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Personal experience: how to learn American accent and 'bleed up' pronunciation

“And what if, because of my Russian accent, they will not understand me?” - oh, well ... Let's decompose the whole thing on the shelves as it should.

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An accent is simply “speaking,” as we call it, characteristic of people living in different regions of the same country or speaking a foreign language. Even inside the US there are a few accents.

Pronunciation is the sound system of a language. In simpler terms, this is how we, people, have agreed to read certain letters and their combinations.

If you speak with an accent, but pronounce the sounds correctly, then you will be perfectly understood. You say our firm "p" instead of the American soft "ap" - not scary. Well understand that you are from Russia. So what? America is a country of immigrants, and the emphasis is assimilated without special courses only up to 19 years.

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But if you pronounce the same 'sheet' (sheet) and 'shit' (kaku in rude form), then this is a problem. In general, in English, if you are mistaken in pronunciation, you really can not understand. I once said the word veins (veins) as if it began with w. And what do you think? I did not understand.

On an intuitive level, the series are very cool. See them in the original, even if you do not understand everything - but then you will have words imprinted in your memory. Our hearing also adapts - the more we listen, the better we catch the words.

If you approach more fundamentally, then there are all sorts of cool resources. For example, pronuncian.com - here and free video tutorials and podcasts. They have pronuncian.com/sounds here in great detail about EVERY sound.

Here too there are quite a lot of different options to pump the manythings.org/pp pronunciation.

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And, of course, practice with a living partner is our everything, because it is always more visible from outside.

But the biggest step is to cease being ashamed of your accent. Then the pronunciation will go uphill instantly. I know that many people are afraid to look stupid, mimicking the “strange” sounds and accent incorrectly. And from this deliberately spoken in Russian manners.

Just let go and literally start through yourself to skip what the speakers say and do not hesitate to try to say this mannered “arrr” and other strange sounds. Everything sounds funny at first, it's normal.

The original column is published in Instagram Karina Kudinovoy.

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