3 best pronunciation tips + lots of websites and resources

[@danceillusion13]

As a native English speaker myself, when I hear you speak, I feel like I am listening to another native English speaker. Your pronunciation is quite impressive! You definitely sound like you were born in England to me. ☺️

[@ИНОСТРАННЫЙАГЕНТ-ы9ц]

Инна, я восхищен! Я преподаю английский уже более 10 лет. Сам его изучаю с 4 лет, сейчас уже более 27 лет. Закончил лингвистический ВУЗ, занимался музыкой в детстве. Но тем не менее считал, что поставить такой акцент как у вас невозможно, ведь даже изветсные лингваблогеры из СНГ звучат совсем неаутентично. Но вы потрясающая. Очень впечатляет.

[@innainenglish]

Thank you so much!

[@torikabbala]

Согласна, результат поразительный, думаю, у Инны не просто музыкальный слух, а именно талант подражания плюс много часов работы и исключительная старательность и вуаля! - прекрасный British accent! Well done, Inna! Думаю, многие учителя из постсоветского пространства даже очень завидуют вам!👍👍👍

[@yurydorozhko6094]

It's amazing and wonderful! A girl from Belarus, who has never lived in the UK, speaks perfect English with a British accent. I am truly impressed by your mastery of the English language.

[@ronlugbill1400]

Here is a pronunciation learning tip that I use in teaching French. For the first 2 months, the students only speak French when they are mimicking me. And I test them on their ability to mimic. I say a word or phrase and they repeat after me. And we work on pronunciation one-on-one, not just in a group setting. And I correct their errors during pronunciation practice (but not when they later speak for meaning). I continue working with them on pronunciation and testing them on pronunciation to avoid fossilization or plateauing. Most language teachers do not teach much pronunciation and the students are not intelligible to native speakers. French pronunciation is particularly difficult. If you don't have access to a native speaker, you can still mimic one using a platform like Google Translate. You can put in a phrase and press the button and mimic. And you can also speak into Google Translate in the target language and if you said it correctly, it will print the correct phrase. So, I suggest mimicking, especially in the beginning, so you get the pronunciation correct. I remember you said you liked songs in English and enjoyed singing. That is also a great pronunciation method.

[@annamarkson8989]

Вы - вдохновение! Большая умничка! Понимаю, какая работа проделана 🙏🏻

[@margett__]

As a self-proclaimed accent nerd and a native Russian speaker, I really enjoy your content! Keep up the great work!

[@valvaz9031]

Thanks for showing us how incredible a person can be when we want to reach our goals.

[@ПавловАлександр-й3б]

That is awesome! Your British version is absolutely brilliant! Thanks a lot for motivate me to switch to learning that amazing accent immediately! Absolutely fantastic channel, thanks a lot!

[@KC-gu6bi]

I'm American and I think you sound very British. Your English is crystal clear. Thank you for this channel. It's giving me hope that I have not lost all my Spanish language skills.

[@polina7906]

Such a pleasure to listen to you speaking. Thanks so much for the useful links! Gonna check them out.

[@yigitcan824]

Hi Polina I'm looking for a speaking partner to practice and improve my English speaking I wonder if you are interested in?

[@innainenglish]

Hope you find them useful! If you have any questions about them or learning pronunciation, don't hesitate to ask them in the comments! Promise to be faster next time :)

[@saidakhalikovawellenglish2543]

Thank you 🙏 Inna! I adore your pronunciation 😊

[@innainenglish]

I'm glad you liked the video Saida!

[@LanaABA]

То, как вы преподносите информацию, напоминает мне личный дневник. Очень похоже на то, как я разговариваю, когда говорю сама с собой 😅😂

[@tullochgorum6323]

For me the key point that people should be taking away is their motivation for working on their accent. You are a linguistics pro and your British accent is pretty amazing! To me you sound like a native whose accent I can't quite place - probably Estuary but not quite. As you say, plenty of people have mixed accents (including me) so that's where I would have placed you. But it's cetainly not necessary to develop such a high level, as you say. When I'm conversing with a non-native speaker all I'm looking for is an accent that's clear and not too exhausting to follow. And in any case a bit of a foreign accent can often be charming. On the other hand I'd be actively wary of working on a non-standard accent. Some years ago Liverpool and Manchester football clubs had a number of Scandinavian players who picked up strong local accents. But of course they were just a little off, as almost all L2 accents will be. And the effect was decidedly disconcerting...

