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Anonymous Sat 01 Nov 2025 04:53:17 No.1547095 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1547103 >>1547263 >>1547485

Alright /wsr/. I know English but my pronunciation sucks, plus I have a heavy accent. I need good English media to learn pronunciation mostly. Preferably something entertaining to learn, but if not, so be it. I want fast results and I'm willing to become a weeb for a month to improve.

btw it could be Doritos english, tea english or even kangaroo english. I don't mind either.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Nov 2025 06:56:38 No.1547103 Report

Quoted By: >>1547270 >>1547286

>>1547095
Playing online is a good way to help with pronunciation. You can learn all sorts of dialects depending on the server you pick. Audiobooks can also help, just make sure that you're reading along so you catch how some words pronunciation differs from the spelling. From my experience tongue placement is usually the cause for most accents.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 20:47:40 No.1547263 Report

Quoted By: >>1547286

>>1547095
I don't think you can learn pronunciation just by listening to media. You can and should take any native content and try to imitate it, but you need explicit instructions and exercises to actually make the most of it. Without instruction, you will think you repeat the words properly while saying something completely different.
This teacher's content helped me a lot, I absolutely recommend her channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AccurateEnglish
Review and practice English vowels, consonants, rhythm (stress-timing), stress, and intonation. It's also useful to read about the differences between English and your native language.
A lot of things are the same or very similar between dialects, but I recommend you pick specific courses related to the accent you want to learn (American or British).
There are textbooks with exercises for English pronunciation, so check out a couple of those and complete one.
You should also learn IPA along the way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 21:53:12 No.1547270 Report

Quoted By: >>1547286

>>1547103
I second the playing online suggestion.
Get into Counter Strike, Dota 2, Apex Legends, anything with unfiltered voice chat and you will learn fast. I had to learn partial Spanish, Korean, and Russian just to climb ranked with randoms.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 23:47:38 No.1547286 Report

Quoted By: >>1547288 >>1547450

>>1547103
>>1547270
I think Audiobook is doable for me. And learning from other players? It could be, but sounds really hard. I may try.
>>1547263
Thanks for the channel.
> I recommend you pick specific courses related to the accent you want to learn (American or British).
Eh, I was thinking on free stuff for now.
>There are textbooks with exercises for English pronunciation
Just be googling or you mean one specifically?
>IPA
Didn't know about this. Thanks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 00:15:42 No.1547288 Report

Quoted By: >>1547815

>>1547286
>Eh, I was thinking on free stuff for now.
I didn't tell you to pay for anything. Get creative.
>>1547286
>>There are textbooks with exercises for English pronunciation
>Just be googling or you mean one specifically?
I'm just saying it's good to try a full structured course (video or textbook) so you have a good coverage of all the important topics. You can google around and find stuff you like. You'll definitely find stuff out on the high seas.
These are 2 textbooks I personally used at some point:
>Mojsin : Mastering the American Accent (this is by the same teacher whose YT channel I linked. It's for self-study, and it comes with like video or audio courses or something. I recommend this primarily.)
>Dauer: Accurate English (I used it at one point but I don't remember too much about it, but it has actual textbook exercises for pronunciation. It's an old book)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 06:30:55 No.1547450 Report

Quoted By: >>1547815

>>1547286
If you want to do audiobook, I suggest Librivox. Especially their short nonfiction / fiction collections. You get a variety of voices (some accented, many not), and you can learn something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Nov 2025 13:32:13 No.1547485 Report

Quoted By: >>1547815

>>1547095
BBC radio 4 has people pronouncing/enunciating very well. I quite like "in our time"
bbc documentaries too i guess
Not sure it's active enough for your purposes though

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Nov 2025 21:00:15 No.1547815 Report

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>>1547450
>>1547485
Thank you all, I will thoughtfully follow your recommendations. Hopefully I can make good progress in few months.

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