33 ways to improve your English pronunciation
If you're looking to improve your English pronunciation, there are many things you can do. Here are 33 tips to get you started:
- Record yourself speaking English.
- Read aloud, especially dialogue.
- Sing along to English songs while you're in the shower.
- Watch short video clips and pause and repeat what you hear.
- Learn vowel and consonant sounds in English.
- Learn and identify schwa.
- Learn about weak and strong forms of common words.
- Learn about word stress.
- Learn about sentence stress.
- Identify fixed and semi-fixed phrases and practise them.
- Learn about collocations.
- Replace regular verbs with phrasal verbs.
- Learn short automatic responses.
- Practise telling stories and using narrative tenses.
- Learn when to pause for effect.
- Learn about chunking.
- Learn about typical pronunciation problems in your first language.
- Choose an accent you like and imitate it.
- Find an actor/actress you like and identify what makes them powerful speakers.
- Use a mirror and/or a sheet of paper for identifying aspirated and non-aspirated sounds.
- Practise tongue twisters.
- Practise spelling names, numbers and dates aloud.
- Learn about common intonation patterns.
- Learn about places of articulation.
- After looking at places of articulation, practise making the movements that native speakers use when they speak.
- Learn why English is a stress-timed language.
- Learn how to interrupt and interject politely and successfully.
- Learn about ellipsis, assimilation and linking sounds.
- Speak lower not higher.
- Listen and read along to poetry (or rap songs) to practise the rhythm of English.
- Learn exclamation words and fillers.
- Learn how to paraphrase.
- Use contractions more.
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