10 Ways to Improve Your English Pronunciation
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How to pronounce the i in fish, silly is the most difficult part for me. Love you !
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The most difficult words to pronounce are probably and girl.
Th always hard for me, I am realle challenging my muscles 💪
1. Shadowing -- This means you're repeating directly after a native English speaker.
2. Practise phrases or full sentences.
3. Practise intonation and word stress.
4. Learn with KEY SOUNDS are the most difficult for you.
5. Learn specifics for linking and reductions.
6. Practise challenge words.
7. Practise tongue twisters.
8. Study IPA.
9. Test yourself with voice texting.
10. Record yourself and compare it to a native English speaker.
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Thank you so much for bringing them up in this really important English lesson so I'll be able to remember those useful tips for improving my English pronunciation from now on.
Thanks for the video! Love watching other teachers’ videos and sharing the content with my students. Love the point that when people ask you to repeat yourself, that they care what you have to say even if it’s easier to just nod and smile and pretend to understand 😊
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Dear ESL students,
Another teacher has entered the chat and is here to contribute to a few of these pointers Vanessa has so graciously given us. Vanessa is an excellent teacher, so my commentary is with respect to the tips and advice she has already given. Yet, I felt compelled to contribute and provide other examinations/tips on various other nuances that exist within American English pronunciation =D. So, here you go...
As an American English teacher for almost 20 years, I'm here to give the following advice:
Students have to understand that some of these pronunciation tips Vanessa is giving students are influenced by what part of the USA she grew up in. For example, she and I pronounce the word "sentence" COMPLETELY different when speaking naturally with connected speech patterns. When I speak the word "sentence", I don't speak with such an extreme glottal stop on the "t", as she does in that word, and the puff of air on the "t" comes out when I'm pronouncing it. I think many other Native speakers of American English would agree with me on that examination of the word, and on many others.
Also, pronunciation patterns in connected speech CHANGE, sometimes drastically, when speaking the _same word_ in a different tense. Again, in the word "sentence"--> If I was to say, "I'm sentencing you to life in prison for the crime committed", the word "sentence" is spoken in the continuous tense and, therefore, becomes RHYTHMIC in its syllable breakdown, such as in "I'm _sen-tince-zing_ yu ta (for "to") life en priz'in for tha (or maybe heard as a quick/soft "da" sound) crymm cu-meh-did".
The following, in my professional advice, are some "other" top rules that should be taught about American English pronunciation:
1. From the vantage point of, let's say a British English speaker, American English is a NON-PHONETIC "version" of the English language. Americans are notorious for almost never speaking words as they look or are written.
2. English is not _only_ intonated but a rhythmic language which means sounds and syllables have an up and down pattern, such as in the word "Identify"--> (up) EYE (down) den-neh-fye.
3. Your tongue ALWAYS has to poke out when speaking words with the "TH" sound. Air then escapes over the tongue for a spoken OR non-spoken "Brea_th_y" sound. Try it.
4. In past tense pronunciation on REGULAR VERBS with the "ed" at the end of the word. The "e" is dropped and the "d" has to change to 1 of 2 sounds OR is kept the same sound flowing/merging it into the beginning sound of the word following it in a spoken sentence with reduced speech. The sounds are either a spitting "t" sound (such as in "asked" /ass't) or an "id" sound (such as in "needed" /need-id). Yet, in the past tense of "learned" the "d" is maintained after dropping the "e" and the "n" makes an "ñ" sound like in the Spanish language (learnnnnn'd) which brings me to my next point:
As Vanessa already mentioned in this video, keep in mind pronunciation has to be taught and/or examined from other angles when teaching to speakers of different languages. I specialize in teaching American English to 1st language Spanish speakers. The best pronunciation classes come from teachers who are most able to compare the sounds of diphthongs and/or phonemes in English to the student's first language, such as in the first sentence in this video. To a Spanish speaking student, I would have said the word "the" would have sounded like an "ah" sound, not an "eh" sound, such as in the vowel sound in the word "hat" -->despite there being a glottal stop on the "t" when flowing into the next word in the sentence with reduced speech.
