Speaking better English - More Tips on Speaking more fluently
Don't be afraid of making mistakes. We all make mistakes. Look at what
you want to do and that is to speak better English. The key is to Practise.
This is where the articulate app is incredibly useful. You can choose a book
and then read it out loud. The Book has chosen the vocabulary for you so you
don't need to wonder what to say, but instead practise getting the sound just
right., so that others can understand you clearly.
Listen carefully to what other people say. Watch the news, especially
using the subtitles. Listen to as many different people as you can. How do they
talk?
Practise, Practise and Practise. The articulate app allows you to
practise as much as you want and doesn't put you down.
Celebrate your successes. When you get what you said just right then
give yourself a reward. Each time you get something right you are one step
closer to speaking better English. Be proud of yourself and use this success to
spur you on to improve once more.
Many people say that talking to yourself is the best way to improve, but
talking to the articulate app is even better. The app can give you hints at
what you are doing wrong, something that talking to your self can never do.
Try some tongue twisters, to improve your diction. The most famous in
English is possibly
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How
many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
or maybe
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
The idea of the tongue twister
originally came from the art of alliteration. This is as you probably know all
about using words that start with the same letter to try and put some emphasis
in text, prose or a poem.
From Ozymandias by Shelly
Boundless and Bare
The lone and level sands
The use Here is for more effect
when spoken.
Now other words are used to create
sentences that are deliberately hard to say
Round the Rugged Rock the Ragged
Rascal Ran..
These sentences can help with trying
to improve the diction and how easily words can be made clear in each sentence
that is said.
In the play Pygmalion the story is
about taking a flower girl off the streets with a typical cockney accent and to
teach her how to speak like a young lady, which in the end lifted her out the gutter
into High Society. In this the author used
In Hertfordshire, Herefordshire
and Hampshire Hurricanes Hardly ever Happen.
The word that is so hard to say in
this sentence is the word ever because all the other words begin with the letter
H and the tendency to say “Hever” is overwhelming.
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