[@olgakalashnikova546]

Inna, thank you for all sources you shared, much appreciated.

[@innainenglish]

Glad you liked them!

[@Cicin230868]

Your accent is absolutely adorable 🥰 And native people who criticises are the ones who can not even speak another language. They are just being mean and rude!

[@innainenglish]

That's what I think, too! Thank you!

[@Engapfsl]

thank you for the superb recommendations and tips:)

[@innainenglish]

Glad you like them!

[@FredericoOrion]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. As a brazilian living in Australia ive been trying to learn the Australian accent and im struggling with it , but this videos has opened my mind because it is not about learning an accent but being able to communicate and being more precise whilst speaking. Thank you so much for that.

[@innainenglish]

My pleasure!

[@АннаСайфуллина-г5е]

Inna, thanks a lot for your videos on KZbin! I'm happy that I found them! 🎉

[@zoeka7324]

Such great tools for self study. Thank you.

[@innainenglish]

Thank you for watching!

[@merylstreep1hp]

Inna I love your content, the tips you talk about are really interesting and enlightening! thank you ❤ plus it’s a delight to hear you talk

[@humayunkabir-jl9tj]

I love your sweater, It suits you amazing

[@adrianadepaula6505]

Thank you so much Inna for sharing with us what helped you to improve your English. The channels you shared most of them I know, and I was surprised that 'English with Lucy' is not in your list. Your accent reminds me of hers. I loved the dictionaries you shared. Thank you so much for this video.

[@innainenglish]

You're right, I'm just personally not a huge fan of her manner, so I don't watch her videos and that's why I've forgotten to include them. Her channel is indeed a treasure trove of useful tips and videos, so I can definitely recommend it as well!

[@user-nx8fn7jg1r]

I'm not British myself but I thought you were so when I heard you speaking for the first time.

[@lbermdz3685]

My first language is the Spanish. It was very hard for me the sounds θ/ð. Therefore, I do agree with you about the importance to learn/teach these Interdentals. It's very important teach of the place of articulation. I love your content. 💚

[@АндрейКонотопов-о8н]

I like this video. She speaks about important tips. It was very interesting.

[@innainenglish]

Thank you Andrej!

[@annatrofimova1059]

I am into ur pronunciation great vibes!😍💯 You have absolutely a great flair for English 😍 that is ur the strongest suit.

[@innainenglish]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@varya3531]

Наткнулась на вас в рекомендациях, посмотрела пару видео и только в этом узнала, что вы русская, честно говоря, была в шоке 😂 Спасибо за полезные советы!

[@innainenglish]

I'm Belarusian :) But yes, Russian is my native language. I'm glad you like my videos!

[@Sergei546]

спасибо!!!! видосы крутые!! хотим еще!

[@annadudnik5760]

Thank you for your video and advice. It is so helpful for me❤

[@elenaekanathapetrova2282]

Люблю писать комментарии к англоязычным видео на английском. Ценю саму возможность такой формы коммуникации и практики языка. Именно на youtube я чаще всего смотрю что либо на английском и пишу комментарии. Я еще далеко не свободно и с ошибками говорю и пишу.. в целом мне близка идея интернализации языка и грамматики... Меня просто обезоруживает британский акцент)) я порой кайфую, когда его слышу)) "лексический подход" еще одна вещь от которой я плыву.. в смысле что это классный и практичный подход.. насколько получается в самостоятельном обучении стараюсь применять его.. лайк и подписка))

[@innainenglish]

That's a good way to practise your writing and communication skills!

[@elenaekanathapetrova2282]

@@innainenglish for sure! Thank you!

