Name: Understand more and improve your English pronunciation with the BREAK& GRAB METHOD
Uploaded: 2018-07-08T08:57:54.000Z
Duration: 21 min 43 s
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This lesson, what I want
to do is help you...

Well, I want to help you improve two things at
once, your pronunciation and your listening.

Really, I will be focusing on the listening part,
but if you do this right, your pronunciation

Listening is one of those things when people
are learning a language they don't really

It's quite funny because I hear many people say
right away: "I listen to English all the time.

And usually the same people will say something
like: "My pronunciation's not very good.

I really don't understand when people
speak to me", and so on and so forth.

And you're trying to explain:
Listening is a skill that is natural.

Actually, there's a difference between hearing
and listening, and we're going to go to the

board right now and talk about that so that
we can get to what I call "active listening".

So, E, as you can see, has a big ear because he
is now listening because he wants to improve

on his listening skills and his pronunciation,
and he's come to the right place.

All right, so the first thing I
want to look at here is "hear".

When we use the word "hear" in English
it's for sound, it really is.

So that would be music, when people are
speaking, because if you can't hear...

And here I wrote this: "If you don't hear
it, it doesn't exist", and that's true.

The ear actually has to work,
or you have to make it work.

There are two things you have to be careful
on, that your ear is good, so get a hearing

test if necessary, if you need one; but also we
can make it better, if physically everything

works, sometimes people don't pay
attention so they miss the sounds.

And when you miss a sound, it changes
the word and sometimes the meaning.

And that's when we look
over here, to "listen".

"Listening" makes us focus
and gives us meaning.

So, when you're listening to someone, you
will look at them and you will pay attention,

You need to be able to physically hear the
sound, which is true, but if you don't listen,

you won't get the meaning
of what they say. Okay?

And luckily for us, when the ear works, we
can use our listening or our focus skills

to improve how this works so we can get
better at learning language and learn faster.

If you remember what I said here: If
you don't hear, it doesn't exist.

Which will lead to bad pronunciation, because
if you cannot hear a T, you won't say the

For many Spanish people,
the "d" sound is a "th".

They cannot actually hear us when we
say "duh", so they say: "the", right?

So they go: "I stanthe", "I
stanthe" instead of: "I stand".

When they can hear it, because when I make
them say the sound "d", they can do it, and

"duh", they can say it, then all of a
sudden they're like: "I can stand.

By focusing and listening we're able to make
them realize there are different sounds being

said and improve on their
pronunciation. Okay?

Now, if we use active listening, which is
what I will teach you now, it will help us

"Retrain" means make the ear go back to the
beginning and then start again, and retrain

Now, I have a little game we're going to play,
which is a fun game because you can do it

by yourself, -- I will give you an example
in a second -- but you can also do it with

So, I'm going to read
something to you. Okay?

And I want you to close your eyes
and I want you to listen. Okay?

Now, I want you to look for the
words with the letter C. All right?

So you're going to close your eyes,
like I'm closing my eyes now.

And I'm going to read this to you, and I want
you to count how many C words are in this

"The cat quickly came to the couch and caught
sight of the kite in the tree and kept quiet."

I'll read it one more time for
you, so focus on the words.

Now, probably the first time you did it, you
were like: "What?" and it just went by very

But the second time you probably
noticed you were catching, grabbing.

This will help with pronunciation, but it also
does another little thing I didn't explain

to you but you would find: You started to make
breaks in the words so you can understand

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