hi everyone it is jennifer from tarle speech and 2020 is quickly coming to a close and i
could not be more grateful for all of you my loyal viewers and all of my subscribers
i love reading all of your comments you are always so supportive and this year has been just amazing
at sorrel speech we were almost at 100 000 subscribers on youtube i can't believe it from
where i started and it's really thanks to all of you so i've been getting some questions lately on
um how do i practice and so i thought i would do a little um quick tip for you as my
thank you to you and also to let you know that i am going to be posting a
mini christmas series with lots of homophones related to christmas and some holiday lessons
most of them are requests from you my students um and please bear with me i'm super behind because i
get so many great posts and questions every day so i will get to you promise it's just taking
me a little longer than um planned which is a good problem to have so my tip for you today
is when you are practicing how do you do this how do you make this a little bit more of a habit
i really like breaking things into manageable chunks and i like to have practice every day
when i'm learning any new skill and learning a language in pronunciation isn't any different
so practicing every day is key even if it is only five to ten minutes each day
so i'm going to recommend a great website for you and that is breakingnewsenglish.com
breakingnewsenglish.com i'll put a link in the description below i love this website because
it's going to hit everything that i'm going to recommend to you number one under each article
you can listen to the article being read by natives and you can hear that slow medium and fast
then you can take the article and you can read it out loud yourself when you're reading imitate what
you have heard that's going to prime your ear first then you are going to practice out loud
by speaking and reading it and then there are questions listed under the articles in different
language activities and i recommend that you practice those out loud even if you don't have
anyone to talk to that's okay talk to yourself and you are going to answer those questions and
do the activities on your own verbally out loud while practicing your speaking yes you are going
to have to go slowly at first yes it's going to be confusing at first because not only are
you thinking about the language piece of it and the vocabulary and the grammar that now you're
adding that pronunciation on top of it which is how does this sound and what is my mouth doing
so again my tip for you is to practice every day start small but think big practice words every day
write down words that you would use often i have lots of playlists on the channel for different
occupations if i don't have your occupation please message me on social media at tarle speech and i
will create a playlist for your occupation with the lessons that i already have on youtube start
with your words and then use those words and make up sentences using those words
then do a little bit of reading out loud like i was suggesting with breaking news english
and then you can practice with other people talking in a very slow thoughtful manner at
first so you make sure you target all of your sounds and then that will become a little bit
more of a habit when you do it every day and it'll get easier and easier and easier to do it while
you are talking last tip i really think it's important to practice words that you are going
to be using so if you never use the word rhythm and i have that video on my channel you don't
have to practice that word write down the words that you would use most often and practice those
words first because you'll use those words more often and then you will create a new habit so
good luck with your practicing may all of your christmas wishes come true stay tuned for the mini
series that we'll be posting next week and thank you for all of the shares all of the wonderful
suggestions all of the constructive feedback i really do love that and just for all of your
support over these years and getting me almost to a hundred thousand subscribers i can't even
believe it so keep up the sharing um and keep up the questions in the comments i really appreciate
it thank you everyone merry christmas and i'll see you a lot next week bye you