Name: 5 tips for PERFECT English pronunciation
Uploaded: 2023-12-08T22:44:14.000Z
Duration: 15 min 32 s
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I recently released my English pronunciation course in the Canguro Academy

to help you get perfect English pronunciation

As a learner of English, you are surrounded by marketing

that promises to teach you a British or American accent

and unfortunately this is really problematic

Firstly, it shows a fundamental misunderstanding

about the difference between pronunciation and accent

Pronunciation describes the way you pronounce sounds

and accent describes the way those sounds work together

So British or American is a description of identity

So, unless you plan to change your identity,

you don't need to imitate a British or American

you probably have the idea that if you imitate a specific accent,

for example, RP (Received Pronunciation),

There is no particular English accent that will give you any communication advantage

But, unlike accent, pronunciation is absolutely vital

But how do you know if your pronunciation is good?

You don't need to watch the rest of this video

and you don't need to waste any more time,

energy and money trying to imitate a British or American accent

You can have an accent AND great pronunciation

that stress and worry about how you sound,

about how your accent makes you sound stupid or difficult to understand

Your accent is your identity and it's beautiful

Now, let's do something a bit more technical

In English words generally fall into two categories

The simple explanation is that lexical words transmit meaning

So TABLE, REMEMBER, YELLOW and SUDDENLY are lexical words

and SHE, AT, THE and SO are grammar words

and those lexical words are the most important

I can communicate in a basic way using only lexical words

but I can't really communicate anything using only grammar words

and this brings us to the rhythm of English

syllable timed and stress timed languages but

What we do have in English is an alternating up and down

pattern of stress between those lexical words

but let's keep the lexical words on the beat

RED and then BLUE and then GREEN and then PINK

RED and then it's BLUE and then it's GREEN and then it's PINK

that we are keeping the lexical words on the beat

but that we are reducing the length of the grammar words

Now obviously if you just follow that up and down pattern

and each one represents a complete thought

Research has shown that when we're speaking

these little pieces are usually about 2 seconds long

Look at this phrase which doesn't contain any punctuation

Take a moment to read it or say it out loud

and ask yourself where there seems like a natural break

It's highly likely that you chose to put a break here

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5 tips for PERFECT English pronunciation

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