5 ways to improve your pronunciation in any language

[@Thelinguist]

📲 The app I use to learn languages: bit.ly/3YNBDcb 🆓 My 10 FREE secrets to language learning: bit.ly/3YRKXfa ❓How do you work on your pronunciation? Share your experience in the comments!

[@TrueChance-d4m]

I live in a village called Mashta Al-Badsi,or The martyr Khalil Bouzard, Hamala Municipality, Mila Province in Algeria Racist environment Conclusion They wanted to attach several charges to me and exploit me because they wanted me to keep getting into trouble Death threats and attempts to dampen morale They wanted to destroy me psychologically, morally, financially, and health-wise They used medicines, machinations, and witchcraft in many ways they tried to break up my family They used mentally ill people, women, young children, and even the elderly the villagers incited against me they disrupted my studies, work, and life, and even they wanted prevented me from speaking and thinking, isolat me from society, and instilled negative thoughts, fear, and reverse in everything. They used the method of defaming reputation They targeted me in most of the places I worked They incite the workers against me Even in the street They wanted to disrupt my life period of the past five years Everything is planned They wanted to charge me and used medications The types of medications they targeted me with are hallucinogens and viagra And medications that affect the abdomen, intestines, and immunity They used propaganda against me that I was sick and suspicious, and they wanted to exploit me with it Several provocations occurred in Bani Harun We continue to follow you wherever you go We all get rich or we break you And many provocations In Grarem Goga, some people use provocations We catch you somewhere else and take your pants off You heal, but you heal a sick person If you get married, we will rape your wife Tear down the house the magic is buried underneath And several provocations My father also, they put the same medicines to him and they tell him, “Your wife is the one who put to you the medicines.” They created many problems between my father and mother My father benefited from rural construction and the place where he built the house. They told him, “build here,” and they all knew that they left him until he completed building the house. They wanted to make it an accusation so that they could exploit him and his children, and I was the first they target me. I was targeted by Muhammad Issous or Boughachich, Bahri Issous, Nadir Boughachich, Farouk or Ali Bouzard, Masoud or Shuaib Boughachich. They saw me going to practice sports, so they wanted to plot against me. They used Zakia Bouchaqour to try to set me up, and they were put me Viagra in Bani Haroun. Every time I go to exercise, they try to demoralize me Al-Saeed Darmashi's wife watches me in front of the house and closes the door forcefully in my face and she use voice like a dog And provocations from Abdel Nour Bouchakour’s daughters, and provocations from Issa Bouchakour, his wife, and Zakia Bouchakour’s children. and Farouk Bouzard and Azouz Bouanemr Al-Saeed Darmushi’s wife has contacts with other parties. They monitor me on their phones. When I leave the house or return to the house, I find her watching me in front of the house in order to provoke me and close the door forcefully in my face. She ends up threatening me. Her goal is to put you in prison or put you in a mental hospital, and she wanted to lure me The one who provoked me with his car Salima Bouhallassa built half a brick wall in the house that contained the smell and rats, and she started using provocations. She say I built it, and who think her silf a man, touched it. I demolished it. She created an accusation against me and claimed that I had beaten her. and she used several provocations I worked in Jijel, in Algiers, in Bechar, in Oran, in Annaba, in Bejaia, and they targeted me in these places. Also a doctor from Mila state and Dr. Boukrouh in Grarem Goga They used Salima Bouhalasa, causes us problems, Especially when occasions and parties approach, she use the method of sedition spread, playing the role of the victim, and the method of distorting reputations, especially among relatives, against us. Then they used Al-Saeed Darmouchi's wife to cause us problems They want to herit us problems, disease and poverty And they herit it on to our children and our children’s children They use all methods: gossip, provocation, insults, insults, incitement and machinations. They want to prevent me from even speaking and thinking They cause me problems and play the victim in order to incite my father against me I was provoked by several people, including women, with their cars They have many ways to evade the truth and no one tells the truth They created several ways to evade crime and the truth They were throwing stones at our house at night in Grarem Goga, and they insisted several people against us, causing us problems, here also in the village the same events happened Because of the medications they put on me and the problems they caused me, I was sick for a year and a half in bed They wanted to kill me and destroy me for their interests and money Who can help

[@AcrabatX]

I needed a video like this, I always found pronunciation the hardest part of learning languages. Appreciate it : )

[@BlackCodeMath]

This is the best channel for thinking about your language learning as you are actually learning a new language. Informative and inspiring.

