By Olga Smith
Today I would like to talk about how to achieve fluency in English.
Once you have sorted out your English sounds, your next step would be to work on fluency.
What does this work involve:
1. Using schwa, or neutral vowel in prepositions (for, from, to, etc) and articles (a, an, the), thus "throwing away unimportant words", an expression used by actors.
2. Liaise prepositions with words (eg: in common, at home, etc.), do not make pauses between words and prepositions they belong to.
3. Speak in phrases or "word blocks", rather than in separate words, connecting words in a phrase.
For example in the phrase "I'd like a cup of tea", we have two blocks: 1. I'd like, and 2. a cup of tea.
In our book Get Rid of your Accent, Advanced level, ISBN 09553300017 we give you many practical exercises to master fluency.
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