The Power Learning Podcast - 3 - Reduce Your Accent With 1 Sound - Learn Advanced English Podcast

hello and welcome to the third episode of the English anyone . com power

learning podcast I'm really happy to be making this episode today because i know

we still are working on things with the new website and there's always new

things to learn and new challenges and I hate not being able to put new videos up

on the website so I'm happy to make this podcast and at least we can have this up

on YouTube while we were still working on things on the website but everything

is going really well all of our members are back in the premium section of

English anyone . com with their master English conversation lessons and with

this first podcast after we just chose the winners for the master English

conversation scholarship competition a fantastic contest where we had a whole

bunch of students from all over the world have selected for students that

are going to be studying with me personally and they will get tips for me

every month and they'll be able to send emails and talk with me about things

about the successes they're having in the challenges they're having and every

month i will produce a new power learning podcast episode that i can give

tips to them but that I can also share with everyone else that's learning out

there initially i created or I kind of design the scholarship for just one

student but i really wanted to give a good idea for everyone learning out

there about what it's like the different challenges that people have depending on

if you're a man or a woman if you're very young or not so young or whatever

the different kind of challenges you have depending on where you live in the

world so i ended up choosing for great students that are all from different

parts of the world different ages and it should be a really interesting

experience for everyone over this next year so you can see what people no

matter where they're coming from there are certain principles about language

learning and we'll be going over those but if you follow those prints

the Bulls if you follow these certain things about how to learn a language

you'll really be able to find success quickly because there are so many bad

things you can do about learning and so many things that waste your time so i

really want to give a lot of great tips and you'll be able to feel motivated and

inspired by the people that are on this competition so really it's a it's a

chance for everyone to improve but especially all of these free master

English conversation lessons that these four great lucky winners have received

they're going to get into master English conversation we've got over a year of

lessons for them to practice with

so even though they will only have to complete one special mission homework

assignment for each month they'll be able to use all of the previous ones and

go back and we've got hundreds probably thousands now words phrases grammar

points lots of different things that they can practice so hopefully it's not

too much information but i'm excited to have them get into the program and then

be able to tell everyone else what it's like to learn with master English

conversation so in this episode of the power learning podcast it won't be too

long but first i'm going to have each of our four winners from the master English

conversation scholarship contest introduce themselves to tell you their

name tell you their age tell you a little bit about themselves and then

also a message a little bit for you so you can feel inspired to get out and

keep practicing yourself remember all four of these people are not living in

an english-speaking country so we've got one from Vietnam one from a Czech

Republic we've got india and then we've got a solid water i love to say that i

love that Spanish pronunciation and Salvador i love that anyway so we've got

students nobody is living in the United States or Canada or England or any other

country that would have english as a kind of regularly spoken language even

if a lot of them may be studying it in school so i want you to see that you

don't need to live in an english-speaking country in order to

practice they will be learning all of the secrets that we

teach-in master English conversation and then you will also be able to get to

learn a lot of fantastic things about how to improve and ways to go out and

meet more people so you can really be practicing with native speakers so i'll

let them introduce themselves first and then I will come back after that and i

will tell you and the four winners what they're going to be practicing this

month so enjoy

hello my name is in and 17 years old i have been to England plastic yes but it

seemed step my master of learning English didn't bring good results so

this time with innocent 1.com i hope i can become more fluent English speaker

hi-de-hi maska i'm from india i'm an employee and working in an outsourcing

company i'm 31 now

english is one of my subjects in high school and in college and I started this

as a subject i'm speaking never included in my English story actually my sincere

English practice has been growing them from one year when they completed my

studies my conversation skills are almost zero once i showed my career I

realized the importance of fluency in English to improve my career

opportunities but for some reason even though I understood the importance of

English I didn't take any step to improve my English and a couple of years

script a bit without doing anything to improve my English skills but I think in

march twenty trouble one fine morning I took a decision to improve my English

and since that time with the help of internet i started my English practice

and now I came to this level invited my practice is going on one day drew

announcer the scholarship contest i participated image and after completion

of two rounds through selected me as enough for winners

when they received the main from drew about this news i felt very happy and i

can say how much I was happy at the time and I envisioned how my English would be

in 2014 and in the division

what I see is I'm talking I'm speaking English as my bed along with

and my writing skills are also like my mother tongue

yes this is what i'm going to eat you by the end of this course there is no doubt

about it if the guidance of Drew and with the help of his awesome lessons my

dream will come true

you guys are all going to see this fact and more importantly I never forget

who's helping my life and his wonderful support thank you

hello my name is joe swash Cody hola

i am from czech republic i am a woman i am 42 years

all I was studying English for six years then I had been going to school before

27 years I studied on only from books English was very boring lesson in school

I didn't go to student at english i didn't use English event ears I again

boss studying English before baniar then i will be English through and play I

give help other people order 40 i give help order the main that is possible to

study English and working and caring about children and husband and household

you could be English fluently door and change your life

hi everyone my name is careless i'm 25 years old I've been learning English for

two years and a half i want to say to you something about learning is I know

there's very difficult it's very tough and i know that you know that as well

and for that reason i want to invite you to follow us in this great journey

because we will be fluent and you will see them you will see then i invite you

to keep on learning because it's very important is for your life is one of the

most important things that you're going to learn in your life so tone don't be

party is going to be amazing

even if you don't speak it very well I don't speak very well as well and I know

that that is not the reason

how can I get through in the reason is i don't have confidence and that's why i'm

