A few useful links to help with your pronunciation, intonation and rhythm.
(Long but eye-opening uni lecture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkQ7lwEWeGA
(Movie breakdowns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evj3hY42FCY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H_2t0OoXoU
(TV show break down)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCF2_0G337Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_XiKIvXVEw
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What boring students for such a lucid and gripping lecturer!!!! Thank you for sharing this video, it has produced me something of a quietness in my struggle with English accent!!!
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I also thought her lecture is peppered with rather useful insights. Thanks for your comment.
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Thanks for sharing Nacho!. First video has also comforted me but Rachel's has put me off...I don't think I'll ever be able to understand American English...
Has she? I quite like her approach to pronunciation, intonation and rhythm. She’s thorough and very precise. Stick with it, Rafa!
By the way, guys. If there are clips or YouTube channels you can think of that deal with this, you’re more than welcome to share here!
Sorry. I meant stick with it, Lola. I reckon if you work with her videos for a while you will get better at understanding it and maybe even at impersonating American actors you like. At any rate, what she calls Ben Franklin exercises can be a useful tool to study other accents too.
Same sort of thing in Aussie English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc2r_5XhkGk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5vhThC90s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlY1CcFns3s
I prefer a gay Jewish lecturer accent!!!! jjjjajjaj
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cszc1p
Interesting stuff, Rafa. Hardtalk tends to deliver the goods. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the questions raised in the conversation were featured heavily in the September exam and exams to come. At least, the �� will. Some of the issues were also discussed by Professor Shoshana Zuboff in that clip we worked on.
More on the virus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI11hHOya34 (this talk was given in 2013!)
Specific vocab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQIhmohkV74
More on mass surveillance and behaviour manipulation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8GxLP1FHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oruh5Hb_95I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q91nvbJSmS4
I´ll try with Rachel´s Ben Franklin exercises!!!! I hope sth will come under my skin!!!
Keeping haRd!!!!
Her videos hooked me from the start. She is great. I meant that I am the one who drag a problem with American English hahaha
Lola, maybe Trump has to do with your problem, jjjajajajajaj
Oh, I see, Lola. American English can be challenging at times. It does take a while to get one’s head round some of the reductions and changes she discusses but they’re the bread and butter of spoken AmE. Once you get them and practise them for a while, you’ll be fine.
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