gwaur wants to know:
gwaur想知道:
"I'm not a native English speaker. How can I reduce my accent?"
“我的母語不是英語。我要怎樣減輕口音?”
Get a dictionary. It probably won't help you, but it might.
買本詞典。那可能幫不到你,但沒準可以呢。
Practice, practice, practice. I rarely speak English myself and I was born here.
練習,練習,練習。我很少自己說英語,我出生在這里。
See what words you have a problem with, or what phrases, and practice.
看看哪些單詞或短語你的發音有問題,然后勤加練習。
Be around a lot people that speak English natively.
多和母語為英語者接觸。
Ask some of your English speaking friends to correct you.
請說英語的朋友糾正你的發音。
Basically, anything that you used to do in your original language, do it in English now. So read books in English.
基本上來說,你之前用母語做的任何事現在都要用英語來做。比如閱讀英語書籍。
Watch movies in an American accent.
觀看美國口音的電影。
Keep watching this show. We speak English.
堅持收看這個節目。我們就說英語。
Watch a lot of English television 'cause when I was trying to learn Spanish, Spanish television helped me a lot.
多看英語節目,因為我在學習西班牙語時,西班牙語電視節目幫了我很多。
Don't. Just be yourself.
不需要。做你自己就好。
Your accent's cool. Just keep it. It makes you sound authentic and super-cool and who wants a regular American accent? Keep yours.
你的口音很酷。保留你的口音。那會使你的發音聽起來既真實又超級酷,誰想要普通的美國口音?保留自己的口音吧。
There are accent-reduction classes. I'd recommend that you take one. You know, I'm the last person to ask 'cause I still have an accent.
有一些減輕口音的課程。我建議你去報名上課。不過我可能是最不應該回答這個問題的人,因為我現在仍然有口音。
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