Speak English Fluently - 5 Steps to Improve Your English Fluency

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Speak English Clearly! The Imitation Technique

Speak English clearly and confidently and improve your pronunciation! Practicing English with the Imitation Technique will help you reduce your accent and pronunciation problems quickly. It will also make listening to native speakers easier!

Learn English Through Music

Here is a great song for you to learn English through music. Listen and sing along as many times as you want.

Understanding Native English Speakers - Improve English Listening

In this lesson, you can learn about how to understand native speakers. Even after studying for several years, some English learners find it difficult to understand native English speakers. In this lesson, you can see some simple things you can do which will make it easier to understand natural English.



Remember to tell us which situations you find it most difficult to understand native speakers! You can tell us in the comments!


The lesson will help you learn:
- How to use contractions to sound more natural in English.
- How to use weak forms to improve your listening and speaking in English.
- How to shorten questions to make your English sound more natural.
- How to use the context to improve your English listening and understand native speakers better.

How to Use Sarcasm in English - Spoken English

Do you know what sarcasm is, and how to use it? In this lesson, you'll see some useful words and phrases which will help you to use sarcasm in English!






In this English lesson, you can learn:

- What sarcasm is.
- When to be sarcastic, including example situations with English phrases which you can use in your spoken English.
- How to be sarcastic in English, including many useful phrases for everyday situations.
- What to say if someone doesn't understand your attempts at sarcasm in English!

English Pronunciation Secrets - 5 Tips to Improve English Pronunciation

In this English pronunciation lesson, you can see everything you need to think about in order to pronounce one English sentence correctly.

You’ll see that there’s a lot to think about, even in just one sentence! You'll learn English pronunciation secrets and the tricks and techniques you need to speak clear fluent English.







This lesson will help you:
- Learn how to pronounce the sounds in words correctly.
- Work on phonetics and correct English sounds.
- Understand stress and prominence in English and how they can help your pronunciation.
- Learn about a helpful English pronunciation secret: weak forms
- Use intonation correctly to improve your English pronunciation.
- Understand linking in English and how that can help you pronounce English well

Asking Questions in English

In this course, you’ll practice what you learned in this lesson about asking questions in English with quizzes and worksheets. PLUS, there are 9 more grammar lessons and quizzes to help you practice!

Asking Questions and giving answers are the basics of great English conversation - or conversation in any language!

But are you asking questions correctly, in English?



Many of my students can get their message across, even without the correct word order and intonation… But it makes for a bumpy, awkward conversation!

In this lesson, I'm going to help you improve the STRUCTURE of your questions, so they flow smoothly, clearly and automatically!
And you can start enjoying English conversations!

The good news is that English questions are fairly consistent and follow a clear structure. There are four main parts that you need to keep in mind.
1. Question word (who/what/where/when/how/why) - question phrase (how long, how often)
2. Auxiliary (or helping) verb (be/do/have … also modal auxiliary verbs = can/should/may/will)
3. Subject (I/you/we/they/he/she/it)
4. Main verb (eg: play, eat, buy etc)

Learn English Conversation for Beginners - Basic English Conversation Practice

3 tips for sounding like a native speaker

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Hi again, welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today, I'm going to help you sound a little bit more like a native speaker, hopefully. Students ask me all the time: "How can I sound like a native speaker?" Well, before I say anything, let me just tell you that it will take time and a lot, a lot, a lot of practice. The best way is to live in an English-speaking country, of course, but of course you can do it anywhere, but it takes time; be patient, practice, practice, practice.

So we're looking at pronunciation. Let me start with this word: "pronunciation". Not: "pronounciation". It is not a pronoun. A pronoun is: "I", "me", "my", "mine". Pronunciation is how we speak English. So I'm going to give you three tips that will help you sound a little bit more like a native speaker. We're going to start with connecting words. Now, think about your own language, whether you're speaking Spanish or Polish or Chinese, you do this in your language as well. When you're speaking fast, you're taking words and you're squeezing them together; you're connecting them, so one word flows into the next word. That's what we're going to do here.



You can connect consonants to consonants. What this means: when a word ends in a consonant... A consonant is "b", "c", "d", "f", "g", etc. A vowel is "a", "e", "i", "o", "u". When a word ends in a consonant and the next word begins with the same consonant, drop the first one. So for example: we do not say: "black coffee", we don't say: "ke, ke". There's only one "k": "bla coffee", "bla coffee." Okay? Practice that. Now, "t" and "d", these are two different consonants, but according to the tongue and the mouth, they almost sound the same so we do the same thing. "Wha do you do?", "Wha do you do?" But again, another thing you have to keep in mind is when we say it fast, we also don't really say "e", we say like a... Sort of like a small... We don't say "o" - sorry -, we say sort of a small "e". "Wha do ye do?" Practice that. "Wha do ye do?" Strange, huh? No "t", "wha", "de ye do?", "Wha de ye do?" That's how a native speaker would say it naturally.

