Showing posts with label accent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accent. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Learn English Through Song or Movie Scenes




A generous man called Teacher Frank (not me! A different one…) has created lots and lots of fun lessons which involve listening to songs and watching slide shows or movies on You Tube. He even has free exercises to go with them.
I find the songs and movie scenes are very well chosen and because the level is fairly easy for most of you, it is a nice relaxing way to work on your English. Nevertheless, I am rather confident that in each song or scene there will be a few idioms or phrases that may not yet be in your active, productive English. 
I suggest you try to use these new phrases in sentences of your own. And let others know about the site if you like it. Maybe it's worth a blogging about in your own blog.
Here is an example using a song I like very much, especially on a cloudy day :) I just love the singer's clear mellifluous voice
You can also study the lyrics and respond to your favorite lines. Have a look at the two-page Word handout that goes with it.
Here is the whole list of songs Frank has chosen for you. There are PLENTY of great songs to choose from and the slide shows are often quite amusing. 

Learn English Through Movie Scenes

Also very entertaining. Scroll down to see the script and do the exercise. Use the new words and phrases you learn so you remember them better!

Finally, here is a long playlist at youtube will a lot of the free lessons that Teacher Frank has prepared for your learning pleasure.
Have fun! (and who cares if you start singing along :) )

Sunday, April 10, 2011

American Accent Training

Rebecca Linquist is an American teacher who is an expert on teaching people how to improve their pronunciation.

Have a look at some of her videos!

Start with this one perhaps...

She has made many more.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rebeccalinquist#p/u


Thursday, April 15, 2010

Do you speak American?

Use this map to listen to radio stations around the United States.

Do people in South Carolina talk any differently than people in, say, Hawaii?

More information about American English here.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

More on accents

Linguists Weigh Costs and Benefits of Accents

Listen to this interesting (and short) NPR (National Public Radio) piece about something we all have when we speak English...an accent.


American accent training

Watch some of these excellent videos to learn how to speak with more of an American accent. The teacher's name is Rebecca and she is brilliant!

Some are aimed at speakers of specific languages like Arabic or Korean, but others contain great advice for ways of improving your accent and sounding like a native.

A must for all serious language students, especially those who want to work on  "accent reduction".

Monday, September 15, 2008

Can you guess where my accent is from?

Challenging kind of quiz where you watch a short video of a speaker reading a portion of the Rudyard Kipling poem “If.” You’ll then be asked which country he or she is from; answer correctly and you may be able to score bonus points by identifying the speaker’s home city or region.

Think you can tell the difference between an Australian, a South African, and a New Zealander?

Not as easy as it sounds!

Give it a go!
http://www.languagetrainersgroup.com/accent_game.html

Friday, March 7, 2008

fonetiks

http://www.fonetiks.org/

· Online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages

· Instant sound

· Pronunciation samples by over 40 native speakers

· All 1,000+ pages free

· Click on a flag to open a dictionary

Why can't all language websites as good as this one!?