How well do you speak British English? VI Academy Malaysia

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Pronunciation and accent provide speech personality and individuality and are essential for clear communication. Speaking persuasiveness is a key component of success in several occupations. Even if you are an expert in language, you could come appear as hurried or unsure to your audience, which makes you less persuasive when it counts!

The goal of voice and accent training is to improve communication skills by focusing on connection, stress, melody, and pitch variation. To improve pronunciation and accent softening, trainers apply the science of speech production. For example, because they do not engage specific muscles when speaking Japanese, Japanese people find it difficult to physically generate particular sounds in English.

You will discover during instruction how to make your speech more melodic by comprehending these distinctions between English and your native tongue.

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Pay attention to specific noises....

Pay attention to specific noises.
Phonemes, or distinct speech sounds, combine to form words. There are 44 phonemes in English, with the vowel sound “schwa” being the most used. The phoneme schwa, which sounds like “uh,” is /ə/. Some words that contain this phoneme are:

Us /əs/ Once more /ə’gen/ Learner /stjuːdənt/ Following /ɑːftə/

Certain words sound differently than they do on paper.
Each letter in the English language has a different sound depending on where it is in the word and what letters come before or after it. For instance, the word “been” is pronounced differently from “bin” or “ben,” more like “bean.” Another example is that a letter “c” at the start of a word might sound either a “k” or a “s” depending on the vowel that follows.

Watch out for the quiet letters.
Although they are present in written language, silent letters are not spoken when speaking. About 60% of English words have a silent letter, in contrast to Spanish, where words are pronounced with all of the letters sounding. This is the outcome of the way that English has developed over many centuries, with certain words maintaining their historical spellings while changing in pronunciation. In English, the most often used silent letters are:

For instance, silent K, knight, know, knuckle.
For instance, silent P, receipt, raspberry, and psychology
For instance, silent C, muscle, ascension, and scene
For instance, Silent G’s design and symbol
For instance, silent B, comb, debt, ascend, lamb
For instance, silent N, column, denounce
For instance, silent T, castle, listen,

Pay attention to the language's "music"

Every dialect and accent has a unique musicality. Observe how English people emphasize and tone their phrases. Do they typically end on a high, low, or steady note? How much does a normal sentence's pitch change? The tone varies greatly depending on the location. As a sentence comes to a close, there's a common tendency for the pitch to drop a little. Accents from the North East of England and Liverpool, however, are an exception to this pattern Encounter individuals who converse in "English English" by enrolling in an immersion program in London. The best method for swiftly picking up an English accent is this one. Continue to watch and listen to English-language TV shows and radio once your course is over, and enroll in online voice and accent training courses. You'll be speaking lot more naturally very soon!