the feeling
of English for months before they put in all the details,

the finer pieces of the tongue
movements and the sounds.

I think you should also be practicing English this way.

Sometimes, just practice the feeling of a sentence.

Uuhhhh. How are you?

Uuhhhh. How are you?

Tip #2: When I’m holding Stoney in my arm and his face is very close to me, it’s right here,

I’ve noticed something. He looks at me like this.

Total concentration, focused in.
He’s staring right at my mouth.

My mom noticed this too.

She said, he watches my mouth so closely when I speak.

He’s curious, he wants the combination of the visual information along with what he’s hearing.

I think it can be incredibly helpful to study
native speaker’s mouths when learning.

Every one of my sound videos has close ups
of the mouth in slow motion,

and lots of my other videos do too, like one I did on linking with the TH.

I’ll put links to those videos in the description.

Sometimes I tell students to watch themselves
in a mirror or make a video and watch that.

One of my students in my online school just
posted a video to our Facebook group where

there was very little mouth movement happening.

And it’s hard for your English to be natural
and clear when you’re hardly moving your mouth at all.

When she went back and looked at it, she saw,
oh yeah, I understand, I’m cheating the

mouth position of some of the sounds that
use more jaw drop or lip rounding.

So focus in on the mouth of native speakers

and then pay attention to your own mouth positions as you’re practicing sounds.

Tip #3: What do toddlers do that is incredibly annoying?

They say and do the same thing over and over
and over.

In the park by our house, there’s a play
structure with a fake raccoon face carved into a tree.

Stoney calls it ‘aa-coon’ and asks for
it constantly.

There are times where he probably says the
word 20 times in a row.

Any parent or caregiver out there knows how
much children repeat themselves.

This is part of learning, of building muscle
memory,

building mastery, developing the fine and subtle changes in mouth position

native for speaking a language.

Repetition can not only help adults speak
better English, but I would say it’s essential.

Let’s say your pronunciation isn’t very good.

You can learn how to pronounce something better,
or how something should be pronounced.

For example, by watching videos on my channel.

But knowing something does nothing to change
your body and your habit.

You already have strong muscle memory established
as an adult.

Creating a sound that you don’t have in
your native language, or creating a new

feeling of English is impossible without repetition.

Before I started teaching English, I sang opera.

In practicing, it would make no sense to sing
the song from start to finish over and over.

You work in sections.

You pick out specific lines that are tricky,
and you do them over and over and over.

Maybe you take the text away from the music
and you practice that separately. Just sing out loud.

The point is, you break it down, and you work
with it over and over and over.

You take a break, you sleep, and your body,
your mind, does something with that.

It saves it.

And then the next day you come back and you
work again.

So be like a toddler and practice the same
thing over and over.

Let’s say ‘comfortable’ is a tricky word for you.

First, learn how to pronounce it.

I have a video on that.

Then play it and say it, play it and say it
over and over again.

You can use a site like forvo.com, where native speakers have uploaded word pronunciations.

Play the native speaker, say it out loud.

Play the native speaker, say it out loud.

Do this 10, 20 times in row.

Once it gets really good, don’t stop.

That’s when you need to keep going!

To solidify the correct, natural way of doing it.

This repetition will help you get better.

So as a teacher of language, I realize I have so much to learn about teaching a language by watching my son,

a native speaker, learn from the beginning.

At one point in this video, I mentioned my
online school. It’s called Rachel’s English Academy,

and I have thousands of audio files broken up and slowed down

so that my students can practice little bits of conversation with the play it, say it method.

It’s amazing. I’ll watch a student doing this, and I don’t even have to tell him what to fix.

Just by playing it and saying it over and
over without stopping,

subtle changes happen, and it starts to sound so good.

If you’re interested in learning more about
the school, please visit RachelsEnglishAcademy.com

今天,您将
通过学习婴儿如何学习说英语来学习像母语一样说英语的技巧

我教英语已经 10 多年了,
但直到去年我

才有机会看到我儿子开始学习语言。

他已经 20 个月了,他的语言能力正在
爆炸式增长。

我将为您提供三个技巧,以帮助
您按照他的工作方式学习语言。

你准备好去玩斯托尼的院子了吗?

你准备好出发了吗?

你确定吗?

哦哦! 你掉了什么?

当婴儿第一次尝试语言时,
它是 babble,la,la,la,ba,ba,ba。

斯通尼几乎没有发出任何声音。

他有一个AH元音,他有m,mama和一个B,baba,
baba。

他似乎在模仿和玩弄
的不仅仅是声音,而是压力。

很多学生都沉迷于这些声音。

其实我觉得压力更重要。

重音与节奏和语调有关。

这些比声音更能构成英语的感觉

不知怎么的,他
迷上了《Mambo Italiano》这首歌。

合唱是这样的:嘿曼波,曼波
意大利。

在这一点上,他可以说“嘿曼波”。

但他不能说“意大利曼波”。

取而代之的是,他说了类似“嘿曼波……”之类的话。

他真的把语调和压力降低了。它与歌曲完美匹配

。声音不存在。但感觉在那里。这是句子的感觉。

作为 他的声音越来越好,

随着他的学习,如果他还在唱这首歌,他会回去补上它们。

但现在,它是“嘿曼波!”

