On a daily basis, I receive emails from people who ask me how they can master English speech without a teacher. We have developed an effective solution and in this blog post, I will talk about it.
How to start?
The first step is to download the video course Get Rid of your Accent Part One and the corresponding app Elocution Lessons and/or the book Get Rid of your Accent for Beginners. At the beginning of the app below the “Help” section, you will see the section “Difficulties in Pronunciation for Different nationalities”., click on this section and find your nationality. You can find this section in the book on page 136. We recommend that you start practicing the sounds that are difficult for your nationality first because if you master these sounds first your speech will become considerably better. It may well be that after practicing these sounds you will not have to do anything else. This depends on many factors in your individual situation: how long you have been speaking English, your native tongue and your ear.
How to work with each lesson?
Open the video course on the sound you want to practice first and look at how sound is created in the mouth. Try to copy Linda’s mouth position and use the mirror to check your mouth position. Then practise the sound with a few words from the video course. Do not rush it, slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. After that, you must practise the sound in more words, phrases and verses with the app/book with the same lesson number so that correct pronunciation becomes your second nature. For example, when I was Linda’s student I realised that [w] does not exist in my native language and I had to practise for a few weeks in order to strengthen my lip muscles to produce this sound automatically without thinking about it.
In the video course, there are only a few words, but we have three books to master English sounds. The lesson numbers are the same for a certain sound in all three apps/books. Our bestselling app Get Rid of your Accent and accompanying book contain advanced English vocabulary, plenty of classic English poetry, and amusing sentences. This book is used in London drama schools for actors who want to learn Received Pronunciation. Many of our students are top-level professionals and diplomats and they inspired us to create the book Get Rid of your Accent for Business, Part Three and the app Business English Speech. It contains political, economic and legal expressions and students who practised with it told us that this particular app and book helped them to bring their English vocabulary and speech to a much higher level.
What is next after you have mastered the sounds?
Students who mastered English sounds told us that they still felt their speech lacked fluency. Thay did not feel confident. That is why we have created the video course Get Rid of your Accent Part Two
and the accompanying apps Fluent English Speech and 4Ps, Power,Pitch,Pace,Pause and the book Get Rid of your Accent Part Two, Advance Level. These apps and book are a wonderful resourse if you want to become a formidable public speaker and gain confidence when presenting. They contain poetry, dialogues and passages from classic English lterature and by Michael Knowles who is a British comedy writer. We also recommend that you continue reading poetry out loud applying the skills you have learned from our apps and books.
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