logging in or signing up Accent Reduction Quiz: Is Your English Pronunciation Im davidbailey Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 463 Category: Education License: Some Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: October 11, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description Reducing your native accent and improving your English pronunciation skills seems to be one of the most challenging difficulties that English students like you face. Let’s face it. If you want to speak fluent English and sound like a native...then you need to reduce your accent. However, my guess is that there are still a few sounds in English that give you the most trouble...and that you can’t seem to get rid of. Comments Posting comment... By: efjeff (19 month(s) ago) I want to join for free but it keeps asking me for CC information to bill me :-( Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close Premium member Presentation Transcript Accent Reduction Quiz: Is Your English Pronunciation Improving? : Accent Reduction Quiz: Is Your English Pronunciation Improving? www.EXLenglish.com/learn Reducing your native accent and improving your English pronunciation skills seems to be one of the most challenging difficulties that English students like you face. : Reducing your native accent and improving your English pronunciation skills seems to be one of the most challenging difficulties that English students like you face. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Let’s face it. If you want to speak fluent English and sound like a native...then you need to reduce your accent. : Let’s face it. If you want to speak fluent English and sound like a native...then you need to reduce your accent. www.EXLenglish.com/learn However, my guess is that there are still a few sounds in English that give you the most trouble...and that you can’t seem to get rid of. : However, my guess is that there are still a few sounds in English that give you the most trouble...and that you can’t seem to get rid of. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Take This Simple 3-Question Accent Reduction Quiz to Discover Exactly How Serious You Are About Improving Your English Pronunciation. : Take This Simple 3-Question Accent Reduction Quiz to Discover Exactly How Serious You Are About Improving Your English Pronunciation. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Are You Improving Your Pronunciation By Listening To Native Speakers? : Are You Improving Your Pronunciation By Listening To Native Speakers? www.EXLenglish.com/learn This is a simple concept, but is extremely important to reducing your accent and improving your pronunciation. This is because you need lots of contact with the language to familiarize your ears to sounds that do not exist in your mother-tongue. The easiest way to do this is through the use of mini-stories and podcasts. : This is a simple concept, but is extremely important to reducing your accent and improving your pronunciation. This is because you need lots of contact with the language to familiarize your ears to sounds that do not exist in your mother-tongue. The easiest way to do this is through the use of mini-stories and podcasts. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Think about it for a minute. A child grows up listening to the people around him. He learns to speak like the people around him. He pronounces words the way he hears others say them. If you grow up in the southern U.S.A. like I did...you start talking with a southern draw. : Think about it for a minute. A child grows up listening to the people around him. He learns to speak like the people around him. He pronounces words the way he hears others say them. If you grow up in the southern U.S.A. like I did...you start talking with a southern draw. www.EXLenglish.com/learn So, if you want to sound like a North American...then by all means, listen to North American speakers. If you want to speak like someone from England...then watch the BBC like my student Franklin Veras. Everyone who hears him talk thinks he is from England...even though he has never traveled abroad. : So, if you want to sound like a North American...then by all means, listen to North American speakers. If you want to speak like someone from England...then watch the BBC like my student Franklin Veras. Everyone who hears him talk thinks he is from England...even though he has never traveled abroad. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Now, if you live in a country where people don’t speak English...then you need to find a way to listen to the language. And the easiest way to do that is to listen to mini-stories and podcasts recorded by native speakers. : Now, if you live in a country where people don’t speak English...then you need to find a way to listen to the language. And the easiest way to do that is to listen to mini-stories and podcasts recorded by native speakers. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Are You Reducing Your Accent By Systematically Studying Each Sound In English? : Are You Reducing Your Accent By Systematically Studying Each Sound In English? www.EXLenglish.com/learn So, once you get serious about reducing your accent and start listening to native to improve your pronunciation...then you can take it to the next level. At this point you can begin systematically focusing on specific sounds in the English language...especially the ones that give you the most trouble. : So, once you get serious about reducing your accent and start listening to native to improve your pronunciation...then you can take it to the next level. At this point you can begin systematically focusing on specific sounds in the English language...especially the ones that give you the most trouble. www.EXLenglish.com/learn You can find lots of pronunciation classes and courses online. You can study specific