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I believe that most English 
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nowhere near enough, to improve 
their pronunciation, and that if

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they did, then they would speak 
with more accuracy, fluency and 

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confidence. 
And that is why in this lesson, 

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I'm going to outline what you 
can do in a very practical way 

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on your own to improve your 
English pronunciation and the 

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way that you speak English. 
So be sure to listen to this 

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lesson or watch this lesson on 
YouTube until the end because 

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I'm going to highlight and give 
you the exact step by step plan 

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so that you can become a more 
confident speaker by working on 

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this area of English. 
But before we get into all of 

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that, my name is Jack from to 
Fluency. 

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Be sure to check out the 
description because I'll have 

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some great resources for you, 
including my book, The Five Step

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Plan for English Fluency. 
All right, let's get started. 

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Like I said at the beginning of 
this lesson, most learners don't

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focus enough attention and study
time to work in on the way they 

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speak English, working on their 
pronunciation. 

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And this is true as well for 
most language courses, most 

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language schools. 
And I think this is the case 

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because most people need to do 
this on their own and really 

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focus on it. 
And it's hard for a teacher with

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30 students or even 6 students 
to work individually with each 

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student to make sure that 
they're saying the right vowel 

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sounds, the right consonant 
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intonation. 
But there are so many benefits 

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when you work on your English 
pronunciation because what 

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you're going to do if you 
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you'll speak more accurately 
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right vowel sounds, the right 
consonant sounds, and people 

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will be able to understand you 
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But you're also going to speak 
more fluently because you won't 

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need to focus on how to speak. 
Instead, you can just speak 

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naturally and use the right 
sounds in a natural way without 

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thinking about what you need to 
do with your mouth, what you 

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need to do in order to make 
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So it's going to allow you to 
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more fluently. 
And this will lead to confidence

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and it will also lead to you 
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Everything just flows, which 
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It's effortless. 
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effort into this. 
So today we're going to look at 

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how you can do this the the step
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you can dramatically improve the
way you speak. 

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And then I'll also give you some
very practical tips at the end 

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so that you can take action and 
get started with all of this. 

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But first I want to talk about 
GG, the sport of golf, the one 

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where you have your clubs and a 
ball, and you swing the golf 

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clubs so that the ball goes in 
the hole. 

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And the reason I'm talking about
this is because it's going to 

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help you think about the way to 
improve your pronunciation by 

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using this analogy. 
OK, so let's say that you start 

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playing golf. 
The first thing you need to do 

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after buying your golf clubs is 
to learn how to swing a club. 

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Learn how to swing a club. 
So learn how to hit the ball 

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properly with your Golf Club. 
And you need to think about and 

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learn all about your hand 
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Where do your hands go on the 
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How do you stand? 
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Do you lean forward? 
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wide? 
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what you need to do with your 
hands and your elbows and your 

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shoulders and your hips when you
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And then you need to think about
and learn what you need to do 

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next to then hit the ball and 
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goes straight. 
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YouTube videos so they can learn
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properly. 
Or they'll buy a book or they 

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will take private lessons. 
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later. 
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or by having a private teacher 
who's going to say, do this with

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your hands, stand like this, 
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straight, OK, what you need to 
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So once you learn how to swing a
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is you practice this skill. 
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golf. 
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to swing the Golf Club properly.
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skill, you have learned how to 
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it. 
So you swing your Golf Club and 

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you hit the ball. 
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feedback. 
Feedback. 

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You can give yourself feedback 
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ball. 
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that's good feedback. 
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means go slowly along the 
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to make some changes. 
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having a teacher, a golf 
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telling you what you need to do 
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So they might say, OK, next time
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next time keep your head down or
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straight. 
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feedback is to record yourself 
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comparing your swing to the way 
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a YouTube video. 
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you need to do and what changes 
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better at this skill. 
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It's a cycle. 
You learn what to do, you 

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practice, you get feedback, and 
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So with the feedback, you're 
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With the practice, you're trying
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then with the feedback, you're 
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The next step is to get 
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things correctly. 
So let's say that you are 

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correctly holding the club and 
you're using your hands in the 

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right way. 
Getting repetition gives you 

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muscle memory and it makes it 
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And I'm sure you've heard other 
people say repetition is the key

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to everything. 
By repeating something, you 

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learn how to do it effortlessly 
and you gain that muscle memory.

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But playing golf would be boring
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So you have a game of golf. 
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This is fun. 
This is why people practice 

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golf. 
But it's also a way to do 2 more

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things, which is to perform 
under pressure, to perform under

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pressure, to be able to hit the 
right swing or use the right 

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swing when you're playing a 
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And also learn more about where 
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So maybe you need to improve 
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improve your drives, or maybe 
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But the game of golf is where 
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You're having fun, but you're 
also learning how to perform 

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under pressure and learning what
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more. 
Now this podcast isn't about 

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golf, but this analogy really 
helps because learning English 

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pronunciation and being able to 
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same as what I have just 
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to do something, you practice 
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repetition, and then you use it 
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You perform under pressure. 
Let's take two sounds in English

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as an example. 
These two sounds are minimal 

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pairs, the V sound and the F 
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They're two similar sounds, but 
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know what to do with your mouth 
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your lips and your tongue in 
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So let's just practice this a 
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The V sound is where your top 
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behind inside your mouth and you
make the V sound very, very, and

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there's a key part to this, your
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It's a voiced sound, one where 
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So very practice after me very, 
very good. 

