my brother-in-law speaks english with strong german accent for 40 years and never want to change it. Every one in America understands him and reciprocally. Never had any problem.
Yeah i don't know what's the problem with this. If people don't understand you it's most likely your pronounciation, not your accent. If i were a french dude i wouldn't want to lose 100% of my sexy accent
The lady is correct to a certain extent; for one, our vocal cords will be fully develop by the age of 9 or 10. Which makes learning a second language easier before that age in regard to those sounds that do not exist on your language, i.e. a person from Thailand trying to roll the first "R" in any word in the Spanish language. Or the sound of a "TH" for a Hungarian person when speaking English.
I'm definitely working on reducing my accent. I was born in the US, in the south ( never left the country) but I just hate the way I and most people around me talk. I often mispronounce words even though I'm a born English speaker. I never realized how much my peers ( North Carolinian's ) butcher words until I listen. this video was really helpful. thanks
My Spanish accent attracted girls like flies to a candy, but I lost it after so many years in the Army, today I dont even know what accent I have. It was a charm.
It might has to do you were so handsome years ago, but you are not as handsome as before. The charm was washed away by time not the absence of a spanish accent.
The weirdest thing to practice pronunciation is to discover that there are muscles in your throat that you are not used to exercise, so when you practice English as a non native speaker, your throat will hurt haha
I feel that... when I speak English I feel like a different person it is not as if my personality changed but it's different and also my voice tone changes...
+Dilo Rodrigues +Dilo Rodrigues Lo mismo me pasó, pero al inicio; pero con más práctica después lo puedes integrar a tu personalidad en español y viceversa; aparte que dominar un segundo lenguaje te puede dar mucha más confianza, y la verdad eso está super padre; siento que voy en esa parte; pero te digo hermano, se trata de practicar el idioma machín, machín; lo más recomendable con nativos; y despues tu entonación también la podrás modular en cualquiera de las dos con el mismo dominio.
+Dilo Rodrigues me too! Even though I'm quiet an sometime a little bit socially ackward with people I don't know, I suddently become extroverted and full of conversation subjects when I speak english or japanese. My voice is lower too. I don't know why though
This is awesome isnt it? I think our challenge is to bring it to our life when speaking our own language because it's great to comunicate freelly leting our ideas out regardless languange we're speaking...
The most strange and funny think is that in my head, right before I start to speak, the words are so "native", all of them with a perfect accent. Than I open my mouth. Kkkkkk
This is briliant. Its like she is articulating my thoughts. It's great to know they have done so much study on the spoken language, and almost every aspect of the spoken language is documented and categorized. The best part is when she talks about how people bring the phonetic rules of their native language, and impose it on the second language. This really helps you understand why people speak a certain way. Its always good to have a teacher who is enthusiastic about the subject material, practices it in daily life, and is always trying to find new ways of making their students assimilate the knowledge.
I was 16 when I had the chance to get to the United States. I wanted to pick up the Southern drawl in Dallas, Texas. The way I spoke was close to a native speaker's performance. My first language is German. That makes the acquisition a little bit easier. It was a great lecture, seminar and practice unit at the same time by this great instructor.
Thank you 🙏🏼 It was very helpful. I have lived in the States for 30 years since I was 10 & I still have an accent. I’m a profesional & I will like to internationally work on reducing it for better communication. PS: if I were in class physically I would have given her a very good rating as she presented very valuable rules & she was easy to follow & appeared respectful of all cultures which it’s always important especially when we are talking about languages.
"Seychas" meaning "now" is used in Russian language most of the time. "Shas" is more colloquial, shortened and informal way of pronouncing "seychas" and will be frowned upon in the formal conversation. "Chas" meaning "hour" is pronounced differently from "shas" meaning "now". It starts with "ch" as in "chair" or "chips", as oppose to "shas" which starts with "sh" as in "she" or "shower". That is if you are still interested.
well, the russian word "seychas" is pronounced quickly as "shchas" with the sound "shch" that English doesn't have. however , there is something more to the example she gives here. the thing is that it would be just incorrect to answer the question "when does the concert start" with "chas" in russian although it's correct in English. If the concert were to start at 1 pm you would have to answer the question "when does the concert start" with "AT 1p.m" or in russian words " V chas". so in reality you just can't mix these two up, really.
Женщина сказала 'час' . Ей полюбому говорили 'щас' а не 'час'. Она на слух не различает эти звуки . Плюс она не правильно переспрашивала , надо было сказать 'в час ?'
Actually your accent changes with every new language you study, because of new muscle-movements you acquire, so the pronunciation of your first language changes too!
The truth is an accent can only be changed by putting one on and by practicing regularly using that accent then the accent will be naturally used over time.
I cannot believe how clear her pronunciation is and I can feel that it's tremendously helping me understand her lecture, also much easier to focus on the subject.
She probably has learned vocal training in actors' workshops. There, she would have learned their vigorous tongue movements, breath control exercises, ear training with eye masks, etc.
