Name: アメリカ英語のアクセントを身につける4つの秘訣。発音の上級レッスン (4 Secrets to Having an American English Accent: Advanced Pronunciation Lesson)
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Vanessa: Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

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Let's talk about four ways to sound more American when you speak English.

Have you ever been watching an American movie and thought, “Oh, it would be great if I

Or maybe you've watched one of my videos already and thought, “I would love to sound

Well today I'm going to give you some tips to help you make your pronunciation sound

more like an American, and by American, I mean the United States of America.

There are a couple of things that we need to talk about first though.

Because a lot of people in the U.S. have different styles of speaking, here I'm going to be explaining

how to sound like the most general American accent, which is that of news reporters or

When you think about Tom Cruise, this is the accent that I'm talking about.

I'm not talking about a New York accent, a Southern accent, a California accent.

I'm talking about standard American English.

Of course, if you want to sound more American, you need to use American expressions instead

If you would like to know some differences between these expressions, make sure you check

out the playlist that I'll link here and in the description.

Finally, the best way to improve your pronunciation to sound more American or if you want to sound

more British or Australian is to shadow, and this means you're imitating word for word

You're repeating directly after the speaker.

I have a couple of videos where I explain the shadowing technique, so be sure to click

there or in the description to check out those videos.

It's also great to be able to break down the sounds of a language, and that's what I'm

going to do today is talk about four important concepts that you need to include in your

speaking if you want to sound more American.

The first way that you can sound more American is to change your T sounds to D sounds when

Let's listen to a sentence that uses a lot of these.

Dan: In New York City he wore an exciting sweater because that always made him satisfied.

In New York City he wore an exciting sweater because that always made him satisfied.

Here we have at T between two vowel sounds like I mentioned and it's changing to a D.

This isn't always done, but it's often done when native speakers are talking quickly.

We link together words by making the final T change into a D, that always.

Oh, so this can be used in a lot of different situations.

A couple years ago, I had a British friend who I always teased because whenever I asked

him to speak in an American accent, the only thing he would say is, “Water bottle, water

bottle, water bottle,” again and again and again, and it was so funny because it really

is the perfect example of an American accent.

It uses the T changing to a D, water bottle, and it also uses one more concept that we're

going to talk about a little bit later in this video.

Now I want to give you a chance to practice this pronunciation, T changing to a D.

We're going to listen to that clip one more time of that sample sentence, and then there's

I want you to read that sentence and try to imitate, try to shadow that pronunciation.

Are you ready to use your speaking muscles?

Vanessa: The second way to sound more American when you speak is to use the colored R. What

Well it's in the middle of the word when there is an R plus a consonant.

A consonant is any letter that's not a, e, i, o, u.

It might be RS, RD, any word that has an R plus a consonant.

It's going to sound like, “Err, err.”

Let's listen to a sample sentence that uses this a lot.

Dan: The first word that you learned is the one you heard the most.

The first word that you learned is the one you heard the most.

Vanessa: Did you notice something in this sentence?

There are a lot of different vowel sounds that change to sound like one sound, err.

In the word heard and learned, there is E, A, but they all sound like “Err, err.”

This is the colored R and it's really typical in American English, err, heard.

Let's listen to that clip again, and the same as before, I want you to try to imitate and

It sounds a little crazy when you're practicing, but of course when you're speaking with other

people, you can tone it down, but it's good to exaggerate when you're practicing pronunciation

because you're getting your muscles prepared.

Then when they're already ready to use those sounds, it will feel more natural.

Your muscles will know where to go and then you can tone it down and not sound so crazy

When you're practicing, don't worry about exaggerating.

Take it easy, try it yourself and let's listen and pause, and it's your turn to speak.

Vanessa: My next tip for sounding American is to include in an E-R at the end of your

This is really typical in American English, so before I explain it any further, let's

listen to a sentence that includes this a couple of times.

Dan: In the letter he wrote, “Remember to water the flowers.”

In the letter he wrote, “Remember to water the flowers.”

Vanessa: When my British friend was saying, “Water bottle,” this was the second American

sound that he was using, the E-R at the end of the word, er, water.

Remember to water the flowers,” and this is going to really test your R pronunciation.

We used it in the previous tip and now we're using it, er, again.

You really need to make sure your Rs are strong and powerful.

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