lessons and reduce your accent with specially designed exercises that will help you improve your pronunciation. : You can find lots of pronunciation classes and courses online. You can study specific lessons and reduce your accent with specially designed exercises that will help you improve your pronunciation. www.EXLenglish.com/learn I recommend that you start off by simply listening to the sounds you want to work on and familiarize yourself with them. Then you can go back over them and repeat along with the audio so that you mimic what you hear. : I recommend that you start off by simply listening to the sounds you want to work on and familiarize yourself with them. Then you can go back over them and repeat along with the audio so that you mimic what you hear. www.EXLenglish.com/learn And you can even find specially designed mini-stories that focus on specific pronunciation sounds in the English language like the ones we prepare for you at http://EXLenglish.com/members : And you can even find specially designed mini-stories that focus on specific pronunciation sounds in the English language like the ones we prepare for you at http://EXLenglish.com/members Does Your Current English Learning Material Provide You With Proper Exercises To Develop The Fluency You Desire? : Does Your Current English Learning Material Provide You With Proper Exercises To Develop The Fluency You Desire? www.EXLenglish.com/learn Many English students study the language in one of two ways. Some buy a single book and follow it blindly...whether or not it contains the material they need or not which means that they don’t get all the information they need. This is especially true since many English materials focus primarily on grammar...and less on improving your pronunciation. : Many English students study the language in one of two ways. Some buy a single book and follow it blindly...whether or not it contains the material they need or not which means that they don’t get all the information they need. This is especially true since many English materials focus primarily on grammar...and less on improving your pronunciation. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Other students go to the other extreme and simply pick things to study at random. They just study whatever seems to catch their eye at the moment with no real plan or purpose. Both of these extremes can cause problems. : Other students go to the other extreme and simply pick things to study at random. They just study whatever seems to catch their eye at the moment with no real plan or purpose. Both of these extremes can cause problems. www.EXLenglish.com/learn To avoid this...you must define what your goals and objectives are first. This means that you need to evaluate yourself and develop a strategy that will allow you to reach your specific goals. : To avoid this...you must define what your goals and objectives are first. This means that you need to evaluate yourself and develop a strategy that will allow you to reach your specific goals. www.EXLenglish.com/learn The best thing to do is find good language coach who has sufficient experience in the area who can help you create a plan that is tailored to your specific needs and can tell you what sounds you need to focus on and can point out resources that will help you improve your pronunciation and reduce your accent. : The best thing to do is find good language coach who has sufficient experience in the area who can help you create a plan that is tailored to your specific needs and can tell you what sounds you need to focus on and can point out resources that will help you improve your pronunciation and reduce your accent. www.EXLenglish.com/learn So, How Did You Do On The Quiz? : So, How Did You Do On The Quiz? www.EXLenglish.com/learn Are you listening to native speakers and systematically focusing on specific sounds with the proper material to improve your pronunciation? If you haven’t being doing any of these things until now...it’s okay. It’s not your fault. : Are you listening to native speakers and systematically focusing on specific sounds with the proper material to improve your pronunciation? If you haven’t being doing any of these things until now...it’s okay. It’s not your fault. www.EXLenglish.com/learn How can it be...since no one ever taught you how to do this correctly? You never had a language consultant to share this information with you and help you develop a strategy to reach your goals. : How can it be...since no one ever taught you how to do this correctly? You never had a language consultant to share this information with you and help you develop a strategy to reach your goals. www.EXLenglish.com/learn But the good news is that you there are tools, resources, and services that can help you out. And the best place to start is with my free report called the ‘Three Keys To Speaking English Like A Native’ at http://EXLenglish.com/threekeys : But the good news is that you there are tools, resources, and services that can help you out. And the best place to start is with my free report called the ‘Three Keys To Speaking English Like A Native’ at http://EXLenglish.com/threekeys Language consulting expert, David A. Bailey, Jr uses the power of mini-story lessons to help English students who want to improve their pronunciation, reduce their accent, and speak fluent English. Now, he’s providing English mini-stories and pronunciation lessons to help you speak real English quickly and efficiently. Go to http://EXLenglish.com/members to get some of David’s pronunciation lessons right now. : Language consulting expert, David A. Bailey, Jr uses the power of mini-story lessons to help English students who want to improve their pronunciation, reduce their accent, and speak fluent English. 