Fantastic professor. Problem is many of us wrestle with the idea of admission that we have an accent. It is almost as if a stigma to have it. But love how she completely disarmed us from the beginning and made us feel accepting with stressing the fact that an accent doesn't reflect the intelligence of a speaker necessarily. Thank you for the video.
I am famous for switching videos but believe me i watched this at a stretch(taking notes),AMAZING and interesting :) I like this Lady's teaching,most of all ,her commitment is Extra-ordinary :)
Thank you for a wonderful lecture which I have greatly enjoyed. Here is what I have noticed and would like to comment on because it contradicted my knowledge and experience: 1. It IS possible to master a foreign language pronunciation and sound native after age 12, but it takes several thousands of training hours and an expert phonetician. 2. the Russian "Seychas" becomes reduced to a palatalized or soft sibilant fricative [SH'] but not to [s + CH], so it sounds like [SH'a:s] or [SHja:s] but no way [sCHa:s]. 3. The English pronunciation, phonetics, and IPA transcription are widely taught in the departments of foreign languages of most universities and colleges (except for that in English-speaking countries). 4. Any actions that involves a physical manifestation requires this three-stage components of Knowledge, Coached Skills, and Automated Skills. First, you learn that something exists, then you are controllably coached to use it, and finally it becomes your automated and unconscious skill. 5. None of the world's languages are spelled the same way they sound but differ in a number of rules or exceptions between spelling and pronunciation, so English is not complex or ideographic but just another language. 6. Stressed are not words but nominal parts of speech which in turn follow a fixed hierarchy (nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, preposition, etc.) when there are several nominals together and only within their own syntagma (or "thought group"). 7. IF is a conjunction of condition. 8. There are 3 kinds of syllabic stress: intensity, length, and pitch, the last of which involves a tone or lilt, and native speakers of tonal languages (as Chinese, Vietnamese) impose a rising tone but neither intensity nor length. 9. In the example "John said Joe is lazy," it was not a matter of stress but that of pause between syntagmatic borders. John | said Joe | is lazy. VS John said | Joe is lazy. 10. English makes much distinction between syntagmatic borders or pauses because English is an analytical language with a set word order and without any other distinctive grammatical markers, so the SPEAKER does not decide on how to break up syntagmas because most borderlines are sufficiently predefined by both syntax and pragmatics (by means of punctuation marks, adverbial modifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, sentence borders, etc.). At best, the SPEAKER can read two-three syntagmas together at the expense of intelligibility.
i know its been eight years. but i really hope i could come to this teacher's class. if anyone know who she is, and where i could find more classes of hers, i'd be really thankful. i have been searching for videos about accent reduction. and there are many here on youtube. but this one, is so far the BEST one i have ever came over with. thank you, lady from sc university.
She is right when stating that, as a general rule, you cannot lose the accent if you start learning the language after around ages 10-12. No matter how hard you practice, for the great majority of us (I'd say 99%) the accent will remain. It might be almost negligible but it will be there and it is enough for a native English speaker to identify you as non-native. And I also agree that, unless it hinders your ability to communicate, having an accent is not a bad thing at all.
mm I have to disagree, my friend is from Sinaloa Mexico, he just has a few years in the states and he speaks native English, I have asked him if he ever lived in the US before and he says he did not, people don't believe when he tells them he was born in Mexico
She is a great teacher. She's so polite and patient. She reminds me of my high school ESL teachers when I first came to the USA and started learning English.
she is brilliant , as a polyglot I also agree that a correct pronunciation is something that you need to develop gradually. Being able to pronounce almost as if you were a native speaker can take some time . However with a lot of exposure and practice you will acquire the sounds that do not exist in your native language.
College profs. are like that. I like the way she explains it and I've been dealing with this language for way too long. It's always good to enjoy a simple class like this. I speak 3 languages!
Great teacher and not ashamed of learning to use technology as she teaches. KUDOS to her!! Theme extremely important in language acquisition - where accent reduction will help intelligibility. As concerning intelligence perception other cultural factors will also play a role.
I lived in US 20 years, I tried best to make word by word correct and people still say "I don't understand your English". But this amzing teaching gievs me the reason and solution. Best of best Englisg teaching vido I had watched
As i'm thai,I commonly find difficulty of accent yet thai is tonal then when i'm about to speak, it brings my English the same tone without intonation.So i'm willing to say this video is very remarkable and effective for my practice. Big thanks for you!
Students of a second language normally imitate the pronunciation aspects of the target language. In my opinion, teachers should teach most of the characteristics of the second language phonology so that learners could have a major counsciouness of the sounds in that language.
Excellent!!! Thank you so much! I haven’t realized that the T, D or C sounds have more “air” in English than in Spanish... is so useful to know that kind of stuff... also the American rhythm! Very important!
Fantastic video. We all have been taught wrong. First, we have been taught to read and write, while it is more correct to start leaning with listening and speaking skills.