Here is a more in-depth example of what I mean: the Spanish language has about 25 phoneme patterns in comparison to the almost 50 phonemes in American English. Keeping this in mind, I would not have related it as an "eh" sound before considering it an "ah" sound for a class of L1-Spanish speaking students (and also because _I_ , being from a different region of the USA than Vanessa is from, make more of an "a" sound when speaking that word, anyway).
With that said, it should be mentioned, in this video, that connected speech patterns are influenced tremendously by colloquial speech and sound (regions or areas where a native speaker is from that influence the way words are spoken in THEIR American English--> NOT overall and NOT always.) This is a clear distinction that should be disclaimed to students when teaching pronunciation). Anyways. My point is that teaching PRONUNCIATION is, by far, the hardest topic to teach in the English language. Teaching English pronunciation really is a specialty topic and rules cannot be generalized. Why? ..because American English is notorious for BREAKING pronunciation and grammar rules ALL-THE-TIME. (long sigh.....)
Anyway, thanks for reading my 2 cents, or should I say my 10 cents, LOL! Furthermore, a BIG THANK YOU to Vannessa for her taking the time out to contribute to a topic that is tough to teach--> AMERICAN ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. AHHHHH! (The sound I make as I wipe the sweat off my brow when teaching American English pronunciation to ESL students)!
Well, have a great day everyone! Cheers! =D
Best,
Mrs. Ruth
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I love your lesson Vanessa.. I am slowly improving my pronunciation. As a voice-over artist, this is so crucial.
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I always face this problem. Thank you very much for the lesson, for classes.
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These kinds of videos about how you guys link and abbreviate words have improved my pronunciation tremendously. Thanks
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Hey teacher!Thanks a lot for these useful and helpful tips!Pronunciation lessons are always my biggies! I think I still struggle with "a" and "o" sounds!Wish you to enjoy the weekend on your renovated porch!
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Hi Vanessa! I'm a fan from the Philippines. I share my knowledge on basic pronunciation too (for Filipinos/Asians) although I am not a native english speaker. I was inspired by your channel and thought to share too basing on my ESL experience. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
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The rise and fall of the voice in speaking that is you thanks my dear teacher .
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For me, french native speaker, the "R" sounds are the most complicated (like "Ready, Alright, Hard, Trade...")
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Hello Vanessa! Great to see you! I like the lessons in pronunciation very much, and admire your videos a lot! I tried to repeat the phrases and sentences after you. Thanks a bunch for that class! It seems to me that the vowel in the word work this sound is the most difficult in English for me.
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I find "thr" sound difficult to pronounce....
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Vanessa let me tell you that you're a fantastic English teacher ❤ because you have a striking, compelling and straightforward way of teaching this wonderful language which is the world's most important one so I'm still working on my English learning journey either in terms of grammar skills, pronunciation, reading or listening and so on. I would have to claim that English is full of mind-twisting rules that rely on how you pronounce a bunch of words, how you conjugate the verbs (especially the irregular ones) in mixed grammatical tenses and stuff like that, but even so I really love the language and I'm not afraid of making some mistakes anymore. I think that every single language has its own challenges, grammatical structures, pronunciation patterns, inconsistencies and the list goes on. On the other hand I'm still struggling to pronounce very tricky English words which are even hard for native speakers to pronounce, I have a few problems when listening to English and sometimes I misunderstand some words or even whole phrases because of the rapid speaking rate English has but if you compare it to the Spanish's one you'll probably get overwhelmed by how many speakers talk to each other in a very fast speaking rate. It wasn't so easy to get familiar with the several English sounds that don't exist in my native language either because it was a matter of some getting used to. I decided to learn English mindfully and easily just over five years ago because that was up to me and I wanted to change my lifestyle drastically which is still ongoing and I usually brush up on my English skills in order to becoming a fluent speaker someday and also an American citizen, why not? Well that's a long personal thought of mine and I want to thank you for sharing your impressive knowledge with me and you're also very kind, cheerful and professional Vanessa, because as far as I can tell you are the most multitasking English teacher I've ever had.
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Hello teacher I'm from Panama city🇵🇦 and i feel really good because i undertand a lot of you say in the video without subtitles🙌🏾 but the sounds more difficult for me was (TH) its really tough
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Thank you for your video; it’s handy for me to learn and practice my English skills, and I can understand your pronunciation well. And I hope I can speak English well soon. I’m from Thailand
Helpful. Many thanks.
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