Improving your fluency and pronunciation in English.

[Kitosdad]

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Good morning Phem. That was extremely well said. Better than I could do.
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[Nour*]

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OK I think It's quite difficult but let's try

'She sells sea-shells by the sea-shore,
The shells that she sells, are sea-shore shells.'

'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?'

[Yassin]

'She sells sea-shells by the sea-shore,
The shells that she sells, are sea-shore shells.'

'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?'

'I am not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
'cause the pheasant plucker's late.'

'Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.'

[Turtle]

Kitosdad do you think it's possible to switch from American accent to British accent? I would like sooo much to speak like Englishman, but I have American accent, and every time I try to speak like Englishman it sounds strange and funny. I don't know how to pronounce "r", etc :(

[MariaEbb]

Hi do you mean that fluency are the same as talking and understand English as quickly as possible?
Then I will never be fluent at English. I am both Swedish and hard of hearing. :-(

The first sentences I say in English then I am not prepared to talk English sounds very funny for a native speaker I suppose. I know I am not alone feeling that way.
/Maria

[Trina]

Hello Torsten, I'm GLAD finally I succeed to log on the forum.
Do you know how pleased I was when the first time I found this course?
Let me introduce, I am a mother of one, my last job was a teacher. but I've quit cause I need to focus on taking care my family. So now I'm a stay home mom.

Teacher Torsten, my difficulty is with my pronounciation.
Is there any way here where i can improve my pronounciation?please ADVICE.

Teacher, I will be very grateful if you would check my grammar, and advise if you find any grammar error in this message.

thank you so much, and hope to hear from you soon
trina

[Matthieuxmillion]

Hello, Kitosdad,

As far as using a short poem or a chunk of favorite prose for listening and speaking practice goes, it's a wonderful idea, and I recommend it highly. The reason I mention listening right off the bat is that you first need to have someone with excellent pronunciation either speak this to you repeatedly or record it for you prior to your learning it. Practice doesn't make perfect, only perfect practice makes perfect :-) Many second-language speakers of English have troubles with certain English sounds, regardless of how many years they've been speaking English, so for them to repeat and repeat certain sounds incorrectly will only ingrain them further. Great resources in this direction are either having a native speaker make short recordings for you or finding audio books of prose or poetry and taking excerpts from them. The latter is also excellent for listening practice, where you listen and read at the same time, at least while you're not driving or walking down the street.

A brilliant audio book with magnificent English (at least in the recording I have) is Bulgakov's Master and Margarita. If you haven't listened to it, I vigorously suggest it.

~Matthew

[Emir]

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[MariaEbb]

[Hannahpierre]

tongue twisters are hardly hard to pronounce but I'll try it.

[MariaEbb]

I just wonder if that sort of English can tell if you have a good pronounciation or not. And I have to drink someting before saying someting in English otherwise noone will understand what I am saying.
I think I have to find a microphone too :-) I don't have it here and it will be the first I ever record someting on a computer.

I don't like using microphones and I don't like when other do it either. I went to a folk high school once and there they could never learn how to use a micropnone :-( They shouted and
coughed in it sometimes and it made me angry as that sound was to loud for me. It hurt my ears.

/Maria

[Hannahpierre]

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

[MariaEbb]

Here you can learn British English on line.
http://www.howjsay.com/
/Maria

[Marcyllio]

Hello everyone. I am Marcilio from Brazil, I've been living in London, UK for 4 years howeverI haven't attempted to any Proficiency test yet. IELTS, ESOL, CPE. My aspiration is to work as an Interpreter. Do you think that any of those testes would be usefull for what I want? And do you have any idea what's the best way to start it up once I have no experience.
Thaks a lot

[Honey2]

oh it is very difficult to me :)

i cannot say it without making a periods

who help me i cannot distinguish between p and b because we are the arab have not the letter p
:roll: :roll:
give me a sentences that have the two letters to practise it

thanx
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