1. Learn and become aware.
After learning the various rules of English, you
must become aware of the errors that you make in
your speech.
Keep an organized list of your
corrections that have come from being monitored by other speakers, preferably
native English speakers. If you don’t have a native English speaker to monitor
you, simple listen and repeat with the Elemental English pronunciation and speaking lessons, and take note of how your pronunciation differs
from mine.
For example, does my [θ] as in “think” [θInk]
sound like [t] or [s], as in “tink” or “sink”, when you say it?
Once you become aware
of the errors you make, you are then ready to correct them. Obviously, if you
are oblivious to your errors, you can’t fix them!
2. Monitoring.
Any time you are corrected, write down
the correction that you were given on a special “monitoring”
list.
Constantly update this list, and keep it
organized. This is extremely useful, because the errors that you produce are
usually not random mistakes that come from “a slip of the tongue”. Most errors
are part of a pattern of mistakes that you repeat again and
again.
3. Repetitive Review.
Consistently review your
monitoring list of errors. You should start to notice a pattern and then be
constantly aware of that pattern of what you need to correct.
4. Repetitive Practice.
Now that you are aware of your
errors, you need to routinely practice the corrected
pronunciation (or correct syntax, vocabulary use, etc.). Practice again and
again.
I suggest that you practice out loud at home.
Listen to the sounds that you produce, and compare these sounds to native
speakers. Ask yourself questions when you
pronounce the sounds, such as “How is my mouth moving?” “Where is my tongue?”
“Are my vocal chords vibrating?” Notice the physical aspects of
pronunciation.
5. Self-Correction.
With practice, you can develop the
imperative habit of self-correction.
Be so aware and in tune with the sounds of English that you can notice and hear
your own errors. This ability to self-correct can only come from the above
steps of monitoring and awareness.
6. Write down your questions.
There are plenty of times when all
of us wonder how to express something in another language, but then do nothing
with those questions! When you are unsure of how to say or ask something in
English, write it down so that you can ask a native speaker, google it or post
your question on ElementalEnglish.com.
7. Keep a running vocabulary list.
Be organized. Write down
vocabulary that you want to look up but don’t have time to at that moment.
Make a habit of reviewing vocabulary. If you don’t do this, you can easily
forget new words before they are locked into your long term memory.
8. Think in English.
A huge mistake English language
learners make is to think in their native language and then translate into
English in their heads.
This is a mistake, because English
syntax and word order is typically something that cannot be translated from
another language.
Also, in order to speak with the
correct music, stress and rhythm of English, you need to think with that
music.
9. Talk to yourself out loud at home.
Talking to yourself out loud
will help you in the process of thinking in English instead of translating to
English from your native language. Get in the habit of speaking freely without the
worry of being heard or criticized.
Play with the sounds and write
down the ideas you want to express, but don’t know how to. It’s those questions
that you should ask a native speaker or post on ElementalEnglish.com.
10. Train your Ears.
Listen to a lot of English in the
form of podcasts, television shows, movies and radio. You can always listen to
the free Elemental English podcast on iTunes, but
also listen to a variety of native speakers’ voices and accents to hear how the
the music of English stays consistent.
Train your ears like a musician does!
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Remember, your goal never needs to
be to sound like a perfect, American speaker. In fact, Americans make mistakes
in their speech all the time and speak with a variety of accents.
Improving your pronunciation is
always about giving you the freedom and power to speak with confidence and to be understood when you communicate
in English
CONCLUSION
Remember, besides we practice what we got from learning
English, to get better results we need to improve our skill to speak English, the
article above gives us an idea of how we improve our skill in the English language, among
others, always write the vocabulary that do not know, every where you are and there
you find something that you can not translate it into english, then write it, and
then a find it in the English language. And the most important thing in
improving our ability to speak English, of course we have to train our hearing,
our more sensitive in English conversation, then we'll get used to speaking in English,
because most people can speak, but not receive properly what other people are
saying, so that's where the difficulty arises in communicating.
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