Now, another thing is when a word ends in a consonant and the next word begins in a vowel, make sure you roll it in. Right? Roll the consonant into the vowel and separate the syllable before. A syllable is the vowel sounds in a word. Okay? So nobody, like native speakers don't say: "Not at all. Oh no, not at all." We don't say it like that. We say: "Oh, not-at-all.", "Not-at-all.", "Not-at-all." Right? The "t", so this becomes: "No-ta-tall", "No-ta-tall", "Not at all". Okay? Say it quickly, blend the letters one into the next. But again, practice it.

Now, for those of you who are going to be taking a test, an English test that involves listening; IELTS, TOEFL, TOEIC, if you're in Canada you're maybe doing a CELPIP test. Okay? This is going to help you on the listening section as well. This is one of the things they're testing. Somebody on the recording will say: "Not-at-all", and you need to cut: "Not at all", you need to understand the separate words, that's part of the test. So practice speaking it, practice listening to it. Another thing we do is we squeeze some words. Okay? Certain words, we don't say all the syllables, we don't even say all the letters. I've heard many students say: "Com-fort-able", "com-fort-able", but native speakers, we don't say this part, we don't say the "or". We say: "Comf-ta-bil", and notice the last sound is like a small tiny, tiny little "i" in there. "Comftabil", "comf-ta-bil", "comftabil". Okay? We don't pronounce the "or": "Comfortable". Nope, don't do that.



Another word like that: "Interesting". "In-chre-sting". Find out what the syllables are so: "In-ter" - sorry, my mistake -, "In-ter-rest-ing". If you want to emphasize something, we have a word called: "enunciate". When someone wants to emphasize a word, then they enunciate each syllable; they say each syllable separately. "Oh, that is very in-ter-est-ing." Right? Because I want you to understand that the word is interesting, but in every day speech: "Intresting", "in-tre-sting". "In-ter-est-ing", I have four syllables, when I actually say it naturally, it becomes three syllables and the "t" and the "r" become like a "ch", but that's... We'll talk about that next. Another word: "every". "E-vry". I don't say: "Ev-er-y", I don't say this letter "e", "ev-er-y". "E-vry", "evryone", "evrything", "evry".

Most Common Verb in English - "TO BE" Verb

Adverbs of Frequency

Adverbs of Indefinite Frequency in English

We look at the following adverbs of frequency: Always, usually, normally, generally, often, frequently, sometimes, occasionally, seldom, hardly ever, rarely, and never.
We also look at the approximate percentages associated with each of these adverbs, for example... Always = 100%, Never = 0%, Sometimes = 50%. Example sentences are included.

Next we look at correct word order (or sentence structure) when using adverbs. We compare when adverbs are used with main verbs, auxiliary verbs and also how the order is different when adverbs are used with To Be.

We show the adverbs that can be used at the beginning of a sentence, and those that cannot be at the beginning.

AMERICAN vs BRITISH English - 50 DIFFERENCES

How many did you know? Can you think of any others? Our American friends have different names for things than us in England. If you are learning English as a 2nd language it can get confusing. If you want to learn the British accent it's useful to know the words we use for these everyday things.

Basic English Grammar - "Was" and "Were"

When to use WAS and when to use WERE. Learn about the past tense of TO BE -- the most important verb in English! I talk about normal sentences, negatives, and questions. I cover the grammar, but also the correct pronunciation.

Basic English Grammar - Have, Has, Had

This lesson teaches you about the easily and often mixed-up English verb "have"!

Popular American Slang

Learning American slang is a great way to better understand the English you hear on TV, in movies, and on the streets of America.

Speak Like A Canadian

Learn English Through Music - Uptown Girl

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

English Speaking Practice

How to improve your English Speaking and Fluency: SHADOWING

How to Link Words - Speak English Fluently - Pronunciation Lesson

In this lesson, you can see some common examples of linking in English pronunciation. You can also see how learning about linking can help your English listening and improve your spoken English. Was this lesson useful? What do you know about linking words? Let us know in the comments below!

Do you sometimes find it difficult to understand spoken English? Understanding spoken English (especially native English) can be difficult because we don’t pronounce each word separately. In English, we link words together, so two or more words can sound like one word.

You can learn:
- How to link consonant sounds.
- How to link consonants to vowels.
- How to link two vowel sounds.
- How to link words to speak more fluently in English.
- Why linking is important for your English speaking.