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Mastering the American Accent
Format: Textbook
Explain: in English
Who will fit: beginners
How much it costs: 3811 p in the book «Moscow»
I love to engage in textbooks, so I went in search of the best. For me, it was the phonetics textbook Mastering the American Accent. I learned about him from the video blog of a Russian girl who lives in the USA. Then I tried to look for other textbooks, but this one turned out to be the best for me.
The textbook begins with the study of sounds and sound combinations. There is a brief theory about how the sound apparatus works with American pronunciation: the position of the tongue, larynx. It was difficult to perceive it from the description, so I additionally searched on YouTube for an anatomical video. To find such videos, I entered pronunciation and a specific sound in the search bar.
Unfortunately, the textbook is not easy to find, but it’s worth it. Source: moscowbooks.ru Assignments for Russian-speaking students
The book comes with a CD with audio recordings of lessons for doing exercises. Therefore, I simultaneously opened the textbook and listened to the recording of the lesson. I liked that the exercises are written for students from different countries: Russia, China, Japan, Spain. They work out frequent phonetic errors that occur when switching from one’s native language to a foreign one. Over time, the jaw «deforms» under the native language, it is because of this that pronunciation in some languages is more difficult, and in others it is easier.
For example, in some English words, Russian speakers use soft [n] and [l] when followed by [i] and [I] vowels — but [n] and [l] in English are almost always hard. Therefore, in the words believe, analyst, really, actually, one cannot soften [l], as in the Russian words “polish”, “laziness”. The section has exercises that will help get rid of these habits.
What is an accent and whether it is necessary to get rid of it
Tata Beshenkova
English teacher
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Pronunciation is the correct reading of a word. Conventionally, according to transcription, when clothes is not “clovez”, but [kləʊðz] or [kloʊðz]. An accent is what a person, in the case of a native language, acquires along with mother’s milk, and this is part of his personality.
In the case of English, they usually talk about two accents: US and UK, but in fact there are many more. The Texas accent is very different from the Boston one, and Scottish English is not the English of the royal family.
Imitating an accent is a fascinating activity, but very difficult and time-consuming. It makes sense if you have already moved to another country and do not want to stand out from the rest of the people; or if you teach phonetics, or train actors. Well, or you are a spy. In case you are an ordinary person who wants to speak and be understood, imitating an accent is pointless.
Because even if you speak with an English accent, you have Slavic notes and from time to time they leak out. A person can make incredible efforts and make sure that these Slavic notes do not leak out. It’s not always clear why? Doing it for no reason is as strange as transplanting skin. The accent is always part of the identity, it is not removable.
Speaking with a Russian accent is absolutely normal, the only question is where the limits of this accent are. Pronouncing words correctly is essential to being understood. At the same time, trying to imitate a native speaker is commendable, but language is also a melody, intonation, that part that is already closer to acting than to learning a language.
In pronunciation, the task is at least: to pronounce the sound that is needed so that the blood is not “fornication”, and the foreigner is “Foreigner”. This problem is solved by transcription.
The second task, after which you will get your “excellent” in English in any exam, is to make the sounds in your speech not Russian, but English, and the blood becomes “blʌd”. At this stage, you are already well done, and so is your English, but this is not yet an accent.
Accent training is an «asterisk» task where you learn connected speech techniques, correct intonation and regional peculiarities. The difficulty, bordering on the impossibility of this task, lies in the fact that in a dialogue a vowel or consonant no-no yes leaks out, native to the speech apparatus, and there is not always enough resource to keep track of intonations. At this stage, we are talking about special talent, special hearing and perseverance.
How to evaluate your progress in pronunciation.
There is an easy way, but it works. You need to talk to the Google Assistant or someone like that, just say the text in the notes. It is desirable that it be a large text and you dictate it in a normal rhythm. And see what will be correctly understood by the system and what will not. This is where minor flaws like staff and stuff, lack and luck can pop up.
The second way, more interesting, is to find native speakers who will listen to you and appreciate your accent. This is easy to do with the help of language exchange resources.
Another very important method is to record yourself and listen. It is better to record something that has a standard — for example, a piece from an audiobook. When recording, I suggest that students put an earpiece with an audiobook in their ear and read in unison, and then compare with the original. We do not hear ourselves from the outside, and therefore we notice our mistakes in the recording as well as others. A universal method to understand that I’m great: I don’t blush to the tips of my eyebrows when I listen to this, and it looks like the original.
Master phonetic transcription
Virginia Beowulf
Format: video
Host language: Russian
Suitable for: for those who already know English
More: on YouTube channel
Host explains the rules in simple words
languages - analyzes the features of American pronunciation, tells why some sounds are pronounced one way, and others — in a different way. For example, you can find out why the Nike brand name is actually properly pronounced «nike» and not «nike».
Also on the channel there are video analyzes of mistakes made by Russian speakers and life hacks on how to fix these mistakes. For example, the presenter says that all English sounds «and» performed by Russian-speaking people are the same, but in fact in English there are short and long «and».
