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How to speak in English as a native speaker?
Can you learn to speak English with the accent of a native speaker?
During our travel in the U.S.A, often we go into a shop or factory and use the English words we learned in some class. Very often, nobody can understand them, or sometimes nobody wants to understand them. WHY?
In my opinion, language is a kind of MUSIC. Each language sings a different “song”.
Well, if somebody speaks English words with “Korean music”, many people will not understand them. This is very upsetting for everyone, and causes a lot of unhappiness. For example, sometimes immigrants can’t get jobs because few people can understand the “music” of their speech.
In Korea, a newer generation of adult foreign-language teachers has given up pronunciation instruction altogether, assuming it is a futile effort.
Teaching methods such as books, tapes and classes claim to be able “to eliminate a foreign accent within specific periods of time. “There is no empirical evidence that this ever actually happens.”)
Learners focus less attention on individual vowels and consonants, and more attention to the “macro” aspects of language, such as general speaking habits, volume, stress, and rhythm. A study showed that this approach can work. The investigators divided subjects into three groups: the first received foreign language instruction with no particular focus on pronunciation; the second received instruction with a focus on pronouncing the individual segments of language; and the third received “global” pronunciation instruction on the general way the foreign tongue should sound. After 12 weeks of classes, the students were asked to tell a story in their new language, and their efforts were rated by native-speaking listeners. Only the global group, the listeners reported, showed significant improvement in comprehensibility and fluency.
So, Here is what you need to be like a native speaker.
a) Keep the natural rhythm of your speech;
b) Speak in short segments. This roughly means “phrases”, as instandard grammar, so long as they coincide with the way you would naturally pause your speech. “Short segments” does not mean word—word—word.
c) Read aloud. The best way to encourage skilled reading aloud is to have students reading dialogues in pairs, and requiring them to LOOK AT their partner while speaking].
Can you learn to speak English with the accent of a native speaker?
During our travel in the U.S.A, often we go into a shop or factory and use the English words we learned in some class. Very often, nobody can understand them, or sometimes nobody wants to understand them. WHY?
In my opinion, language is a kind of MUSIC. Each language sings a different “song”.
Well, if somebody speaks English words with “Korean music”, many people will not understand them. This is very upsetting for everyone, and causes a lot of unhappiness. For example, sometimes immigrants can’t get jobs because few people can understand the “music” of their speech.
In Korea, a newer generation of adult foreign-language teachers has given up pronunciation instruction altogether, assuming it is a futile effort.
Teaching methods such as books, tapes and classes claim to be able “to eliminate a foreign accent within specific periods of time. “There is no empirical evidence that this ever actually happens.”)
Learners focus less attention on individual vowels and consonants, and more attention to the “macro” aspects of language, such as general speaking habits, volume, stress, and rhythm. A study showed that this approach can work. The investigators divided subjects into three groups: the first received foreign language instruction with no particular focus on pronunciation; the second received instruction with a focus on pronouncing the individual segments of language; and the third received “global” pronunciation instruction on the general way the foreign tongue should sound. After 12 weeks of classes, the students were asked to tell a story in their new language, and their efforts were rated by native-speaking listeners. Only the global group, the listeners reported, showed significant improvement in comprehensibility and fluency.
So, Here is what you need to be like a native speaker.
a) Keep the natural rhythm of your speech;
b) Speak in short segments. This roughly means “phrases”, as instandard grammar, so long as they coincide with the way you would naturally pause your speech. “Short segments” does not mean word—word—word.
c) Read aloud. The best way to encourage skilled reading aloud is to have students reading dialogues in pairs, and requiring them to LOOK AT their partner while speaking].
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