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Hey, what's up?
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Stephanie, the English coach here from English fulltime .com.
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Welcome to part two of how to change your accent.
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In this video, I am going to give you as much advice as I can, as if you were my best friend,
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and I'm trying to help you and teach you and tell you
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and share with you everything I know about how to change your accent.
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But I'm also going to try to do it in a way where this video doesn't become 20 hours long,
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because this could easily be a seminar.
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I I have so much to share with you, so much to tell you, so much to teach you.
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And this time I also have some really awesome resources to share with you.
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So in part one, I told you my story.
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I told you how I learned Spanish
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and then how I changed my accent as an adult to have the accent that I have today.
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So if you want to hear that story, go watch it after this video.
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I also show you how I speak Spanish in that video if you want to see that as well.
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Now, before we get into any of my tips, I have two things that I wanna share with you.
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One, I recorded some videos with my brother for my YouTube channel.
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I think you are going to love them.
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In one of the videos, we talk about Gen Z slang.
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So if you like learning about slang in English, you're gonna love this video.
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And in the other video, we talk about doing interviews in English.
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He works in cybersecurity and he had recently interviewed people for a position in his company
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and so we share some really good tips and advice in that video.
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Now, if you are not subscribed to my channel,
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now is a great time to subscribe so you do not miss anything that I have coming up for you.
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And the second thing I want to share is
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if you're interested in improving your pronunciation in English or working on your accent,
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or if you want to learn to sound like me with the accent I use in English,
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then I want to invite you to join my Fluent Pronunciation Challenge.
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This is a seven day challenge.
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It's totally free and it has some of my best pronunciation and accent training.
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I want you to see what it's like to learn with me in a structured environment, in a structured way.
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So go ahead and sign up for that.
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I will leave the link in the description.
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Anyways, without further ado, let's get into the video and let me tell you as if you were my best friend,
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how to change your accent because yes, it's possible.
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It's just something that you have to decide that you want
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and then you focus on it and you go and you make it happen.
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However, the first thing you have to do is you have to choose an accent, right?
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English is spoken differently all over the world, even within a specific country.
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You might think there's only American English and British English, but actually within the US, there are several different types of accents.
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My accent is a West Coast Californian accent, okay?
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There are people from the US, just like me, who sound totally different.
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They have a very noticeably different accent.
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So you have to start by choosing the accent that you want to mimic, imitate, copy, and learn.
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And a lot of times people ask me, Stephanie, what accent should I choose?
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And I think it depends.
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If you're living in the US, for example, I think it would be great to learn an American accent, not a British accent.
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If you're living in the UK, choose a British accent that you can learn, not an American one, because,
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you know, you want to speak like the people that you are surrounded by, unless you're just like, no, I love American English.
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I don't care if I live in the UK.
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Again, it's a personal decision.
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You have to choose an accent
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because your brain will not be able to pick up patterns if there are no patterns to recognize.
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And if you're surrounded by so many different types of English, your brain will not be able to pick up the patterns.
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Now, if you live in a non -English speaking country, then you're kind of free to choose whatever kind of English you like,
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whatever accent you like, and you can make that be your accent, your way of speaking.
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Okay, the next thing we have to talk about is locking in the sounds.
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I really consider this to be step one of any accent because yes, rhythm is important.
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Intonation is important.
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Connected speech is important.
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But the sounds are the building blocks of the language
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and the accent you have to lock in the sounds
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because you're going to use those sounds to do everything else in the language.
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So when we talk about sounds, we're talking about consonants and we're talking about vowels.
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With the consonants, you have to know your problem areas.
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Native speakers of specific languages tend to confuse specific consonants in English.
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For you, is that the V and the W?
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Is that the B and the V?
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Is that the L and the R?
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What is going on with your native language and how is that influencing your English.
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You can do a quick search online, use AI and just say, hey, my native language is this.
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What pronunciation mistakes do people with my native language tend to make in English?
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I'm learning an American accent, or I'm learning a British accent, or I'm learning a West Coast Californian accent.
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And literally you will get all the answers like, oh, you should really pay close attention to the L
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and the R because people that speak your native language tend to confuse them in English, etc. So know your problem areas,
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know the consonants in English, learn them, drill them, and lock them in.
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Same thing with the vowels.
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Now the vowels, these are the sounds that will really give color to an accent, okay, and make it shine and make it stand out.
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And let me explain why.
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When I was in college, I did a voice, dictions, and dialects class that was so much fun.
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And we basically studied accents for an entire semester.
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And we practiced shaping and modifying our own accents and voice to sound like someone else.
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So I learned how to do a British accent, different kinds of British accents, actually.
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I learned how to do different kinds of American accents.
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But I also learned how to do foreign accents.
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We learned how to do Russian accents, Spanish accents, French accents.
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And basically, we just learned all the typical sounds and pronunciation mistakes that speakers of those languages make in English.
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And then we were able to imitate that.
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And one thing I will never forget is that the vowels had the greatest effect on the accent.
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Depending on what kind of vowel sound we used in a word, it would instantly change our accent.
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So with the vowels, here's some things you need to know.
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We have diphthongs in English.
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These are vowels that transition and change when you say them.
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And then we have pure vowels.
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These are vowels that don't change when you say them.
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So for example, eh, ah, ih.
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These are pure vowels.
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It's just one sound and I'm holding it.
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Eh, ah, ih.
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Okay.
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However, diphthongs, they change.
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A, O, ow.
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And you have to make it through the full diphthong for your listeners ears to register the correct sound.
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And what happens is a lot of English learners, they never make it through the full diphthong when they're speaking.
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And so that gives them a stronger accent. For example, a lot of my students make
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this mistake instead of saying pain okay a a a pain
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see how my jaw is like coming up as I say the vowel sound pain pain pain pain pain okay
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they use a pure vowel instead and they say pen pen pen pen pen okay
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and so to a native speakers ears we're gonna hear that and go, ooh, accent.