[@sorisderbson]

That subtitle with an explanation is a nice thing

[@diane_namaste]

I’m very grateful to you, Inna, for your contribution in learning the genuine pronunciation of English for non-native speakers 🫶🏼

[@tanya777star]

Thank you very much for such an amazing video! ❤️

[@benedictefeery7613]

I've been wondering whether you were British or not, but I really can't recognize your accent. So where are you from ? Your tips are so useful and being a non native speaker you can appreciate the struggle with the pronunciation sometimes ! Thank you Inna !

[@vivianagambetta9197]

I couldn't agree more

[@innainenglish]

Thank you! I'm originally from Belarus :) But I don't think you can hear any Russian or Belarusian accent in my speech. On the other hand, it's logical that you can't locate my accent, because I didn't grow up in the UK, so I don't have a clear regional accent.

[@MeganRogers-f5s]

Вы - вдохновение! Большая умничка! Понимаю, какая работа проделана . Вы - вдохновение! Большая умничка! Понимаю, какая работа проделана .

[@НадяБ-д8д]

Вы лучшая! Спасибо! 😊

[@EnglishBasedSchool-fd9zs]

Great channel to learn English...❤❤

[@kerenlikud]

Thanks for your videos. What do you recommend to learn vocabulary? Flashcards?

[@polatmaras9497]

Wonderful suggestions. Looking for same tips and resources for Russian language as well.

[@nexusmediaworld]

Hİ İnna, really good context. One little bit advice you should make more short videos :D

[@bogdankosterov]

​ @innainenglish Hi Irina, your accent is amazing. I've noticed a word "shadowing" in the thumbnail picture, but you didn't mention it in the video. So my question is how have you got your amazing accent? Have you been doing shadowing? How have you been practicing your accent? Did you have lessons with accent coaches? Thanks

[@innainenglish]

Yes you're right. It's there with a question mark because indeed I did very little shadowing in the classical sense. Nor did I have many lessons with accent coaches (just a few). The tips I give in the video are the things I mostly did to work on my pronunciation. Since I made this video, I've realised there are a few things I haven't mentioned, but I guess I'll have to make another video about that.

[@Sxheyfnnfnf]

I really loved ur accent 🤍

[@vivianagambetta9197]

My dear Inna, I'm going to give my opinion from the bottom of my heart, I like your videos because I' m mad of linguistics so all your info it is clearly is based on deep thought and research, that' s amazing for me, but I must say that as English lovers we are a very tiny portion of English speakers. So if your intention is to get more followers, I highly recommend you to make shorter videos and to the point. Watching your videos I feel as if we were face to face in a coffee bar enjoying a delicious cup of coffee and both of us were plenty of time. Even myself as loving your info don' t get the right profit of the content because even staying at home something interrupt my listening so it makes Hard to go on watching. Don't get me wrong I wrote this as a pure contribution to your development as a youtuber as I can appreciate the quality of your video contents and most important the cleary well informed that your opinion is. Greetings from Uruguay,,South America

[@innainenglish]

Some people say that 'don't get me wrong' is the worst thing one can say :) Well, you're right of course and it's not that I didn't think about it myself. But frankly think my videos are informative anyway even if they're long, also because of the links I share. Most KZbinrs who do short informative and beautiful videos either have a team or monetise their videos, so their income depends on it. In my case, it's neither. So my videos will keep being imperfect for the time being, till I do one of those two things.

[@pierre5307]

@@innainenglish Hi! I would start by telling you that your RP accent is amazing. Most of the time, English learners are afraid to look ridiculous with the British accent, much more difficult to master, and that’s why they tend to choose the American accent. And you are living proof that it is possible to master a superb British accent. And I will continue by saying that I do not agree with Vivianna. There are already enough channels with short formats. I don’t know if you’ve heard of Luke’s English Podcast, it’s a podcast with a long format, and it has won several awards and consider by its peers as one of the best podcasts and with great success even with a long format ;) Ps: And yours videos are far from imperfect.

[@lekahomarova]

Hi! You have such a beautiful British accent. Can you share a few tips on what exactly helps to make the effect of a British accent?

