1 - Listen! Listening to real speech examples is the most obvious way to improve your pronunciation.
There are many ways to do this. Watch movies in their original versions, listen to podcasts in English on
topics that interest you (you can try the British Council's English Podcasts app here). Notice the
intonation people use. You can add this with "Shadow". Shadowing involves listening to and then
repeating short phrases or sentences, trying to imitate sounds, intonation, and word accents, and noting
how the mouth and tongue move when speaking.
2. Record yourself. Once you've practiced shadowing, you can record your own speaking by repeating
short phrases you've heard or by doing the Long Speaking He task from your coursebook. B. Describe
the image. Listen for the offending sound and make a note of it. Practice those words/sounds slowly and
then re-record yourself. Do you see any improvement?
3. Learn phonemic charts. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a visual representation of various
sounds. It may look strange and feel like you are learning a whole new language, but it really helps with
your pronunciation. All dictionaries contain phonetic transcriptions of words so you know how to
pronounce them. As we have already seen, this is very useful in English because English spelling does
not always match pronunciation. Think of the letter "rough" in the words "but", "through", "tough", and
"should". It is impossible to guess the pronunciation of these words without help.
4. Use a dictionary. In addition to printed dictionaries that provide phonetic transcriptions of words,
there are many online dictionaries that you can click to hear the spoken word. A particularly good site is
howjsay. The very name of this site is a handy guide to pronouncing the frequently asked question "How
do you say...?" in a natural way. A great resource for seeing what new words sound like.

5. Exercise! Different languages ​​make different sounds, and our mouths adapt to these sounds. Some
sounds are very difficult to produce physically because they do not exist in the native language. Just like
when learning new sports or dance moves, it is important to train your mouth how to form new sounds.
The more you practice, the easier it will become. For example, many Spanish speakers have trouble with
the difference between the /b/ and /v/ sounds. /b/ is pronounced by putting your lips together. The /v/
sound is similar, but the upper teeth must touch the lower lip before releasing. This gets easier the more
you practice, so try saying, "Large serving please!" Sounds and activities to practice them.

6. Know your minimal pair. Minimal pairs are words that sound similar but sound different. For example,
a ship and a sheep. Difference between /I/ and /i: in "ship"
/ 'sheep' is the vowel length. This is difficult for many language learners to understand and occurs in
many different words. The first step is to be able to tell the difference between sounds when you hear
them. You can hear some popular minimal pairs here. Can you tell the difference? Can you make
different sounds yourself?