American Accent Training

how do you get an American accent well first you  got to work on your pronunciation let's do that  

repeat after me I want you to take a look at these  uh words right here better better better better  

it's better than other ones better so this T  sound is a d better better better better and  

how about this one water water pretty pretty so  all of these have the T sound the t is a D sound  

so waiter waiter waiter butter butter do you  like butter on your toast party so that t right  

there is also a d Party Party All the Time party  all the time all right city city city city city  

let's try some other ones here beautiful  beautiful beautiful there's a D sound there  

too huh how about here bitter bitter it left  a bitter taste in my mouth bitter platter you  

know what a platter is that's a plate full  of a a bunch of things a big plate full of  

something is a platter platter platter L  metal metal Patio patio liter a liter of  

water water water water there another  one huh all right butterfly butterfly

butterfly pudding putting it into something  pudding pudding sounds like pudding  

that you eat data data or some people say data  data data and data what's the data data little  

little little little little little little  citizen are you a good citizen citizen of  

your country meteor meteor shower meteor did you  see the big meteor last night Italy Italy Italy  

Italy all right there we go let's take a look at  a sentence here all of the citizens repeat after  

me all of the citizens citizens of this city  are so pretty all right I'm exaggerating this  

area here pretty pretty they're so pretty  all of the citizens of this city are so

pretty all right say it again all  of the citizens of this city are so

pretty good try another sentence we bought a  leader leader leader a liter of olive oil in  

Little Italy Little Italy Little Italy we bought  a liter of olive oil in Little Italy we bought a  

liter of olive oil in Little Italy we bought a  liter of olive oil in Little Italy Little Italy  

all right good job let's try another one the  waiter waiter waiter waiter the waiter brought  

us a platter of water water at the party the  waiter brought us a platter of water at the party

again the waiter brought us  a platter of water at the

party the waiter brought us  a platter of water at the

party boom you got it didn't you all right  say this one with me Betty bought a bit of

butter okay so this I I kind of said the  tea really I enunciated it but it would  

be a bit of butter a bit of butter a bit  a little bit a bit of butter becomes a bit  

of butter a bit of butter Betty bought  a bit of butter Betty bought a bit of  

butter all right let me put that away we  got this red here but she said the but is

bitter okay say it again but she said the Butter's  bitter the butter is bitter if I put it in my

batter it will make my batter

bitter okay so she's making batter you know what  batter is like batter for pancakes or it's a it's  

a mixture to make make some usually I the thing  that comes to my mind is pancake batter so if I  

put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter  but a bit of better butter will make my batter

better say that again but a bit of  better butter will make my batter better

but a bit of better butter will make my batter

better so she bought a bit of butter  a bit of butter better than her bitter

butter so she bought a bit of butter and that  

bit of butter that she bought  it was better than her bitter

butter so she bought a bit of butter  better than her bitter butter try

it and she put it in her batter she put it  in her batter she put it in her batter that  

her becomes her and she put it in her batter  and the batter was not bitter and the batter  

was not bitter it was perfect all right  that's it little bit of a practice speaking  

exercise keep moving forward one step at  a time and I'll see you in the next step