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Now the F sound is similar 
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thing, but your throat does not 
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It's an unvoiced sound. 
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Let's say 2 words that are 
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Now to practice with V&F. 
Very fairy, Very fairy. 

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Very fairy. 
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Now if you can notice the 
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sounds, that is great. 
But the key here, now is to 

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think, OK, how can I master 
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How can I really learn these two
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say them effortlessly? 
Well, again, learn what to do. 

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Learn about your teeth and your 
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just explained. 
Then practice, practice these 

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sounds. 
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that you need feedback. 
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feedback to know if you're doing
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And this is where I believe most
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of attention on. 
And it's this to record 

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yourself, record yourself saying
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yourself when you practice 
pronunciation and speaking in 

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general. 
Now you can have somebody 

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evaluate you. 
So you can have somebody 

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evaluate your your English and 
the way you speak. 

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Now talk about more how I can 
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But recording yourself is so 
powerful because when you record

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yourself, you can listen to the 
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meaningful way. 
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you're not recording yourself, 
it's very difficult to notice 

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any mistakes you make or any 
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It's more obvious to notice what
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So learn how to say these 
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Practice yourself saying them, 
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make changes. 
Think about the changes you need

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to make in order to say these 
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So repeat the sounds over and 
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So you're not just repeating it 
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repeating it a few times today, 
a few times tomorrow, once or 

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twice in four days, ETC. 
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that is really efficient. 
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is we're thinking about the best
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English and master English 
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Step one is knowing what to do 
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OK, maybe I need to do this with
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Let's learn what to do again. 
You practice again, you record 

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yourself. 
You think that's better, but 

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it's not perfect. 
So you make some more changes 

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until you are happy with the way
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And then Step 5 is to get that 
repetition so that you build the

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muscle memory. 
You can build muscle memory in 

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your mouth just like people 
build muscle memory playing golf

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or playing soccer or working out
anything really where it just 

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becomes effortless. 
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reach. 
Now, practically, if you want to

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say, OK, over the next three 
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on this area. 
And I recommend you do, I 

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recommend exploring this area at
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each week, maybe each day to, to
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Then I think this is a really 
good idea. 

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Firstly, learn the sounds of 
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Learn the different sounds of 
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vowel sounds, etc. 
The schwa as well. 

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And use the method that I've 
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this. 
Now, this might take some time. 

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You're going to get frustrated 
sometimes it might be a little 

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bit boring, but like I've talked
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it as fun as possible and be 
motivated to know that by doing 

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this, it's really going to help 
the way that you speak English. 

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Now, it also means working on 
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intonation, stress and 
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give a good example of this in a
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And then finally, it's working 
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linking and working on these 
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improve the way that you speak 
with accuracy and fluency, but 

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it's going to help your 
comprehension too. 

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Because if you can say these 
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use linking things like I could 
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it, which is a retraction of I 
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We're also linking. 
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other people, English speakers 
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It is so common O in order to 
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This will be really useful for 
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O find a course or anything 
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these areas of the sounds of 
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retractions and Lincoln and go 
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practice, get feedback, 
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Now I do want to say that I have
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I'll leave a link in the 
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all these areas, and then you 
can also send in your recordings

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to me and I will evaluate these 
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what I think you need to do to 
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So I've worked with hundreds of 
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the the common mistakes that 
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execute a certain sound or they 
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natural way. 
And then like I say, make this 

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part of your study plan. 
So really commit to this because

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it's just going to make you 
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fluent, and more accurate when 
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And then going back to the golf 
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a game of golf where you perform
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what you need to do to improve. 
This equivalent here is having 

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conversations in English, or 
talking to a teacher, or having 

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a language exchange partner 
where you put everything 

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You have to be able to use the 

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correct sounds while speaking, 
which is a much more complex 

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task than just repeating 
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Let's say repeating the sounds 
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That's going to help you just 
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It's fun to have conversations. 
This is why people want to learn

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English. 
And then also it's going to give

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you a good indication of where 
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to improve. 
Now I do want to practice a 

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phrase here because I'm going to
look at retractions and linking,

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but also stress and intonation. 
OK, so the phrases I could have 

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done it like I mentioned before 
now could have becomes coulda, I

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coulda, I coulda, I coulda and 
then done it done it done it 

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becomes well there it is. 
It links together and we also 

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use the the glottal stop Done 
it, done it done it and then all

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together I could have done it. 
I could have done it. 

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Now I also want to just 
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because listen to this now I 
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I could have done it. 
Now this is the stress with the 

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emphasis on I. 
That's the most important part 

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of the sentence because I'm 
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I could have done it. 
I could have done it and then 

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hit listen to the intonation 
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I could have done it, I could 
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It goes a little bit high at the
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So there are different things 
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intonation. 
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fall in intonation, the rise in 
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and fall intonation. 
But all these things are inside 

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my program. 
That's a fluency program. 

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Or you can look them up 
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course on pronunciation. 
The key though, is to think 

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about if this is an area you 
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some time with it. 
And then going through that 

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cycle where you learn how to 
make the sounds or how to use 

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intonation or how to use the 
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You get feedback, you make 
changes, you keep learning, you 

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keep practicing, you keep making
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And then you get the long term 
repetition so that it just 

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builds into muscle memory so 
that you can speak English 

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fluently and accurately. 
OK, so there's quite a lot here.

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