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Speech & Pronunciation
Decreasing or Eliminating Foreign accent
Dear All:
Please advise, how can a guy like me who can comes in English speaking world from Russia decrease (or possibly eliminate) my accent. I do have great friends to ask for corrections. Though quite often, even after numerous corrections, I still end up mispronouncing some words or pronounce them indiscretly. I like my friends and would not want to pester them with "How do you say this, and how do you say that ?" all the time.
Is there a common approach/system/place where people with a need like mine can use?
Thank you very much.
Alek
Please advise, how can a guy like me who can comes in English speaking world from Russia decrease (or possibly eliminate) my accent. I do have great friends to ask for corrections. Though quite often, even after numerous corrections, I still end up mispronouncing some words or pronounce them indiscretly. I like my friends and would not want to pester them with "How do you say this, and how do you say that ?" all the time.
Is there a common approach/system/place where people with a need like mine can use?
Thank you very much.
Alek
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Hi Alek, You can try asking those questions here, we can help most of the time.. (Ie: Give us examples of problems and we'll pronounce them in audio files for you)
- Hi Alek, You can try asking those questions here, we can help most of the time..
- (Ie: Give us examples of problems and we'll pronounce them in audio files for you)
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Hi Alek,
You can try asking those questions here, we can help most of the time.. (Ie: Give us examples of problems and we'll pronounce them in audio files for you)
You can try asking those questions here, we can help most of the time.. (Ie: Give us examples of problems and we'll pronounce them in audio files for you)
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Hello, Alek.
English is a second language to me, the pronunciation of which I learnt by (initially) trying to immitate as closely as possible that of a native speaker. I would tape about a minute of news programmes (such as the World Service of the BBC) and play the tape again and again until I was satisfied with the results, ie, my pronunciation and intonation were very close to that o
English is a second language to me, the pronunciation of which I learnt by (initially) trying to immitate as closely as possible that of a native speaker. I would tape about a minute of news programmes (such as the World Service of the BBC) and play the tape again and again until I was satisfied with the results, ie, my pronunciation and intonation were very close to that o
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Hello Kleber!
Dont worry about the accent. Gradually and unknowingly you will be imitating the native accent.
Truly,
Mohammed Ali.
Dont worry about the accent. Gradually and unknowingly you will be imitating the native accent.
Truly,
Mohammed Ali.
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