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Okay.
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And it makes it more difficult for people to understand you.
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So you want to make it through the full diphthong.
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Now also let's look at the, oh, diphthong.
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Oh, oh, oh.
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This is another tricky one for non -native English speakers.
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Oh, oh, oh, oh.
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Okay.
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We start with the uh and we go to the ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
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okay I mean when I say we start with the uh
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and we go to the oo I'm using the pure vowel sounds there
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but really it's a diphthong so it is shifting as we are saying it
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so just listen and repeat listen and repeat and mimic
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and sometimes you have to not ask yourself why or how
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so much you just have to close your eyes really hear what you're hearing very carefully
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and then imitate it and training your ears is so important
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and I think a lot of people just skip this
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because it's not like fun or exciting
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and it's just it could I don't know it could feel tedious
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but I love it I love training my ears I love being able to hear the little nuances
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and little inflections in the voice and changes and things
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that other people miss I love observing those things figuring it out
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and it's kind of like a puzzle to me
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and to my brain so I enjoy it
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and you have to learn how to enjoy it if you're going to change your accent.
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So going back to the O sound, imagine if I turn this into a pure vowel and I say O,
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O, O, because this is what a lot of English learners do.
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And instead of saying, I need to go home, they say, I need to go home.
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I need to go home.
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Go, go home, go home.
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I need to go home.
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But if you would just transition through the diphthong the way that we do in English, it will instantly make your accent sound more accurate.
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I need to go home.
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I need to go home.
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I need to go home.
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Now, the next thing that I'll say about accents and sounds is
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that it's really good to learn the key sounds that make an accent noticeable.
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For example, when I think of a British accent, I'm like, oh yeah, they drop the R sound at the ends of words.
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That is so typical of a British accent.
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But in American in English.
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or in most varieties of American English, we have the R there.
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So I say car, ear, or pair.
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In British English, they're going to drop that R.
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So to summarize this part, you have to learn the sounds of the specific accent that you're trying to master.
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That is foundational.
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That is what I consider to be basic.
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You have to learn the sounds.
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And the crazy thing is most English learners don't learn the sounds or all the sounds, and they actually can get quite fluent in the language
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while still messing up on key sounds in the accent
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that they're trying to master or just key sounds that are necessary for clarity.
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Even if you're not trying to master a specific accent,
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some sounds are absolutely necessary for clarity and other sounds are necessary for linking words like the flap, for example.
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Okay, the next thing we absolutely have to talk about is how reductions, stress and contractions affect language.
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Every accent has its own stress patterns, its own reductions, its own contractions that are used again and again and again and again.
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And when you learn these patterns, it makes it so much easier to speak and to sound clear in that accent.
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So for example, when I say the word for in English, this is a function word and I often reduce it in my speech.
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I don't usually say it's for me.
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I say it's for me.
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It's for me.
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For, for, for, for rhymes with sir, like hello, sir. For, sir.
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It's for me.
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It's for her.
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It's for him.
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Okay.
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So that is an example of a reduction.
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Another word that we often reduce in English is have
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and we often just reduce
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it down to uh uh uh right like I should have told you earlier I shoulda shoulda
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that is should have
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but I'm not saying should have I'm saying shoulda
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I shoulda told you earlier okay another thing how words join
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together shoulda told you ju ju ju ju did you hear what I did there I didn't say
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I shoulda told you I could say that I should have told you earlier
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but often we're going to join sounds together and it's going to change how it comes out.
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So you might often hear, I should have told you earlier, told you, you, you, you, you, told you.
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Now, when it comes to contractions, we use contractions so much in English.
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There are contractions that you're hearing on a daily basis and your brain probably is not even registering that it's a contraction,
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but you have to become aware of how English is spoken so that you can imitate it properly.
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And I will give you a classic example because I see this mistake so much with my students.
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Actually, it is not a mistake, but let's talk about it.
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So it is, it is.
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Many of my students say it is like this separately.
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It is like, oh, it is really funny.
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It is hot today.
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But if you listen to me talk, I almost never say it is.
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I say it's, it's, it's.
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I join them.
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I contract those words.
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It's hot today.
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It's a really good movie.
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It's the truth.
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So little things like that can really change how you sound in English and also how fluent you feel.
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Because when you start contracting your words, you're going to be able to speak faster.
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You're going to feel more natural.
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Your tongue will not trip over words in your mouth.
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Now with this, be careful because I hear a lot of Spanish speakers say is.
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They don't say it's
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and they don't say it is they just say is they say is hot today
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that's not how we say it in english okay i have a few more tips for you
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but before i get into that i just want to tell you about one more program
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that i have that can really help you with your accent especially
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if you're trying to learn american english
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and it's free kind of let me explain
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so back in 2022 i designed this amazing 12 -week program
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that takes you through my entire accent and pronunciation in english from the sounds to the rhythm, the intonation, the patterns, the contractions,
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everything, and then finding and creating your own accent in English, whether that means you want to sound exactly like me as much as possible,
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or take inspiration from my accent to create your own accent.
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Anyways, I call this my complete accent pronunciation and voice course, because at the end of the program,
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we also talk about public speaking and how to really make your voice strong
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and compelling and this is a course that I used to run live
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but I don't run it live anymore
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and I didn't want to just throw it away
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and not use it because it's so good and it has helped so many people around the world.
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It was just I had too many programs and I needed to consolidate.
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So what I did is I added this entire program as a bonus to my English life.
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community
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so anyone who is a member of my english life program automatically gets access to this entire course completely free
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it's some of my absolute best work that said
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if you're working on your pronunciation
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if you're working on your accent i think you are going to love this program
