You can use that function to decrease the playback speed like this: If it’s a video, slow it down as well. Why do we have to do this? Well, there are two reasons. Firstly, it ensures that you will speak slowly.
Speaking fast is not good. The faster you speak, the more mistakes you’ll make. Every time you make a mistake, you’re more likely to repeat that mistake in the future. We don’t want that to happen. Secondly, in order to repeat what you hear accurately, you need to hear it clearly. But if it’s too fast like this: If it’s too fast like that, you’re going to miss some details.
You’re not going to hear some sounds such as the -ed endings of verbs in the past tense. If you don’t hear the input clearly, the output you produce will not be accurate. Now let’s see this technique in action. It’s simple, right? All you have to do is listen closely, repeat what you hear. When you repeat, pay attention to your pronunciation. If it sounds good, move on.
If you hear a mistake or if you’re not sure, go back and listen to that part then try again until you get it right. Also, if the current sentence is long, you should pause mid-sentence and just repeat that part.
Don’t wait until the speaker finishes the whole sentence or you might forget the beginning of that sentence. The key is to practice slowly.
Your goal is accuracy not speed. It’s not how fast you can do it. It’s how slowly you can do it correctly. Alright, that’s all you need to know to get great results from this simple exercise. If you want to get started, click here to go to my website where you can download some materials to practice with for free. English Materials You Can Use to Practice With To get the best results possible, you should never practice with movies because: • Movies characters usually don’t talk like normal people do – they talk with a super dramatic tone of voice, they mumble, they whisper, etc. • people don’t talk all the time throughout the movie.
You’ll waste a lot of time watching scenes where there’s no conversation such as a fight scene, a car chase scene, and so on • conversations aren’t real The best materials to use are audiobooks and podcasts. My favorite kind are audiobooks because they’re recorded by professionals who speak clearly. Free Audiobooks You can find free audiobooks at. Below are a few audiobooks from that website that have good quality: • Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words () • The House of a Thousand Candles () • The World I Live In () Podcasts You can find some podcasts to download. Listen to a few of them, then choose the speaker(s) that you’d like to imitate. Post navigation.