Watch this video to learn how to get perfect English rhythm and sound natural
and fluent when you speak English let's go I didn't it was from palm tree
teaching your personal language coach now who doesn't want to speak English
perfectly and naturally and fluently of course it's everyone's dream and
their goal in English well in my videos as you know I help to supercharge your
English to another level and one great way to do that and to sound fluent is to
have English style rhythm when you speak so what's English rhythm I hear you say
rhythm is the strong pattern of words and sounds in a language English has a
regular rhythm with the sound of the language organized around the stressed
syllable so improving the rhythm of your spoken English will improve your
pronunciation too but you know rhythm isn't something that English learners
think about very much when they're learning they focus on vocabulary and
grammar and that kind of thing but a little secret to sounding more fluent is
to get the correct rhythm with the right strength this can make such a difference
to how you sound so what creates the rhythm in English and how are you going
to get that rhythm in English is made by stress stress sounds and syllables are
those sounds that English native speakers make longer and louder and
higher pitched so the stressed words are words like nouns adjectives verbs and
adverbs and the other type of words are those are not stressed the little
grammar words and then they are not stressed so it makes the rhythm go up
and down between the stressed and the unstressed words the two important types
of stress that you can work on to improve your English rhythm are one
sentence and word stress and to connected speech and the sort of third
is the schwa because that's very important for connected speech and weak
forms as well now you probably remember in my previous videos in this series the
five elements of getting your pronunciation better I've already talked
about word stress and sentence stress so be sure to watch these as well because
that's really important for getting the rhythm right and I'll put a card above
so now I'd like to talk to you about connected speech which is so important
for rhythm and it will make you sound more fluent Oh before I do this don't
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my videos and lessons now connected speech when we native speakers speak we
speak in groups of words which are continuous and may not have pauses in
them so when we do this it causes changes in the shape of the words for
example unstressed words those little grammar words always sound different
when they're spoken on their own compare with when they're in a sentence the most
common parts of connected speech are the following to the weak forms of grammar
words such as and to was have were and contractions when we shorten words such
as can't won't I'll heal bail should have now these of
course are really well known but there are other parts of connected speech to
get the right rhythm and they make the language rhythmic natural and fluent so
you will want to pay attention to these elision which is losing sounds or
syllables to make the language faster and easier to say for example I don't
know becomes I don't know and fish-and-chips becomes fish and chips
the second thing is linking so adding or joining sounds between words
so either vowel to vowel or fouled consonant for example a part of
it becomes a part of it and this afternoon becomes this afternoon and
assimilation of course which is changing sounds so an example would be instead of
saying handbag we say handbag now because these are such big and important
areas of language I'm going to be doing a video on this really soon so how can
you practice rhythm well here is a great exercise you can do whether you're at
home in the office or in your class with your students it's called the bouncing
ball or the clapping activity and it's a great way to practice rhythm so get hold
of a ball and practice boundaries on the go get a regular speed going and the
rhythm now the idea is the say a sentence while you're bouncing the ball
and it helps to keep your rhythm correct and regular so repeat each sentence
three times and the trick is that you have to match the speeds that you say
the sentence so some words will be quicker some words will be slower to
match the speed of the ball so if you don't have a ball you can get the same
rhythm through clapping okay so we start clapping rhythmically so here's some
sentences to try so in my previous videos you know where the stress should
fall on the nouns on the adjectives on the adverbs and on the verbs so this
will help you practice that if I finish all my work I can go out tonight if I
finish all my work I can go out tonight
the weather's been so lovely today the weather's been so lovely today I'm
going to the shop to buy eight milk and bread and going to the shops to buy egg
and Brett got the idea it's fun to do now for the English teachers amongst you
I would love to help you by giving you some ideas on how to present and deliver
teaching rhythm in the classroom so if you're interested please let me know in
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