Hey, friends. What’s going on? It’s your favorite American
English teacher here to help you today.

 with eight Ways that
you and anyone can sound more like a North American English Speaker now I know
this is just the lesson that you’ve been waiting for I’m going to tell you eight
Tricks and secrets that you probably didn’t learn in your normal Traditional
English classroom We’re going to really focus on how to make your pronunciation
and your accent more American like now I’m not saying that everyone should
speak like an American But hey if you want to know how to do that I’m going to
explain exactly how so instead of just trying to imitate or copy you’re going
to learn the specific points.

 Com Where I post the
blog lesson for each post to help you learn more Now let’s begin with the 8
ways that you can sound more like an

American English speaker Number one, let’s talk about
syllables every word that has at least Two syllables or more has a stressed
syllable and a weak syllable, so let’s just take the word American We have 3
syllables, right? American that’s four syllables So when we have more than two
syllables one is going to be stressed when which syllable is stressed in American
Can you hear it?

 American so it’s the
second syllable right so in order to speak more like an American make sure that
you really stretch that stressed syllable out make it longer make it louder
make it higher say American with me now American and to balance this out the
syllables that are not stressed are probably going to sound like a Schwa sound
which is up that sound you make of someone punch of you in your gut you go Oh American
Can you hear that? Uh American. Very good so American English Really stresses
the stressed syllable and makes the other syllables very weak.

 American English speaker
number two learn Connected speech. Oh, it’s so easy to say but yet there are so
many different rules in connected speech, so let me quickly share several the
most important with you in American English Especially whenever you find a t
between two vowel sounds it’s going to be a d. We don’t drink water we drink
water we don’t put butter on our toast we put butter on our toast okay?

How to speak American English

So t between two vowels equals a date between an N, and a
vowel gets removed International not International  dentist not dentist, but dentist when you have
an N then a T then a vowel sometimes it becomes a glottal stop like Mountain or
 a vowel than a double And a vowel like
button or cotton when you have a t or a d between two Consonants it often gets
removed old man, not old man old man most famous not most Famous, but most
famous we blend and link sounds together when one word ends with a consonant
and the next begins with a vowel or when the next word begins with the same
consonant as the word before it and With that was a big jumbled mess We blend
and link sounds together from one word to the next for example social life
becomes social life We also make two words seem as though They were one when we
blend sounds together like this afternoon this afternoon. Now I know intrusion
where we insert a new sound for example between he and Asked we insert the /j/
sound he asked or do and if we insert a /w/ sound do it he asked to do it and
in some parts of the united states you have an R intrusion between vowels -like
for example between Media and attention media attention Finally let me tell you
about Elision where we omit a sound for example the t in the word kept when it
comes before going kept going.

Number three in
American English the R is so important and so frustrating for many English
learners because it can be quite different than in your native language be
aware of r-colored vowels for example in the word Or why is it not ward it’s
her word or for example World why is it not World its world. So that is an
r-colored vowel. We’re about and before an R and it becomes err so a lot of
American English vowels will become this sound that sounds like a pirate
talking so get out your pirate hooks and go err When you make this sound or not
because that’s kind of weird when we have an r at the end of the word we usually
pronounce it strongly say usually because some people like in new England will
cut that R off for example parked my car Well, that’s a Boston accent and yes,
I have lived in Boston, but I never adopted that accent. 

 I would say I park my
car so but watch out for Different ways of using the R if you really want to
sound American you need some American phrases like instead of asking How are
you  can ask. What’s up or instead of
saying That’s nice, or that’s good You could say that’s cool. Or that’s awesome
in general when you speak English try to speak a little bit louder verbs use a
ton of phrasal verbs we rarely use a normal kind of academic verb in everyday
speech in conversations instead of the verb to exit or to leave say to get out or
instead of saying to arrive say to Get in or instead of saying to start or to
begin you could say get going Get going could also mean to leave so phrasal
verbs can be kind of confusing but they’re really key to use a lot of them if
you want to sound like an American Native English speaker also start creating
verbs out of nouns Like Google Google’s a noun, but we say let’s Google it Google
that question or friend  is a noun Right
well I can friend you on Face book So friend is now a verb so just take any
noun you want and make it into a verb and you’ll sound more American and
finally Vocabulary so I did suggest to you some very American phrases like
awesome, and what’s up? But if you want to know quickly a few words that are
different in American English as opposed to British English, we Say fall not
autumn. We say faucet not tap we say apartment not flat elevator.

 Not lift diaper not nappy
TV not tally and Candy not sweets. Oh, and one more that always catches me off
guard We say take out not take away when we go to a restaurant, and we want to
take the food home So I think that you are properly prepared now to sound
really American like a native speaker.

So if you have questions about any of these points, I know I
went really fast leave a comment  so that
you can see you my answers to Your questions if I make a post to answer
them,  that I wrote for you as well Thank
you so much for watching and I’ll see you in another post lesson soon. Bye for
now