The most important thing about your Accent
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มิ.ย. 2024
- The most important thing about your accent is how you shape your body. This includes how you shape your throat, tongue and muscles. Every language is spoken with a body holding unique shapes. I’ll show in this video how to think about the shape of your body and what shape it needs to be in if you want to sound more like a native speaker.
00:00 Introduction
00:13 Topic: How to shape your body when you speak
00:21 Live class on how the Spanish voice should be different from the American voice
01:03 What happens when you speak English without changing the shape of your body
01:13 Rachel working with a student on how to say the phrase "I'm living"
01:46 Where your voice vibrates as a heat map
02:23 Piccolo analogy
02:44 Piccolo/Flute difference
03:09 Minnesota Orchestra
03:25 Piccolo
03:55 How does it relate to voice
04:48 Placement / link in the video description
05:28 Student exercise
09:52 More mellow exercise
10:37 Huge thank you to student who volunteered in live class
10:45 Live class in Rachel's Academy
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Hello Rachel! Hope you're doing great. I'm looking for one on one American Accent classes. I'm from India. I'm an artist and a calligrapher. I struggle with voice overs in my TH-cam videos. Could you please guide me?
I adore your work Rachel, I just have the impression that you speak so much during your student's practice time that she hardly has any chance to actually practice 🤓 it's like you speak 98% of the time and she speaks only 2...
Rachel , thanks for your efforts ..
Would you explain how to say " regularly" in a normal and fast way
It's definitely so hard to say
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I’m a native Japanese speaker, and I feel like I finally found my American voice! My voice gets much much deeper when I speak English compared to Japanese and I used to feel like I was “faking” it 😂 but probably that’s my right placement in English! Thank you for amazing videos always! ✨
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Oh my God! You’re the best teacher when it comes to pronunciation and intonation. As I started studying English by myself when I was nine, I was lucky enough to get all those nuances from the very beginning. Unfortunately most teachers aren’t that lucky and aren’t able to teach their students. When I listen to you, I feel like becoming a coach to those guys because learning a language involves so much more and most aren’t aware of that. Love you, Rachel.
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Thank you for this video, Rachel! This is what I have been looking for!! There is no approach like you to remove the accent from other language. I totally could understand you because I am a singer. The same mechanism can apply for singing! Thank you so very much!!
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Hello, Rachel! Thanks a million for the lesson and a new exercise! I liked it a lot! Comparison with music is very helpful!
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Thanks, teacher for this amazing lesson. I'd try doing the Mellow exercise and work on lowering down my placement. Stay always happy and positive my favorite teacher.
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One Very helpful tip, guys. As we can notice, American Speakers try to produce sounds with their lips, but people like us who never had this habit try to speak by making sounds by moving our Jaw, and that is what causes the placement issue.
So, when you speak, try to produce the sounds from the lips and you will see your voice is automatically coming from the chest. Please try. I hope it helps!
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Very very interesting...I'm brazilian and I speak Portuguese, Spanish and English ...I always noted my voice sounds high in spanish, in English is like middle but in portuguese is low ❤❤❤❤ Really good explanation. My husband is a ESOL teacher and I'm a interpreter he work at the same school with foreign kids ❤❤❤ Thank you so much for the video!
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Oh my god, that is a thing I found when I heard locals talk; I'm glad someone finally gave some tips for that.
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I totally agree with those instruments comparisons, mainly because the voice is considered a musical instrument because it produces musical sound, vibration, and tone quality, making it unique, nobody speaks or sings exactly like another person, so my voice changes when I speak English. I try to keep to my voice like as if I just had woken up, I study and still keep studying English for more than 2 decades, always look for improvement, because even native speakers learn new words and expressions depending on the area, or field that interest them the most.
Thanks for sharing @flaviooliveira6999!
"living"
"i" in my language is pronounced like "ee", and I think it's true for many languages. Closer to English "i" is our "y" sound. People often don't realize the difference, they try to stick to their own language's sounds. As a kid I wasn't taught proper pronunciation and how important it is. And I was wondering why people abroad had difficulties with understanding me. This channel has helped me the most.
