here's an english-speaking evaluation
evaluation I gave to another
another fantastic master English conversation
conversation subscriber there
there are a ton of great tips in here
here can we really talk about focusing
focusing on the basics a pronunciation
pronunciation and
and mastering grammar to listen carefully
carefully and calm it down below the
the video if there's anything you'd
you'd like to know more about
about how to improve enjoy thank you
you so much for sending
sending me your recording I know you've
you've been a
a master English conversation subscriber
subscriber for a long time it's
it's so great to finally hear your
your voice first of all I just wanted
wanted to say that you have a
a fantastic voice really liked listening
listening to it I must have plead
plead your recording at
at maybe 8 or 10 times just because
because I really wanted to hear your
your voice really
really listen to how you sound in
in what you're thinking about for
for learning English so
so a few things will go over but in
in general there are only a few small
small things that
that you need to change in order to
to really improve your pronunciation
pronunciation in
in grammar so that you really start
start speaking with confidence so
so we'll get into that in just a moment
moment but first your
your home in lithuania sounds really
really beautiful I'd
I'd love to have a place like that
that and Libyan an apartment here
here in Japan and there's no garden
garden around me I am a gardener and
and I wish I had a huge garden growing
growing my own vegetables and fruit
fruit trees and things like that I
I think that would be fantastic so
so I in for you I'd love to love
love to see where you live also wanting
wanting to help your
your students learn English I think
think that's a great goal it's also
also something I do I as
as a a learner and Japanese I do some
some teaching up japanese to people
people on occasion even
even though I don't think my Japanese
Japanese is perfect there's still
still some things about learning I
I like to help others with so
so I think that's a fantastic goal
goal so
goal so in
in this recording I want to give you
you some great tips that you can use
use to
use to really
really start seeing dramatic improvement
improvement in your English and
and we're gonna get into that right
right now so the first is
is how confidence works and this is
is a
is a tricky
tricky issue for a lot of students
students because they don't have confidence
confidence so they don't speak in
in their confidence gets worse and
and we call this vicious
vicious cycle it's a negative cycle
cycle where you feel bad and then
then you don't want to speak and then
then you feel worse and you don't
don't want to speak more so
so we want to correct that we want
want to reverse vicious
vicious cycle internet into a virtuous
virtuous
virtuous cycles
cycles and the way you begin that
that is to focus on a few small things
things
things so
so a lot of people when they want
want to start learning english they
they get really excited about studying
studying many different things I'm
I'm and it can be confusing for people
people because they don't know which
which things to focus on and what
what you really need to do is think
think like a
a scientist in focus on one or two
two specific things at a time and
and improve those and then you can
can really start seeing more confidence
confidence because as
as you get small successes in small
small improvement in your grammar
grammar
grammar where
where your pronunciation then you
you start wanting to speak more any
any really build your confidence to
to speak
to speak so
so today from what I hear there
are
are a
a few specific sounds that you need
need to practice the first one is
is the sea each
each sound this is the chin
church
church in
in chin each it's the same sound
in
in cheese
cheese iraq cheddar chips and
and you can produce the sounds but
but its something that you should
should really be focusing on is
is over pronouncing so when you see
see a word like cheese
cheese really try to over pronounce
pronounce the sound even if it takes
takes you longer to save we
we call this over pronouncing really
really go over the sound and
and make it as long as you can she's
she's
she's she's
she's that we really make sure you
you
you say
say the sound properly then you can
can go back in start making it shorter
shorter
shorter cheese
cheese I'm cheese the hard G
G sound good good good good good good
and the T
T are bled that we have been a word
word Lake
word Lake tree
tree this is a very common sound and
and it can be difficult for many non-native
non-native speakers if
if it's not really in your language
language so a word like tree
tree treaty to read DTR
DTR its actually two different sounds
sounds put together so
so before you work on T are together
together
together try
try to see them individually so in
in this case I would say to
to per to in her
her to hurt her to her Chur ther
ther tree treaty tree
tree and just like the CH sound really
really take your time and slowdown
slowdown see each sound individually
individually the difference between
between see H and
and TR is that CH is a digraph in
in this means that the to sounds the
the sea and the H actually
actually come together to form one