These videos were my next step in learning pronunciation — I switched to them after I learned the basics from textbooks.
Correctly speaking
Accurate English
Format: video
Explain: in English
Suitable for: for beginners and those who have already studied English
More details: on the YouTube channel
The teacher writes words on the blackboard during the video lesson 02 Channel is the author of Mastering the American Accent. Lisa has been teaching English for 20 years, now she teaches Hollywood actors who have problems with accents — for example, from India.
Lisa has several playlists on her channel that are dedicated to various features of American phonetics: word stress — so that words do not clump together, and word linking — a phonetic phenomenon in which words «add up» to a sentence, slang and idioms, learning features students of different nationalities.
Some of the lessons repeat the textbook, but this helped me to repeat the material covered.
I really liked the fact that the presenter writes down examples on the board — it’s easier to memorize letter combinations that correspond to certain sounds.
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How to learn to understand spoken English: 5 tips
Lisa also interviews people from different professions: for example, firefighters and psychologists. My favorite interview is with the American stage speech artist, dubbing actress who voiced Apple’s voice assistant Siri.
I was inspired by this interview and did my own, with actress Tatyana Shitova — her voice is spoken by the Yandex voice assistant Alisa
Correctly speaking
Learn English with TV series
Format: Video
explain: in English
to whom it will be suitable: advanced users
more: on the UTube channel
on the channel from the films and series explain the vocabulary and values of complex words, show features of their pronunciation.
There are fragments from Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean. Entire playlists are dedicated to Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Game of Thrones and How I Met Your Mother. In addition to pronunciation, video lessons pay attention to idioms and slang that native speakers use every day.
They also sort out the songs. For example, one video is about Eminem’s popular tracks: the presenter stops the recording and explains how certain words are pronounced. After theory, there is even karaoke: credits roll, you need to read or sing the lyrics with the correct pronunciation. Now I understand almost without any problems what Eminem is singing about, although earlier his rap seemed to me an incomprehensible set of words.
Eminem raps very fast, and sometimes it is not clear what he is saying. The facilitator explains the keywords, so after watching the video everything becomes clear
Learn active listening
TheEllenShow
Format: Video
Explains: in English
to whom it will be suitable: advanced
Accent: American and British
more: Comic Ellen Sacrees’ talks about their lives.
This is a great opportunity to hear how pronunciation rules work in real life.
Each video is a mine of colloquial vocabulary. Both accents can be heard on the show: for example, the British accent is in the release with Benedict Cumberbatch, the American one is with Jennifer Aniston. It turned out to be a discovery for me how easy it is to distinguish between American and British English — it turned out that I just needed to hear once in the video lessons how they sound in order to recognize them.
Conversational videos like these helped me learn to recognize English speech in the background. I turned on interviews and did household chores. If any moment was incomprehensible to me, I listened to it again and with subtitles.
Ellen has very funny interviews
News from the world of education, career and study tips, inspiring stories — in our telegram channel: @t_obrazovanie.
toPhonetics
Hello! We want to make this online English to transcription translator the best on the web (more about the project). Leave your wishes and feedback in the comments below, they will be taken into account. Answers to frequently asked questions are here.
The
Transcriptor has the following features and functions:
- British or American pronunciation of words. When choosing a British dialect, in accordance with British phonetics, [r] at the end of a word is voiced only if the next word in the phrase begins with a vowel sound.
- The symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) familiar to us.
- Transcription of the text preserves the original format of sentences, including punctuation marks, etc.
- Possibility of displaying transcription taking into account the weak position of words in a sentence, as it happens in live connected speech (the “Take into account the weak position” checkbox).
- Uppercase words not found are interpreted as abbreviations (transcriptions of abbreviations are displayed letter by letter separated by a hyphen).
- To make it easier to check with the original, it is possible to output the transcription in two columns in parallel with the original English text or interlinear. Just enter the desired option under the input field.
- Need English lyrics in Russian letters ? Please! There is a corresponding checkbox next to the input field for those who have never studied English (nevertheless, phonetic transcription is easy to learn and always preferable).
- In cases where a word can be pronounced differently, you can choose from several transcription options. Such words are displayed as links (in blue). If you hover your mouse over them, a list of pronunciation options will appear. To sort through the options in the text (in order to print or copy the text to the clipboard with the correct pronunciation later), you need to click on the word with the mouse.
Keep in mind that multiple transcriptions can reflect both variations in pronunciation in the same meaning, and the pronunciation of different meanings of a word. If you are not sure which option is needed in your case, check the dictionary. - In addition to commonly used words, the dictionary base includes a transcription of a huge number of geographical names (including the names of countries, their capitals, US states, counties of England), as well as nationalities and the most popular names.
- Words not found (shown in red) are registered and, if repeated in queries, are regularly added to the vocabulary database.
- If your browser supports speech synthesis (Safari — recommended, Chrome), you can listen to the transcribed text. Details at the link.
- Instead of the “Show transcription” button, you can use the Ctrl+Enter key combination from the input field.
- Mobile versions of the service are also available for Apple and Android devices.
