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🎙️New Episode: How To Stop Worrying About Your Accent And Pronunciation For Business English | Real English Conversations Podcast for Global Professionals
Do you feel embarrassed by your English accent? Many English learners believe they must sound like a native speaker before they can succeed professionally. But is that really true? In this special re-release from the Real English Conversations archives, Curtis Davies and former co-host Amy Whitney explore one of the biggest misconceptions in English learning: that eliminating your accent is the key to confidence. You'll discover why clear communication is far more important than sounding native, how confidence and pronunciation work together, and practical strategies to become easier to understand without losing your...
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This is a special episode from the Real English Conversations podcast archives. Hi everybody, it's Curtis Davies and Amy Whitney from realenglishconversations.com and today we have a great conversation about accent and pronunciation and some tips on how you can feel more comfortable when you're speaking in English.
So let's get started. A lot of our students come to us saying, I want to sound like a native speaker. And part of this idea and belief that they have is that they need to have an absolutely perfect accent in order to achieve this goal. But there's a little bit of a problem both with this goal of wanting to sound just like a native speaker and the idea with the accent.
So when we really break it down into what people want to be able to do, it's more like they want to be able to speak easily without thinking too hard. They want to be clearly understood, so people understand their ideas and the words that they're saying. And they want to understand what other people are saying to them so that they can easily
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