I love this video. This is the most helpful accent reduction course i have seen so far, and you can actually learn something after watching it. I wish I could be in the class.
Such a wonderful explanation of the proper stressing of the new information! I learned to copy the intonations , but I have never thought about the logic behind it
Thank you for sharing this helpful primer on speaking English to be understood from the East Coast USC. While the speaker has a strong Southern accent and tends to wander a bit more than ideal, this accessible presentation shares revealing personal stories and shares several practical tips to help international students and ITAs feel more confident and become more competent in speaking English in common academic contexts.
About talking two languages and have a different "self" for each one is something that we see a lot in Catalonia. One of the most amazing examples is the Catalan from Mallorca: they speak Catalan and Spanish like people in Catalona, but their Catalan has a really different accent (one characteristic is that they change many vowels with schwas). The funny thing is that when they speak Catalan, you hear that rare and strange accent, but when they speak Spanish, the accent disappears completely, and they speak the same Spanish than you do. It looks like two people from two different origins in the same person.
Our language is mostly spoken without an accent, or intonation; therefore,it is a good prerogative of /for learning foreign languages. Different personality traits make our expressive skills eloquent or less such.
Her voice sounds so much like Julia Sweeney it's crazay, hahah. Also, I'm a native English speaker and this is super fascinating to me . What a great teache!
“Sometimes when students don’t answer it’s because the answer is too obvious” EXACTLY this happens all the time 😂. MANY thanks go to you and your insights, they were so helpful.
I know plenty of people who were able to eliminate their accent way after the age of 12. Just my father sound native in like 5 languages learned from his 20s to his 50s
@@cetinsadik7969 no, it is possible. It’s much harder because of muscle memories. I know many people who have totally changed their accent after the age of 12. It’s difficult, but doable.
1:29:00 This is SO TRUE. And it works in other target languages, not just English. I work a couple of times a year in France and so I am learning to speak French in a working context. But I’m still very much a beginner. I found that even when I used the correct French words I was not necessarily understood, except by French people who are really spoke English. I thought this was because I needed more vocabulary or a better understanding of French grammar... But one day I decided to just speak the limited amount French that I knew, but in an exaggerated almost cartoonish French accent. (Almost as if I was mocking the French accent. Like Pepe le Pwew, the cartoon...) And the amazing thing was, almost immediately I started to get compliments that my French was so clear and easy to understand. I was shocked. From my perspective it felt like I was being too much by over exaggerating the French stereotypical language. I was almost embarrassed to be speaking with such an overtly over-accented speech- like I might offend someone! And yet in actual practice, it made my speaking French so much clearer for my listeners in the target language. So, I think it would work the same way if you listen to how Americans talk just make fun of that accent as you try to speak the English words-Think how would I say this if I was telling a friend a story of an American saying something... how would I give a Comic performance of the American accent? Believe it or not, that can help go a long way as an exercise to be understood by someone in the target language. They won’t think you are making fun of them...they will just be able to understand you better! Ps When I say make fun I don’t mean do that in a mean spirited way-- but it’s just a way to get used to what feels like an exaggeration to your own ears, when actually it is indeed the way that people speak in that language.
I have found from first hand experience that if you started learning English in college (for all international students out there), your accent will take even longer to improve because, at the beginning , you’re just learning English and getting acquainted with the culture ( at an ESL school or something like that ), but then soon enough, you leave that little ESL shelter and you get thrown in the real world that college is... you dont get graded on a curve, nobody cares about you, and now, its not just “I’m going to the store what do i say to the cashier “ anymore, because you now have to learn some technical English as well...now you working on pronunciation of both basic English words and technical English, and you dont hav time to peacefully practice regular everyday English because you are at an age and stage of life where much more is expected of you. People expect you to be well versed in so many disciplines and areas of the real world, as a young adult, which can stunt your learning of the English pronunciation. Everything outside of your ESL school is real from the type of conversations you must have to the content of those conversation... now you realize that those 7 months you spent in English school with people in the same situation as you do not prepare you for much
I am really excited about the results of this video! I am a native Hungarian with a tiny bit of accent, what people confuse with Russian all the time... It is annoying to me to explain and correct them. Funny thing is that I don't know any Russian :-)
I was impressive deeply by the basics sentence stress and prominence for new information !! These are also techniques which I think can improve my listening comprehension.
What a fun video to watch!! It's not everyday that I'm able to watch a two hour video without struggling to pay attention... She's awesome, quite pleasant to listen to, very clear speech and explanations. Could anyone tell me if these ''rules'' apply to british english or other forms of english?
For me, if you are not able to produce the correct sounds of SAE - Standard American English, you can not hear it. First, you need to learn how to speak. For this, you have to know how to produce the 52 IPA sounds of SAE (included the diphthongs). So, after you know how to pronounce the 52 IPA sounds, and how that sounds change when they are on the phrase, you'll say: - I can hear well because I can speak pronouncing the sounds like a native. Very good class! Congratulations!
