How To Sound Like A Native English Speaker - Make English Your Native Language - Communication Skills

Wouldn't it be incredible if you were able to communicate with all kinds of tongues(English speakers from different countries) and use all sorts of accents.

We all hope to adapt the lingo and grammar to communicate precisely like native English speakers.

Well, in reality, there are reasonable efforts you can make to speak English like a native.

There are numerous foreign accents among native English speakers. Someone from Texas sounds different from someone who grew up in New York or Brooklyn.

Not everyone in Britain has an accent like the denizens of London, people from Tottenham have a different accent and so do the residents of Manchster.

 UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT ACCENTS OF ENGLISH

Your first step would be to get familiar with the different kinds of accents if you want to learn how to sound like a native English speaker.

Watch films and shows that use specific accents, research over the internet, etc.

Now after all the research, how do you go about really understanding native accents?

While you're watching your videos, try to imitate whatever you hear. 

Try pausing the videos and then replicate what you hear. Having subtitles on can be convenient to keep track of the phrases.

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The accent is essential, but it’s not the most important thing. One might pronounce every particular term like a native speaker, yet would not speak like one. This is due to a lack of flow.

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6 TIPS TO HELP YOU SPEAK LIKE A NATIVE SPEAKER

An essential component is a connected speech. This guides the way the ending of one term and the start of the next term occasionally interact.

• MERGING SOUNDS: When a term finishes in a sound, and the subsequent term starts with the same sound, both sounds are pronounced as one.

Example: He'd drive me home.

• ACQUAINTING SOUNDS: If the foremost term finishes with a consonant and the second term starts with a vowel, we should connect the consonant with the vowel to make it sound like a single word.

Example: That pen has red ink.

• LOSING A SOUND: When the sounds “D” or “T” occur between two consonant sounds, they’ll often disappear from the pronunciation.

Example: I'll meet her next week.

The use of slang is also a major part of the native English accent. Slang is also usually distinct in separate districts.

E.g- 

Wanna - Want to

Let's hang out! - Spend time together

Supp - What's going on?

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Using idioms is another part of the process of speaking like a native.

When somebody says, "It's raining cats and dogs!" It does not mean that cats and dogs are falling from the sky. It means it's raining heavily.

That's about it, keep practising and keep the above pointers in mind and you'll be able to speak like a native English speaker in no time! These techniques will help you make English your native language and improve your communication skills!

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