太棒了。一年半,他正在匹配音高 和压力。

这是我鼓励我的学生
做的事情。不仅要

考虑单个的声音
,还要考虑句子的整体感觉。

你好吗?

嗯。

你好吗

。感觉是,一切都联系在一起,音高 变化平稳,uuhhh,先上后下

。Uuuhhh。你好吗?

这样练习句子可以帮助你练习感觉。

呃,你好吗?

Uuuhhh

你愿意练习只在“uh”上的短语吗?

婴儿正在躺着
在他们投入所有细节之前,几个月的英语感觉的基础

,更精细的部分 e 舌头的
动作和声音。

我认为你也应该这样练习英语。

有时候,只是练习一下句子的感觉。

嗯。 你好吗?

嗯。 你好吗?

提示 #2:当我把 Stoney 搂在怀里,他的脸离我很近时,就在这里,

我注意到了一些东西。 他就这样看着我。

全神贯注,全神贯注。
他正盯着我的嘴。

我妈妈也注意到了这一点。

她说,当我说话的时候,他紧紧盯着我的嘴。

他很好奇,他想要将视觉信息与他听到的信息结合起来。

我认为
在学习时研究母语人士的嘴巴会非常有帮助。

我的每一个有声视频都有
慢动作的嘴巴特写,

我的许多其他视频也是如此,就像我在连接 TH 时所做的那样。

我会将这些视频的链接放在说明中。

有时我会告诉学生
在镜子中观察自己或制作视频并观看。

我在线学校的一个学生刚刚
在我们的 Facebook 群组上发布了一段视频,其中

几乎没有发生嘴巴运动。

当你的嘴巴几乎不动时,你的英语很难自然而清晰。

当她回过头去看时,她看到,
哦,是的,我明白了,我在欺骗

一些
使用更多下巴或圆唇的声音的嘴位。

因此,专注于母语人士的嘴巴

,然后在练习声音时注意自己的嘴巴位置。

提示#3:幼儿做什么令人难以置信的烦人?

他们一遍又一遍地说和做同样的事情

在我们家旁边的公园里,有一个游乐
设施,树上刻着一张假浣熊脸。

斯通尼称它为“aa-coon”并
不断要求它。

有时他可能会
连续说 20 次这个词。

那里的任何父母或看护人都知道有
多少孩子会重复自己。

这是学习的一部分,建立肌肉
记忆,

建立掌握,发展口语位置的细微变化,

以讲一种语言。

重复不仅可以帮助成年人说
更好的英语,而且我认为这是必不可少的。

假设你的发音不是很好。

您可以学习如何更好地发音,
或者应该如何发音。

例如,通过观看我频道上的视频。

但是知道一些事情并不能改变
你的身体和习惯。 作为成年人,

你已经建立了强大的肌肉记忆

如果没有重复,就不可能创造出母语中没有的声音
,或者创造一种新

的英语感觉。

在我开始教英语之前,我唱过歌剧。

在练习中,从头唱到尾是没有意义
的。

你在部分工作。

你挑出一些棘手的特定线条,
然后一遍又一遍地做。

也许您将文本从音乐中移开
,然后单独练习。 只是大声唱歌。

关键是,你把它分解,
然后一遍又一遍地处理它。

你休息一下,你睡着了,你的身体,
你的思想,会做一些事情。

它保存它。

然后第二天你回来,你又开始
工作了。

所以要像一个蹒跚学步的孩子一样
,一遍又一遍地练习同样的事情。

假设“舒适”对您来说是一个棘手的词。

首先,学习如何发音。

我有一个视频。

然后播放并说
一遍,一遍又一遍地播放。

您可以使用像 forvo.com 这样的网站,母语人士已经上传了单词发音。

播放母语人士,大声说出来。

播放母语人士,大声说出来。

连续做 10 次、20 次。

一旦它变得非常好,就不要停止。

那是你需要继续前进的时候!

巩固正确、自然的做法。

这种重复将帮助你变得更好。

因此,作为一名语言老师,通过观察我的母语为母语的儿子从一开始就学习,我意识到我在教授语言方面有很多东西要学

在这段视频中,我提到了我的
在线学校。 它被称为瑞秋的英语学院

,我有成千上万的音频文件被分解并放慢速度,

以便我的学生可以练习一点点对话,播放它,说它的方法。

太奇妙了。 我会看着一个学生这样做,我什至不必告诉他要解决什么问题。

只是通过不停地播放和一遍又一
遍地重复,

细微的变化就会发生,它开始听起来很好。

如果您有兴趣了解更多
关于学校的信息,请访问 RachelsEnglishAcademy.com