3 tips for sounding like a native speaker

Hi again, welcome back to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. Today, I'm going to help you sound

a little bit more like a native speaker, hopefully. Students ask me all the time: "How can I sound

like a native speaker?" Well, before I say anything, let me just tell you that it will

take time and a lot, a lot, a lot of practice. The best way is to live in an English-speaking

country, of course, but of course you can do it anywhere, but it takes time; be patient,

practice, practice, practice. So we're looking at pronunciation. Let me

start with this word: "pronunciation". Not: "pronounciation". It is not a pronoun. A pronoun

is: "I", "me", "my", "mine". Pronunciation is how we speak English. So I'm going to give

you three tips that will help you sound a little bit more like a native speaker.

We're going to start with connecting words. Now, think about your own language, whether

you're speaking Spanish or Polish or Chinese, you do this in your language as well. When

you're speaking fast, you're taking words and you're squeezing them together; you're

connecting them, so one word flows into the next word. That's what we're going to do here.

You can connect consonants to consonants. What this means: when a word ends in a consonant...

A consonant is "b", "c", "d", "f", "g", etc. A vowel is "a", "e", "i", "o", "u". When a