[@marjankrebelj4007]

I think your last advice is the best and it is what I needed to hear. I'd like to add another tip which is to use music and singing along your favourite tracks in the target language. Singing is usually slower, it has an established rhythm, and it is also repetitive. I learned my English with Queen, Sinatra, Eminem, and many other bands and vocalists. Of course, the background matters too. For me, as a Slavic person, French is incredibly hard to pronounce because it has long strings of vowels, whereas Slavic (and certain Germanic) languages like to make longer strings of consonants, like hrbtišče, drsališče, brst, etc... And the opposite is true; these words would be a tongue twister for any French or even English person, while we master them with ease.

[@zahleer]

I don't think music helps that much if you don't have enough sound awareness. People end up speaking like they're streching some sounds just a bit too much. Music in general isn't a good source of spoken language, music in French may be more melodic yet, (like steve said) spoken French is quite monotonous.

[@ytsangatsu]

Just one thought about improving one's pronunciation in a foreign language, especially in the beginning: when a longish word or phrase is difficult for you to pronounce, just say it several times in your head, not voicing it at all, then say it silently, at the same time you're hearing it, and only then try repeating it aloud; do that for every word or phrase that you find hard to reproduce in a normal voice. Just like a baby babbling before he actually starts saying his very first real words.

[@ribeirocezar]

Awesome advices! I thank you a lot, sir! Congratulations for sharing your knowledge with us! God bless you! A big hug from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!

[@kennethwdc]

*Advice is a noncount noun (or mass noun) which means it does not have a plural form. 😊

[@ribeirocezar]

@@kennethwdc Thank you sir. I'm only a Brazilian guy which is learning English as a second language. I appreciate your kindness.

[@wallysonguimaraes3483]

Learning pronunciation is my favourite part of learning a language. I see a lot of people talking about pronunciation as a secondary (and sometimes unimportant) thing, which it obviously isn't, it's part of a language like grammar, vocab, etc. As Sharpe and Haydn say: "Speaking with an accent is a skill just like any other".

[@Marcos_Silva.]

Thank you Steve! Thanks for being so generous when sharing these nuts and bolts about language learning. I really like the videos of this channel! 👍

[@lazstan]

Thank you. I've been following your videos for years. I learn Spanish. Now on french. Brazilian Portuguese is a side project as I'm doing Brazilian jui Jitsu again with a lot of Brazilians there. Farsi will be next as my wife's mother tongue.. then Portuguese officially... That with my Hungarian will be all I need. Thanks again Steve

[@EnglishAnahit]

How hardworking you are. I’m impressed. Good luck 👏👏👏

[@gaffartarraf2260]

glad to see you in videos again (i've been away from learning languages last year)

[@abancay3167]

When I was studying Russian in Russia, one of my teachers told me my accent in Russian needed more work, but my intonation was spot on. I had never heard about that distinction before. My pronunciation still isn‘t great but I‘m proud I can imitate what I call the “Russian whine” - to the amusement of my Russian friends.😂

[@petrosstefanidis6396]

Cultural weightlessness is a term people should think of more often and even beyond the context of language learning!

[@AlinefromToulouse]

One tip I got from Luca Lampariello: speak slowly, you articulate better, in the native language too.

[@ronnieplonk]

Regarding the swedish "sju", I agree with you, it's really hard. But I read/heard somewhere that the King of Sweden pronounces it more like "shu" so we don't need to worry :)

[@pierreabbat6157]

If you gather six seasick Swedish seamen, do they all pronounce it the same?

[@Kate-vd3hl]

Hey Steve! Love this video! I am currently a student in university who loves studying languages on the side. Often when doing work for school I wish I could just click on an english word and get a brief sentence long definition, as fast and convenient as it is to get the english translation for a word in a target language while using lingq. For example, reading a scientific paper and being able to click on a gene and get an overview of what it's main function is, or what is currently known about it. This would be absolutely game changing. Have you had any plans to expand lingq into the wider world of academic learning? Just a thought! Love what you do!

[@bremus8740]

i was thinkin about this stuff yesterday, because i have problem with pronunciation in german and french. thanks for video xD

[@ThomasGB123]

Thank you so much Steve.

[@jamesklieve4620]

I done my undergraduate dissertation on this, and found pronunciation to be "improved" by how much we affiliate with native speakers, how much we feel as if we belong. Also I found that those who are more empathetic (i.e. tend to put themselves into the shoes of others) are more likely to affiliate with native speakers resulting in better pronunciation. There is a video on my channel on it that I had to put up to get graded but I don't recommend watching it, very boring.

[@Salah_-_Uddin]

I want to improve my English accent and pronunciation.

