It's as simple as this. Even if you can pronounce words clearly in English, if you can't take
those words and implement them into your English speaking, then your pronunciation is still going
to be unclear. So, in this English pronunciation tutorial, we're going to use the 'British Accent
Method' to help you to stop mispronouncing nine of the very most common words that you use every day.
That's going to give you bronze-level English pronunciation, then we're going to give you
silver-level English pronunciation by taking those nine words and I'm going to give you five
phrases that you can use to integrate these words into your English speaking in a way that enables
you to develop native English rhythm, and also native connected speech. And then in the video
you're about to watch after this you're going to develop gold-level English pronunciation by taking
those words, taking the phrases that have enabled you to implement them into your English speaking.
And you're going to learn how to apply tonality and intonation to them so you really develop
complete gold-level native English pronunciation. Let's dive in with the nine words and the five
rhythmic phrases that you're going to use them in, to speak English like a native. On a side note
I have specifically chosen these nine words and these five phrases because you use them in the
professional environment. So if you speak English in meetings,in presentations, in job interviews
and in the work environment this video is going to be essential for enabling you to boost your
confidence in English speak, more clearly and ultimately grow your career. So, let's dive in.
The first phrase that we're going to use to give you native English rhythm today is, 'I'll be there
at six'. 'I'll be there at six'. And the important word that I want you to pay attention to in this
phrase is the word 'at'. The nine words you're going to discover today all have at least two
pronunciations they have a strong pronunciation, and what I like to call a rhythmic pronunciation
which is a reduced pronunciation of the word that enables you to develop native English rhythm
when you use it like this in the context of a phrase. So the word 'at' has a second
rhythmic pronunciation where you reduce that /æt/ vowel sound to a schwa so you get /ət/ /ət/ /ət/
And whenever you have a schwa in a syllable in English it means that it's a weak unstressed
syllable. So, let's go through the phrase nice and slowly and pay special attention
to the pronunciation of the word, /ət/ not 'at' and see how it fits into the phrase
and helps to give it that english rhythm. Follow along with me. 'I'll be there at 6'.
'I'll be there at 6'. 'I'll be there at 6'.
'I'll be there at 6'. You can probably also hear in this phrase that we're using a linking 'r'
sound 'I'll be there at six'. To connect 'there' and /ət/ what you get is 'there at'. That is
another vital element for developing silver-level pronunciation in the 'British Accent Method',
to ensure that your English is flowing smoothly and naturally without unnatural pauses. Now you're
going to absolutely love phrases three and four that we'll get to in just a moment, but before we
get to them let's dive in with phrase number two. Phrase number two is 'We'll meet and discuss it'.
'We'll meet and discuss it'. So imagine at work you're going to
meet with your colleague or your boss to discuss it. And what we're taking here is the word 'and'
in its normal pronunciation and we're going to reduce it to its rhythmic pronunciation
so that we can give the phrase native English rhythm. The way that we do this
is we take the word 'and', and it simply becomes the /n/ sound /n/ /n/ /n/.
And in this phrase what we're saying is meet 'n' discuss it meet and discuss it. Here's how
you specifically make 'meet and discuss it', what we do is we go into the position of the 't' sound
me and then that tongue position is also the same position as the 'n' sound. So all we're doing
is we're cutting off airflow at the end of 't' and then airflow is coming out of our nose
for the 'n' sound. meet /n/ meet /n/ meet /n/
You might feel something weird happening in the back of your mouth or behind your face here,
and that's where air starts to come out of your nose instead of your mouth, and then we're keeping
our tongue in that position as we release the 'd' sound for discuss so meet /n/ discuss
meet /n/ discuss. Our tongue actually stays in the same position for the 't', 'n', and 'd' sounds
and all that happens is the airflow transitions from the 't' where it pauses out our mouth,
out our nose for the 'n' and then back out our mouth for the 'd' meet /n/
discuss it, meet /n/ discuss it, meet /n/ discuss it.
All right, let's say the whole phrase with native English rhythm follow along with
me. We'll meet and discuss it. We'll meet and discuss it. We'll meet and discuss it.