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I love your channel and my English is British Caribbean. Besides, your explanations answer my questions about why folks who were born and educated in the US speak differently from British Caribbean English.
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You either have a new microphone, or you've changed something about your audio. This is such a change. I can finally enjoy your videos to the fullest.
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Wow, this video rocked my world! I always sucked at music, but that analogy was fascinating and useful. It made me wanna speak English like a flute player. (The only Piccolo I knew was from Dragon Ball anyway so...) I gotta work on my language tunes! Thanks a bunch for the lesson! 🎶📚
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Here is a tip that I give my students about the i sound in Portuguese. It only sounds iiiii in Portuguese when it is the stressed syllable of a word(grita, minta, brita, pinta, ITA). When is is NOT the stressed syllable it is a schwa. Ta-da! For instance, Itália, igreja, hospital, limpar) See? It's not an iiiiiiii. In English, take something as a rule of thumb, the letter i DOES NOT sound like iiiiiiiii. Then, you memorize the exceptions: Police, pizza, taxi, megazine, machine. There are a few,
I'd like to work for your staff, but I am still intermediate level 😢. Your classes are awesome.
Video suggestion: Consonants combinations that are hard to pronounce.
I'm struggling with the transition between multiple consonants where you have to touch the roof of your mouth and teeth, also Z.
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I knew about that quite early in my years of learning English as my first "English teachers" were Americans. Some of them said to me that if I didn't sound English, it would be difficult for me to get integrated or to make friends with Americans at school or university. I tried very hard and succeeded However, that doesn't mean that I sound American at all when I speak English now. The success was just for some first words in a sentence. I lost control of how to shape my throat, nasal tract, my tongue, my lips...for the rest of the sentence. Nevertheless, I must say that it is possible to train to sound like American voice but to keep sounding like that for a long time can be a great effort unless you mix with American or English people every day..
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Hi Rachel, how have you been ? Can you please tell me about the 5 longest English words that are really required to be added in our vocabulary. Please let me know about it !!
The most important would be tough to say, but here are some vocabulary learning playlists I've made! www.youtube.com/@rachelsenglish/search?query=vocabulary
Thanks for video 😊
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My sound being higher again during the conversation When I'm speaking with lower pitch. what can I do
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There is a very, very important question: Do you stand with Israel or Palestine?
It's like the singing technique.
I mean the sound that born in to a stomach, or something like that.
And one more thing that I have noticed in your student's voice that I also notice in my students' is the length of the vowels. I've heard her first sentence and I can say she's latina. Rachel, you have a video talking about syllable stress and you said that stressed syllables are looooooong and hiiiiiiigher than the other one. I've started paying attention to that since than, and, guess what? Bullseye for you.
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Thank you for your amazing job, please what about arabic speaker, the commun mistake of pronunciation? Thank and keep going your interesting lessons 👍💐
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I work with English in a place where the European culture is really a thing. Some of my students learned German or Italian as their first language. No problem. But, as we can see in the video, languages use different muscles.
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I pronounce the "st" cluster in the word "gist", which has the transcription /dʒɪst/, by keeping the tongue behind the bottom front teeth. Specifically, I transition from the /dʒ/ sound to the /ɪ/ sound by moving the tongue from the roof of the mouth to the back of the bottom teeth, then I generate the /st/ cluster without moving the tongue tip to the roof of the mouth, which means that I use the middle of the mouth to produce both of the /s/ and /t/ sounds. I do it that way because I feel it is more efficient and requires less tongue movement. In my case, the tongue will have two positions for the entire word: 1. the first position is for the /dʒ/ sound 2. the second position is for the /st/ cluster. I repeat the same tongue posture for the /st/ cluster regardless of its position in the word.
what is your take on that?
Hi, I think this sounds like a reasonable option. I just tried it myself, and found that the correct sound was possible with this approach. It wouldn't be my first choice since it feels less natural to me, but it can work if it feels good for you!
