186. 10 min English Pronunciation Practice for the New Year

Welcome to the Influency Podcast. I'm Hadar, and this is episode number 186. And today you are going to join me for a fun pronunciation practice. Hey. Hey, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me for another episode of the Influency podcast. Today we have another daily pronunciation practice. So this is the audio version, of course, you can watch the video version and see me moving my tongue all around. So I actually definitely recommend watching the video for this one if you want to do this practice daily. But if not, you can definitely just listen and follow my guidance, especially if you're driving and you want to use that driving time efficiently. So today we have a daily pronunciation practice that is going to improve your pronunciation and diction and your ability to become aware of your articulation organs. And I recommend to do it every day before you start your English practice or at the end of the day or at the beginning of the day. So I'm not going to waste your time. Let's get to work. Prepare your tongue. Here we go. Let go. Add a adda. She sees cheese. She sees cheese. Ow. Ow. Hey, everyone, it's Hadar. Welcome to the daily pronunciation practice, a 10 minute drill designed to help you improve your pronunciation, your clarity and your confidence using English. You can do it daily, you can do it in the morning, during the day, at the end of the day, before an important meeting, or just before you start your English practice. Many of you are already practicing daily with our morning pronunciation practice, so we decided to keep it interesting and add another daily pronunciation practice so you can alternate between the two. If you don't know our morning pronunciation practice, I'm going to link to it in the description. Let's begin by checking for tension. So start by maybe massaging the jaw a little bit and check if you're holding any tension here in the jaw. So massage the jaw and start noticing your breaths. Take a deep breath in, breathe out. Try to breathe to your belly. And when you breathe, relax your jaw even more. Now, one more thing I want you to do is to raise your shoulders and then release the shoulders and all the tension that you have in your shoulders and neck. Okay, let's do it together. We're going to do the same thing with the face. Let's tense the face up and then release. Okay, scrunch the face. Let go. Scrunch the face. Let go. One more time, scrunch your face. Let go. Lip trill. And lip trill. Going up and down. Very good. Now we're going to warm up the lips. We're going to start with an e and move into o. E, o, e, oo, e. Ooh, e, oo, e, oo, ee, oo. These are also the high vowels. Front vowel e. Back vowel oo, ee, oo, ee, oo. And over exaggerate the articulation of the lips. Okay, really pull the lips to the sides and then push them forward. E, Oo. E oo. E Oo. E, oo. Ee, oo. Very good. Now we're going to practice two diphthongs. O, ow. And again we're going to exaggerate it a bit. Ow, ow, ow, ow. O as in go. Ow as in ow, ow, ow. Good. Next up, we're going to warm up the voice and we're going to play with the pitch a little bit. So. So start with a hum and then we're going to start really, really low. Go all the way up. Okay. Take a deep breath and then we're going to start high up and then go all the way down. Good. Take a deep breath. And now we're going to go up and then down. Moving on to a tongue twister, we'll begin with. Sheila needs sheena leads. That's a high e sound. Sheila L. Sheila needs. Needs Sheena leads. So we're placing the l and the n. Sheila needs, Sheena leads. Sheila needs, Sheena leads. Sheila needs, Sheena leads. Sheila needs, Sheena leads. Sheila needs, Sheena leads. Okay, good. The next one is she sees cheese. We're playing between the sh of she, the S of Cs and the Ch of cheese. And the z at the end as well. She sees cheese. She sees cheese. She sees cheese. She sees cheese. She sees cheese. She sees cheese. She sees cheese. She sees cheese. Very good. Moving on to practicing reductions. Didjo. When we say it fast in a sentence turns into digia. So. So let's just practice that D. J. J. Did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you, did you tell him? Did you know it? Did you do it? Did you tell him? Did you tell him? Did you tell em? Did you tell em? Did you tell em? Did you know it? Did you know it? Did you know it? Did you know it? Did you know it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you tell him? Did you know it? Did you do it? Did you tell him? Did you know it? Did you do it? Good. Next one is kind of that turns into kinda, kinda, kinda, kinda. And sometimes we can even drop The d. Kinda, kinda, kinda, kinda I kinda like it I kinda like it I kinda like it I kinda like it I kinda like it I kinda like it I kinda like it I kinda like it it's kinda lame it's kinda lame it's kinda lame it's kinda lame it's kinda lame it's kinda lame it's kinda lame it's kinda lame I like this kind of music I like this kind of music I like this kind of music I like this kind of music Kinda, kinda, kinda, kinda Good. Moving on to out of that turns into atta, atta, atta atta, atta atta it sounds like at a Atta atta. Outta here, outta here, Outta here, Outta here Outta your mind, Outta your mind Outta your mind Outta your mind Outta here, Outta here, outta here, Outta here, Outta your mind, Outta your mind Outta your mind, Outta your mind. Now we're gonna practice the three vowel sounds. The as in cat. As in cup. Ah. As in father. A hat. Hut. Hot hat. Hut. Hot hat. Ah. Ah. Hut, hot hat. Hut. Hot. Lack luck. Lock. Lack luck. Lock. Lack. La clock. Lack la clock. Lack la clock. Cab. Cub, cob. Cab, cub, cob. Cab, cub, cob. Cab, cub, cob. Cab, cub, cob. Cob. Cab, cub, cob. Good. Now we're going to practice intonation. We're going to practice three different types of intonational patterns. We'll begin with rising, Falling, intonation. And then rising, falling, rising, intonation. Now, we're gonna add words to it. We're gonna use the word no. Rising, intonation. No, no, no, no. Falling, intonation. No, no, no, no. Rising, falling, rising, intonation. No, no, no, no. Same thing with the word really. Rising into really. And take your time and explore your voice here. If you need to go slower, go slower. Really, really. Falling intonation. Really, really, really, really. Rising, falling, rising, really, really, really, really good. Now we're going to explore the different placements of your voice. We're going to start with a chest voice. So you want to go as low as possible. You can put your hand on your chest and just say, how are you doing? How were you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? Feel the vibrations here in your chest. Go really low in pitch. How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? Then we're going to move to our middle voice, and you want to feel like you're pushing your voice out. It's right here. How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? Moving to your head. Voice. How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? Chest. How are you doing? How are you doing? Head. How are you doing? Chest. How are you doing? How are you doing? Head. How are you doing? Okay, that's it. Now, to wrap it up, let's practice a fun sentence with a lot of flap T's. The little beetle battled the animal in the jungle. The little beetle battled the animal in the jungle. The little beetle battled the animal in the jungle. The little beetle battled the animal in the jungle. The little beetle battled the animal in the jungle. One more time. The little beetle battled the animal in the jungle. Very good. Now breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. All right, that's it. Amazing job. You can do this pronunciation practice every day, in the morning, in the middle of the day, before you go to sleep. It's going to help you improve your pronunciation and understand how you can use your voice and articulation organs in a way that serves you best. I hope you enjoyed it. Once you do it, write done in the comments, and if you're doing it daily, write the date as well so you can keep track, create a streak, and hold yourself accountable if you like this kind of episode. I have different pronunciation drills, 10 minutes a day. I'm going to list all of them in the description below, so you'll have different things to practice every single day. Gotta keep it interesting. Okay? So thank you so much, and I will see you tomorrow in your next pronunciation practice. Bye.