We'll meet and discuss it. We'll meet and discuss it. Now in the video that you're about to watch
after this I'm going to show you how to apply gold-level English pronunciation to these five
phrases using tonality and intonation. However, even though you're about to learn the specific
techniques in that video that will enable you to do this to all of your English
I'm still applying intonation to these phrases so that you can subconsciously feel
the intonation that's going to help you to speak English like a native
in the professional environment where you're going to be using these phrases. Okay, now let's move to
phrases three and four. I told you you're going to love phrases three and four and phrase three
has three rhythmic words in. The three rhythmic words with their normal pronunciation are 'do',
'you' and 'of'. And when we reduce them to their rhythmic pronunciation 'do' becomes /də/ which is
the d sound plus the schwa sound /də/ /də/ /də/ 'You' simply becomes /jʊ/ /jʊ/ /jʊ/, so
the sounds stay the same but the long u vowel sound loses its length and 'of' also
becomes a schwa sound so 'of' reduces to a schwa sound /ɒv/ /ɒv/ /ɒv/ so you get /əv/ /əv/ /əv/
And the phrase we're going to ask, we're going to ask a question 'What do you think of it?' 'What do
you think of it?' Now let's slow that down 'What do you think of it?' 'What do you think of it?'
'What do you think of it?' 'What do you think of it?' Can you hear
how those three rhythmic words because we've reduced their pronunciation,
they're pronounced a lot quicker and with a lot less force and stress than the other information
words in the sentence. 'What', 'think', 'it' have a lot more stress than the reduced words so that
we can give English its rhythm. If we were saying every word with even pronunciation and stress,
it would sound very very flat. It would sound like 'What do you think of it?' 'What do you
think of it?' and you do not want to be speaking English like that if you want to be like a native,
right? So one more time, 'What do you think of it?' 'What do you think of it?'.
Now I've just applied one of the tonalities to that question there that you're going to be
learning about in the video that you're about to watch after this one here. So we're gonna get to
that in just a moment by all means keep watching, but now let's give you phrase number four.
Phrase four is 'Have you seen the news?' 'Have you seen the news?' 'Have you seen the news?'.
So right here we've got three words, two new ones being reduced to their rhythmic pronunciation.
'Have', because we're not stressing it we're going to give it a rhythmic pronunciation
we're going to take that /hæv/ vowel sound and reduce it to a schwa sound /həv/ /həv/ /həv/.
'You', same as before we're reducing the length and the stress so you get 'have you' 'have ya'
'have ya' and then the first word with stress on it is 'seen' have you seen,
/ðiː/ becomes unstressed again before a consonant 'the the the' and then news we put stress on it.
'Have you seen the news?' 'Have you seen the news?' 'Have you seen the news?' Let's say this
a bit slower 'Have you seen the news ?' 'Have you seen the news?' 'Have you seen the news?'
'Have you seen the news?' Just to give you an idea of how this would sound different
if I decided to use the full strong pronunciation of 'have' I'd say 'Have you seen the news?'
'Have you seen the news?' 'Have you seen the news?' Can you see how there's a different
feel to it there's a different rhythm and that conveys a different meaning. That's why this is so
important because by doing this correctly you're going to be able to communicate meaning, much
much more effectively. Alright, now I can't wait to give you the gold-level English pronunciation
training here in the 'British Accent Method' which you're going to be watching in just a second
after I give you the fifth and final phrase right here. The fifth and final phrase right here is
'They can do it after the meeting.' 'They can do it after the meeting.' And what we're going to do
is we're going to take the strong pronunciation of 'can' and reduce it to its rhythmic pronunciation.
Okay, so what we're going to say is instead of 'They can do it after the meeting.' 'They can do
it after the meeting.' We're going to say 'They /cən/ it' 'They /cən/ it' 'They can do it after
the meeting.' 'after the meeting' Yet again we've got another rhythmic form of the word 'the' /ðə/
The meeting The meeting. These words I'm giving you the rhythmic form of right here you might
not think they're important words because they're not meaning words but what you might not realize
or what you might be realizing is that you're using these words in practically every phrase
you say in English. So if you really want to develop native English rhythm and speak English
like a native this is one of the most powerful and effective techniques you can learn to do it and
that's why it's going to give you silver-level in the 'British Accent Method' and before we get to
gold in just a second follow along with me nice and slowly. 'They can do it after the meeting.
'They can do it after the meeting.' 'They can do it after the meeting.' 'They can do it after the
meeting. Now you're about to see step by step how you can apply gold-level English pronunciation to
the phrases I've just given you here. You've just learned bronze pronunciation how to stop
mispronouncing these everyday words you're using, every time you speak English that's the first
thing bronze pronunciation removing the mistakes you're using every day. Silver pronunciation is
discovering how to actually integrate these words into your everyday speaking so you can actually
develop native English rhythm now let's move on and give you gold-level English pronunciation
by showing you how to apply intonation and tonality to these phrases which is going to
put the icing on top of the cake and enable you to speak English like a native. In this video
here which you're about to watch now I'm going to show you the two most important techniques
that you can apply to your English speaking to develop gold level English pronunciation. If
you're still having difficulties with your English pronunciation and you feel like you're not getting
the respect that you deserve, it might be because you're misusing the two gold-level techniques
you're about to learn in this video here. So i'll see you here in this video right now.