How to improve your pronunciation?

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[Vakala]

Hello,

My name is Albert Khonde, from drc democratic republic of congo. I'm an english learner and also teacher. My only problem is to know which strategies to aply once in front of a native because I use to interprete people from all over the world mostly native speackers. As long as I'm living in a harbor town. please advise before I ask some other questions soon.
Your answer is of interest for me. look forward reading you soon.

Albert Khonde Mbambi
:D :D :D :D :D

[Casafon]

Hi Torsten,
your questions to Dimitar are very interesting. Personally, I think that the most diffcult thing to achieve for an Egnlish learner is to learn English using more the sense of hearing than the sight. Most English teacher tend to teach English using "sight"-methods, i. e. with many written exercises or wiriting down every word. Moreover, we are used to think of a language as a written thing, more than as a sound.
I come from Italy, in my country we're constantly exposed to written English (t-shirts, writings) but not so much to spoken Engish (movies are always dubbed).
I often think of how to overcome the difficulties people have in learning languages by hearing. Sometimes, I think that teaching in darkness could be a solution. This may be awkward for many people, but it would force you to completely switch off your sense of sight.
bye paolo

[Nudma]

Hi Sir Torsten!
I am user of your web and learner of your introduce English improvement program
I want to come to know about your views about my this question
Question is given below
Question: - great communicators are made, not born?
Dear according to my opinion great communicators are made because
Good communication skills are perhaps the most invaluable skills one can have. Regardless of how much you know or how good you are at a specific task, without the ability to express yourself clearly and efficiently, you’ll never progress as far in your personal, professional or spiritual being as you could have if you had this ability. i think grate communicators can be made because this ability link your confidence and confidence built your own assessment around your atmospheres. Communication level also depend any family atmospheres. Luckily, great communicators are made, not born.
So now please you give me yours opinion about my this given question
kindly give me feed back of this question till tomarrow on my email-id happykhanjee@gmail.com
I will anxiously wait and i will be very thankful to you for this favor.
And if any other user will want to give me replay of this question on mine this happykhanjee@gmail.com given id then it will be mine pleasure
With regards

[Nudma]

hi to all
if any other user will want to give ans of my this question so must give on mine given id it will be mine pleasure
with regards

[Smacedo]

I have just set up my profile here and I absolutly love it!

[Tendersandy]

Hi everybody,

Regarding your question, I can tell you that everytime I teach how to pronounce the word "touch", I write the phonetic symbols of the word on the board. Then I make my students to repeat chorally after me. If it's necessary, I mime as if I were tired as I pronounce touch.

I hope this helps you.

Regards
tendersandy

[Alexandranow]

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Please listen to my recording and respond with a voice message too. Many thanks.

[Alan]

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Hi Alexandra,

Thank you for your message, which I enjoyed listening to. It is always good to receive recordings form our members because it makes the whole process of teaching and learning come alive. You obviously get pleasure from speaking English and I know that you will continue to make progress, You are very good at speaking at the moment and I am sure that your knowledge of English will increase. To answer your question about which type of English we use on the site I have to say that there are no firm and fixed rules on the matter. As you probably know, I come from the UK and am one of the co founders of the site along with Torsten and Slava. Initially when we started some 6 years ago there was an emphasis on British English as I wrote the first few hundred of the tests that are online. Since then of course our regular contributors include those from the USA. The differences between the two types of English are quite marginal and sometimes there are discussions about which one should be 'accepted'. My view is that it is the same language and we shouldn't get too worked up about the differences. After all as human beings we are all different in looks and ways of speaking. Even in my geographically small country people in different parts will use different words that belong to their region. Let's not worry too much about it.

Anyhow congratulations on your excellent English and hope to hear from you again.

Alan
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English as a Second Language
You can read my ESL story Present Simple

[Amalmusica]

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Hii.. Mr. Torsten.

I'm Amal from India.I like learning Different accents.but Actually I love
american Accent even though I'm an Indian..and the Indian English accent is
far different from American.

But the Sourse from I learn American Accent is English Movies.
I dont know how much good my Pronunciation is. In India Most of the people tries
to learn the British Accent and at schools We get phonetics classes but my meidum
of Education was not English It was my mother tongue but with My own effort I learned English Accent.

because I love The Language .When We love a particular subject It'll be surely
easier and more interesting to learn.

and one thing Is I'm a singer.I have sung in Music albums and some Indian Movies too.
My songs are mostly Western type . and I have sung english songs too.
American Accent is easier for me to understand but British Accent is not easy
for me..Now I start to Love British Accent from this site actually Sue's Audio
recordings..I'm now trying to learn more British Accent styles and sounds.

There are many accents of English like British, American,Australian,Irish and
other regional. but the most important thing is When We communicate with someone
Use the Best Accent for The Communication for the listener to understand clearly
and then onyl the Cmmunication will be successful.
well jus listen to one of my songs

Ths song is in the Language Malayalam but the second stanza, There are English
lines coming, so please listen to it.
and reply me some comments.



thanks.
AmaL :)

[Orest]

Dear Alan and Torsten.

I have read the essay "Are you a winer" and must say it is just grate. First of all the language is very natural and melodical. Set of advice given there are very useful.

Yet, I have two questions to both of you.

In the essay you use very often the phrase 'the avarage English learner'. What I don't understand is why you use there an article "the"? According to my logic it should be the article "an" and the phrase would look "an average English learner". Could you please be so kind to explain this to me?!

Next question is the following:
In one paragraph you say that lots of English learners are not satisfied with their English and then goes the sentence: Most of them know that their learning efforts are not yielding the results they expect.
Could you please be so kind to explain to me why in the phrase 'their learning efforts are not yielding the result they expect' the Present Continuos is used? Why not Present Indefinite?

Thank you in advance.
I am very grateful to you for your job!

Orest.

[Valimasl]

practice with your friends not just mirror

[Lynda]

hi i'm lynda i'd like to speak to you Mr torsten but i don't have the corage to do that even in my day life whene i try to talk in english i pay atention to my faults and can't finish my sentece. i need your advice please .thank you.

[Ashusharma]

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[Gumis]

Hi Everyone! That's my first time I use that forum. I read your e-mail Torsten, and what made me curious was the way I can improve my pronunciation. I listened to all of the audio streams added to this topic and I was amazed, because I did similar thing to this what Dimitar was talking about. Actually, I start talking to myself when I was in the U.S. that might sound funny, but I decided that if I'm finally in country where the leading language is english, I should try to think in that language. I also read books in english, watch American movies, try to read interesting me information in english rather than in my national language. What can help is to watch movies with subtitles. Sometimes I got lost during an action of a movie. There was many factors, I didn't know a word or just because a character was talking too fast. Because I can see how an unknown word is written, I always look for it up in dictionary. I have everywhere small pieces of paper with words I didn't know or just wasn't sure if the meaning I remembered was completely correct. I know that I speak too fast. Sometimes I stop talking, trying to find appropriate word, and that makes me a little embarrassed. Also, I need to work on is my voice. Many people ask me to speak up. To conclude, an advice to all who are learning a foreign language: speak slow and loud. It really helps.