I grew up in the northern Chicago suburbs, not far from Wisconsin. I moved 50 miles north, and my kids informed me that I have an accent, and this was pointed out to me more than once, even though we're all speaking the Great Midwest accent. Apparently we from around Chicago say "wiz-KAHN-sin" whereas around these parts it's "wuh-SKAHN-sin". And you drink from a "bubbler". A fountain is that thing that sprays water into the air where you can get your feet wet. And it's "soda", not "pop".
hi aoa,,,,daily some of the lectures im attending again and again and thank ful for this opportunity thankyou all good soft spoken english teachers im listening tooo thank you
A lot of useful information in this video that I can use to improve my English pronunciation, specially the information and exercises about the stressed words in a sentence. Thanks
Thanks I learned quite a lot! I’m an American but I hope to learn some foreign languages, and this was a great insight into the pitfalls of being understood...applicable to any language, I think.
Listening to this lady will teach u more american english then listening to what she trying teach. All those kinda grammatical stress patterns and all. :) Coming here really gonna help me great ways. More if I try write in american pronouncing style too than normal english writing.
Good video! I want to express my enjoying for using Russian example. It was very interesting. I am at the other side: I know Russian well and try to improve my English pronunciation. Thanks!
A wonderful lesson! Thank you very much for sharing this video lesson with us English learners worldwide. Your lesson does motivate us to pursue that path and improve our speaking skills each new day, all the time. And yes, may you be very, very happy and successful in your personal and professional projects. Have you all worldwide a great week.
Great English lesson!!!!, I just loved it because it is all about how to emphasize the right words during the speaking tasks, which gives a sort of speaking rythm, making easier to be understood by any listener. I'm going to wacht this lesson at least a couple of times more, just in order to get confindece with all those effective and very easy tips.
my brother-in-law speaks english with strong german accent for 40 years and never want to change it. Every one in America understands him and reciprocally. Never had any problem.
Yeah i don't know what's the problem with this. If people don't understand you it's most likely your pronounciation, not your accent. If i were a french dude i wouldn't want to lose 100% of my sexy accent
It's probably for people who want to get the American accent like me, or native English people already get familiar with foreign accents.
That's valid. Some people want to go the extra mile in blending in with there target culture. That's probably what I would try to do, personally.
She is fully correct: If you cannot hear it, you will not be able to produce it.
Especially when you hear sounds that do not exist in your native language.
Trying to speak tonal languages when your native language is not one.
The lady is correct to a certain extent; for one, our vocal cords will be fully develop by the age of 9 or 10. Which makes learning a second language easier before that age in regard to those sounds that do not exist on your language, i.e. a person from Thailand trying to roll the first "R" in any word in the Spanish language. Or the sound of a "TH" for a Hungarian person when speaking English.
You can pick up sounds eventually. But you have to listen for hundreds and even thousands hours.
@@fattiger5953 we saw it the first time
@@rogerinkeywest to ci
i love the way she teaches, she's open and honest sharing her intentions.
This is one of the best lectures on English Pronunciation I have ever seen. And I have been an EFL teacher for 30 years now.
I'm definitely working on reducing my accent. I was born in the US, in the south ( never left the country) but I just hate the way I and most people around me talk. I often mispronounce words even though I'm a born English speaker. I never realized how much my peers ( North Carolinian's ) butcher words until I listen. this video was really helpful. thanks
My Spanish accent attracted girls like flies to a candy, but I lost it after so many years in the Army, today I dont even know what accent I have. It was a charm.
It might has to do you were so handsome years ago, but you are not as handsome as before. The charm was washed away by time not the absence of a spanish accent.
The weirdest thing to practice pronunciation is to discover that there are muscles in your throat that you are not used to exercise, so when you practice English as a non native speaker, your throat will hurt haha
my face muscles feel tense when I don't speak the language often.
I feel that... when I speak English I feel like a different person it is not as if my personality changed but it's different and also my voice tone changes...
+Dilo Rodrigues +Dilo Rodrigues Lo mismo me pasó, pero al inicio; pero con más práctica
después lo puedes integrar a tu personalidad en español y viceversa;
aparte que dominar un segundo lenguaje te puede dar mucha más confianza,
y la verdad eso está super padre; siento que voy en esa parte; pero te
digo hermano, se trata de practicar el idioma machín, machín; lo más
recomendable con nativos; y despues tu entonación también la podrás
modular en cualquiera de las dos con el mismo dominio.
+Dilo Rodrigues me too! Even though I'm quiet an sometime a little bit socially ackward with people I don't know, I suddently become extroverted and full of conversation subjects when I speak english or japanese. My voice is lower too. I don't know why though
This is awesome isnt it? I think our challenge is to bring it to our life when speaking our own language because it's great to comunicate freelly leting our ideas out regardless languange we're speaking...
