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One Single Tip To Improve Your Pronunciation In Any Language. As me, most Spanish speakers get used to read English when they are surfing on the Internet. But we don't practice our pronunciation, nor our listening skills. We try to read the words as we'd in our native languages, so we end up with a terrible pronunciation. If we read an "a" for instance, we'll always pronounce it as the "a" in "father", despite the richness of the English phonetics. And the same can be applied to many other kind of learners. Fortunately, there's something called the "International Phonetic Alphabet" (IPA), and it's really worth to learn it. It just tell you how to pronounce every word in your target language. It may seem difficult at first, but after few days of practice you can realize how useful it is. There are even a lot of Youtube channels which teach you how to make every of those sounds. I'm already using it to relearn every word from my English vocabulary. I'm trying to put away that harmful Latin alphabet, and to use this one instead. My procedure is simple. I look for any word at Wiktionary, and then save both the record and the IPA's spelling. Only after I've learned to recognize the sound and to reproduce it I study the actual spelling of the word. At this exact moment I kind of feel like a child when it's time to study some new vocabulary, but it's OK. I get more nuances now in the sounds I hear from native speakers thanks to it, and I'm loosing a bit of my strong Spanish accent. You won't regret to learn it either. Give it a try!

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One Single Tip To Improve Your Pronunciation In Any Language.

Like me, most Spanish speakers get used to reading English when they are surfing on the Internet. But we don't practise our pronunciation, nor our listening skills. We try to read the words as we would in our native languages, so we end up with terrible pronunciation. For instance, if we read an "a" we'll always pronounce it as the "a" in "father", despite the richness of the English phonetics and the same can be applied to many other kind of learners.

Fortunately, there's something called the "International Phonetic Alphabet" (IPA), and it's really worth learning it. It just tells you how to pronounce every word in your target language. It may seem difficult at first, but after few days of practice you begin to realize how useful it is. There are even a lot of Youtube channels which teach you how to produce every one of those sounds.

I'm already using it to relearn every word from my English vocabulary. I'm trying to put away that harmful (confusing) Latin alphabet, and use this one instead. My procedure (method) is simple. I look for any word in Wiktionary then, save both the recording and the IPA's spelling. Only after I've learned to recognize the sound and to reproduce it do I then study the actual spelling of the word.

At this exact moment I kind of feel like a child when it's time to study some new vocabulary, but it's OK. I get more nuances now in the sounds Thanks to it I hear native speech and I'm losing a bit of my strong Spanish accent.

You won't regret to learn it either. Give it a try!
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Thank you for the suggestion!
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Hi Estefanía, I'm also Spanish, so I'm not the most indicated person to correct you. Overall I think your text is quite good and specially interesting. I would say that the /a/ sound that Spaniards tend to pronounce is more similar to the one in cat rather than the one in father, but I strongly agree with you. I am a big fan of IPA as well, and I think it should be taught in every school. Like you, I had to learn again every single word that I had been pronouncing wrong for years, but now not only has my pronunciation improved but also I am better at understanding other English speakers. Congratulations for your writing By the way, you should check this poem out, in case you don't know it. It's a lot of fun and a real challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1V6Nn6aAmw

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