Hello, guys.
We have reached the point in which we have to say goodbye, saying goodbye has always been a heartbreaking
moment for me.
So let me distract myself by teaching you the last tips for the American accent.
First, in British English, which was the topic of our previous course, James completely explained
that they spit out the letter tea in British English, for example, they say City City with a bold,
strong tea.
However, we slightly extract a sound out of tea.
We turn into debt when it appears between vowels, we say city city.
Second, the solid or sound.
One of the prominent signs of a non-native speaker is their disability to pronounce the letter R as
it is expected in the American accent.
The R sound comes from the back of your mouth, d from your throat like this.
Ah ah ah.
I don't want you to talk like in a deep voice.
I just want you to use your own voice.
But from the back of your mouth or ah in some languages the letter ah is like this.
A Russian like Russian.
But in the American accent we say ah ah.
Not really practicing and mastering this point can help you sound more native in many situations.
One of them is the other at the end of comparative adjectives as we talked before, such as faster,
slower, higher again, faster or, or slower or higher or the other one might be well known as colored.
Ah what is coloured ah colour ah is in ah that is placed right before a consonant for example.
The word standard standard.
It's again the erm sound standard or or.
Or so make sure that you practice it adequately, third, third, dark, L and light.
Well, what are they and how are they pronounced the letter?
The letter L. doesn't seem to be one of the troublesome letters to talk about, but the truth is the
letter L. has a very tricky pronunciation in some words.
Long story short, if you ever see the letter L at the beginning of a war that's like L, you simply
put the tip of your tongue behind your front teeth and say, look, let look like.
Love.
Loathe to leave, however, if the letter L. is placed at the end of a word or a syllable, that's definitely
dark.
L look at these examples, a ball ball simpl, a ball ball, simple.
This time what you need to do is to raise the back of your tank to the top of your mouth and make a
all sound o o let little.
Let me repeat those examples again, a bull ball, simple, cause I have a test for you, Fin and thing,
we want to talk about these two words.
I'm going to cover my mouth and pronounce these to you.
Have only five seconds to tell me which is which.
Thane.
Then.
Thane.
Fen.
Perfect, the first one was thin and the second one was thin.
This is exactly like the previous point.
It's not called light and dark end, but the gist of what I'm trying to tell you is what you have learned
in the third part.
So we have a regular in which is pronounced like this, no net net like nine.
And we have another way to pronounce NP, which exactly resembles the dark out.
So the difference between those words was this thin, thin, thin
thing.
Now, one of them comes from the front of your mouth, the other one comes from the back of your mouth,
no front, no back thin front thing.
But now I would like to point out a few techniques by which you can master an accent.
First off, do not be afraid of exaggeration.
Imagine yourself as an actor who's performing in front of thousands of people and needs to express his
feelings through his intonation.
When you practice on your own, exaggerate as much as you can.
Yeah, when you want to talk to people, you can tone it down and speak normally like a normal person.
Moreover, if you ever want to practice, effectively start watching a movie, choose a line from that
movie and start repeating.
After a few reps, start shadowing, it means to put the video on mute and start talking instead of
the actor after this step.
Record yourself, play the video and your voice to find out the similarities and differences between
and native speakers accent and yours.
Last but not least, let go of your mother tongue.
Please stop reading the translations and start checking out the definitions of words in your target
language.
Please stop thinking in your mother tongue instead of translating everything from a language to English.
Start using idioms and expressions to sound more like a native speaker.
Thank you very much for trusting me and following all the lessons.
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See you soon in the next course.