Introduction Hi, I'm AJ Hoge I will be your teacher during this entire Effortless English Pronunciation Course I'm excited to help you speak with an American accent Do you have problems with your pronunciation? Do people sometimes not understand you when you speak English? Do they say, "Huh? What? Huh?" and act confused when you speak sometimes? Do you feel foolish because of this when you speak English? Probably you have some pronunciation problems That's why you bought the course Well in this course you're going to learn to speak with a clearer, more understandable, North American accent Now I say North American because the Canadian and the American accents are basically the same; especially the standard accents in each of those countries So I will teach you the North American accent because I'm from the United States and that's my accent At the end of this course you will have much clearer pronunciation You will be understood You will sound more like an American You will have a much better accent So lets talk about how you're going to this This course takes about three and a half months Now I want you to go nice and slowly through the course and to learn deeply Effortless English is a deep learning system It means I want you to practice and really master the skills Just thinking about and learning about pronunciation by reading or watching a video, it's not enough You have to practice it You have to imagine you're an athlete and you're training You have to train the muscles in your throat, in your mouth, and you have to even train your mind to be able to make the sounds correctly so that you have a nice American accent Lets talk about the process; how you're going to this Now this course has twenty units You're going to take five days for each unit So every unit you will it for five days in a row You're going to have two things in each unit There will be a video; a video lesson, and there will be a training audio The video lesson teaches you how to make the important sounds, or teaches you some technique for improving your pronunciation Now it's a video because I want you to look and see how I move my mouth Sometimes I'll show you my tongue even so you can see what I'm doing and learn how to make the sounds correctly Now in the training audio, that's where you will actually practice because just watching me is not enough You have to learn to it yourself and that requires practice day after day after day You'll be practicing every single day So that training audio, you're going to repeat it several times a day Not just once Several times a day And you're going to that for five days, right? So for example, in unit one, you'll practice with the training audio on day one On day two you'll practice with that same audio again On day three you'll practice with it again On day for and on day five So you'll get five full days practicing with that training audio Training yourself to improve your pronunciation And then finally day six you start a new unit You start back to the beginning Now each day you'll something a little different You'll have a slightly different focus on each day for each unit For example, on day one you'll focus on listening deeply; focus on hearing the sounds of English correctly This is the first step So you'll be listening to that training audio and to the lesson video again and again and again and again, but not just listening and ignoring it Not just listening and distracted, but listening very carefully To say the sounds correctly you first must hear them correctly On day two of each unit you will pause and imitate So you'll listen to one sentence from me in the training audio, and you'll pause, and then you'll say the same sentence You'll try to copy my pronunciation Then you'll to the second sentence, the third sentence You'll this pausing and copying, pausing and imitating, pausing and repeating again and again and again But not just repeating the words That's not enough You have to copy my pronunciation So imitating; that's the important word Pause and imitate on day two of each unit On day three of each unit you will read aloud and record yourself You have the text for all of these audios and videos So you'll read them aloud in a nice strong voice, and you'll record yourself Then you'll compare your recording, your audio, to my recording You'll listen carefully and you'll notice the differences Then you'll be able to hear your own mistakes with pronunciation That will help you improve a lot Finally on days and for each unit you will use a technique called tracking I explain this technique in unit one, but I'll give you a brief description now This is where you listen to me, listen to the audio, and you speak with me at the same time, no pausing You don't pause the audio, so you have to speak at the same speed as me Now I'll tell you, it's not easy in the beginning You'll be listening and saying the same thing You'll try to copy my pronunciation as you listen without pausing That's a lot to at the same time So don't worry if it's very difficult at first It probably will be, but day by day, week by week, this tracking technique will become easier and easier and this is so powerful This will help you create an amazing, clear American accent Your pronunciation will improve so much by using this tracking technique on days four and five of every unit You will develop a clear and understandable American accent Just follow this five day process with each unit Be patient Let yourself improve gradually and slowly That's how you it All right, it's time to get started Go to Unit now Watch the lesson video and then start training with the training audio See you now in Unit 1! CLICK HERE .. .Introduction Hi, I'm AJ Hoge I will be your teacher during this entire Effortless English Pronunciation