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I would like to caution about using sympathetic vibrations as cues to the audible resonant changes in sounds produced - people will feel those vibrations in various parts of their body for simingly similar sounds. It's kind of like trying to learn how to steer a car not by observing the road, by listening to the sound of some tool rattling in the trunk on each turn - it's an indirect and unreliable method. It's tempting to think that this is universal and reliable across everyone, but it just tends to obfuscate and misdirect from what those students should be really doing, that is training their ears to asses and alter the sounds they produce directly.
Thanks for sharing @LeelooMinai!
Those are good points. I know when I was learning Russian (I'm an American), my jaws hurt! Russian has many sounds formed in the lower jaws and neck, not as high as we do in English. On the other hand, some South American ladies were helping me with my Spanish accent and pointed out that Spanish is done more from the lips and the front of your mouth, not from the back like in English. In Hebrew I needed to speak more forcefully, bringing air from lower down to make it sound better, and not do the dark L, or the American R. Speakers of Hindi, even with excellent grammar and vocabulary can have a hard time being understood in English because the accent and rhythm of Hindi is far different than English.
Thanks for sharing @coyotech55!
@@rachelsenglish My French teacher told me that in French there's no difference between the ee like in eat, and the i like in "it". Of course that's an important difference in English. But it's because French is in the front of the mouth, the nose and the lips, too. So try saying "wheel" at the front of you mouth, with a full final "L" ... you get "will", and can't do "wheel" that way.
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I have noticed chinese, Swedish and Turkish voice is piccolo....arabic, english , Russian is low pitch flute
My real problem is distinguishing between the dark l and the regular one in two-syllable words like "really" "pillow" and the words like these ones... I don’t know what to do... I think it has ruined my pronunciantion...
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I am a person who stutters since my childhood. So, practicing speaking is very difficult to me.
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I thought that Picollo was a character name from Dragonball, never imagined it's a instrument.
OMG - PLACEMENT - I have asked some doctors if they know what that is, and they said,"No idea." Why? Because we have nasal sounds in Portuguese from Brazil. For Spanish speakers, it should be less hard. After all, they do not have nasal sounds in Spanish. I can't remember any.
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E.g.: Mañana
See? Now that I am recovering from my second COVID, I can go down like that with my voice.
I hope you get well soon @englishforever!
ooh nice pronunciation😀😀
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5:19 Hello, am I the only one, not to find the link of the video "Placement"?
Sorry about that @fredericroy! It's already there. Thanks for noticing! :)
Hi sweetie teacher my English is not good my English language is very slowly. Can you help me to me
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How to pronounce the final ed in studied
Hi! I recommend using YouGlish.com to look up those words and listen to how native speakers say them!
E.g. why in word episode letter o sound ou but not schwa?
Good question! Words with specific suffixes like -ode often keep a regular pronunciation for the suffix part of the word, and this one happens to use the OH diphthong.
@@rachelsenglish How can you get used to such a terrible spelling of words. Why won't all Americans rise up against it. I am used to the perfect spelling of words in my language. it is impossible to get used to the lawlessness in writing English words.
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Kind of funny sounds
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I disagree that the sound in spanish is like a small musical instrument. The sounds in spanish are marvelous and beatiful and full of emotions. Remember, it`s is a romance language. It demostrates the americans english speakers lack of knowledge, about this beautiful language. The spanish is a more precise for explain complex concepts and tenses, respect to the english. (said this by language experts). Gramatically, the english is somewhat less evolutionated language respect the spanish. Spanish has influence of empires like: Greeks, Romans, Azteqs, Mayas, Incas and arabs mainly
Look at different Chinese speakers. CBC, ABC will have very different accents from Hong Kong Chinese or China Chinese. The CBC, ABC and BBC will have been speaking a lot more English and their faces will even LOOK different from their Chinese counterparts.
never think speaking involves physics
2:47 Spaniards just won't let go of that type of L sound (fLute in this case).
My board English exam
I would say that, in reality, there is no such thing as a "U.Sican accent. There are many accents, which are a part of a dialect, in N. America.
Rachel you are great but i think you should let students talk and practice more . You speak 99.9% :(:(.
when I copy Trump's mouth shape to speak English ,it makes me more American style.