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Learn American accent and be better understood
In order to be understood we need to learn to speak clearly. How we can do this? Usually when we are learning to speak in English, we are using our native language’s sounds of pronunciation on our new language. That’s because we were never taught of these sort of things at school. This is what gives us an accent. English language has its own set of “speech rules”.
That’s a big problem because such speaking leads to misunderstanding. Poor American accent is affecting our job prospects. On the other hand improving our American accent can really help to improve our communication with native speakers and also can improve our job prospects.
There are many schools which teach English. However, as we already know, most of them are focused on grammar rules and word lists. Very few of them teaches the special “speech rules” we need to use in real world. That’s because many of the teachers are not native English speakers and they don’t know of these “speech rules”. Many teachers are even making errors themselves, speaking with a strong regional accent and teaching it to you!
In the most of English classes teachers are teaching written English. The students are “studying English” instead of listening and speaking and the students are not prepared to a real speech in a real world. Usually they can do well at English tests, but they can’t understand native speakers and the native speakers can’t understand them.
If you are often asked to repeat yourself when you speak English then you definitely need to improve your accent. To master your new American accent however, you must immerse yourself in the audio training by listening to the speaker and repeating the exercises many times.
There is a special course from speech language pathologist Esther Bruhl – American accent. Check this out: