"speak English like a native"

[gusl]

This guy is teaching Brazilians to "speak English like a native"... but even if you set aside his strong accent, you notice that he himself makes gross phonetic errors ("together" -> "tshugeDer"), right after making the point that p,t,k are aspirated (puffed).

When I make/fake a strong Brazilian accent speaking English, there's an element of letting go (fare inspired this approach while driving me back to Luxembourg), but there's also a large element of forcing myself... and even then, I'm pretty sure that there are many features of English (e.g. rhythm) that I can't unlearn on the spot: it must be easy to detect that I've been exposed to English for a long time, unless I were to undergo some serious training.

He has tons of videos. Here's more to laugh at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2zMEc15_HY&mode=related&search=

He seems like a very good example of someone who has learned English very thoroughly by the book.

Comments

[groen.livejournal.com]

English As She Is Spoke?

[ritos-revenge.livejournal.com]

I love how he starts out the video with "the secret to have a perfect English."

Also, the background music he used I recognize because it was the sample music on a cheap electric keyboard my family had.

[groen.livejournal.com]

Oh. My god. That's exactly the demo from my family's old cheap keyboard. We've had the fucker since I was like seven -- and it's sitting within arm's reach of me now.

Now I'm gonna have to go press the button again.