Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the
world's number 1 English Teacher, AJ Hoge. Where AJ has more than
40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for
all, without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills.
Here's AJ with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent
English, effortlessly.
Hi, I'm AJ Hoge, the author of Effortless
English. Learn to Speak English Like a Native. Now, maybe
you have bad pronunciation, and
when you have bad pronunciation, you often feel embarrassed when
you speak English, you often
feel foolish because people don't understand you, right? When
people give you this face, "Huh? Wha-, huh,
huh, huh." Right, they look annoyed, they look frustrated, they
look confused when you speak
English, because your pronunciation is not in good. And this will
affect your
life, it, it makes
travel more difficult, it makes your job more difficult, IELTS,
TOEFL more difficult. Everything is more difficult
when your pronunciation is bad.
On the other hand, when your pronunciation is
good, everything is much easier. People understand
you instantly. I think more
important than that they respect you instantly. They will not see
you as an English learner, right? They will
not see you as someone who's annoying them, who's bothering them,
they'll just treat you normally like
they would any other native speaker. And that's great. Now, in a
work situation it's even better
because you get that respect immediately when you have great
pronunciation
from your
co-workers, from clients, from bosses, from everybody. It's, it's
powerful. And of course, on IELTS, on TOEFL, on anything
else like that, man, when your pronunciation is great you get a
high score, it's just, it's simple as
that, they're going to give you a very high score on the speaking
part when your pronunciation is
great.
And that's what I made my new Effortless English
Pronunciation Course for, train you, not just
teach you, not just tell you,
train you day-by-day to speak with a perfect American accent. Now,
in the last video, I told you the
importance of ear training. Okay. We need to think like musicians
especially Jazz musicians and learn to hear
the music of English and hear it very, very clearly including all
of those little small sounds that make your
accent perfect. You got to hear them first, if you can't hear them
you can't
do them. Well,
that's just step 1, though, of the training process.
Next, a really good technique. This is a training
technique. Again, a lot of pronunciation courses, all
the ones I found they kind of
teach you they'll show you the mouth movements you know, "Ah," put
your tongue here and move your
mouth like this, that's okay, I teach you that also I have videos
in my Pronunciation Course every
unit has a video. I teach you how to make the sounds. But that's
not enough, you have to do more
than that, you have to train it, you have to practice it, day,
after day, and
you have to do it
in an effective way. And that's what makes this course powerful. So
let me give you one technique, it's a, it's
simple, it's obvious, it's simply pause
and imitate, pause and imitate.
This is obvious but you have to do it in a very
specific way. A lot of people do this but they do it
wrong, they do it incorrectly. What
do you do, you take a short audio, short audio from a native
speaker very important choose a native
speaker, anything from me is fine you can use one of my free
YouTube videos. The good thing is I
have a very, very clear standard American accent. A lot of people
say, "AJ, you're so easy to
understand." Well one reason is I have a very, very clear common
standard American accent, it's the accent you
hear in movies, in TV all the time. You're used to it. It's the
most easy to understand accent in the
world, that's good for you.
So you find an audio with a good clear accent,
and then you simply play a sentence, listen
carefully, pause, then you say the
sentence. Try to say it the same as the speaker. That seems obvious
but here's the important part. You have
to exaggerate your pronunciation. What do I mean by that? What I
mean is this, you'll hear the
speaker say something, for example, "My name is AJ." You listen to
that, "My name
is AJ," and then
you pause. Now it's your turn. Most people do this they just say,
"My name is AJ." They think they're imitating,
they think they're doing the same as the audio, but really they're
not, the energy is different, the feeling is
different, and of course the actual accent is
different.
What you need to do is you have to try to do
everything too much, you have to try to copy the
speaker but then do even more, do
the accent, the American accent you hear, do it super strongly,
pretend you're a comedian and you're
trying to make fun of the accent. You're, you're doing it to sound
funny so you're doing it super,
super, super strongly, extra strongly. Your problem is, you think
you're doing the accent but you really not.
It's, it's too soft, it's not enough. When you exaggerate, you will
feel, you'll feel you're doing it too
much, you'll feel like, "Oh this is ridiculous, this is crazy. I'm
doing it too strongly," but the truth is you'll
sound just normal, your accent will just sound good. It's strange,
it's some kind of weird psychology, maybe
because you feel embarrassed but you have to do it much, much more
than you think.
