10 MIN English Pronunciation Practice

348,523 views ・ 2022-01-11

Accent's Way English with Hadar


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Hey everyone, it's Hadar.
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Welcome to the daily pronunciation practice - a 10-minute drill
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designed to help you improve your pronunciation, your clarity, and
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your confidence using English.
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You can do it daily, you can do it in the morning, during the day, at the end of the
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day, before an important meeting, or just before you start your English practice.
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Many of you are already practicing daily with our morning pronunciation practice.
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So we decided to keep it interesting and add another daily pronunciation practice,
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so you can alternate between the two.
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If you don't know our morning pronunciation practice, I'm going
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to link to it in the description.
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Let's begin by checking for tension.
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So, start by maybe massaging the jaw a little bit, and check if you're
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holding any tension here, in the jaw.
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So, massage the jaw, and start noticing your breaths.
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Take a deep breath in, breathe out.
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Try to breathe to your belly.
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And when you breathe, relax your jaw even more.
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Now, one more thing I want you to do is to raise your shoulders and then release
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the shoulders and all the tension that you have in your shoulders and neck.
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Okay?
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Let's do it together.
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We're going to do the same thing with the face.
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Let's tense the face up and then release, okay?
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Scrunch the face, let go.
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Scrunch the face, let go.
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One more time.
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Scrunch your face, let go.
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Lip trill.
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And lip trill going up and down.
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Very good.
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Now we're going to warm up the lips.
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We're going to start with 'ee' and move into 'uw'.
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These are also the high vowels: front vowel - 'ee', back vowel - 'uw'.
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And over-exaggerate the articulation of the lips, okay?
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Really pull the lips to the sides and then push them forward.
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Very good.
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Now we're going to practice two diphthongs: 'ow' - 'aw'.
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And again, we're going to exaggerate it a bit.
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Good.
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Next up, we're going to warm up the voice and we're going to
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play with a pitch a little bit.
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So start with a hum, and then we're going to start really,
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really low, go all the way up.
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Okay?
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Take a deep breath, and then we're going to start high up
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and then go all the way down.
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Good.
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Take a deep breath.
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And now we're going to go up and then down.
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Moving on to a tongue twister.
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We'll begin with "Sheila needs, Sheena leads".
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That's a high 'ee' sound.
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So we're replacing the L and the N.
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Okay, good.
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The next one is "She sees cheese".
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We're playing between the /sh/ of 'she', the /s/ of 'sees', and the /ch/ of
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'cheese', and the /z/ at the end as well.
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Moving on to practicing reductions.
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'did you', when we say it fast in a sentence, turns into 'dija'.
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So let's just practice that.
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Good.
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Next one is 'kind of', that turns into 'kinda'.
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And sometimes we can even drop the /d/ - 'kina'.
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'kinda'.
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Good.
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Moving on to 'out of' that turns into 'ada'.
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It sounds like 'at a'.
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Now we're going to practice the three A vowel sounds: 'a' as in 'cat', 'uh'
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as in 'cup', 'aa' as in 'father'.
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'a - uh - aa'.
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Good.
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Now we're going to practice intonation.
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We're going to practice three different types of international patterns.
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We'll begin with rising - ↑.
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Falling intonation - ↓.
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Rising-falling-rising intonation - ↑↓↑.
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Now we're going to add words to it.
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We're going to use the word 'no'.
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Rising intonation - no ↑.
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Falling intonation - no ↓.
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Rising-falling-rising intonation - no ↑↓↑.
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Same thing with a word 'really'.
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Rising intonation - really ↑.
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And take your time and explore your voice here.
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If you need to go slower, go slower.
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Falling intonation - really ↓.
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Rising-falling-rising intonation - really ↑↓↑.
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Good.
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Now we're going to explore the different placements of your voice.
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We're going to start with a chest voice.
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So you want to go as low as possible.
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You can put your hands on your chest and just say, "How are you doing?".
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Feel the vibrations here, in your chest.
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Go really low in pitch.
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Then we're going to move to our middle voice.
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And you want to feel like you're pushing your voice out, it's right here.
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Moving to your head voice.
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Okay, that's it.
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Now, to wrap it up, let's practice a fun sentence with a lot of flap T's.
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Very good.
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Now breathe out, breathe in.
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Breathe out, breathe in.
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All right, that's it.
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Amazing job.
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You can do this pronunciation practice every day in the morning, in the middle
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of the day, before you go to sleep.
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It's going to help you improve your pronunciation and understand how you
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can use your voice and articulation organs in a way that serves you best.
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I hope you enjoyed it.
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Once you do it, write 'done' in the comments.
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And if you're doing it daily, write the date as well.
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So you can keep track, create a streak, and hold yourself accountable.
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If you like this kind of episode, I have different pronunciation drills,
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10 minutes a day, I'm going to list all of them in the description
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below, so you'll have different things to practice every single day.
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Got to keep it interesting!
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Okay.
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So, thank you so much.
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And I will see you tomorrow in your next pronunciation practice.
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Bye.
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