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and everything that you learn there so i will also leave the link to
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that in the description
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and i just remembered i actually have a testimonial from a student who's going through the course right now.
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And he recently posted some of his homework for this course.
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And in the homework, I asked the question, what have you improved since starting this course?
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And his answer is awareness is a big one.
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And also people during my sales calls are mostly assuming I'm from the US now.
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Before they always had to ask which country I was from.
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Now, if it ever comes up, they ask which state I'm in.
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And I thought this was so cool, because he started the course like five or six weeks ago, and it's a 12 week program.
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So he is just having some massive improvements.
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He's taking the course very seriously.
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He's going through all the modules, he's doing the homework, and he's feeling the change within himself.
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And I have seen so many students experience these results from this program.
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So I just had to share it with you because I know
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so many of you are out here looking for ways to really improve your pronunciation, to lock in your American an accent.
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And so I just had to tell you that this course is here.
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You can use it and you can get these results too.
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Obviously you have to put in the work, but it's totally possible.
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Oh, and I really liked the first thing he said where he said awareness is a big one.
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That is probably the number one piece of feedback I got about this program.
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Everyone that did it was like, Stephanie, I hear English so much differently now.
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Actually, quick story.
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Oh my goodness.
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I didn't plan on sharing this
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but one of my students from the very first round
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she told me she's like stephanie before doing this course i thought something was wrong with my ears
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so much so that i even went to the doctor
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and i had them do a hearing test on me
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because i thought something was wrong with my ears i couldn't hear things in english
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but after doing the course she became
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so aware of how english is actually spoken that she was able to hear details that she completely missed before
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And obviously when you can hear English accurately, you can imitate it accurately too.
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So I just had to share that.
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Anyways, we would love for you to join our community. And with
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that, let me get back to the video at hand to give you more tips on how to change your accent.
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I really want to wrap up with two things.
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First, intonation patterns.
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You have to know that every single accent has its own intonation patterns.
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This is the melody of the language.
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This is how it goes up and down as you speak
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and one of the most common problems for English learners is they take intonation patterns from their native language
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and they bring them into English.
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So let me give you an example.
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I've worked with a lot of Brazilian students
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so I'm quite familiar with the patterns that they bring into English
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and for example if I say I know okay I'm like oh yeah I know I know that's my pattern in English.
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I know I know I know right and Brazilian students they'll often say something like, I know.
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Okay.
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I know.
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Do you, do you hear how it's like completely different?
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I say, I know, I know.
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And my Brazilian students will say, I know, or she knows she has to go.
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Okay.
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And they have this like little sing song that they do in their English.
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But the thing is, if you do that constantly in English, it's actually so distracting to your listeners because we're not expecting
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that and one of the things that makes language easy for people to understand is
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when you just follow patterns that people are expecting and familiar with
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because they don't have to filter anything out
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and they can really focus on your message so
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when you're practicing english a really really great way to practice is focus on short phrases
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i know a lot of times when people shadow they're shadowing pages
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and pages and pages at a time that's quite overwhelming for the brain take little sections
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and just mimic and imitate little things like what I just said that's quite overwhelming for the brain
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and you see how I went up higher there with my intonation as well that's quite overwhelming for the brain
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and that's another thing that we do in English we raise our pitch we go up higher
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when we're trying to emphasize something
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but sometimes we can also go lower all right like I just did it we can also go lower
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so it just depends on what your message is and how you want to communicate,
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but a lot of the patterns in the language are just on repeat constantly.
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And when you can lock in those intonation patterns and hear it and imitate it, train your ears, everything gets so much easier.
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But you just have to be aware of the patterns that you're bringing in from your native language.
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And I find
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that the easiest way to train these out of your english is by focusing on small phrases
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and just making sure you're saying them with an english pattern
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and not using the intonation patterns from your native language okay i think i covered everything in this video
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but obviously if you have questions please let me know
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because i can make more videos on this topic
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and like i said there's so much more
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that i could share the last thing i'll say is
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that it takes time right if you force an accent to change too fast,
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it will sound and feel performative.
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And you don't want your accent to sound performative because it just sounds like why are you speaking like that, you know, almost cartoonish.
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And you don't want it to feel performative because you're not going to like that nobody when they're speaking a language,
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we don't want to feel like we're performing language.
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Okay, we want to communicate, we want to have a good time.
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Accents take time to develop.
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Now, if you're an actor, and this is like what you do for a living and you practice accents and whatever,
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maybe you can lock in a new accent in, you know, a month or two, right?
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But if you're just a regular person, and you've only been speaking one language your entire life,
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and now you're trying to learn a new language and lock in an accent, that journey can take a while.
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So be prepared for that, be mentally prepared for that, have the right mindset, be okay with that.
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And don't give up because I have seen students make amazing progress in a couple months,
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but I've also seen even better progress in a few years.
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Okay.
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So just realize that it's part of the journey.
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I hope you feel encouraged.
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Let me know if you have any questions.
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Like I said, I feel like this could be a seminar.
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I'm forcing myself to end this video now because I know I want to say more, but I'm not going to allow it.
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This video will get too long.
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And you have the challenge that I mentioned at the beginning of this video, the fluent pronunciation challenge that is full of training from me.
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You're going to love it.
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And also I get really close to the camera and I show you inside my mouth.
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So you can see what I'm doing with my tongue and my mouth to get, you know, you have to get the,
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you have to get your tongue into the right position to make the right sound.
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So I, you know, I am your humble servant.
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I show you how it's done.
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And so I hope you join that challenge because you will learn a lot.
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Okay.
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That's it.
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And I'll see you soon.
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Bye.

