But why? I struggle with the th sound and the soft r. After sleaking english for more than 20 minutes my tongue just starts making knots when trying to speak.
my people have the worst accent, look up any video of mika häkkinen talking…
it’s not impossible to learn proper pronunciation even though it seems impossible at first. I found it to be helpful to find a video of how to pronounce any word that contains the part you can’t pronounce, just keep trying to make a similar sound. it will take some trying, maybe weeks even, but then again there aren’t that many problem spots. usually r, thr, rd…just make sure nobody is around to hear it, they’ll think you’re having a stroke.
when you have a bit of a handle on it, take an episode of some english spoken tv show (something a bit adhd like modern family, brooklyn 99, IASIP), enable subtitles, then listen to their lines carefully, pause and repeat it yourself. try to sound as much as them as you can, maybe repeat a problematic sentence a few times and just move on to the next. by season 5 you will be quite good at it. read some articles aloud and use tv shows to “calibrate” 😂
pro tip - wing it, don’t try to downgrade th to t or d, listen to how natives talk and mimic them the best you can. the thing that might be making you struggle more than necessary is that there isn’t one th sound in English, there’s two: þ and ð. this = þis. there = ðere. very few second language English teachers ever point that out
same for soft r but tbf, if you just listen to the Scottish accent (or even Scouse), you can get a hang of th and keep the rolling r
i’m saying this as a fellow slav who learnt English by absorbing English media, natives describe my accent as “like an immigrant who came [to the UK] 30 years ago” (i’m 25 lol)
Well I can speak fine and make all those silly noises I just cannot keep it up for long. Max 1 hour of english speaking before I start slurring words. It’s only english I have issues with though. I also speak german and norwegian and never had such issues with those languages.
maybe I’m weird but that’s the best accent imo
But why? I struggle with the th sound and the soft r. After sleaking english for more than 20 minutes my tongue just starts making knots when trying to speak.
my people have the worst accent, look up any video of mika häkkinen talking…
it’s not impossible to learn proper pronunciation even though it seems impossible at first. I found it to be helpful to find a video of how to pronounce any word that contains the part you can’t pronounce, just keep trying to make a similar sound. it will take some trying, maybe weeks even, but then again there aren’t that many problem spots. usually r, thr, rd…just make sure nobody is around to hear it, they’ll think you’re having a stroke.
when you have a bit of a handle on it, take an episode of some english spoken tv show (something a bit adhd like modern family, brooklyn 99, IASIP), enable subtitles, then listen to their lines carefully, pause and repeat it yourself. try to sound as much as them as you can, maybe repeat a problematic sentence a few times and just move on to the next. by season 5 you will be quite good at it. read some articles aloud and use tv shows to “calibrate” 😂
I mean I can speak perfectly alright and understandably. I just cannot do it for extended periods of time.
pro tip - wing it, don’t try to downgrade th to t or d, listen to how natives talk and mimic them the best you can. the thing that might be making you struggle more than necessary is that there isn’t one th sound in English, there’s two: þ and ð. this = þis. there = ðere. very few second language English teachers ever point that out
same for soft r but tbf, if you just listen to the Scottish accent (or even Scouse), you can get a hang of th and keep the rolling r
i’m saying this as a fellow slav who learnt English by absorbing English media, natives describe my accent as “like an immigrant who came [to the UK] 30 years ago” (i’m 25 lol)
Well I can speak fine and make all those silly noises I just cannot keep it up for long. Max 1 hour of english speaking before I start slurring words. It’s only english I have issues with though. I also speak german and norwegian and never had such issues with those languages.
practice then, gotta build up your silly sounds stamina
I have been sleaking for longer for the last couple years and nothing has improved.