I feel the same way. By the way, I speak Brazilian Portuguese.
Bruno Levy Flamengooooo
The most strange and funny think is that in my head, right before I start to speak, the words are so "native", all of them with a perfect accent. Than I open my mouth. Kkkkkk
Exactly, the same in my headspace)
lol...OMG! You are so funny.
If you have the native sound of the words "in your head", then a good way to improve is regularly reading aloud
I can relate😀
That's a good sign, though! You have a good model of a native accent in your mind, a precursor to noticing and improving.
29:27: The best demonstration ever of the rythm of English.
This is briliant. Its like she is articulating my thoughts. It's great to know they have done so much study on the spoken language, and almost every aspect of the spoken language is documented and categorized. The best part is when she talks about how people bring the phonetic rules of their native language, and impose it on the second language. This really helps you understand why people speak a certain way. Its always good to have a teacher who is enthusiastic about the subject material, practices it in daily life, and is always trying to find new ways of making their students assimilate the knowledge.
daSuperChunk it realyy is.
You said exactly what I want to say. Great course! thanks go to the teacher and all the teachers in the world!
why is you writing so much?
I was 16 when I had the chance to get to the United States. I wanted to pick up the Southern drawl in Dallas, Texas. The way I spoke was close to a native speaker's performance. My first language is German. That makes the acquisition a little bit easier. It was a great lecture, seminar and practice unit at the same time by this great instructor.
Thank you 🙏🏼 It was very helpful. I have lived in the States for 30 years since I was 10 & I still have an accent. I’m a profesional & I will like to internationally work on reducing it for better communication. PS: if I were in class physically I would have given her a very good rating as she presented very valuable rules & she was easy to follow & appeared respectful of all cultures which it’s always important especially when we are talking about languages.
Me too 😂
"Seychas" meaning "now" is used in Russian language most of the time. "Shas" is more colloquial, shortened and informal way of pronouncing "seychas" and will be frowned upon in the formal conversation. "Chas" meaning "hour" is pronounced differently from "shas" meaning "now". It starts with "ch" as in "chair" or "chips", as oppose to "shas" which starts with "sh" as in "she" or "shower". That is if you are still interested.
Thank you very much for the explanation :)
well, the russian word "seychas" is pronounced quickly as "shchas" with the sound "shch" that English doesn't have. however , there is something more to the example she gives here. the thing is that it would be just incorrect to answer the question "when does the concert start" with "chas" in russian although it's correct in English. If the concert were to start at 1 pm you would have to answer the question "when does the concert start" with "AT 1p.m" or in russian words " V chas". so in reality you just can't mix these two up, really.
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Женщина сказала 'час' . Ей полюбому говорили 'щас' а не 'час'. Она на слух не различает эти звуки . Плюс она не правильно переспрашивала , надо было сказать 'в час ?'
I didn't know how interested I was until I read this comment. Thank you.
"If you learned a second language later in life, you're always going to have an accent." ...How ....reassuring.
That's not true
That's bullshit
Actually your accent changes with every new language you study, because of new muscle-movements you acquire, so the pronunciation of your first language changes too!
I agree with you all. I just quoted what she said in the vid (beginning).
The truth is an accent can only be changed by putting one on and by practicing regularly using that accent then the accent will be naturally used over time.
She sounds like an amazingly cultured instructor/ teacher and well tuned professor! Terrific!
I cannot believe how clear her pronunciation is and I can feel that it's tremendously helping me understand her lecture, also much easier to focus on the subject.
She probably has learned vocal training in actors' workshops. There, she would have learned their vigorous tongue movements, breath control exercises, ear training with eye masks, etc.
In my opinion, this is the best accent reduction course. !!! Glad I find this video
But where is the rest of the course?
I wish I'd had a teacher like you in high school teaching English
Fantastic professor. Problem is many of us wrestle with the idea of admission that we have an accent. It is almost as if a stigma to have it. But love how she completely disarmed us from the beginning and made us feel accepting with stressing the fact that an accent doesn't reflect the intelligence of a speaker necessarily. Thank you for the video.