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الكلمةالنطقالمعنى
accent اسم/ækˈsɛnt/نَبْر, تَأْكِيد
pronunciation اسم/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/نُطْق, لَفْظ
ear اسم/ˈɪə̯/أُذُن, أُذْن
fluent صفة/ˈfluənt/طَلِق, فَصِيح
reduction اسم/ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/نَقْص
homework اسم/ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/وَاجِب, وَاجِب مَنْزِلِيّ
transition اسم/tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/تَحَوُّل, نَقِل
awareness اسم/əˈwɛɹ.nəs/وعي
shadow اسم/ˈʃædəʊ̯/ظِلّ, خَيَال
phrase اسم/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/جُمْلَة, تَعْبِير
rhythm اسم/ˈɹɪð.əm/إِيقَاع
subscribe فعل/səbˈskɹaɪb/اِشْتَرَكَ
distress اسم/dɪˈstɹɛs/مِحْنَة
surround فعل/səˈɹaʊnd/أَحَاطَ, حَفَّ
seminar اسم/ˈsɛmɪnɑɹ/نَدْوَة

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go up فعلصَعِدَ, يَصْعَدُ
come up فعلطَلَعَ
pick up فعلقَطَفَ
come out فعل/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/خَرَجَ, غَادَرَ
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المضارع التام have/has + اسم المفعول — حدث ماضٍ ما زال له أثر الآنhas helped · have you improved · have seen
المبني للمجهول be + اسم المفعول — التركيز على ما يحدث لا على من يفعلهare not subscribed · is spoken · are surrounded
النصيحة بـ “should” should + فعل — قول ما يُستحسن فعلهshould I choose · should really pay · should have
صيغة التفضيل the -est / the most … — الأعلى أو الأدنى في مجموعةmy best · the greatest · the most common

