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American English shadowing exercises are for people interested in expanding their American English accents, whether you are located in the US, North America, or other areas around the world. For the best use of shadowing exercises in American English, listen to a section of audio, pause, and repeat what you hear. Try to use the same pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch patterns, and linking that you find native English speakers use; record yourself and compare the differences.
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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
Today we demonstrate ways to prepare your listener for what you are about to say in English
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American English shadowing exercises are for people interested in expanding their American English accents, whether you are located in the US, North America, or other areas around the world. For the best use of shadowing exercises in American English, listen to a section of audio, pause, and repeat what you hear. Try to use the same pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch patterns, and linking that you find native English speakers use; record yourself and compare the differences.
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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
Today we demonstrate a quick exercise to practice linking and breath flow in American English
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Today we demonstrate an exercise that turns one sentence into a variety of pronunciation exercises
Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
Today we are going to look at the /OU/ or "oh" sound in American English
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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
Today we are going to look at how to use repetition in American English pronunciation
More practice: https://youtube.com/live/qZvTdTb6LdM
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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
Today we are going to look at how to use pitch in American English pronunciation
More practice: https://youtube.com/live/qZvTdTb6LdM
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American English shadowing exercises are for people interested in expanding their American English accents, whether you are located in the US, North America, or other areas around the world. For the best use of shadowing exercises in American English, listen to a section of audio, pause, and repeat what you hear. Try to use the same pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch patterns, and linking that you find native English speakers use; record yourself and compare the differences.
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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
Today, we revisit numbers one through ten
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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
Today, we look at the importance of breath in achieving a natural accent in American English pronunciation
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Check out our pronunciation textbook at www.fluentamerican.com
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One immediate way to start sounding natural is to watch how you use consonants like R or L in American English, especially when practicing how to say words like“world", which we'll discuss with a look at r and l in different situations. The reality is many American English learners are missing the most common American English ways to pronounce the r and l in their own speech in a natural way, instead letting the consonants impact their vowel sounds. Let's show you some quick techniques will have you start sounding natural in American English pronunciation!
Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
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American English shadowing exercises are for people interested in expanding their American English accents, whether you are located in the US, North America, or other areas around the world. For the best use of shadowing exercises in American English, listen to a section of audio, pause, and repeat what you hear. Try to use the same pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch patterns, and linking that you find native English speakers use; record yourself and compare the differences.
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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
Today, we look at the importance of breath in achieving a natural accent in American English pronunciation
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Google LM is a notebook tool released relatively recently that has the ability to completely revolutionize language learning. By being able to create natural sounding audio around content that you dictate, it has never been easier to create, locate, and customize language you can use for your own language learning needs. Let's walk through some strategies we've already used with it and talk about future applications.
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When it comes to American English pronunciation there are so many aspects to consider at first glance. However, by mastering a few basic concepts, there are skills that can carry over to many other areas. Here are 5 skills I would practice every day to sound American.
1) breath drills
2) pitch drills
3) intonation drills
4) stress drills
Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.Support the show
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Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
Today, we look at the TH sound in American English
See all our Wake Up American videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLtiqqlyRFk&list=PLlZ0dlSbrSXhtU6hvocUB69VuvfWZkgZu
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American English shadowing exercises are for people interested in expanding their American English accents, whether you are located in the US, North America, or other areas around the world. For the best use of shadowing exercises in American English, listen to a section of audio, pause, and repeat what you hear. Try to use the same pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch patterns, and linking that you find native English speakers use; record yourself and compare the differences.
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Today, we look at exactly how many pitches Americans use in their speech, and see what it sounds like if we don't have enough!
Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.
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Check out our pronunciation textbook, available in print, ebook, and audiobook: www.fluentamerican.com
One of the biggest differences between how American English native speakers and language learners sound has to do with vowel sounds...even those that exist across languages
The reality: we often struggle to feel natural adding the elements we need to use in our pronunciation, especially when it comes to what we do with our mouth. Specifically, we cannot often apply our first language's system onto a second language.
Welcome to Wake Up American, where Monday through Friday, we spend a couple minutes on a challenging aspect of American English pronunciation and walk through examples to help you achieve a more natural sound the next time you speak in American English at work, at home, or out and about town.Support the show
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