Nailing PRONUNCIATION in a new language: Unique and effective method - with Anneli Haake | S3E3

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“It’s more reliable to feel what you’re saying, than to hear it” -Anneli Haake ‪@swedishmadeeasy‬
Getting pronunciation right when you’re learning a new language is a challenge people often find most terrifying. If you’re struggling to ‘listen and repeat’, Anneli Haake has a much more effective method for you to try.
Anneli Haake is a Swedish Language teacher, author, and founder of Swedish Made Easy. After scanning her vocal tract in an MRI machine, Anneli developed a unique approach to teaching pronunciation, focusing on vocal anatomy - how our mouths and tongues move when we say certain words.
This brand new series of the Language Podcast is a toolkit for all you language learners out there - whether you’re learning for the first time, or adding another language to your arsenal.
In this episode you will learn
The importance of pronunciation and why it’s not the same as ‘accent’
How to focus on your own vocal anatomy to improve your pronunciation
Why you should learn reductions and contractions as soon as possible
What to do if you can’t make a certain sound
Get 20% off Anneli’s book The Language Teacher Rebel with the code AHPOD20: teachyourself....
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Your host is polyglot Richard Simcott @Torbyrne
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@RobertKaucher 3 месяца назад

IMO, Complete Swedish is one of the best self teaching books that exists for any language!

@CedricLefebvre 3 месяца назад

I couldn't agree more! This is generally known as the "articulatory approach to teaching pronunciation" (the Wikipedia article with the same name has some great references to dig deeper), and unfortunately it's often dismissed in teacher trainings because of the apparent level of technicity it requires. Of course, as Anneli Haake says here, it's mostly a matter of priorities: if you believe it a good thing to be able to teach good pronunciation, then it's the way to go for sure.

@annie1626 3 месяца назад

I'd like to leave a review as mentioned in the show notes, but you need to tell me where to do it! This was so interesting for me as a language learner and language teacher. I like to do both at once, and I often give my own struggles with Portuguese pronunciation as examples for my learner of English. I am also focusing a lot on pronunciation of new sounds, intonation, and sentence stress. A lot of my learners are currently older people, who might feel they can't improve their pronunciation, but realise that focusing on what their mouth muscles are doing, and what's happening to the air in the process, might seem over the top, but they can feel the results and they find it is actually interesting and rewarding, and also confidence building. They realise they don't actually have to learn loads of new vocabulary or perfect grammar rules to feel they are speaking more fluently. It's reassuring to know that my own at home intuitive approach in learning and teaching is also mirrored out there. It doesn't surprise me that Anneli finds it very natural to link language and music. The homework I set for this week was to use the "Lyrics Training" website to pick out the words of a song of their choice. Maybe I should recommend Abba. I also wanted to say to you Anneli that you are the best advert for your own approach, because your English pronunciation is so impressive. It's not many people that get to that level of pronunciation in a second language, so those MRIs obviously paid off in more than teaching Swedish.

@mauroribeiroABC 2 месяца назад

I loved this podcast! Every morning I put my earphones and listen to it! Thank you, Richard! It has helping me a lot with my English!

@naturalmedicinewriting5208 3 месяца назад

awesome podcast Richard! I think I will try the transcription method, keep those coming and good luck on this wonderful new project :)

@CedricLefebvre 3 месяца назад

I really enjoyed the interview as well, but I think the transcription exercise came more as an afterthought, when trying to think about what could someone do without a teacher's help, and when it comes to pronunciation it's a tough question. As she explains, we can't really rely on what we hear, and it's a motor skill, something we need to practice and get feedback on, so not really the kind of things we can do on our own. Instead of working on transcriptions, which is a rather intelectual activity, mostly based on listening, and not really involving actual production, I'd recommend finding reliable descriptions of each sound in the target language, and then getting at least a language partner to give feedback on our attempts to produce isolated sounds, combinations, words, and then sentences. But if we can hire a (good) language teacher for at least one thing, I'd say we should do it for pronunciation...

@naturalmedicinewriting5208 3 месяца назад

Yeah that makes a lot of sense! I would add singing songs and also learning how the consonants and vowels change when in collocation with other sounds and phonetics specifically help with this as opposed to phonology that only teaches about the sounds that are perceived in the language as different and not the ones that are different but not seen as such by the speakers of the language

@whukriede 3 месяца назад

Quite interestingly a few musicians, among them French Horn player Sarah Willis from the Berlin Phil, did the same MRI stuff also. Her recordings of it are on YT. Teachers in the musical field, if I may add that, always emphasize on the importance of starting very very slow, and only then speed up gradually. Good talk, liked it.