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If you really make yourself do it regularly, I promise you will see amazing results.
If you want to learn more about it, you can click the links in the description to watch the videos where I talk about it.
Next, I recommend that you practice your speaking using my dialogue videos.
Based on the feedback that I've got from you guys on those videos, I can proudly say that this method has helped a lot of you to improve your speaking.
Another way is to find dialogues online and read them out loud.
Oh, and before I forget to mention this, you need to speak out loud.
I hope it's clear. because there's no chance of improving your speaking if you don't speak.
These two exercises that I just suggested are easy but so effective.
Search for IELTS speaking test questions or small talk questions, which by the way, will come in very handy.
Now, let's get to the one very thing that you probably won't like, but you will need to do in order to really improve.
You need this anyways, but especially because you're working on your own, and there's nobody to correct you.
When you listen to yourself back, you can catch your mistakes that otherwise you wouldn't even notice you make, whether they are pronunciation or grammar mistakes, and you can correct them.
I'm telling you this from my own experience making YouTube videos. you won't believe how many takes I needed to take at the beginning to say something right.
I could completely butcher a word or the whole sentences or for whatever reason, I could drop some words from a sentence or my intonation was totally off and consequently, the message wasn't properly delivered.
But when you listen to yourself back, You can catch all of that, analyze and correct.
And the more you do this, the less you eventually need to do this.
If you don't know what to talk about or find it difficult to structure your thoughts, you can start with dialogues.
Or again, you can use my dialogue videos that are called Speak English With Me.
So, you can use those already put together dialogues, you can record yourself reproducing the full dialogue, or you can simply answer me just like the video suggests.
Another great way to improve your speaking by yourself is to use the app Elsa Speak.
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Elsa Speak helps you improve your speaking and pronunciation in English exactly by means of recording yourself speaking.
You can work on individual sounds, separate words, and full sentences.
And the most awesome and useful part is that the app gives you feedback on your pronunciation with an explanation of what exactly you need to work on. so you don't even have to analyze your speech yourself.
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So when you're choosing what you want to work on, let's say linking sounds.
And then you'll practice saying them and you'll get feedback on how you did.
And if you did make some mistakes, you can click on the words and you can see them.
And of course, you can practice as much as you need to master that particular word or sound.
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When I worked with people on their pronunciation using shadowing, I swear, people would always drop words out of sentences they just heard or the ones they were reading or replace them with some other words and they wouldn't even notice that.
You can also choose a little fragment of any video or podcast where a native speaker speaks.
You can practice that fragment and you can recreate it on video.
Again, it's important to record yourself because we make mistakes or drop words not even realizing it.
And of course, when you're just speaking freestyle, just expressing your own thoughts, you need to record yourself.
And just saying them out loud to yourself helps to get this burden off your shoulders.
Recording yourself is a very powerful tool that I suggest everyone use, even those who work with teachers.
Establish an everyday speaking practice routine and get into this.
A couple of months of doing this will be worth years of studying English by means of tests.
Plus, this is a very good way to keep track of your progress that in turn will help you stay motivated.
Thank you for watching our videos and supporting our channel and we want to wish you a happy new year and let's make 2023 a lot better than 2022.
So today we're going to be analyzing a real unscripted and unedited speech.
You know, we're watching movies and videos on YouTube that are scripted or edited. in order to practice our listening skills and everyone edits their videos.
They, us included, edit their videos so there's nothing unnecessary and so they are concise.
However, in an actuality, it is super normal to take pauses to think, forget a word or even stutter, especially if it's a monologue.
Secondly, in terms of practice, It is very helpful to shadow movies as they pick the best scenes to stay in the movie.
The actors' speeches are impeccable and perfect for those scenes as they are rehearsed thousands of times.
It is great to learn from the best and want to reach the highest level, but it's also important to understand that not being perfect is absolutely okay.
That's why I want us to watch and analyze Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar speech for winning best actor in a leading role in the movie The Revenant.
Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow.
And we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. procrastinating.
We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters of the big corporations, but who speak for our children's children and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed.
