Speaking slowly will improve your English pronunciation!

The single most important point when trying to improve your English pronunciation is to avoid speaking too fast.

Speak English Slowly! It’s a fact, that when you speak fast you often can be called a  sloppy language user who doesn’t have a good pronunciation.

When you speak fast, you are likely to make many more mistakes more often. This means: Give yourself time!

When you speak a little bit slower, your English will improve.

When you slow down, your foreign accent will be less noticeable. The English language can be difficult, therefore take time when speaking and  speak without an accent and speak English well.

In the English language foreigners speaking a truly remarkable  English take moren than two seconds for every word to pronounce. Try to measure your language output and if you speak English faster, reduce the pace!

Here’s a great site to download audios to improve your English pronunciation

Learn Spanish – With the right Pronunciation!

To learn Spanish seems to make more sense every day. The Hispanic population in Northern America grows very fast, for one, and once the Mexican swine flu scare is over, many North Americans will again spend great holidays in Mexico and further south. Especially the countries of Central America (Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Belize) have a lot to show and are great for tours a bit off the beaten path.

Speaking the language helps tremendously, when you want to pass a good time and when you hate ith when you feel that many natives are pointing their virtual fingers at you, thinking ‘dirty gringo!’ … or even worse…

Because if you go through the trouble of learning even only a few Spanish phrases and are able to exchange a few words, to place your oder in the restaurant in Spanish and to ask for directions or to say ‘hello’ in Spanish, or ‘good-bye’, you come across as somebody who respects the people in the country you are visiting. … And just as we, these people appreciate when they are taken for equals.

The smiles from the people you speak to in Spanish, their good tips where to go and what to see, and simply the good feelings that come your way when you speak some Spanish make a big difference! And learning Spanish wihout a bad North Aremican accent is a lot easier than you thought:

Get yourself the Pimsleur Spanish Audio (download) and start spending 30 minutes every day listening  and repeating after the native speakers who will teach you Spanish in a very short time. Before you will realize it, you will not only understand Spanish, but even speak Spanish with the right pronunciation! Even if you’ve never learned a second language, or miserably failed with other systems (believe me, there are millions of other people out there who had the same problems learning a second language due to the wrong teaching system) you CAN!

Why not spend 30 minutes every day for two months and then see where you stand? I bet, you’ll speak and understand Spanish after 60 days! The Pimsleur Spanish download is in my humble opinion THE single most effective tool to learn Spanish quickly.

Why Learn Hindi with Audio Lessons

Hindi is a language that is spoken by about 40% of the Indian population, which means that from the total of about 1’200 Million Indians,  roughly 500 Million speak Hindi.

Chances, that you get by in India by speaking English and Hindi are therefore quite good. As India becomes more important every year, both from a political and economic point of view, there is a need to have a good tool to learn this Indian language.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the best and most efficient method to learn any language is the total immersion method. You travel to India, cut all contacts with people who speak anything but Hindi and you learn real fast!!!

This method is highly efficient, but often not very pactical. Therefore, I recommend you try the audio method. That are specifically prepared audio lessons that teach you Hindi by simply listening and repeating after the speakers from the audio. With only 30 minutes per day you are sure to master Hindi and be prepared to move in a Hindi environment with confidence and knowing, that you are able to speak Hindi and understand Hindi.

Sure, you will not be able to negociate a contract in Hindi, but you will be able to hold short conversations, get by in restaurants, hotels, get directions and exchange greetings etc. This with a near perfect accent, as the speakers on these audios are native Hindi speakers.

To answer the question in the title: Learning Hindi with audio lessons is so much more efficient because you can start immediately to speak and understand the verbal communication. If you first had to learn the written language, you’d spend months, if not years doing that, and only then could you start off. Also, with audio lessons you are nearly guanranteed to learn Hindi the correct way with a near perfect Hindi pronunciation.

To me these are two very strong and valuable points.

Korean Language – How To Learn Korean Fast

The Korean language offers a few challenges for Westerners:

• Korean is written in a different alphabet
• Korean has not only grammatical, but also important social rules
• The pronounciation of Korean words can be quite tricky

Going the conventional way to learn Korean can therefore be slow, frustrating and teach you wrong from start… – which will make progress even more difficult.

Linguists the world over agree, that the best way to learn a language is the ‘total immersion’ method. That means you are ‘dropped off’ without support into the zone where the language you want to learn is spoken. Nobody around that speaks your language, only people who speak the language you want to learn.

That’s hard at the beginning, but you are immediately immersed in the sound, the culture and the daily life of the new language. People who learn a language in this way make excellent progress, learn to pronounce words and phrases corrrectly and speak the new language fluently quite fast.

To travel to Korea and to meet Korean girls or Korean boys to learn Korean is not in everybody’s reach. You need a budget in time and money to simply take off and live six months in Korea to learn Korean.

There are other methods that to a certain degree simulate the immersion language learning process: Korean audios.

The Pimsleur Korean audios are a viable alternative to start learning Korean fast and with a correct pronunciation from start.