Shadowing Practice: Improve Your English Pronunciation in 3 Steps (British Accent) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So your English is good.
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You have vocabulary, you have some grammar
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and maybe you like to throw in a cheeky phrasal verb or an idiom here and there.
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That's great.
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But still people are saying, huh?
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What?
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What did you say?
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I completely understand.
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Don't worry.
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I am told this by people every day.
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Today I have three simple steps I want you to follow
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just to begin your journey to a more structured approach to
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learning pronunciation instead of watching just loads of random videos
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and not really knowing where you're going it's so much better to follow an actual structure
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when you learn pronunciation right i had this issue
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when i was learning the guitar i just watched loads of random youtube videos
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and i was getting nowhere until i started following a structured approach whether
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that was created by myself or by a teacher it just made
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so much more sense and i could feel myself slowly growing
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and building muscle memory this is what pronunciation is it's all about muscle memory building
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so we're not revising for an exam we're trying to train our mind
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and our mouth to make a connection to start doing things without having to think about them
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but it all starts by identifying what your problems are
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so hopefully i can help you find those problems
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and give you these steps which can set you off in the right direction.
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After you've thought about the why and the when and the how, you know, do I want a British accent or do I just want some accent reduction?
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Do I want a bit of both?
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You know, think about those things first, but then we'll go straight into step one.
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This will always be my step one, stress.
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This is literally communication.
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So when you are talking to people in your day -to -day life, you have to make sure as much as you can that you're stressing the right words.
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If we take the word banana for example, if you already know where the stressed syllable is, great.
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If you don't, banana.
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Where am I putting more effort?
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Where is my energy?
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Banana.
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Banana.
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It's na.
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Banana.
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That's where the stressed syllable is.
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Every word is made up of syllables and there will always be one syllable
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which has a bit more of a bit more of a push right
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and this is what makes the word clear and understandable
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so first make sure that you know how syllable stress works make sure you're not saying banana
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or about instead of banana about
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and i really encourage you to start building a list of
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words you use a lot in your day -to -day life
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and then also a list of what we call high frequency words words
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which we use a lot which you can go through
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and make sure
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that you're stressing the correct syllable keep this list it will
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be useful later on now we have the syllable stress the next step is putting these words into sentences
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and making sentence stress this is the final part of step one kind of
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so just like in a word where we have one important
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part of it a stress syllable in every sentence we have important words.
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Words which give context.
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Words which tell the story.
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Words which actually give the listener something they need to hear so they know what you're saying.
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Did you hear me just then?
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I said need to hear.
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Need hear.
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Those were the important words.
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Now what did I do with the word to?
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Need to hear.
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I pronounced it as to.
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That's because nobody gives up.
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Calm down Elliot nobody cares about the word to.
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This is called a function word or a grammar word and what we do is we relax it.
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We make it softer, we make it more relaxed, we kind of camouflage it so that the listener doesn't really need to hear it
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and we can make the stressed words more obvious.
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This will improve your rhythm, this will improve the speed at which you speak and this is my favourite part.
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When my students have been working on this in the course after a little while, I usually get a WhatsApp voice message from them saying,
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Elliot, I can't believe how much my confidence has improved when I speak English,
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simply because of rethinking the way that sentence stress works and understanding what I need to give to my listener.
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So stress the right syllables and stress the right words in your sentence.
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Now, there are other things.
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Sometimes a sentence will have a primary stressed word so one word
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which needs even more of a
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and then of course we have intonation we won't go into
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that today but just know
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that intonation my best way of explaining it is it's a bit like adding color to a black
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and white painting
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so it adds emotion sarcasm confidence many different things step two maybe you guessed it it's the sounds
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so there are many ways of working out what sounds you have problems with.
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The first step might be just thinking about your native accent, your native language.
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Do you have any really strong sounds in your accent?
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Maybe you're Italian and you roll your R's.
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Maybe you have one of the most famous problems, which is pronouncing the I sound as an E, and you say sit instead of sit.
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Or the opposite way round, where instead of saying sheet, you say .
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I've only talked about vowels.
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Remember, we have diphthongs, O, ow.
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We also have consonants.
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The th sound, for example.
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Maybe you don't have enough muscle memory.
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Sometimes you do a th like in think, but then maybe sometimes you say duh instead of the.
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You have to look at the things which are either because of your native accent or habits that you've built.
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As well as that, think about times when people have not been able to understand you.
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Is it because of the way that you pronounced a word?
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Well, what part of that word was wrong? what part of that word did you pronounce incorrectly?
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Maybe you have a problem with that sound.
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Of course, the easiest way to find out is by working with a professional, but obviously if you can't work with a professional, you just have to do a bit of extra work by yourself.
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And my step three is something that so many people get excited about, so much so that they rush to it.
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They try and work on it before they improve step one and step two, and that's connected speech.
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Connected speech is how we join our words together.
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For example, if you showed me something you created and I said, I love it, that would sound a bit robotic.
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So instead I would say, I love it.
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I love it.
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I'm joining the consonant v at the end of the word love to the vowel at the beginning of the word it.
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This is called linking.
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And what I'm doing is connecting my speech.
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I love it get it get out get in get on
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great way to practice is with phrasal verbs just remember
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that consonants love vowels
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if there's a consonant at the end of a word it would love to join over
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and give that vowel a big hug but vowels hate each other
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if you have a word that ends with a vowel
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and the next word begins with a vowel for example we are we're going to create a consonant to create the peace.
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So instead of saying we are, we are, we are.
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This is called an intrusive sound.
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We're creating a yod, a y sound, to join the two vowels together, joining the words together.
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So they can be at peace and love each other.
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If only the world was as simple as this.
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We need more consonants in the world.
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Where are the Germans when you need them with all of their consonants?
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We have other parts of connected speech which I haven't talked about today, but I could be here all day.
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That's whole chapter in my course, just remember that the most basic and kind of beginner part of connected speech would be linking and intrusive sounds.
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Now everything I've said so far you can probably do after a bit of practice just by reading things.
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You have to really focus on what's happening and what the word looks like, but how do you start putting it into your day -to -day speech?
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There are a number of different ways, I mean you could start trying to speak more freely, maybe just focus on one vowel sound
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and record your voice do a journal at the end of
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your day talk about your day talk about the people you
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met how you're feeling this is really good for your mental health as well
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but you can also practice your pronunciation at the same time as well as this writing down
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and remembering phrases sentences you use a lot in your day -to -day life for example
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when you order a coffee
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when you talk to a friend write down these frequently used things
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that you say whether it's a list of words
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and then a list of sentences or whatever and just practice saying them
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because the more you practice that sound or
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that form of connected speech you have problems with the more
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it's going to start kind of moving into your free speech as well
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so the goal is to build muscle memory through lots of practice both conscious practice
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and practice when you're speaking freely as well
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so make sure you're just focusing on one thing at a time you need a step by step approach
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and don't forget every part of the accent every sound every
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aspect is a journey for you there will be some things
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that just take a little bit longer to fix than others the other problem is it's hard to know
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if you're doing things right or wrong is your tongue in the right place
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and all of that stuff
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so sometimes you just need a bit of feedback now that's
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where I could come in I do have a pronunciation course
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which you can join and it includes daily whatsapp support
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and feedback and guidance so you can send me voice messages whether that's conversation questions
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or just practicing some things from the course
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and i will of course correct you and do all of
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that stuff so head down to the link below
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if you would like to work with me on your pronunciation
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you can go to etjenglish .com thank you very much for watching and i will see you in the next video.
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Cheers, guys.
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Bye.
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¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.