I am famous for switching videos but believe me i watched this at a stretch(taking notes),AMAZING and interesting :)
I like this Lady's teaching,most of all ,her commitment is Extra-ordinary :)
6:58 I am sure she now enjoys writing on the screen and tells her new students, It is funny eight years ago we didn't have this :)
Thank you for a wonderful lecture which I have greatly enjoyed. Here is what I have noticed and would like to comment on because it contradicted my knowledge and experience: 1. It IS possible to master a foreign language pronunciation and sound native after age 12, but it takes several thousands of training hours and an expert phonetician. 2. the Russian "Seychas" becomes reduced to a palatalized or soft sibilant fricative [SH'] but not to [s + CH], so it sounds like [SH'a:s] or [SHja:s] but no way [sCHa:s]. 3. The English pronunciation, phonetics, and IPA transcription are widely taught in the departments of foreign languages of most universities and colleges (except for that in English-speaking countries). 4. Any actions that involves a physical manifestation requires this three-stage components of Knowledge, Coached Skills, and Automated Skills. First, you learn that something exists, then you are controllably coached to use it, and finally it becomes your automated and unconscious skill. 5. None of the world's languages are spelled the same way they sound but differ in a number of rules or exceptions between spelling and pronunciation, so English is not complex or ideographic but just another language. 6. Stressed are not words but nominal parts of speech which in turn follow a fixed hierarchy (nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, preposition, etc.) when there are several nominals together and only within their own syntagma (or "thought group"). 7. IF is a conjunction of condition. 8. There are 3 kinds of syllabic stress: intensity, length, and pitch, the last of which involves a tone or lilt, and native speakers of tonal languages (as Chinese, Vietnamese) impose a rising tone but neither intensity nor length. 9. In the example "John said Joe is lazy," it was not a matter of stress but that of pause between syntagmatic borders. John | said Joe | is lazy. VS John said | Joe is lazy. 10. English makes much distinction between syntagmatic borders or pauses because English is an analytical language with a set word order and without any other distinctive grammatical markers, so the SPEAKER does not decide on how to break up syntagmas because most borderlines are sufficiently predefined by both syntax and pragmatics (by means of punctuation marks, adverbial modifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, sentence borders, etc.). At best, the SPEAKER can read two-three syntagmas together at the expense of intelligibility.
You are very knowledgeable, thanks for sharing. It would be great if you have videos to reach more audience.
i know its been eight years. but i really hope i could come to this teacher's class. if anyone know who she is, and where i could find more classes of hers, i'd be really thankful.
i have been searching for videos about accent reduction. and there are many here on youtube.
but this one, is so far the BEST one i have ever came over with. thank you, lady from sc university.
0:08 : Dr. Kay Herbert
I never could pay attention in classes like this when a teacher was speaking this way.
She is right when stating that, as a general rule, you cannot lose the accent if you start learning the language after around ages 10-12. No matter how hard you practice, for the great majority of us (I'd say 99%) the accent will remain. It might be almost negligible but it will be there and it is enough for a native English speaker to identify you as non-native.
And I also agree that, unless it hinders your ability to communicate, having an accent is not a bad thing at all.
mm I have to disagree, my friend is from Sinaloa Mexico, he just has a few years in the states and he speaks native English, I have asked him if he ever lived in the US before and he says he did not, people don't believe when he tells them he was born in Mexico
@@thomasjust2663 its not true, that just depends on how much you are willing to practice, it has nothing to do with age
She is a great teacher. She's so polite and patient. She reminds me of my high school ESL teachers when I first came to the USA and started learning English.
she is brilliant , as a polyglot I also agree that a correct pronunciation is something that you need to develop gradually. Being able to pronounce almost as if you were a native speaker can take some time . However with a lot of exposure and practice you will acquire the sounds that do not exist in your native language.
I think she´s great. In such little time she went through all the main aspects of phonetics.
Exellent academic teachers, who touches every aspect of studying in slightly boring, but profound manner.
Mam.. This is the best lecture about accent mastery!
great class! 15 years in the US and now I have a system to work on the accent. thanks!
College profs. are like that. I like the way she explains it and I've been dealing with this language for way too long. It's always good to enjoy a simple class like this. I speak 3 languages!
Something none of my teachers taught me before. great video!
Great teacher and not ashamed of learning to use technology as she teaches. KUDOS to her!!
Theme extremely important in language acquisition - where accent reduction will help intelligibility. As concerning intelligence perception other cultural factors will also play a role.
I lived in US 20 years, I tried best to make word by word correct and people still say "I don't understand your English". But this amzing teaching gievs me the reason and solution. Best of best Englisg teaching vido I had watched
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One of the best lectures on youtube. People are fortunate to listen to the lecture.
Fantastic. Thank you Kay and University of South Carolina for sharing this material
As i'm thai,I commonly find difficulty of accent yet thai is tonal then when i'm about to speak, it brings my English the same tone without intonation.So i'm willing to say this video is very remarkable and effective for my practice. Big thanks for you!
Students of a second language normally imitate the pronunciation aspects of the target language. In my opinion, teachers should teach most of the characteristics of the second language phonology so that learners could have a major counsciouness of the sounds in that language.
I loved it. The teacher is great and clear in everything she said.
Excellent!!! Thank you so much! I haven’t realized that the T, D or C sounds have more “air” in English than in Spanish... is so useful to know that kind of stuff... also the American rhythm! Very important!
I think this video is very important to Vietnamese learners who want to improve their English. Thank you so much for this interesting lesson.
Fantastic video. We all have been taught wrong. First, we have been taught to read and write, while it is more correct to start leaning with listening and speaking skills.
I love this video. This is the most helpful accent reduction course i have seen so far, and you can actually learn something after watching it. I wish I could be in the class.