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Accent Reduction Quiz: Is Your English Pronunciation Im davidbailey Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 463 Category: Education License: Some Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: October 11, 2010 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description Reducing your native accent and improving your English pronunciation skills seems to be one of the most challenging difficulties that English students like you face. Let’s face it. If you want to speak fluent English and sound like a native...then you need to reduce your accent. However, my guess is that there are still a few sounds in English that give you the most trouble...and that you can’t seem to get rid of. Comments Posting comment... By: efjeff (19 month(s) ago) I want to join for free but it keeps asking me for CC information to bill me :-( Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close Premium member Presentation Transcript Accent Reduction Quiz: Is Your English Pronunciation Improving? : Accent Reduction Quiz: Is Your English Pronunciation Improving? www.EXLenglish.com/learn Reducing your native accent and improving your English pronunciation skills seems to be one of the most challenging difficulties that English students like you face. : Reducing your native accent and improving your English pronunciation skills seems to be one of the most challenging difficulties that English students like you face. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Let’s face it. If you want to speak fluent English and sound like a native...then you need to reduce your accent. : Let’s face it. If you want to speak fluent English and sound like a native...then you need to reduce your accent. www.EXLenglish.com/learn However, my guess is that there are still a few sounds in English that give you the most trouble...and that you can’t seem to get rid of. : However, my guess is that there are still a few sounds in English that give you the most trouble...and that you can’t seem to get rid of. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Take This Simple 3-Question Accent Reduction Quiz to Discover Exactly How Serious You Are About Improving Your English Pronunciation. : Take This Simple 3-Question Accent Reduction Quiz to Discover Exactly How Serious You Are About Improving Your English Pronunciation. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Are You Improving Your Pronunciation By Listening To Native Speakers? : Are You Improving Your Pronunciation By Listening To Native Speakers? www.EXLenglish.com/learn This is a simple concept, but is extremely important to reducing your accent and improving your pronunciation. This is because you need lots of contact with the language to familiarize your ears to sounds that do not exist in your mother-tongue. The easiest way to do this is through the use of mini-stories and podcasts. : This is a simple concept, but is extremely important to reducing your accent and improving your pronunciation. This is because you need lots of contact with the language to familiarize your ears to sounds that do not exist in your mother-tongue. The easiest way to do this is through the use of mini-stories and podcasts. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Think about it for a minute. A child grows up listening to the people around him. He learns to speak like the people around him. He pronounces words the way he hears others say them. If you grow up in the southern U.S.A. like I did...you start talking with a southern draw. : Think about it for a minute. A child grows up listening to the people around him. He learns to speak like the people around him. He pronounces words the way he hears others say them. If you grow up in the southern U.S.A. like I did...you start talking with a southern draw. www.EXLenglish.com/learn So, if you want to sound like a North American...then by all means, listen to North American speakers. If you want to speak like someone from England...then watch the BBC like my student Franklin Veras. Everyone who hears him talk thinks he is from England...even though he has never traveled abroad. : So, if you want to sound like a North American...then by all means, listen to North American speakers. If you want to speak like someone from England...then watch the BBC like my student Franklin Veras. Everyone who hears him talk thinks he is from England...even though he has never traveled abroad. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Now, if you live in a country where people don’t speak English...then you need to find a way to listen to the language. And the easiest way to do that is to listen to mini-stories and podcasts recorded by native speakers. : Now, if you live in a country where people don’t speak English...then you need to find a way to listen to the language. And the easiest way to do that is to listen to mini-stories and podcasts recorded by native speakers. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Are You Reducing Your Accent By Systematically Studying Each Sound In English? : Are You Reducing Your Accent By Systematically Studying Each Sound In English? www.EXLenglish.com/learn So, once you get serious about reducing your accent and start listening to native to improve your pronunciation...then you can take it to the next level. At this point you can begin systematically focusing on specific sounds in the English language...especially the ones that give you the most trouble. : So, once you get serious about reducing your accent and start listening to native to improve your pronunciation...then you can take it to the next level. At this point you can begin systematically focusing on specific sounds in the English language...especially the ones that give you the most trouble. www.EXLenglish.com/learn You can find lots of pronunciation classes and courses online. You can study specific lessons and reduce your accent with specially designed exercises that will