Record your own voice
:::: SEANCE FOUR ::::
RECORD YOUR VOICE
Many of us have had a bad experience related to “speaking English” in public or to someone. Unfortunately, we have made of that “horrible” experience a “totem”, sort of say: “English is a bad experience”.
Let’s get rid of that conception “through the inception” of a new technique, and let’s keep busy one of the tools we all have at hand, to help us reach our goal: the cell phone.
First, try using a pen across your lips and close your mouth, then speak without letting the pen falls down, start recording your voice on your cell phone, speak in English what you have in mind, if you don’t have any ideas try using one of the small texts in the New York Times, like this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/…/m…/how-to-impersonate-someone.html…
Stop, play, listen. Repeat. The pen on your lips will force you to add extra effort when speaking. Skip this step if you feel discomfort or if you can't place the pen in between your lips in front of others.
Recording and listening to your voice will allow you to better understand your mistakes when speaking, essentially most of the flaws you’re making, and hopefully you will figure this out.
To improve learning English, helps a lot not getting lost in a wrong perception of yourself: record your voice, identify who you are through your voice. Repeat. Don’t be ashamed, don’t share it if you don’t want, keep it for yourself, keep it private, keep it personal, this is for you and only you, plug your earphones and listen to your own voice at bed, or when cooking, or when jogging (not driving, not at work, not eating -don’t choke!-, not in a dangerous place), find a time for yourself to listen your own voice, you can have in yourself a trustful person who can say most of the time when you’re pronouncing well or bad while speaking English.
Do it daily, repeat, squeeze the memory on your cell phone with tons of audios, free up space when the storage is running out, by transferring your audio files to your hard drive, cloud, or computer, and continue playing the role of an announcer.
No need to record long conversations, remember this is a five minutes try, keep it as easy/short as possible, but make it in a daily basis (two or three minutes recording, two or three minutes listening).
Speak, record, play. Make a new “totem” with images that give you a better pronunciation over those hard to pronounce words.
Even if someone is telling you: "you sound like a broken record", keep recording what you have to say. Play. Repeat.
RECORD YOUR VOICE
Many of us have had a bad experience related to “speaking English” in public or to someone. Unfortunately, we have made of that “horrible” experience a “totem”, sort of say: “English is a bad experience”.
Let’s get rid of that conception “through the inception” of a new technique, and let’s keep busy one of the tools we all have at hand, to help us reach our goal: the cell phone.
First, try using a pen across your lips and close your mouth, then speak without letting the pen falls down, start recording your voice on your cell phone, speak in English what you have in mind, if you don’t have any ideas try using one of the small texts in the New York Times, like this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/…/m…/how-to-impersonate-someone.html…
Stop, play, listen. Repeat. The pen on your lips will force you to add extra effort when speaking. Skip this step if you feel discomfort or if you can't place the pen in between your lips in front of others.
Recording and listening to your voice will allow you to better understand your mistakes when speaking, essentially most of the flaws you’re making, and hopefully you will figure this out.
To improve learning English, helps a lot not getting lost in a wrong perception of yourself: record your voice, identify who you are through your voice. Repeat. Don’t be ashamed, don’t share it if you don’t want, keep it for yourself, keep it private, keep it personal, this is for you and only you, plug your earphones and listen to your own voice at bed, or when cooking, or when jogging (not driving, not at work, not eating -don’t choke!-, not in a dangerous place), find a time for yourself to listen your own voice, you can have in yourself a trustful person who can say most of the time when you’re pronouncing well or bad while speaking English.
Do it daily, repeat, squeeze the memory on your cell phone with tons of audios, free up space when the storage is running out, by transferring your audio files to your hard drive, cloud, or computer, and continue playing the role of an announcer.
No need to record long conversations, remember this is a five minutes try, keep it as easy/short as possible, but make it in a daily basis (two or three minutes recording, two or three minutes listening).
Speak, record, play. Make a new “totem” with images that give you a better pronunciation over those hard to pronounce words.
Even if someone is telling you: "you sound like a broken record", keep recording what you have to say. Play. Repeat.