每日英语听力 Day16

a teacher can point these things out to you and help you notice them by the way when we say that you point something out we are saying that you indicate or identify it so that the other person notice->notices it so a teacher can help you do that my seminars can help you do that.

and then once you have been trained a little bit then you can start to do this on your own and you can start to notice more things by youself you won’t notice everything but you will start to notice more so it is good to get this type of training to start noticing on your own and when it comes to start noticing or focusing on mistakes i want to point out that there are two categories of pronunciation mistakes so there are mistakes that are easily noticable->noticeable and fixable and then there are mistakes that are not.

so let me explain this so a lot of mistakes can be categrized->categorized as mistakes that you can easily notice and fix if someone points them out to you. you probably won’t notice them on your own but your teacher or my seminar for example might point it out and then you can fix it. so for example, things that are related to stress are actually pretty fixable for example in->within one word you might stress->be stressing the wrong syllable for example the country Japan in this word the second syllable is stressed Japan. however many English learners stress the wrong syllable. they say Japan and it's->that's wrong but it’s very easy to notice if a teacher points that out to you and it is very easy to fix you just stress the other syllable instead of Japan you say Japan right it is not hard.

so that is an example and stress in->within a sentence for example instead of saying i want it what we will say is i want it in most cases. so instead of stressing the i we would stress wan i want it not i want it right? if someone points it->that out for you that you stress->are stressing the wrong word. it is pretty easy to notice and then say it correctly.

that doesn’t mean that you will say correctly next time but in this moment you can say it correctly and start to register that in your brain you can register that error there and may be notice it a little bit more in the future.

also with skipped syllables for example. in the word family the i is silent we don’t say family we say family that is something that a teacher can point out to you and that->it is pretty easy to fix just don’t say the middle syllable.

it’s just family like it is not servaral it’s several. you just skip the syllable so if someone points that out to you it’s pretty easy to fix.

it also some fixed combination->also certain letter like the tu can be pronounced true somethings like situation and du can be with a zhe sounds like graduate okay? and->or sometimes you just say the wrong volew->vowel instead of saying prority may be you say priority and you just need to change the pri to pri or may be you say notice but the correct pronunciation is notice. you just need to change the a to an o notice right?

so those are some examples for fixible errors that are very easy to identify if you are a trained teacher who can actually teache pronunciation. of course so in my seminars for example i point these things out or other teachers who teach pronunciation can easily identify this and you can fix it right?

however, there are other pronunciation mistakes that are much harder to identify and fix and these have to do with you accent. so your accent refers to the way that you pronounce English sounds based on the sound of->sounds in your own language. so for example, there are certain vowel sounds in English that you don’t have in English for example.

so like an->in different vowels in the words hit and heat that might be hard for you even to->to even hear the difference right? or laugh vs love or food vs foot. these->those differnt vowel sounds in those words might be really hard for you to identify and pronounce differently because some of these sounds that you don’t have in your language so because of that it is hard->harder to hear them and hard->harder to fix them so there are many other examples that i could give but i think you have gotten->get the point right there are some errors they are not easy for you to hear and they are not easy for you to fix and you have to accept->except the fact that you are not gonna get rid of you accent very quickly it’s gonna stay for a long time and usually it stays forever but you can reduce it over time but it takes a long time, okay?

so when it comes to imporving your pronunciation i would say that you should focus on->\ mostly on the fixible errors okay. but once they->the ones that are very easy to notice and fix and if you fix those errors your pronunciation will improve a lot beccause there are a lot of fixible error.

however, when it comes to your accent, you need to have more realistic expectations. you can also take classes with an accent coach a professional who can help you with this but this is a very specialized field of course.

so that is pretty much what i want to talk about today. i hope this will give->gave you a good idea of why pronunciation is difficult in English and how you can improve it and of course remember to sign up for my membership if you want my pronunciation trainning specifically if you become a supre member or anything higher that that then you get my pronounciation seminars and even just with a->the listening practice seminars this would->will also help you with your pronunciation so if your want my training make sure to sign up the link is in the description below this episode that’s patreon.com/listeningtime.

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