in this video I'm going to teach you how to really improve your pronunciation and
speak like a Brit and I'm going to share with you the top five areas of
pronunciation that you need to focus on to really improve and I'm going to teach
you exactly how to overcome your pronunciation difficulties so are you
ready to improve your English better and faster than you ever thought possible
great let's go
I'm Deirdre Nicholas English expert teacher trainer speaker and language
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notified of all my new videos I'm doing this video because so many of you have
asked for pronunciation help and because pronunciation is such a huge part of
learning English this is going to be in a few parts so watch out for the second
part coming up very soon also don't forget to watch to the end to get some
great practice exercises which will really help you in fact you know
pronunciation is one of the hardest skills in English to learn and in fact
some people who are a non-native speakers but have lived for a long time
in Britain still have very poor pronunciation but don't worry I'm here
to help you so the key is to train your ear and have a sense of rhythm and music
in the language listen a lot and listen to the music in the language and the
sounds and the stress of the sentences as they go up and down now firstly it's
perfectly natural to have problems with pronunciation why well there are a lot
of reasons actually but some of the sounds that we have in English probably
don't exist in your language in English of course there are 20 vowels and
diphthongs and many of those other languages don't have this many also
there is no simple relationship between sounds and Spelling's in English as I'm
sure you know take for example the words rain rain and rain different spellings
different meanings altogether but the same sound English is a stress timed
language so the sentences have strong and weak parts to them and this is an
important part to get right if you want to sound really native speaker like
another difficulty is when English is spoken quickly many learners have
difficulties because we we link words quite a lot and some sounds even
disappear but don't lose heart I'm here to help you if you follow my guidance
and advice you will overcome many of the difficulties that you have with
pronunciation now there are five main areas of pronunciation that I want to
help you with in this video series one pronunciation of individual sounds to
word stress 3 sentence stress 4/4 rhythm and 5 intonation so today we starting
with number one pronunciation of individual sounds as you know I teach
and speak receive pronunciation from the South of England the clearest British
accent so the first tip for your pronunciation of individual words is
notice how your mouth and lips move watch native speakers when they talk you
can train your mouth and your lips to move in the same way as them and check
that you're moving in the same way as them in a mirror look at the way they
move their mouth their faces their lips yours needs to be the same another big
tip is to pay attention to your tongue the main difference between rice and
lice is your tongue so check what your tongue is doing when you speak so which
sounds can you work on to give you this classic British accent and improve your
pronunciation the first British sound is the R sound now to make the R sound your
tongue should not touch the top of your mouth pull your tongue back to the
middle of your mouth where it naturally rests if you weren't saying anything as
you say the sound your lips should be a bit rounded like
like that now say the word right a few times right right
notice how your lips have become a bit rounded remember we only pronounce the R
sound in British English when it comes before a vowel so words like Street and
dream words that end in AR ER or are often are pronounced using the schwa
sound so we don't pronounce the R like that in words like teacher motor water
and so on now how about the L sound to make the love sound your tongue should
touch the back of your teeth and the top of your mouth just as that as you're
pushing out the end look like that try saying the word
right a few times light light notice where your tongue is it should be
touching the top of your mouth just behind your teeth light now another
sound that is very difficult and British English is the Thoreau the sound now
I've made a whole video on the difference between the four thin and the
for the so be sure to watch that I'll put it in a card above just remember for
the third sound you stick your tongue right out like that for words like thank
you thin and three and four the softer buzzing sound you you need to feel the
vibration against your teeth because it's a voiced sound and that's for words
like that this those now minimal pairs to be really understood in British
English you need to be able to pronounce sounds that are very similar otherwise
there's a lot of confusion and these sounds are called minimal pairs and
they're really really useful for you to work on them so as promised here are
some great exercises for you or your chi all your students if you're a teacher
that you can work on sheep chip 1010 bet bat cat cut look loop court cot darling
darling tale tell now these are just obviously just a few I'll do more on
minimal pairs in another video very soon so I hope you've really enjoyed this
video if you have hit the like button and comment below and share it with your
friends I'd love to hear from you if you would like to know how to overcome your
pronunciation difficulties with word stress and sentence stress watch out for
my next video so enjoy learning your English and I'll
see you really soon bye