[@innainenglish]

What do you mean by 'effect'?

[@gregoneill990]

Again. Brilliant. Re the 'clean accent' I agree, it doesn't matter, but your accent is probably closest to south east of England and I reckon if you lived in the south east of England for about a year, by the end of it everyone would assume you were from the south east of England. If I could pronounce Russian as well as you pronounce English I would be very happy indeed!

[@innainenglish]

Thank you Greg!

[@MrArmenian30]

Dell XPS/Precision? 😊

[@innainenglish]

XPS, 13 I think

[@MrArmenian30]

@@innainenglish seems like 15". It's slightly big for 13

[@Еленочка-к4ъ]

Oh, Inna, thank you so much for your lessons!!!! Will you please help me and answer my small question. I have recently corrected that I was Wrong and correct with the following phrase : " who has dinner at home on Sunday?" And I was corrected they told that I had to say the following : " who dine at home on Sunday?" Was I really wong? ❤

[@innainenglish]

Hi! Your first sentence is absolutely correct, nothing wrong with it

[@guliagrichko9791]

I should add the channel " Let them talk " I find it deep and informative.

[@winecollectionaddict]

British pronunciation Is perfect

[@jurgenschur9210]

I believe You, it is not necessary to learn a definitive accent, but I don't like the connected speech, I only understand "Bahnhof" in TV shows or movies. You, as a great teacher, speak for every learner in a clear speech. Thanks.

[@paulina5247]

It was really useful video! Could you share how much time it took you to learn pronountiation to sound like native (your accent is soo beautiful)? I also come from slav country and I struggle with getting rid of a stronger 'r' or learning proper intonation and word stress. Would you have any tips or videos to recommend? Thank you!

[@innainenglish]

About three or four years I'd say. And here's a video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i52sq36MppWBmLs

[@from_comoros]

[@animaaad]

yeah th pronunciation l think important at least for word like thick, cuz if you pronounce it like sick, it's a completely different word, and this can effect comprehension heavily

[@innainenglish]

Absolutely!

[@ЛюбовТатьянич]

Great! I like your accent. Do you have a course to improve a pronunciation? Thanks.

[@innainenglish]

I used to, but not any more. I might go back to selling courses in the future, but they will most probably be focused on improving pronunciation together with fluency and speaking generally rather that teaching a particular accent. I'm not sure yet, though. I'll see after I finish my Master's!

[@joseedsondasilva1143]

❤

[@grigormargaryan5851]

Это реально достойно уважения

[@jo-go8gt]

I'm a non-native English teacher and my accent is nowhere near as good as yours :D yeah, to all those people criticizing you: "f** off!", they simply envy you :)

[@innainenglish]

:)

[@venera3217]

😍😍

[@LanaABA]

Есть ли ресурс, который позволит совершенствовать акцент при наличии неплохого в целом произношения? Я знакома с большинством каналов из списка в описании, но мне такой формат именно в тренировке произношения не подходит - очень точечно, темы видео в хаотичном порядке. Хотелось бы найти что-то последовательное, с упражнениями на звуки и интонацию, вроде большого курса по произношению.

[@innainenglish]

You could try one of the books I recommend. English Pronunciation in Use for example

[@katyajackson75]

Check out Zhenya at RockMe English :)

[@irynaYe]

Inna, please, could you help.. I soften D/T sounds when they followed by "I", for example in "interesting", "fantastic" and so on.. My background: belarusian/russian, from Belarus. Are there any specific exercises you would recommend,please?

[@innainenglish]

I would say that that's not a very big problem and people will still easily understand you. But I will try and make a video about that in the future

[@ronlugbill1400]

There are more non-native speakers of English than native speakers of English. This is not true of most other languages, which may have few non-native speakers. One of the results of this is that there is a sort of simplified international English that is used sometimes when non-natives talk to each other in English. There is a more limited vocabulary and fewer idioms. This is also more easily understood. Another result of the abundance of non-native English speakers is that many English speakers are used to hearing non-native accents and thus can understand them better. Contrast this with a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese or Japanese who might have only rarely heard a non-native speaking their language. They will have a much harder time trying to understand a non-native accent because they are not accustomed to hearing a foreign accent.

