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and digital audio files that a user can download for improving your listening skills and learning
to a personal device for easy listening. Videos about and hearing word stress in English.
are very useful for learning the positions and
movements of the mouth. Audios, such as Here are a few effective and useful online
audio lessons and podcasts, are excellent aids platforms for improving pronunciation.

Fig 3.2.4 Online resources for improving pronunciation

Out of the four resources mentioned in the find videos to work on the areas you need to
above illustration, two are to be explained in improve.
detail below. They are:
You can search for the area you want to
(1) YouTube Video Lessons improve on English Pronunciation video to
find YouTube video lessons. For example,
Video is probably the best resource you can type word stress or accent in English
for improving English pronunciation via pronunciation video to find video lessons on
online. There are many helpful online videos word stress. By adjusting the speed in videos
for correcting your English pronunciation on YouTube you can slow down the video to
and English accent. The advantage of video see the mouth movements. There are provi-
resources is that you can see the correct mouth sions for downloading your favourite videos
positions clearly, you can repeat sections of les- and you can watch them later.
sons that you find difficult and you can find a
teacher who suits your style of learning. There Here are a few videos links for you:
are a number of great options with videos on
YouTube. You may have an idea about what 1. https://www.youtube.com/results?-
areas of pronunciation speakers of second lan- search_query=british+pronuciation
guage find hard to learn, you can search and (Pronounce 100most common English

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