Learning native-like pronunciation

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a lot of people ask me if it's possible

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to sound like a native speaker if you

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weren't born in the US they want to know

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how long it will take that of course

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depends entirely upon the individual

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really focused pronunciation practice

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can yield great results in this video

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I'm going to go over two different ways

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to study English to perfect your

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pronunciation all you need is the audio

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or video of a native speaker speaking

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first we're going to do a Ben Franklin

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exercise this is when you write down

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everything you can about what you hear

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whether or not you hear words being

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linked or if you hear something being

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reduced for example now we'll do this

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together to help you get an idea of how

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to listen to and analyze what you hear a

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lot of people ask me if it's possible to

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sound like a native

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speaker a lot of people ask me so the

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first thing I notice is this T is a flap

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T it sounds like a d a lot of that's

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because it's coming between two vowel

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sounds