Listen to Yourself
As an ESL teacher and since English is not my native language, I´ve had to listen carefully to myself whenever I talk and, mainly when I teach. Nowadays we have serveral resources to record ours…
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BBC + EnglishClub
At the beginning it was very difficult but as saying goes - where there a will there a way. So i keep on doig my best and ready to be correct BECAUSE i knew that to get knowledge you must be humble a…
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Help with Chinese and East Asian Learners
English is a language which at first you may find it a piece of cake (as compared with Chinese and German), but as you make progress, especially expose at a real englishspeaking environment,you will …
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Listening to Educators and Experts
Any time I am in contact with them . I do pays a great attention to their pronauciation and even their general way of speaken. And sometime i do creat an avenue in order to have them comunicate with…
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Improve British Pronunciation
One of the most significant ways to improve my pronunciation is listening the foreign channels such as BBC,CNN,Euronews systematicly .If you have difficulty in adopting the desired pronunciation easi…
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Reading Aloud
I'm listening some English spoken TV channels and repeating some words and sentences after them. I try to listen and watch different kind of channels. I realized that they're using different speech f…
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Watching TV
repeat what you hear in the movies, or while watching tv, no matter whether you have no idea about the true meaning of a particular word or group of them. With this practice you can allow you to, at …
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Turn Off The Ego
- Laughing about myself and asking people better than I.- The listening is like the muscle, you can educate your hearing to improve it, be concentrated.- Be humble to receive correction of the people…
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BBC Podcasts
Well, on the BBC page I've also found the transcriptions of the podcasts so that I can practice not only on my pronunciation skills but in my listening and reading skills. I found it interesting beca…
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Use of Phonetics and Native Language
Another way help is by making the students think of a substitute word. Example: Let's take the contraction "we'll" , remind them of the wheel of a car. Example "you've". In Hindi there is a word 'yuv…
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Help for French Speakers
Making the first consonant longer than the short French one makes your English more English. Listen carefully to native English speakers (both British and American), they always start with a "c", "t"…
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Using a Reference Site as a Ritual
Practice and make it a routine habbit like you brush and take bath everyday. Dictionay.com is my favorite site and I open it as soon as I start the computer. It is a ritual for me.I read times of ind…
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Using a Mirror
Practice, practice, practice. Pronunciation is in its basic form a motor-control issue of the brain sending the correct directions to the lung-voicebox-mouth system to make sounds. I do not think of …
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