How to improve your pronunciation?

[SkiIucK]

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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

[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 Guy Fawkes Night for You

[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