not fluent yet but i want to be I want to be fluent and i encourage you to go

on learning is gonna be great and i invite you to join us in follow us and

you will see that this is possible

okay see you're wrong bye

alright I'm back again i hope you enjoyed listening to our lovely for

winners

they're really great people i really enjoyed listening to their entries so

each of them all of the people that I that applied for the scholarship

competition had descended in audio recordings of themselves in every month

they will continue to send audio recordings so you can really look at the

progress they're making so we can kind of call this a benchmark benchmark is a

kind of base level where you begin to check the progress of something so each

month this is also for themselves but for you listening out there where you

get to check and see how their pronunciation is improving or how their

vocabulary is is building or their confidence is building as well when they

can even check back in a year from now they can go back and listen to this and

see wow just just how different their english is just by doing a little bit of

practice each day and being smart about how they practice so this month what I

really want the four winners but also you out there everyone else that's

listening to this i'm going to we kind of go into fluency even though you

already understand most of what I'm saying right now but when we talk about

how to get fluent in a language i really want to focus on one specific thing each

month different part of fluency and that way you don't have to go out and worried

about so many different things at the same time because it can be confusing

there are so many tips online so many videos so many different teachers and

other students that will tell you lots of different information what you should

be studying how you should be studying many different things like that but in

the same way when I was a young baseball player i used to play in Little League

this is just a kind of a level four young children that are playing baseball

but i would watch a lot of the parents and they would always have something to

say to their kid don't do that or do this or watch the ball or do these other

things and the kids they would do the best they can but the mind the human

brain is

can't hold all of that information at one time so I don't want to give a

thousand different tips about what you can do they will have access to all of

that information by using the lessons and master English conversation but for

the four winners and as well for you and everyone else that's listening out there

teachers and students are really want you to focus on this one specific thing

this month we're going to go into fluency starting with the biggest

possible thing and then getting more specific as we go through the year so

this first hip is all about the kind of sound and speed and flow of the language

and really this is just even listening to my voice right now it has a certain

melody to it it has a certain beat a certain flow to it and each language has

that and you can usually tell a different language even if you don't

know exactly what the language is you have a general idea of what the

languages just by the melody of the language so let's say an example from

vietnamese i don't speak any Vietnamese at all but the sound of Vietnamese is so

different from English and the flow and the beat and it's more of a blog that

they had a bad rap and I'm doing that really badly because i don't speak

vietnamese but what I want you to think about is how the sound of vietnamese or

indian or thai or whatever your language is is different from English and the way

you can practice that is the same way I'm speaking right now in the same speed

I just take one sound like blah blah blah blah and i can introduce myself

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

again I'm not saying any specific words because all i want to do is just get the

flow of the sentence so whatever sound you can make make that sound perfectly

it don't don't try to pick a sound it's difficult for you to make but pick a

sound that's easy for you to make and then listen to any kind of English you

here in your day or a video or something

you see on the news or a radio show anything like that

whatever you can find I want you to repeat that same thing back even if you

don't know all of the words or what all of the mean I just want you to repeat

back using blah blah blah blah just one sound could be DD or mom whatever the

sound is whatever you can make a sound from your own language so that way it

will be much easier to practice find some natural native English even if it's

fast and just listen to the flow and then try to copy that

so you could find a YouTube video or watch a DVD and pick maybe even just 10

seconds or 20 seconds if you want to challenge yourself you can go longer but

what you're really trying to do is get the flow of the language the sound of

how the words blend together the sound and the way that a hot person makes a

sentence so when they're angry in English they make a different kind of

sound

i remember when i was younger i used to watch an old TV show in America called I

Love Lucy and the husband of Lucille Ball in the TV show his name is desi

Arnez and he was from Cuba and he had a very specific way of speaking and he

would say lo see you got some splaining to do and it was much different than

English I I can't really do it perfectly right now but you can hear that it's

different from English or even Japanese if I say let's say I want to say

something in Japanese like I want to see a movie with Oklahoma Titus and it's a

different way of speaking local agency Titus Boko imei Jessa and even though

it's not perfectly it's not perfect japanese it's definitely different than

what i'm saying in English I want to see a movie I want to see a movie I want to

see a movie

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah it's different it depends on

the actual language you're doing but really find something

where you can get the the tone of the language the speed of the language and

don't worry about the actual words or the vocabulary so much i really want

this month for the four winners and also for everyone studying out there I really

want you to sit back and just practice those sound if you can do that then you

will become much better at hearing when people are making particular kind of

sounds or if they mean a certain thing by listening to the flow of the language

so this month we're starting with probably the biggest thing you can start

with in overall fluency at the kind of intermediate 2 beginning of advanced

level which is understanding the overall flow when you listen if you go back and

listen again to the four winners when they're introducing themselves then

you'll you'll really get a good sense of how even my name is even just saying

that they have a specific way of doing that that's particular to their language

so just like if I am living in America and I meet someone from india i usually

expect them to have a certain kind of accent and the reason people have an

accent is because they don't really try to practice the real way that people

pronounce things they get the the words correctly but they're not speaking in

the same way with the same flow so if it's your goal to actually speak like a

native speaker and you want people to think wow I'm actually talking with a

native speaker not just someone who understands the language or knows the

vocabulary but they really understand what it's like to speak if you want to

be that if you want to have that and people be really impressed by how you're

able to speak then practice your flow have an excellent day and we'll see you

next time bye bye