one new sound so
so you have to pronounce them at the
the same time but the T and the are
are its actually two different sounds
sounds that are blended together very
very quickly so
so this is just blender the sounds
sounds instead of the new sound coming
coming out at
at the letters so again that CH's
CH's
CH's sheesh
sheesh sheesh church in
in the TR is to her Kurt hurt
hurt hurt hurt Churcher ther tree
tree
tree tree
tree tree also the hard G sound good
good good good good good be
be get be getting be
be get go over sounds as much as you
you can
you can if
if there's one sound that you're not
not quite getting then it will hold
hold you back from becoming a more
more confident speaker because you'll
you'll be worried about it so
so any sound you think you're not
not making properly really take your
your time
your time go
go back in over pronounce the sound
sound
sound okay
okay now we're going to continue building
building your confidence with basic
basic grammar now a lot of students
students and yourself
yourself included the understand a
a lot
a lot have
have really difficult words but the
the real secret to being able to speak
speak confidently is mastering the
the basics I
I know a lot of students they get
get kind of tired of practicing this
this but this is really we're
we're where the speaking confidence
confidence comes from because
because these small mistakes if you
you make the small mistakes in your
your grammar that's
that's when in native speaker is listening
listening to you and they will think
think why do they they
they know all these difficult words
words but they don't know basic grammar
grammar
grammar and
and it just kinda it's like building
building a computer and you have like
like a really nice outside to the
the computer and it looks really great
great but the inside if it doesn't
doesn't work properly there's some
some
some computing
computing coded doesn't function properly
properly and it's the same thing with
with grammar so
so I always tell students if they're
they're not speaking confidently it's
it's usually because again
again the pronunciation but really
really because at the basic grammar
grammar
grammar so
so the grammar actually is more important
important than pronunciation but
but both grammar and pronunciation
pronunciation will help you speak
speak confidently so I'll give you
you one sentence that you gave me
me from
me from from
from your recording and listen to
to the differences in
in what I say for the first time I
I read it and the second time I read
read it
read it so
so here's the first time we have two
two kids
two kids son
son and daughter we have two kids
kids
kids a
a son and a daughter in listen to
to that again listen
listen to the difference between the
the first one in the second one so
so here's the first one we have two
two kids
two kids son
son and daughter in we have two kids
kids
kids a
a son and a daughter now to your year
year
year maybe
maybe you wouldn't notice the difference
difference so much when I'm putting
putting
putting our
our son and are daughter into the
the sentence but
but to a native speaker it's a very
very very
very very obvious
obvious simple mistake that somebody's
somebody's making and if you can correct
correct that your English
English will sound much much better
better one of the things that I really
really want to stress for you and
and for everyone listening to this
this
this is
is that if you really focus on pronunciation
pronunciation first but you don't
don't worry about
about mastering the basics a grammar
grammar then you're really going to
to delay your progress because
because it just honestly doesn't matter
matter what your pronunciation sounds
sounds like so much if
if your grammar is great there are
are lots of different speakers at
at the English all over the world
world in
world in each
each one of them has their own pronunciation
pronunciation just like in
in mastering this conversation you
you heard
you heard like
like my mom and you know other people
people other speakers that are speaking
speaking the same thing that I'm saying
saying but their pronunciation is
is a little bit different but
but everyone's grammar is great so
so that's the real key so
so to get good at mastering the basics
basics especially these things like
like using a and
and to begin with just walking around
around you don't have to talk to anybody
anybody but just walking around your
your neighborhood or even your house
house
house and
and just make basic sentences this
this is a cop this
this is a tree this is a bird this
this is an umbrella most people if
if you make really
really difficult grammar mistakes
mistakes people don't notice them
them
them but
but if you make this simple mistakes
mistakes that's when people really
really notice really
really focus on those and then work
work on again the CH sound did
did she send a hard G and T are planned
planned practice those email me anytime
anytime if you have questions and
and for everyone else out there master
master those basics really
really master those basics and that's
that's where you're really going to
to build speak confidence
confidence have an excellent day and
and I will see you very soon in your
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