نطق يحتاج إلى انتباه

يستخدم المتحدث 83 من الصيغ المختصرة، مثل you're, I'm, don't. انطقها بصيغتها القصيرة كما تسمعها.

  • أصوات “th”: rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, diphthong /ˈdɪpˌθɔŋ/
  • أصوات “sh” و“zh”: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
  • الكلمات الطويلة — انتبه لموضع النبر: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, accurately /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt.li/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

أصوات يجدها متحدثو العربية صعبة:

  • /p/ — ليس /b/: انطقه مع نفخة هواء: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, topic /ˈtɑpɪk/, pitch /pɪt͡ʃ/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
  • /v/ — ليس /f/: مع اهتزاز الأوتار الصوتية: invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/, servant /ˈsɝvənt/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/, vowel /ˈvaʊ.əl/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/
  • تتابع الصوامت — لا تضف حركة بينها: accent /ækˈsɛnt/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, fluent /ˈfluənt/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/, transition /tɹænˈzɪʃ.ən/

كيف تتدرب بهذا الفيديو

  1. استمع إلى الفيديو كاملًا مرة واحدة دون أن تتكلم، ودوّن الكلمات التي لا تعرفها.
  2. ابدأ بسرعة 0.75×، وردّد جملة جملة، ثم عُد إلى السرعة العادية عندما يصبح الأمر سهلًا.
  3. سجّل صوتك وقارنه بالأصل، مع الانتباه إلى كلمات مثل accent, pronunciation, ear.

ما هي تقنية التظليل الصوتي؟

التظليل الصوتي (Shadowing) تقنية تعلم لغة مدعومة علمياً، طُورت أصلاً لتدريب المترجمين الفوريين المحترفين. الطريقة بسيطة لكنها قوية: تستمع لصوت إنجليزي أصلي وتكرره فوراً بصوت عالٍ — كظل يتبع المتحدث بتأخير 1-2 ثانية. تُظهر الأبحاث تحسناً كبيراً في دقة النطق والتنغيم والإيقاع وربط الأصوات والاستماع والطلاقة.

تقنية الشادوينغ: اقرأ الدليل الكامل خطوة بخطوة →