Have you always wanted a clear British English accent well watch this video and
you'll learn exactly how to get it I'm Nicolas from palm tree teaching TV
teacher speaker and your personal language coach so let's get started
right away there are three things that you need to work on to get a really
great British English accent to speak clearly so that people can really
understand you the three things are consonant sounds vowel sounds and
intonation and chunking so to quickly improve your accent you need to focus on
the sounds that are most difficult for you personally of course this will
probably vary depending what your native language is it could be the R sound
which is very difficult for quite a lot of English learners or it could be the
difference between the other because that sound doesn't actually exist in in
many languages at all so that might become very difficult for you but only
work on one or two sounds at a time and once you've mastered them completely
then you can move on to new ones so let's look now and how you can speak
really clearly with consonant sounds to speak really clearly and to sound more
British they needs to be no confusion in your consonant sounds so for example the
way you pronounce your work and your work must be clearly different it must
be really different from each other so fuck what so practice with single words
such as vegetables valley village then practice whether water winter and in
sentences you can practice this one why do you want the wood from the van the
wild waterfall was where he lived in the valley and two more consonants that you
mustn't mix the R and the L they need to be clearly
different so you need to practice this so try practicing with these words ly ly
now when you say lie your tongue is just behind your front teeth lie when you say
R ight your mouth projects forward and your tongue goes back into the middle of
your mouth RIE lip rip light right also make sure
there's a difference between yours and yours and your and your now I've done a
video on F and V and I'll put the link up above me here and I'll put it in the
description below so have a look at that so with S&Z is the voiced consonant so
when you say that you should feel a buzz in your throat when you say it like that
so with words like zero zip amazing you should feel that buzz like a fuzzy v
whereas with sock Sun and silver there's no bus practice this so often the
difficulties with pronunciation with consonants are the differences between
voiced and unvoiced sounds and consonants like new and mean where you
really feel that buzz and the ones where you don't so make sure you work on this
then sounds like per turf and cut need to be pronounced strongly particularly
at the beginning of a word so listen to this this sentence please pick up that
tissue did you hear the strong / and the strong term there needs to be a little
breath that's just behind when you say the word like a little tiny explosion
tough like that so try saying this she started talking
on the telephone after tea now if you're saying is properly you feel a little
popping in your mouth when you're saying those those
consonants now another thing that English learners need to focus on is to
remember to pronounce the consonant at the end of the word it makes it much
easier to understand what you're saying if you can hear the consonant so for a
sentence such as I lost my hat that's actually quite difficult to understand
whereas if you pronounce the consonant at the end of it I lost my hat
it's much clearer I've done a few more videos on consonants and consonant
pronunciation so I'll put the links underneath this video make sure you have
a look in the description box because they'll be really useful okay so what
about vowels now that's the second way that you can make your accent much
clearer before I start that don't forget to hit the subscribe button on the Bell
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bowel sounds now vowels are not difficult to pronounce but the main
thing that you need to focus on as an English Learner is the amount of time
you hold the vowel the main five vowel sounds are pronounced with a short vowel
and they're formed by moving the mouth like this
you should practice that and then of course you have the combined vowels
known as diphthongs and these make a longer sound the longest combined vowels
include sounds like e as in C feet cheese and R as in words like father
Heart part and ooh as in a sentence like who flew to the moon and ow
such as brown mouse found house which is almost a sentence isn't it and when I
was young we used to say a sentence how now brown cow that was for our
pronunciation work as well so it's not just non natives that have to do this we
have to as well now there are some other combined vowel sounds that should be
held with a medium length such as I as in my PI hi boy as in boy toy annoying
now the third thing that will really help you to have a clear British English
accent is rhythm but more importantly chunking now I'm going to talk about
chunking in my next video because it needs a whole video it's so
important so make sure you go and watch my other videos as I said some of them
I've listed below in the description particularly related to pronunciation
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you can improve your English fast and build your English fluency I really hope
you enjoyed this video enjoy learning your English and I'll see you next time
bye