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and this is another edition of how
how to get fluent in English fast
fast time today I'm going to have
have a little bit of fun with accents
accents to help you improve your pronunciation
pronunciation and have a bit more
more fun when you practice your speaking
speaking
speaking remember
remember to enjoy speaking you don't
don't have to be so serious about
about it and think about one kind
kind of accent that you want to master
master today let's
let's go over some different kinds
kinds of accents and a little bit
bit of interesting accent training
training that you can do to improve
improve your accent in your pronunciation
pronunciation if you really want to
to have a more I
I guess a louder voice and more confident
confident voice and want to be able
able to speak in English with a more
more native sounding accent let's
let's get started first I used to
to work at a junior high school here
here in japan and i would spend a
a lot of time trying to work with
with students about their accent and
and I learned as I became a better
better and better teacher and I had
had done it for a longer period of
of time that one an
an accent isn't really that big of
of a deal and it shouldn't be something
something you want to focus on as
as a beginning learner or even before
before you're speaking confidently
confidently with a lot of other people
people remember about accents first
first you want to get confidence speaking
speaking just practice speaking and
and then your accent will continue
continue to improve naturally as you're
you're listening to more native speakers
speakers when you're spending time
time around native speakers your
your accent is not something you should
should worry about practicing when
when you're just sitting around in
in your room trying to listen to some
some listening practice CD and mimicking
mimicking or practicing what the sounds
sounds you're hearing are so get out
out if you want to practice your accent
accent you need to get out and be
be around more native speakers when
when you practice but today let's
let's talk a little bit more about
about accent training and how
how I came to understand accent training
training myself again when i was working
working at a junior high school I
I had lots of practice teaching students
students about accent training but
but i noticed a lot of it didn't work
work very well a
a lot of students were interested
interested in improving their English
English because the Japanese pronunciation
pronunciation of English is often
often quite bad but one thing I did
did notice is that some of the students
students were really good at making
making fun of me and trying to pronounce
pronounce English like i pronounced
pronounced it by over pronouncing
pronouncing and mimicking what I say
say
say so
so what I want you to do and what
what I want to help you do in this
this edition of how to get fluent
fluent in English faster is to practice
practice over pronouncing and mimicking
mimicking or copying lots of other
other accents around the world and
and you can do this by watching movies
movies or listening to other speakers
speakers and just enjoy over pronouncing
pronouncing and speaking badly and
and this will get you more confident
confident to speak and because you
you are over pronouncing it will help
help you bring your natural accent
accent up to where it should be if
if you want to become a more native
native sounding speaker without an
an accent from a different country
country so i'm going to do a few accents
accents right now these are not perfect
perfect accent but you will notice
notice that there are lots of different
different kinds of English accents
accents and these are the things that
that you should be practicing yourself
yourself if you want to improve your
your own accent so
so here I go this is an Australian
Australian English accent and it's
it's not going to be very good but
but i'll show you anyway what you
you should be doing good I might throw
throw a few shrimp on the barbie it
it sheilo there it's
it's not a perfect Australian accent
accent and my friends who are Australian
Australian would probably think that
that was pretty funny if I was saying
saying that in front of them but it's
it's something that because i want
want to explain to you how to improve
improve your accent I'm just giving
giving you a little taste of that
that
that now
now I'll move over to Britain and
and give you two different British
British accidents up british
british accents the first one is the
the kind of the high street the more
more the more proper the more proper
proper english action and remember
remember that when you speak you can
can even you know change the expressions
expressions on your face a little
little bit like this so
so you're speaking and maybe you're
you're thinking about the war and
and you really can't understand what
what I'm saying right now but their
their part in things that you you
you not only speak but use the expressions
expressions on your face now
now that was a kind of old proper
proper old man speaking English and
and he's maybe Wellborn and now i'm
i'm going to go down to the the lower
lower rungs of kind of British pronunciation
pronunciation this is called a cockney
cockney accent again it won't be very
very bad a very good but it's fun
fun to try to speak this way not
not because you want to make fun of
of people but because it helps you
you improve your English accent here
here we go well good i might how are
are you doing today well I was you
you know I actually you know my cockney
cockney accent sucks i'm sorry i can't
can't really do that one very well
well but the point is I tried and
and you should think about doing the
the same thing now
now we'll move over to Canada americans
americans love to talk about Canadians
Canadians because their accent is
is a little bit different but because
because they are so nice it
it makes them seem so innocent and
and it's more fun to try to try to
to copy their accent and try to make
make them sound the way you know we're
we're trying to figure out the way
way they sound a Canadian uses lots
lots of things like a when they speak
speak
speak hey
hey how are you doing it or maybe
maybe something like that and the
the Canadian accent it's very similar
similar to America but they just use
use a a lot if you want to listen
listen to more Canadian people you
you should find some good Canadian
Canadian speakers of English and then
then they will be able to help you
you with all of your accent training
training now we will come back to
to America because even in America
America there is not one kind of way
way to pronounce American English
English America is a huge country
country it's about the size of China
China
China we've
we've got even many different time
time zones and areas in America and
and these are all different places
places that have lots of different
different unique accents and pronunciations
pronunciations and even the words
words are a little bit different for
for all of these areas in America
America
America so
so I'm from Chicago and maybe my voice
voice has a little bit more nasal
nasal sound so I speak with my nose
nose a little bit but maybe other
other people in different parts of
of America like the people in the
the South they have we call this a
a country accent so a country accent
accent what they say y'all
y'all come back now you hear you're
you're here you're here means you
you here
you here I
I pronounce my are very very strongly
strongly you here but
but a person in the South in America
America would say ya hear y'all come
come back now you hear you all come
come back now you hear remember
remember that you should just be having
having fun trying to mimic accents
accents
accents if
if you have actors that you like watching
watching on TV and you enjoy their
their performances and you really
really want to practice sounding like
like them then practice that in front
front of a mirror and practice that
that in front of other people because
because you don't want to worry about
about having just one accent that
that you can do practice lots of different
different things and it will help
help you improve your accent or at
at least get you closer to whatever
whatever kind of accent you'd like
like to have and you'll have more
more fun speaking well
well I hope it's been an interesting
interesting episode for you of how
how to get fluent in English faster
faster
faster I
I love to do different kinds of accents
accents and talk to different people
people and see how you know maybe
maybe they can copy my accent just
just like my students were doing here
here
here back
back in japan so get out find some
some accents that you enjoy and copy
copy copy copy them have fun go over
over the top use
use your face and try to match their
their facial expressions and how they
they speak and you will enjoy speaking
speaking in English improve your accent
accent and you will get fluent in
in English faster have
have an excellent day and we'll see
see you next time bye bye to
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