[@vansf3433]

If you want to have an attractive English accent, it's the best to take a course of traditional British RP English phonetics to understand the whole system of sounds of the language, and should also take a basic course of singing to get familiar with music sounds. If you want to master the language, you will have to study the parts of speech of the language, and the entire grammar system first, before learning the vocabulary and phonetics. Many native English speakers who have graduated from university with a BA and MA in English language and literature speak the language very boringly, and their knowledge of the language is rather superficial. The problem of eroded quality of the English language has been caused by the negative influence of such social trends as anarchical liberalism, and imported foreign languages. For almost all foreigners whose first language is not English, except songstresses and music composers, it's very difficult to speak English language naturally attractively, although they can learn how to speak it clearly with their dominant mother tongue accents, instead of English accents

[@jofelux7359]

I wonder if you can speak the same way when you're tired or angry...including the pronunciation

[@innainenglish]

The pronunciation - yes, it's internalised by this point and I don't have to think about it. But I definitely lose most of the fluency and start forgetting words when I'm tired. Or it gets harder to disentangle languages in my head and I start speaking in a three-language mixture :)

[@davidovl6475]

Что бы говорить без акцента нужно очень много приложить сил. Просто прослушивать носителей и повторять не выйдет. Нужно делать упражнения на расширение звукового диапазона, нужно записывать свой голос, его корректировать, выработать музыкальный слух и уметь пародировать как Максим Галкин.

[@Ролтун]

да нужно именно имитировать звук и не смотреть что написано такая то буква. Буквы это обман и стереотип перейти на русские звуки

[@Katiethatgirl1993]

Inna, what do you think of Marina Mogilko? Looks like she's a bit controversial in the esl community. I'm asking because there're lots of videos on pronunciation on her channel and I can't understand if her expertise can be trusted.

[@innainenglish]

I've only seen a few videos really. From what I can gather, she does make some mistakes from time to time, but not many and of course they are not of the kind of mistakes that make it impossible to understand her. As you might have noticed, I don't think a person is allowed to speak (ar teach, for that matter) only if her language knowledge and pronunciation are impeccable. She lives in the USA and she does teach real everyday English. So I don't mind her English at all and actually admire the level she's reached as a non-native whose main occupation wasn't teaching. However, I must say that it looks like she doesn't have enough knowledge about the teaching methods that exist or the formal side of pronunciation teaching. Which I think could be an advantage.

[@Katiethatgirl1993]

@@innainenglish thank you so much for your answer 🙂

[@АлинаШаброва-п5ь]

🔥

[@guynica4791]

For me you use modern British spelling, I think your native German helps you a little bit. For your are ready to become a host at DW News !!!

[@innainenglish]

I'm Belarusian, not German :)

[@guynica4791]

@@innainenglish oh my apologies, I didn't know, please forgive me🙏

[@MrMojo271]

As an American with a BA in English, I’ve never heard someone say “take a decision“. We also use “make a decision“. I don’t know where you would’ve learned that. I am old and have literally traveled the whole country, and never heard that, even in a dialect.

[@wiwingmargahayu6831]

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[@jaisons4376]

Hi

[@sherorammo8221]

I think you're perfect 10000% , why did you say that perfection is mostly unachievable?? I mean I've just known that you're not a British native speaker and that's cuz you mentioned so ... Fingers crossed

[@innainenglish]

Well because this is true - perfection is indeed unachievable (or next to impossible). Life and eveything in it is imperfect and that's fine :)

[@sherorammo8221]

@@innainenglish anyways, you seem a complete British native , and that's brilliant.

[@Claire_Rose]

You practically sound British. With the tiniest hints of Australian here and there, if that.

[@555aboud]

Just how long did it take you to perfect the accent? I'm assuming this took you years of practicing assuming you started after you were like 13 years old. I can't imagine getting someone to this level in less than a year.

