"speak English like a native"
Jun. 17th, 2007 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslThis 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 (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.