Hadar Shemesh says monitoring your own pronunciation while speaking kills fluency by about 20%. Instead, focus outward on the listener and the conversation. Your internal critic doesn't help in the moment anyway.
When you are speaking to anyone, you don't want to think about your pronunciation. You don't want to have the critic sitting here judging, saying, "No, this was good. This was not good. Here you didn't pronounce the TH." Do not let that be a part of your speaking experience. Why? Because A) there's nothing you can do about it while you're already speaking except feel bad. Second, it takes up space in the brain. Instead of you being present and listening and speaking, that drops 20% more of your fluency ability. Don't think about yourself, think about the other person. How can I be curious? How can I follow up? What are the questions that I can ask them? You can't think too many things at the same time, so shift the focus from yourself to that.
Read Out Loud with me! Dare to Lead by Brené Brown | Pronunciation & Vocabulary practice
