welcome to the effortless English show
with the world's number one English
teacher AJ Hoge where AJ is more than 40
million students worldwide finally learn
without the boring textbooks classrooms
and grammar drills here's AJ with a
quick piece to help you learn to speak
fluent English effortlessly hi I'm AJ
Hoge the author of effortless English
learn to speak English like a native now
maybe you have bad pronunciation and
when you have bad pronunciation you
often feel embarrassed when you speak
English you often feel foolish because
people don't understand you right when
people give you this face huh huh huh
right they look annoyed they look
frustrated they look confused when you
speak English because your pronunciation
is not good and this will affect your
life it it makes travel more difficult
it makes your job more difficult IELTS
TOEFL more difficult everything is more
difficult when your pronunciation is bad
pronunciation is good everything is much
easier people understand you instantly I
think more important than that they
respect you instantly they will not see
you as an English Learner right they
will not see you as someone who's
annoying them who's bothering them
they'll just treat you normally like
they would any other native speaker and
that's great now in a work situation
it's even better because you get that
respect immediately when you have great
pronunciation from your co-workers from
clients bosses from everybody it's it's
powerful and of course on IELTS on
TOEFL and anything else like that man
eight you get a high score it's just as
simple as that they're going to give you
a very high score on the speaking part
when your pronunciation is great and
that's what I made my new effortless
English pronunciation course for train
you not just teach you not just tell you
train you day by day to speak with a
perfect American accent now in the last
video I told you the importance of ear
training that we need to think like
musicians especially jazz musicians and
learn to hear the music of English and
hear it very very clearly including all
those little small sounds that make your
accent perfect you got to hear them
first if you can't hear them you can't
do them well that's just step one of the
training process next a really good
technique this is a training technique
again a lot of pronunciation courses all
the ones I found they kind of teach you
they'll show you the mouth movements you
know put your tongue here and move your
mouth like this that's okay I teach you
pronunciation course every unit has a
video I teach you how to make the sounds
but that's not enough you have to do
more than that you have to train it you
have to practice it day after day and
you have to do it in an effective way
and that's what makes this course
powerful so let me give you one
technique it's a it's simple it's
obvious it's simply pause and imitate
pause and imitate this is obvious but
you have to do it in a very specific way
a lot of people do this but they do it
wrong they do it incorrectly now what do
you do you take a short audio short
audio from a native speaker very
important choose a native speaker
anything from me is fine you can use one
of my free youtube videos the good thing
is I have a very very clear standard
American accent a lot of people say AJ
one reason is I have a very very clear
common standard American accent it's the
accent you hear in movies and TV all the
time you're used to it it's the most
easy to understand accent in the world
so you find an audio with a good clear
accent and then you simply play a
sentence listen carefully pause then you
say the sentence try to say it the same
as the speaker that seems obvious but
pronunciation what do I mean by that
you'll hear the speaker say something
for example my name is AJ you listen to
that my name is AJ and then you pause
most people do this they just say my
they think they're imitating they think
they're doing the same as the audio but
really they're not the energy is
different the feeling is different and
of course the actual accent is different
what you need to do is you have to try
to do everything too much you have to
try to copy the speaker but then do even
more do the accent the American accent
you hear do it super strongly pretend
you're a comedian and you're trying to
make fun of the accent you're you're
doing it to sound funny so you're doing
it super super super strongly extra
strongly see the problem is you think
you're doing the accent but you're
really not it's it's too soft it's not
enough when you exaggerate you will feel
you'll feel you're doing it too much
you'll feel like oh this is ridiculous
this is crazy I'm doing it too strongly
but the truth is you'll sound just
your accent will just sound good it's
strange it's some kind of weird
psychology maybe because you feel
embarrassed but you have to do it much
much more than you think if they're
really exaggerated so hear the audio you
hear hi my name is AJ pause then you do
it you imitate you have to do it 10
times bigger so you say hi my name is AJ
you'll feel like you're doing them
you'll feel like you're doing it way too
strong but in fact you're teaching your
brain to use exactly the correct
pronunciation you think you're doing it
too strong I promise you you're not
you're not doing it too much so you got
a really over exaggerated overdo the
American accent you hear make it too too
too strong and you do it every sentence
play the next sentence pause imitate and
super exaggerated play the next sentence
pause imitate and super exaggerate the
super exaggeration that's the powerful
part okay another technique do that do
that for one day next day you can do a
different technique or you can do that
every day and then do this next
technique also every day now in my
course I'll give you an exact schedule
to follow but if you're doing this at
home just by yourself you can use any
schedule you want alright the next
technique the next technique for
improving your pronunciation find the
text for your audio right get a
transcript the text subtitles anything
just so you can read it now first you're
going to listen to it then you're going
to pause and imitate and exaggerate
pause and imitate and exaggerate do that
a lot then next what you'll do turn off
the audio off you're going to read the
text out loud with a nice strong loud
voice you're going to read it you've
been listening to it so you know the
correct sounds so read it with a nice
strong loud voice and record yourself
this might be a little painful I'm sorry
to say yeah but it's a powerful
technique that will help you improve a
lot record yourself read the whole thing
laughs you know one or one minute
doesn't matter read it aloud with a
strong voice record it then stop play
your audio play your recording listen to
it very carefully listening especially
to the pronunciation to that music of
English listen very carefully next
listen to the original audio the native
speaker listening carefully compare the
two how is your pronunciation different
than the original and it probably will
be quite different it probably will be
very different this is why it might feel
a little painful because suddenly you
will realize oh my god my accent is
horrible oh my god my pronunciation is
terrible I don't sound like the speaker
see when you just do it in your head
you're just practicing you maybe you
but when you record it the truth is hard
to avoid when you record it and then you
play it and then you compare play yours
play the original play yours again play
the original again do that a few times
listening carefully try to find the
differences there will be a lot of
differences in the beginning this is
good for you though this will start
training your ears to hear the
difference right you'll hear oh wow my
are sound really bad and they're not
like the speakers ours or my rhythm is
weird my rhythm is totally different
than the speaker's rhythm you'll start
to notice your own personal problems
with pronunciation and this will help
you improve just by doing this a lot
recording yourself and comparing you can
do it every day just that will help you
improve your pronunciation a lot a lot a
lot it's a very very powerful technique
especially when you combine it when you
do it with the imitate and exaggerate
technique do both those techniques and
you're going to see a lot of improvement
okay in my next video I'm actually going
to do a live webinar a live video
livestream video I'm going to answer
your questions your questions about my
new pronunciation course this is your
chance to ask me anything you want about
the pronunciation course I will be live
on video now I will record it so if you
don't worry because you can watch the
recording and see all the questions I'll
answer all the questions I am sending
you an invitation an email invitation to
join this live webinar live video about
pronunciation so check your email today
tomorrow the next day check your email
check your spam folder find the
invitation and then click the link in
the email and enter your email again to
join the webinar you have to register so
register for the webinar it's free
totally free but you do need to register
with your email so please watch your
email click that link and register then
you can ask me directly any question you
have about the new pronunciation course
alright watch your email and I will talk
to you soon in the live webinar I look
forward to answering your questions
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