Learning English is a journey. As a child, your teacher shows you pictures and speaks foreign words or teaches you a song in English. As a teenager, your teacher makes you read boring texts and write things, which they then mark very strictly. As an adult, your teacher is life. You need English in your personal life, with family and friends, watching your favourite TV shows and maybe on holidays abroad. And, you need English more and more at work and in business. In short, it has become an essential part of your life.
However good or bad your experience of learning English is, we - your Three English Experts Birgit, Rebecca and Dave – with over 60 years of business English teaching combined, would like to inspire you, encourage you and give you advice, tricks and tips on how to go forward on your learning journey.
So, jump in, find out more about us, leave us comments, ask our advice, and join us on this podcast to make your learning journey easier, stress-free and fun.
Your Three English Experts
Birgit, Rebecca and Dave.
Episode 14 - How important is pronunciation?
2024-05-05 21 min
In this episode, we discuss
- how natives react to non-native English speakers' accents and pronunciation.
- pronunciation differences between the North and South in the UK.
- how feeling yourself in a foreign language is important regardless of accent and pronunciation.
- the differences in difficulty in picking up, learning and speaking different English accents.
- tricks and tips on how to stress words in English.
- finding a role model and practice imitating/parroting how that person speaks.
- various online tools to help with pronunciation:
1. ELSAspeak with the new AI function to improve your (US English) pronunciation. Watch this video with Anna from English Fluency Journey) https://youtu.be/Qi5mKV40Kmw?si=g6DaatZ-bP52lOoH
2. https://www.howtopronounce.com/ helps you find out and practice how to pronounce words you are not sure about.
3. Online dictionaries e.g. Oxford Learner’s Dictionary https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
4. Language apps like Duolingo encourage the correct pronunciation of words.
- Finally, we test Birgit on typically difficult-to-pronounce English words.
Wie wichtig ist die Aussprache?
In dieser Folge diskutieren wir
- wie Einheimische auf den Akzent und die Aussprache von Nicht-Muttersprachlern reagieren.
- Ausspracheunterschiede zwischen dem Norden und dem Süden des Vereinigten Königreichs.
- wie wichtig es ist, sich selbst in einer Fremdsprache zu fühlen, unabhängig von Akzent und Aussprache.
- die unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeiten beim Erlernen und Sprechen verschiedener englischer Akzente.
- Tricks und Tipps zur Betonung von Wörtern im Englischen.
- ein Vorbild zu finden und zu üben, wie diese Person spricht.
- verschiedene Online-Tools, die bei der Aussprache helfen:
1. ELSAspeak mit der neuen KI-Funktion zur Verbesserung Ihrer (US-Englisch-) Aussprache. Sehen Sie sich dieses Video mit Anna von English Fluency Journey an) https://youtu.be/Qi5mKV40Kmw?si=g6DaatZ-bP52lOoH
2. https://www.howtopronounce.com/ hilft Ihnen, herauszufinden und zu üben, wie man Wörter ausspricht, bei denen Sie sich nicht sicher sind.
3. Online-Wörterbücher, z. B. Oxford Learner's Dictionary https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
4. Sprach-Apps wie Duolingo fördern die richtige Aussprache von Wörtern.
- Zum Schluss testen wir Birgit mit typisch schwer auszusprechenden englischen Wörtern.
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