Hi,
Thank you for your support guys. As you know we can improve our communication skills mostly by listening to what others are speaking. So I have attached a audio. Click the play button and listen to the audio.
If you can't understand what is said in the audio, read the transcription below the audio so that you can follow what is said in the audio. Also you can note the pronunciation for each and every word.
First of all, don't worry about not having a native-English accent. It's important to be able to speak clearly, so that people can understand you. However, it's almost impossible to sound exactly like a native English speaker if you are learning English as an adult in a non-English speaking country.
However, there are many things that you can do to improve your pronunciation and your speaking skills.
1. Listen to spoken English as often as possible.
Listen to how speakers pronounce various words and phrases and "model" your pronunciation on what you hear.
2. Learn the phonetic alphabet.
Use the phonetic alphabet page (at the beginning of most good dictionaries) as a guide to pronouncing new words.
3. Don't forget to learn the word stress of a new word.
Every English word has its own stress, or intonation. For example, the word "believe" has two syllables (be and lieve), but only the second syllable is stressed. We say be'lieve and not 'be lieve. Your dictionary will show the syllable stress by an apostrophe (') before the syllable to be stressed.
Word stress is important. In fact, it is more likely that someone misunderstands you because of wrong word stress than because of the wrong pronunciation of a sound.
4. Work out which sounds cause you most problems in English.
Depending on what your first language is, you may have problems with certain sounds. For example, French speakers have difficulties with "th"; speakers of Mandarin have difficulties with "r" or "l", and Arabic speakers have difficulties with "p" and "b".
5. Practise the sounds you find difficult.
A useful exercise is a "minimal pair" exercise. For example, if you have difficulty distinguishing between "p" and "b", try practising pairs of words which are the same except for the sound "p" and "b":
For example, "pair" and "bear"; "pond" and "bond"; "pie" and "buy" etc.
6. Be aware of intonation and sentence stress.
Not all words in a sentence have equal stress, and generally only the "information" words (nouns and verbs) are stressed.
7. Learn to recognise spelling patterns.
For example, "tion" on the end of a word is pronounced "shun", while "sion" can be pronounced "zhun". There are often many ways to pronounce a particular spelling pattern, but it certainly helps to know what the variations are. For example, the pattern "ough" can be pronounced "uff" as in "enough" and "tough", or "or" as in "ought" and "bought" or "oh" as in "although" and "dough".
8. Don't rush.
If you speak too fast, the danger is that you could skip over some words, fail to pronounce them completely, or mix them up. If you speak too slowly, you might end up sounding unnatural. But it's better to speak slowly and clearly than too quickly.
Comments are welcome.
By Jay on Jul 15, 2008
i like to improve my communication.i feel its better to learn.thank you
By rakesh prasad on Jul 16, 2008
I HAVE SOME KIND OF PROBLEM . WHENEVER I GO FOR ANY INTERVIEW THEY ALWAYS SAY THAT U HAVE SOME M.T.I. THATS Y M NOT ABLE TO GET D JOB IN ANY INTERNATIONAL CALL CENTER. I WANNA BE A PART OF THAT CALL CENTERS . SO THAT I CAN LEARN SOMETHING. MAY I GET TO KNOW THAT HOW SHOULD I GET RID OF THOSE M.T.I WHICH I M HAVING.
By Omorowa Itohan on Jul 16, 2008
I like to improve my speaking ability, words prounciation
By Mahendra.B.Kachare on Jul 17, 2008
i want to improve my english
By kavita_yadav on Jul 18, 2008
I like to improve my speaking ability, words prounciation,my prounciation is very poor,wat should i do to improve my self
By raghu on Jul 21, 2008
plz send .
By raghu on Jul 21, 2008
I like to improve my speaking ability, words prounciation
By satender janhar on Jul 22, 2008
I like to improve my speaking ability, words prounciation
By SAHADEV on Jul 23, 2008
I WANT TO PRONUNCIATE WORDS HIGHLY.
By RATHEES & PD on Jul 23, 2008
I LIKE TO IMPROVE MY PRONUNCIATING ABILITY.
By Himanshu sekhar sahu on Jul 25, 2008
Dear sir/madam,I have lack of communcation skill and pronuncation.i want improve it bcoz i’m mba student.So i request to you sir/madam plz help me.Thank U
By vinitha.M on Jul 27, 2008
hi this audio gives me a very good pronounciation
nd it will very useful
thanks alot for this
By arvind on Jul 30, 2008
pls send it is very useful
By Priyanka on Aug 5, 2008
can u please send some english speaking audios for practice………to my ID……….it is very useful to me.
By Suresh Duguluru PGDIT on Aug 6, 2008
This is very nice ,I feel that i understand very well.
Thank you.
By G.Arun on Aug 7, 2008
I want to improve my speaking ability.
By naomy on Aug 11, 2008
Please help me to improve my Englich.
By Parmod NArang on Aug 11, 2008
I want to improve my voccabulary
By thirumurugan.r on Aug 12, 2008
it revaels listening skill is most important than speaking
By Parmod NArang on Aug 14, 2008
Pls send me tipe to improve vocabuloury
By akanksha tyagi on Aug 14, 2008
i want to improve my vocabulary plc help
By BIPIN KUMAR TIWARI on Aug 27, 2008
i want to improve my vocabulary plz help me
Thanks & Regards
By A. Reyes on Aug 27, 2008
I want to improve my speaking abilityand vocabulary
By kirupagiri on Aug 29, 2008
i want to improve my communication. im doing MCA.But im not having confidence for speaking english. how can i improve my soft skill. plz help to me. i want to get job in MNC
By RENUKA on Aug 29, 2008
hello,
i doing BE. i would like to develop my communication skills. so please give me the tips and many audio clips to hear.
By Ran on Sep 4, 2008
really i like to improve wy speaking skills
By aruna kumari bogala on Sep 16, 2008
I want to learn the english pronouciation with out any grammtial mistakes pls help me out from this by recommending good audio tutor
By sidhu on Sep 30, 2008
please send me the audio for preparation of interviews ur doing a nice jb to us by rding ur tips we r learning alot thanks for that
By le van tao on Oct 1, 2008
really i want to improve my speakinh skills please send me the audio suit for this thank you so much
By SREEDEVI B V on Oct 1, 2008
Hi,
Would like to improve my speaking skills. Pls send me the audio suit.
Regards
Sreedevi
By Swati on Oct 9, 2008
I want to improve my English communication skill.I am pursuing my MBA(Marketing).Its time for my placement also and I am not having confidence for my English speaking.how can i improve my English speaking skill. plz help me. I want to get placed in a good company
By umesh on Oct 12, 2008
Sir i want to satisfied answer of HR question…
by umesh yadav M.Tech.(BHU)
By joh ruff on Nov 6, 2008
i want to improve my english speaking language. so i cam apply in a call center