help you improve your pronunciation. : You can find lots of pronunciation classes and courses online. You can study specific lessons and reduce your accent with specially designed exercises that will help you improve your pronunciation. www.EXLenglish.com/learn I recommend that you start off by simply listening to the sounds you want to work on and familiarize yourself with them. Then you can go back over them and repeat along with the audio so that you mimic what you hear. : I recommend that you start off by simply listening to the sounds you want to work on and familiarize yourself with them. Then you can go back over them and repeat along with the audio so that you mimic what you hear. www.EXLenglish.com/learn And you can even find specially designed mini-stories that focus on specific pronunciation sounds in the English language like the ones we prepare for you at http://EXLenglish.com/members : And you can even find specially designed mini-stories that focus on specific pronunciation sounds in the English language like the ones we prepare for you at http://EXLenglish.com/members Does Your Current English Learning Material Provide You With Proper Exercises To Develop The Fluency You Desire? : Does Your Current English Learning Material Provide You With Proper Exercises To Develop The Fluency You Desire? www.EXLenglish.com/learn Many English students study the language in one of two ways. Some buy a single book and follow it blindly...whether or not it contains the material they need or not which means that they don’t get all the information they need. This is especially true since many English materials focus primarily on grammar...and less on improving your pronunciation. : Many English students study the language in one of two ways. Some buy a single book and follow it blindly...whether or not it contains the material they need or not which means that they don’t get all the information they need. This is especially true since many English materials focus primarily on grammar...and less on improving your pronunciation. www.EXLenglish.com/learn Other students go to the other extreme and simply pick things to study at random. They just study whatever seems to catch their eye at the moment with no real plan or purpose. Both of these extremes can cause problems. : Other students go to the other extreme and simply pick things to study at random. They just study whatever seems to catch their eye at the moment with no real plan or purpose. Both of these extremes can cause problems. www.EXLenglish.com/learn To avoid this...you must define what your goals and objectives are first. This means that you need to evaluate yourself and develop a strategy that will allow you to reach your specific goals. : To avoid this...you must define what your goals and objectives are first. This means that you need to evaluate yourself and develop a strategy that will allow you to reach your specific goals. www.EXLenglish.com/learn The best thing to do is find good language coach who has sufficient experience in the area who can help you create a plan that is tailored to your specific needs and can tell you what sounds you need to focus on and can point out resources that will help you improve your pronunciation and reduce your accent. : The best thing to do is find good language coach who has sufficient experience in the area who can help you create a plan that is tailored to your specific needs and can tell you what sounds you need to focus on and can point out resources that will help you improve your pronunciation and reduce your accent. www.EXLenglish.com/learn So, How Did You Do On The Quiz? : So, How Did You Do On The Quiz? www.EXLenglish.com/learn Are you listening to native speakers and systematically focusing on specific sounds with the proper material to improve your pronunciation? If you haven’t being doing any of these things until now...it’s okay. It’s not your fault. : Are you listening to native speakers and systematically focusing on specific sounds with the proper material to improve your pronunciation? If you haven’t being doing any of these things until now...it’s okay. It’s not your fault. www.EXLenglish.com/learn How can it be...since no one ever taught you how to do this correctly? You never had a language consultant to share this information with you and help you develop a strategy to reach your goals. : How can it be...since no one ever taught you how to do this correctly? You never had a language consultant to share this information with you and help you develop a strategy to reach your goals. www.EXLenglish.com/learn But the good news is that you there are tools, resources, and services that can help you out. And the best place to start is with my free report called the ‘Three Keys To Speaking English Like A Native’ at http://EXLenglish.com/threekeys : But the good news is that you there are tools, resources, and services that can help you out. And the best place to start is with my free report called the ‘Three Keys To Speaking English Like A Native’ at http://EXLenglish.com/threekeys Language consulting expert, David A. Bailey, Jr uses the power of mini-story lessons to help English students who want to improve their pronunciation, reduce their accent, and speak fluent English. Now, he’s providing English mini-stories and pronunciation lessons to help you speak real English quickly and efficiently. Go to http://EXLenglish.com/members to get some of David’s pronunciation lessons right now. : Language consulting expert, David A. Bailey, Jr uses the power of mini-story lessons to help English students who want to improve their pronunciation, reduce their accent, and speak fluent English. Now, he’s providing English mini-stories and pronunciation lessons to help you speak real English quickly and efficiently. Go to http://EXLenglish.com/members to get some of David’s pronunciation lessons right now.