Such a wonderful explanation of the proper stressing of the new information! I learned to copy the intonations , but I have never thought about the logic behind it
Thank you for sharing this helpful primer on speaking English to be understood from the East Coast USC. While the speaker has a strong Southern accent and tends to wander a bit more than ideal, this accessible presentation shares revealing personal stories and shares several practical tips to help international students and ITAs feel more confident and become more competent in speaking English in common academic contexts.
About talking two languages and have a different "self" for each one is something that we see a lot in Catalonia.
One of the most amazing examples is the Catalan from Mallorca: they speak Catalan and Spanish like people in Catalona, but their Catalan has a really different accent (one characteristic is that they change many vowels with schwas).
The funny thing is that when they speak Catalan, you hear that rare and strange accent,
but when they speak Spanish, the accent disappears completely, and they speak the same Spanish than you do.
It looks like two people from two different origins in the same person.
The teacher is very good. I've watched many methods and this video shows one of the easiest to learn and pass along. Thank you.
What an amazing explanation! She's really enthusiastic and concerned on student's understanding. Wow!
Our language is mostly spoken without an accent, or intonation; therefore,it is
a good prerogative of /for learning foreign languages.
Different personality traits make our expressive skills eloquent or less such.
I've been through bunch of courses/youtube tutorials and whatsoever.. man this one is the best one!
Her voice sounds so much like Julia Sweeney it's crazay, hahah. Also, I'm a native English speaker and this is super fascinating to me . What a great teache!
excellent professor.
VERY clear and comprehensive presentation. So proud hearing English explained so well. Thank you.
“Sometimes when students don’t answer it’s because the answer is too obvious” EXACTLY this happens all the time 😂.
MANY thanks go to you and your insights, they were so helpful.
I would love to be on live classes with her. She explained so clearly... Thank you
Thank you very much Theacher Nicole Janes from Guinea-Bissau (West Africa)
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I know plenty of people who were able to eliminate their accent way after the age of 12. Just my father sound native in like 5 languages learned from his 20s to his 50s
With all due respect, he may be super fluent but eliminating the accent in its entirety is not possible. It is a natural thing.
@@cetinsadik7969 no my dad sounds absolutely native in italian (i'm native in italian)
your father is a genius
@@cetinsadik7969 no, it is possible. It’s much harder because of muscle memories. I know many people who have totally changed their accent after the age of 12. It’s difficult, but doable.
@@jenziezane8488 Exactly. If you don't believe your accent can't change then it simply won't change.
This is so helpful! Best accent reduction class I have ever seen. Wish I were one of those students there!
Wonderful, excellent presentation! I wish I were in this class!
me too :)
You were in the class, even now. CZcams is a magic tool
Adorable teacher! And very helpful this video. Thank you for posting it!
Very accurate and informative. Best accent reduction class IMO. Thank you.
1:29:00 This is SO TRUE. And it works in other target languages, not just English.
I work a couple of times a year in France and so I am learning to speak French in a working context. But I’m still very much a beginner. I found that even when I used the correct French words I was not necessarily understood, except by French people who are really spoke English. I thought this was because I needed more vocabulary or a better understanding of French grammar...
But one day I decided to just speak the limited amount French that I knew, but in an exaggerated almost cartoonish French accent. (Almost as if I was mocking the French accent. Like Pepe le Pwew, the cartoon...)
And the amazing thing was, almost immediately I started to get compliments that my French was so clear and easy to understand.
I was shocked. From my perspective it felt like I was being too much by over exaggerating the French stereotypical language. I was almost embarrassed to be speaking with such an overtly over-accented speech- like I might offend someone!
And yet in actual practice, it made my speaking French so much clearer for my listeners in the target language.
So, I think it would work the same way if you listen to how Americans talk just make fun of that accent as you try to speak the English words-Think how would I say this if I was telling a friend a story of an American saying something... how would I give a Comic performance of the American accent?
Believe it or not, that can help go a long way as an exercise to be understood by someone in the target language.
They won’t think you are making fun of them...they will just be able to understand you better!
Ps When I say make fun I don’t mean do that in a mean spirited way-- but it’s just a way to get used to what feels like an exaggeration to your own ears, when actually it is indeed the way that people speak in that language.
Thanks for this. I'm currently working on losing/toning down my Southern Accent.
Very very helpful video, thanks so much for publishing it. I didn't know sentence stress despite that I'm a very long time English learner.