[@marcelosilveira7079]

Now you can use ChatGPT with advanced voice model and choose model o1 to have him analyze your accent in English and give you feedback on which sounds and phrases to improve and even show you how to pronounce that. The secret is constant feedback

[@arthouston7361]

I found it interesting to hear the insights of a man who has learned many languages, and found this commonality.

[@EnglishAnahit]

Thanks for sharing 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍

[@romuloromano]

Thanks a lot, helpful as always.

[@MsTranthihai71]

Thanks ❤

[@Poliglotovic]

It’s all about time, will and patience.

[@alchemist_one]

Based on what you said about audio processing while reading, do you worry that reading too much too soon will solidify bad / mistaken pronunciation habits?

[@Thelinguist]

No as long as I do a lot of listening. That is why audio books are so great.

[@sergiorodrigues6694]

We should always listening and reading at the same time as possible or should we stopt it and only listening when we have acquired a good level of pronunciation?

[@pjdilip]

For anglo-saxons, they need to unlearn aspiration of consonants, and stylish pronunciation of vowels as diphthongs. South Asians have no problem 😂

[@captainreza1]

“The cultural weightlessness” that’s it.

[@pierreabbat6157]

It irks me when people say "déjà vous" instead of "déjà vu". There's a French accent somewhere where /ʁ/ is pronounced [r] instead. I once told someone my tonguetwister "La roue sur la rue roule, la rue sous la roue reste" and he said it back with rolled instead of gargled r.

[@Daniel-wi6sk]

I’m French but I didn’t know that one… What a tongue twister, how nasty for foreigners ! Next stop : the dry socks of a famous archduchess…

[@leenasipponen8958]

I am studying Russian and its pronunciation is very difficult for me. And when I can't pronounce, I don’t learn words. My Russian teacher, whose native language is Russian, says that my pronunciation is good and that I pronounce even the most difficult sounds correctly. But it's pronunciation is difficult for me.

[@UgyenJurmey-e4r]

Bhutan language please 🙏🏻

[@MustafaImad1]

Does listening hurt the ear? Please answer because I love learning languages, but I am afraid that my ears will be hurt.

[@luzimarmendessouzavisintin9466]

In my case, pronunciation is a big problem too.

[@SeanJat]

Your voice sounds very similar to the game character Hosea from Red Dead Redemption 2😅

[@softluxuryone2169]

Haha he does

[@laura3619]

👍👍💕💕

[@maciek8159]

Is it possible for someone to be too dumb to learn a language? I've been learning Italian for over a year and a half and I can't speak it, write it or even comprehend while just listening. My reading is by far the best. Probably mid A-2. Is that too little progress? I've been consistent with it nearly seven days a week.

[@gristen]

nah nobody can be fluent after just a year, anyone that says otherwise is trying to sell you something. language learning is just kind of something you never really stop doing, just keep at it and you'll get where you want to be eventually. honestly even being able to read a bit is still a decent accomplishment. when it comes to listening it might be helpful to find more comprehensible input instead of just pure input, and by that i mean try to find immersion content where you can recognize most of the words. i always find it helpful to watch stuff intended for small children as its usually simple and accompanied by visuals that help give context. i also recommend just really drilling vocab as the more words you recognize the more comprehensible input you'll get

[@maciek8159]

@gristen Thank you for the encouragement and tips. I guess what bothers me is that I need Italian subtitles on to understand what I'm listening to and I figured I would have not needed them by now. But I will do what you suggested and look for easier content to listen to.

[@gristen]

@@maciek8159yea definitely don't feel bad about using subtitles, especially since you're not even using english ones. subtitles help you practice your reading at the same time as listening so thats never going to be a bad thing. it might help though if you try watching the content multiple times. like once with italian subtitles, once with english subtitles (if available), and then once with no subtitles. more exposure to the content in different contexts can give your brain the tools it needs to figure out patterns in the language. also try to take note when an unfamiliar word keeps popping up in what you're watching and dont be afraid to look it up in between rewatches. you can acquire vocab a bit more naturally that way

[@maciek8159]

@@gristen That's a good idea to do the multiple viewings but with English subs and without. I have this bad habit of looking up literally every single word I don't understand. Do you think it's better to only look up words if they pop up more than once?

[@gristen]

@maciek8159 yea only if you keep noticing them or if you're just really curious about a word. don't worry about looking up every single word you dont know because that will quickly overload you and wont be able to retain anything. regular study is when you should be doing the bulk of your vocab learning, immersion is most helpful when you just try to pick out the words that you do know and let your brain absorb and assemble the information. try to only look up words when you finish watching something so youre not just stopping in the middle all the time

[@cosmicyorkshire9200]

It is ironic how your saying of pronunciation is mispronounced throughout 🥸 I do enjoy and appreciate your great content though thank you