I chose it just as an example to show that even trained people that are used to being in public, that are used to public speaking and being in the spotlight might get nervous or overly excited as in his case.
Because somehow a lot of people who are learning English got this idea that you either have to speak perfectly or not speak at all.
And I know where you come from if you think like this, because I was one of those people.
Even though I try to do my best to fight these thoughts and keep going forward anyway, I still said to myself that I have to do better and be better when I analyze my speech.
And it's not a bad thing to want to be better as long as these thoughts are not so loud that they depress you and make you want to quit.
And they feel as if these moments last forever and they're taking the longest pauses in the world's history and that everyone is noticing them and thinks they're stupid.
They think that all that practice was for nothing and they get anxious even thinking about their next conversation.
Though I'm sure that Leo had prepared and rehearsed his speech, as they do just in case they win, he still was very excited.
Because of his emotions, because he had a lot to say and he didn't want it to take forever, He spoke pretty fast and sometimes stumbled over his words.
But the thing that stuck out most to me was his intonation, which was kind of flat.
No pauses were taken in the places where they would have made sense and that would have made the speech sound more deliberate compared to his perfect speech in the scene from The Wolf of Wall Street.
So we practice using these scenes, but we also listen to real speech and throw perfectionism in the trash.
And people who gave presentations or speeches or had important conversations or just spoke English and were terrified are familiar with these things, they happen.
So even though speaking is a skill that we need to work on and that can be improved and mastered, it's okay not to be perfect.
To Mr. Rick Yorn, thank you for helping me navigate my way through this industry and...
It's because he's a little out of breath and his mouth is dry, which happens when we get nervous, worried, agitated, or excited.
And it sounds like a fast D. He uses the flap T in the word TO. and to my parents none of this would be possible without you and my friends I love you dearly you know who you are.
Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow.
The word to can be pronounced in four ways as to with a schwa and to with a long u sound and with a true t sound and as the and do accordingly, but with a fast D sound.
This topic, the ways of pronouncing the T sound in American English requires a separate video because there's a lot of things that need to be explained.
As in the sentence where he stumbled over his words and confused the ending of the word procrastinating, which is not a big deal.
And we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.
But in order to be able to pull off D sound in the word too, you need to use connected speech.
Connected speech and reductions, it's what oftentimes language learners call fast speech.
It's what language learners always complain about, and it's what makes it difficult to understand native speakers.
In short, it's when words flow into each other, the ending of one word connects to the beginning of another.
Some sounds are reduced and of course, there's no pause after each word.
It's important to work on the sound if you want to acquire an American accent, because it also appears in many other words, such as better, water, city, and so on, or in reduced forms like gotta.
But again, to sound natural using the flap T in the word too, there shouldn't be any unnecessary pauses in one sentence, just like in this case, your words should be connected.
Otherwise, if you speak at a relatively slow pace, duh, will sound forced and even strange.
That's why he took that pause when he stumbled, he used too, because he separated need and too.
He pronounced the R unclearly because again, he was speaking pretty fast and the RL transition is hard enough in and of itself.
Then let's take a look at the words HOTTEST and SOUTHERN.
A. It's an open sound, so you need to drop your jaw quite a bit, as opposed to a short U sound in the word Southern, which is more closed.
Southern. for our children's children and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed.
To drown out something or someone means to be loud enough to block the loudness of something else.
So the politics of greed blocked the voices of those people that he listed.
The next thing that I want to point out is the expression to take something for granted.
To take something for granted means that someone doesn't appreciate the value of something or someone and thinks that it's or they will be always available.
Now regarding pronunciation, he dropped the T in the word granted, and this is what most native speakers would do.
Drop the T that comes directly after an N. However, saying this word or any other word where you can drop the T with the T is perfectly fine too.
You will hear printer and printer, 20 and 20, identify and identify.
And also when we connect words together like don't and no, we get don't know, and it's called a reduced form.
The last thing that I'd like us to dissect, so to speak, is his intonation.
This is just an example of what people usually refer to as could have been better, and it could have.
That's why there's such a thing as an analysis, where you dig deep, break down, evaluate and interpret in order to learn.