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Today, I will help you with eight Ways that you and anyone can sound more like a North American English Speaker.
I will tell you eight Tricks and secrets that you probably didn’t learn in your standard Traditional English classroom. We will focus on making your pronunciation and your accent sound more American.
I will explain precisely how, so instead of just trying to imitate or copy, you will learn the specific points to focus on what it means to speak like an American.
Now let’s begin with the eight ways to sound more like an American.
First, let’s talk about syllables. Every word with at least two syllables has a stressed syllable and a weak syllable. So let’s take the word ‘American’ We have three syllables, right? American, that’s four syllables. So when we have more than two syllables, one will be stressed. Which syllable do you hear highlighted in ‘America.’ Can you listen to it?
American, so it’s the second syllable. So to speak more like an American, make sure that you stretch that stressed syllable out to make it longer. To sound like a Schwa sound that is up, that sound you make of someone punching you in your gut, you go, Oh American Can you hear that? Uh, American.
Very Good! So American English stresses the stressed syllable and makes the other syllables very weak. Number two, learn Connected speech. Oh, it’s so easy to say. Yet, there are so many different rules in connected speech, so let me quickly share several of the most important with you in American English. Especially whenever you find ‘at’ between two vowel sounds, it will be a d. We don’t drink water. We drink water. We don’t put butter on our toast. We put butter on our toast, okay?
A ‘T’ between two vowels equals a ‘d’ sound. ‘T’ between an N and a vowel gets removed in ‘International.’ But in ‘dentist,’ when you have an N and a ‘T,’ the sound sometimes stops like Mountain. A vowel like ‘button’ or ‘cotton’ when you have a ‘T’ or a ‘D’ between two Consonants gets removed. We blend and link sounds together when one word ends with a consonant. The next begins with a vowel, or when the following word starts with the same consonant as before it ends. With that was a big jumbled mess. We blend and link sounds together from one word to the next; social life becomes social life. We also make two words seem as though They were one when we blended sounds like this afternoon.
Now I know I’m going fast because I’ve made Specific lessons about most of these points in other classes. We insert a new sound. For example, between he and Asked, we insert the /j/ sound he asked or did, and if we insert a /w/ sound, he asked to do it. In some parts of the united states, you have an R intrusion between vowels. Like, for example, between Media and attention media attention. Finally, let me tell you about Elision, where we omit a sound. For example, the t in the word kept when it comes before going kept going. Number three in American English, the R is essential and frustrating for many English learners because it can differ from your native language. Be aware of r-colored vowels, for example, in the word Or why is it not ward it’s her word or for example World why is it not World, its World.
So that is an r-colored vowel. So many American English vowels will become this sound that sounds like a pirate talking. So get out your pirate hooks and err when you make this sound or not because that’s a kind of weird sound. We have an r at the end of the word. We usually pronounce it firmly, and I generally say because some people, like in New England, will cut that R off. For example, I parked my car. Well, that’s a Boston accent. Yes, I have lived in Boston, but I never adopted that accent. I would say, “I park my car,” but watch out for different ways of using the R. If you want to sound American, you need some American phrases. Instead of asking how you are, you can ask, “what’s up.”
Or instead of saying That’s nice or good, you could say that’s cool. Or that’s awesome. When you speak English, try to talk a little bit louder verbs use a ton of phrasal verbs. We rarely use a usual kind of academic verb in everyday speech in conversation. So, instead of the verb to exit or leave, say to get out. Instead of saying to arrive, speak to Get in. instead of saying to start or begin, you could say get going could also mean to leave such phrasal verbs can be confusing. Still, they’re essential to use many of them if you want to sound like an American Native English speaker. Also, start creating verbs out of nouns, like Google Google’s a noun. Still, we say let’s google that question, or Friend is a noun. Right, well, I can friend you on Facebook.
So a friend is now a verb. Take any noun you want and make it into a verb. You’ll sound more American. And finally, Vocabulary, so I suggested some American phrases like awesome and what’s up? But if you want to know quickly a few words that are different in American English as opposed to British English, we Say fall, not autumn.
We say faucet, not tap. Apartment, not the flat. Elevator, not lift. Diaper, not nappy TV, not telly, and Candy, not sweets.
Oh, and one more. We say take ‘out’ not ‘take away’ when we go to a restaurant, and we want to take the food home. So I think that you are ready now to sound American like a native speaker. So if you have questions about any of these points, I know I went fast. Leave a comment.
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