You have to really exaggerate. So here the audio,
you hear, "Hi, my name is AJ," pause, then you do
it, you imitate, you have to do
it 10 times bigger, so you say, "Hi, my name is AJ!" You'll feel
like you're doing that, you'll feel like
you're doing it way too strong. But, in fact, you're teaching your
brain to use exactly the correct
pronunciation. You think you're doing it too strong I promise you,
you're not, you're not doing it too much. So
you got a really over exaggerate, overdo the American accent you
hear. Make it too, too, too strong and
you do it every sentence play the next sentence, pause, imitate and
super exaggerate. Play the next
sentence, pause, imitate and super exaggerate. The super
exaggeration, that's the powerful
part.
Okay, another technique. Do that, and do that for
one day, next day you can do a different technique
or you can do that everyday and
then do this next technique also everyday. Now, on my course, I'll
give you an exact schedule to
follow but if you're doing this at home just by yourself, you can
use any schedule you want. All
right, the next technique, the next technique for improving your
pronunciation. Find the text for your
audio, right, get a transcript, the text, subtitles, anything, just
so you can read it.
Now, first you're going to listen to it, then
you're going to pause and imitate and exaggerate, pause
and imitate and exaggerate, do
that a lot. Then next, what you'll do, turn off the audio off,
you're going to read the text out loud with
the nice strong loud voice you're going to read it. You've been
listening to it so you know the correct
sounds. So read it with the nice strong loud voice, and record
yourself. This might be a little painful
I'm sorry to say but it's a powerful technique that will help you
improve a lot.
Record yourself,
read the whole thing, maybe 1 paragraph, you know, 1, or, 1 minute,
it doesn't matter.
Read it aloud with the strong voice, record it
and stop. Play your audio, play your recording, listen to
it very carefully, listening
especially to the pronunciation, to that music of English. Listen
very carefully. Next, listen to the original
audio the native speaker, listening carefully. Compare the 2. How
is your pronunciation different than
the original? And it probably will be quite different, it probably
will be very different. This is why it
might feel little painful because then you will realize, "Oh my
God, my accent is
horrible. Oh my
God, my pronunciation is terrible. I don't sound like the speaker
at all."
See, when you just do it in your head you're just
practicing, you maybe you think you sound really
good, but when you record it the
truth is hard to avoid, when you record it and then you play and
then you compare play yours, play the
original, play yours again, play the original again. Do that few
times, listening carefully, try to
find the differences, there will be a lot of differences in the
beginning. This is good for you, though, this
will start training your ears to hear the difference. Right? You'll
hear, "Oh, wow. My R sound really bad,
and they're not like the speaker's R's." Or, "My rhythm is weird.
My rhythm
is totally
different than the speaker's rhythm." You'll start to notice your
own personal problems with pronunciation.
And this will help you improve. Just by doing
this a lot, recording yourself and comparing, you can do
it everyday, just that will
help you improve your pronunciation a lot, a lot, a lot. It's a
very, very powerful technique, especially when
you combine it and when you do it with the imitate and
exaggerate technique. Do both those
techniques and you're going to see a lot of improvement in
your pronunciation.
Okay, in my next video, I'm actually going to do
a live webinar, a live video, live stream video. I'm
going to answer your questions,
your questions about my new Pronunciation Course. This is your
chance to ask me anything you want
about the Pronunciation Course. I will be live on video. Now, I
will record it so if you missed it don't
worry, because you can watch the recording and see all the
questions, I'll answer
all the questions.
I'm sending you an invitation, an email invitation to join this
live webinar, live video about pronunciation. So
check your email today, tomorrow, the next day, check your email,
check your spam folder, find the
invitation, and then click the link in the email and enter your
email again to join the webinar. You have to
register. So register for the webinar. It's free, totally free, but
you do need to register with your
email.
So please watch your email, click that link and
register, then you can ask me directly any question
you have about the new
Pronunciation Course. All right, watch your email and I will talk
to you soon in the live webinar. I look forward
to answering your questions. Thanks a lot. See you
soon.
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