I have found from first hand experience that if you started learning English in college (for all international students out there), your accent will take even longer to improve because, at the beginning , you’re just learning English and getting acquainted with the culture ( at an ESL school or something like that ), but then soon enough, you leave that little ESL shelter and you get thrown in the real world that college is... you dont get graded on a curve, nobody cares about you, and now, its not just “I’m going to the store what do i say to the cashier “ anymore, because you now have to learn some technical English as well...now you working on pronunciation of both basic English words and technical English, and you dont hav time to peacefully practice regular everyday English because you are at an age and stage of life where much more is expected of you. People expect you to be well versed in so many disciplines and areas of the real world, as a young adult, which can stunt your learning of the English pronunciation. Everything outside of your ESL school is real from the type of conversations you must have to the content of those conversation... now you realize that those 7 months you spent in English school with people in the same situation as you do not prepare you for much
I am really excited about the results of this video! I am a native Hungarian with a tiny bit of accent, what people confuse with Russian all the time... It is annoying to me to explain and correct them. Funny thing is that I don't know any Russian :-)
she's an amazing theacher. enthusiastic, self-motivated all teacher should be like That.
I was impressive deeply by the basics sentence stress and prominence for new information !! These are also techniques which I think can improve my listening comprehension.
USC!!! I took a voice and diction class at USC professor Tobolski! Great Class
Are you Irish?
Nice Class. Very clear to understand what she is saying.
Amazing! this is it, I will watch every day this video until I understand all.
Thank you for making English subject easy to learn and understand........good job.
Awesome video! It makes me realiaze the issues I have for my speaking. Thanks a lot!
What a fun video to watch!! It's not everyday that I'm able to watch a two hour video without struggling to pay attention... She's awesome, quite pleasant to listen to, very clear speech and explanations. Could anyone tell me if these ''rules'' apply to british english or other forms of english?
Accent is very important so that you can convey correctly and it is also a step for oure english language foundation.
I found very interesting the aspects you are making us aware of. It helps a lot, I think.
She’s a great teacher! Thank you!
For me, if you are not able to produce the correct sounds of SAE - Standard American English, you can not hear it. First, you need to learn how to speak. For this, you have to know how to produce the 52 IPA sounds of SAE (included the diphthongs). So, after you know how to pronounce the 52 IPA sounds, and how that sounds change when they are on the phrase, you'll say: - I can hear well because I can speak pronouncing the sounds like a native. Very good class! Congratulations!
I grew up in the northern Chicago suburbs, not far from Wisconsin. I moved 50 miles north, and my kids informed me that I have an accent, and this was pointed out to me more than once, even though we're all speaking the Great Midwest accent. Apparently we from around Chicago say "wiz-KAHN-sin" whereas around these parts it's "wuh-SKAHN-sin". And you drink from a "bubbler". A fountain is that thing that sprays water into the air where you can get your feet wet. And it's "soda", not "pop".
hi aoa,,,,daily some of the lectures im attending again and again and thank ful for this opportunity thankyou all good soft spoken english teachers im listening tooo thank you
A lot of useful information in this video that I can use to improve my English pronunciation, specially the information and exercises about the stressed words in a sentence. Thanks
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The teacher is charming, and really tried hard to get interactive with students, but should be more different ways, in case some don't work.
Jacob Way she teaches different students from different ages, very suprising point is that aferican visual learner.
Yes, she's teaching the students as if they're Americans, but they're not, so their learning experience is different.
Thanks I learned quite a lot! I’m an American but I hope to learn some foreign languages, and this was a great insight into the pitfalls of being understood...applicable to any language, I think.
The title is misleading! Much more than an introduction. This is such a brilliant lecture.
Great Class! Very useful and opened my mind!
Listening to this lady will teach u more american english then listening to what she trying teach. All those kinda grammatical stress patterns and all. :)
Coming here really gonna help me great ways. More if I try write in american pronouncing style too than normal english writing.
Native pronunciation is also different . Yours is wonderful!
Good video! I want to express my enjoying for using Russian example. It was very interesting. I am at the other side: I know Russian well and try to improve my English pronunciation. Thanks!
overall it's good for ESL students/Learners. And that instructor is Excellent!!!
agreed - nice to find such a good teacher from a youtube video.
Are there more lessons like this one you can recommend? Excellent class btw. Thanks!
Thank you so much for what you did and your enthusiasm. I really appreciate it. It helps me a lot in English pronunciation.
What a great lesson! Thanks for sharing!
This is a great teacher.
Yes , she's a great teacher.
A wonderful lesson! Thank you very much for sharing this video lesson with us English learners worldwide. Your lesson does motivate us to pursue that path and improve our speaking skills each new day, all the time. And yes, may you be very, very happy and successful in your personal and professional projects. Have you all worldwide a great week.
it is honor there is as chinese listening this course just now,thank you ,teacher
Great English lesson!!!!, I just loved it because it is all about how to emphasize the right words during the speaking tasks, which gives a sort of speaking rythm, making easier to be understood by any listener.
I'm going to wacht this lesson at least a couple of times more, just in order to get confindece with all those effective and very easy tips.
Is reduced the same as dropped
Wow! what a interesting and excellent explanation this presentation was. More than I had expected.
I want to get this serious of lessons. even though i don't know her name, I love her lessons.
Wonderful, excellent presentation! I wish I were in this class! I wish we can see handouts.