How to Improve Your English Pronunciation (The First Thing You Must Do)

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Learn about the first step to improving your English pronunciation and reducing your accent. Learn to correct your pronunciation mistakes using a specific kind of practice based on scientific research and my personal experience.

[EngFluentTV]

Hi there. Here's the link to the pronunciation exercises:

[jerrygachuzperez]

Thanks man, as a Spanish speaker sometimes I get laughed at for having an accent and not being able to pronounce words right, this was really helpful

[windm.]

For a person who is always struggling with "e" & "i", hit & heat, etc..., this is really helpful. Thanks!!

[leticiar.sunakozawa]

I'm really happy because I found your videos. I'm brazillian and I'm trying to improve my English. Thanks for your tips.

[InsertTruthHere]

This video has some extremely good advice. The speaker has developed quite an excellent pronunciation considering the vastly different sound repartoire that his native Vietnamese has. Most of his words bear no traces of it, though. What gave him away, though, is that I couldn't hear an [n] or a [d] whenever he said "sounds". I also heard a dấu sắc here and there, particularly in the word "just" alongside of an omission of [s] which is very typical. Finally, and this has always fascinated me, Vietnamese people always assume a Deep South American accent when saying the word "time." Besides these points, the speaker's pronuncation is virtually perfect. I taught English in Vietnam for a year as a T.A., and I found it almost impossible to get students to abandon the ridiculous pronunciation guidelines that they had been receiving from their teachers. As a result, only very few of them could produce English words remotly intelligibly. All they did was to transcribe English words into Vietnamese script - which is asinine and impossible. The students never pronounced the final sounds of words, let alone consonant clusters. "Reserved" came out as "re-zir" and they just wouldn't imitate my correct pronunciation - I assume for fear of being disrespectful towards their teacher who previously taught them this nonsense. It was a very frustrating time. I wish any one of my students' pronunciation had been as good as this speaker's.

[starrlewis]

I mispronounced words all the time and it makes me feel better that I'm not alone

[rayanabdulrrhman]

I've been following your tips for improving my English earlier in 2015 and i really love ur work and your accent always makes me feel like if you do it i can do it too.thanks so much for your support by putting these amazing videos here and sharing your, experience in learning English with us and i watch your videos whenever i feel depressed and stress 'bout learning this language, i sense so much progressing in my speaking, reading, listening and writing skills since i started following your tips, i .just read non-fiction book and listening for an hour of podcasting show
am looking forward to see so good stuff 'bout those skills .thanks so much

[somnvm]

heres a few little trap for english learners:
1. some dictionary websites will write incorrect pronounciations [to "preserve" how people spoke like 100 years ago]
2. don't learn the difference between long and shot /i/ by word fill, letter l will cause a little schwah to appear before it, and not all places, and this will add difficulty. Same for words full and fool. I'd recommend fit vs feet/feat and lift vs leaf

vowels are the hardest tbh, but they help a lot.

[dals]

i always press the like button for educational video

[tonygamer]

I am preparing for a grammar school and your tips are useful

[phaksarunthanajaturat]

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[ernestogastelum]

The way you pronounce "sound" is so hilariously ironic.

[quadless]

mad helpful fam, I as a native english speaker tend to have trouble pronouncing most words

[tekobari]

This was wonderful. You would have laughed out loud watching me learn how to pronounce Mandarin, and I was better than most in the class. Our poor professor; I thought she must go home at night and cry her eyes out. I wish I'd known of your techniques a long time ago.

My grandmother (Spanish) used to "wash" television. :)

[wdjane]

I have a problem with saying "butter" so i my mother made me learn how to sing "betty butter" and now it's easy 👍

[Nfpl]

Me: I wanna speak in correct pronunciation.
Meanwhile my tongue after two words:Oh no..I can't bear the weight!

[typernate]

Thank you. I didn't know this before. I'm going to try this. I think it's a good way to improve my English pronunciation!

[MuhammadHanif-vpro]

so true.. i always confused when learn english.. thanks for this video.. it teach me many thing..

[TuanHoang-uliw]

Thanks so much for your videos, they have encouraged me in how to speak English well. they are really fun and easy to be absorbed. Hope to see more interesting ones from you.

[Rohitkumar]

thanks a lot to help me to improve my accent in english