[@innainenglish]

Well I did start with English earlier than that, but the pronunciation part didn't start until uni, so that's almost 10 years ago. That would be the rough estimate of how long, although I'd take around 3 or 4 years out of that when I wasn't thinking about pronunciation at all. And no, it's next to impossible to do in one year, although people do have different levels of aptitude

[@mikhailb8222]

От себя могу ещё добавить очень крутой канал с разбором звуков в англ языке - youtube.com/@PhoneticFanatic

[@Erica0200]

I understand 95% what are you talking, but my problem is that I cannot speak in English as much as you fluently. As a Korean, It is hard to get the certain Intonation and rhythm of English both. How did you find the way Output more in your circumstances?

[@innainenglish]

Sorry I don't think I understand the question. Could you paraphrase it? Also, I suppose it must be harder for you as a speaker of a non-Indoeuropean language. Russian and English are pretty different, but not as much as Korean and English! So you have to give yourself some slack and not to be too hard on yourself. You can already speak the language, which is no mean feat!

[@Erica0200]

@@innainenglish Output means speak in English.

[@marcinn.6220]

You don’t need flytrap 😅😜

[@blackjohnny0]

Nice hands!

[@blackjohnny0]

@@AlexAlex-yf7yw your mother is creepy

[@stingfederal]

It's kinda ironic that you talk about little importance of a pure accent having mastered SSE (at least to my ears)

[@innainenglish]

It absolutely is

[@asmrlover6234]

У некоторых учителей вообще ужасное произношение, но они преподают. У вас произношение на 98% звучит как у носителя. Таких как вы единицы. Ещё бы вы не могли преподавать

[@redmaplesyrop7153]

И каким образом произношение связано со способностью преподавать? Мой преподаватель по англ аж книгу написала и методистом себя называла. Она сказала нам, что выучить англ без переезда в среду - не возможно. Поэтому уметь хорошо говорить не равно уметь хорошо учить других 😢

[@asmrlover6234]

@@redmaplesyrop7153 не со способностью, а возможностью.

[@aleksandrpotylko]

Видеоу.. у забыла

[@saratov_boy]

I obsessed with your speaking skill but pleeeease make your videos shorter

[@MrArmenian30]

Белорусы обычно учат языки лучше, чем русские и украинцы, не знаю с чем это связано. Не моё мнение, это мне говорил белорус. А по своему опыту я скажу, что белорусов в Армении не так много, (как и в мире вообще), но армянский знают большинство белорусов, что не могу сказать про русских и украинцев. А английский, по сравнению с армянским, просто детский язык. И я только про грамматику, даже не про фонетику.

[@AribetAoki]

Я такое повсеместно слышу про русских,почему так иностранцы думают. Все таки все зависит от мотивации,таланта к подражанию,память и ассоциативность,насколько человек экстравертированный. Я вот не особо разговорчивая, но мой китайский друг просто душа компании. Поэтому при одинаковом уровне,он говорит быстрее,делая ошибки,повторяя много раз если его не поняли.Пока я думаю и "мечтаю" как сказать для правильного выражения мысли)))

[@asifmuniruniverse7732]

I have to go bye

[@asifmuniruniverse7732]

If you can see then must see lot's incridble people around you're?

[@victorrumyantsev3718]

Unfortunately Inna's secrets won't help vast majority of English learners regardless of the years of your hard work, the best tutors hired etc. Apparently she is one on a million person with extraordinary abilities to learn languages. There aro no other secrets of her success.

[@desideriaolivan]

I totally agree in the sense that she is absolutely gifted but that being said I bet she has worked very hard in order to get that fantastic accent.

[@Denis50832]

I am a Russian native speaker and have been living in the English speaking country for the past 22 years. But I still struggle with a Russian accent up to this day even though i have completed several post- secondary programs. However, i did not work on my pronunciation from the beginning. It does take years of training , language self - awareness and most importantly regular communication with the native speakers. Once I switch back to Russian my accent gets harder each time i speak with the Russian speakers.

[@richcrown1176]

Halaew halaew. This is very overbritish accent