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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4818 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 9 of 13 01 August 2014 at 4:31pm | IP Logged |
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@Tristano:
You said you have listened to BBC podcasts which is good. I'd strongly suggest concentrating on BBC Radio 4 if formal British English is what you want. Only a relatively small proportion of that output ends up as podcasts, so to get a wider choice, I'd use the listen-on-deman service iPlayer, and I find the best way to do this is to start with the schedules, which contain a link to the programmes for any given day. Click on the link for information about the programme, and optionally click on the "Listen now" icon to play it.Radio programmes are iPlayer-able usually for only 7 days, although there are exception BBC Radio 4 It's not all RP / formal. You will hear regional accents as well, but there is quite a large proportion of RP and fairly formal speech on there. There is also the BBC World Service: World Service 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5371 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 10 of 13 01 August 2014 at 5:05pm | IP Logged |
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If you want to take your English pronunciation to the next level, I recommend you spend some time examining your own Italian pronunciation. I firmly believe that in order to fully appreciate what English sounds are and aren't, you need to understand how they differ from the sounds of your first language.
This doesn't have to be a formal study of Italian phonetics and phonology, but you should definitely take the time to examine, introspectively, how you make the sounds of your language and, to a broader degree, how this differs from other Italian regional dialects or from how foreigners pronounce Italian. Try to understand and control how small variations in mouth movements cause small variations in sounds. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6587 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 13 02 August 2014 at 12:51am | IP Logged |
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And if you have time you could try to help an English native speaker to improve their accent in Italian.
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| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4378 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 12 of 13 03 August 2014 at 9:25pm | IP Logged |
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Pronunciation in my opinion is the hardest part , listen a lot , especially try to pay attention to the Rs , the
Os and the As , if you adjust those sounds , you will sound already a bit more british and less Italian or american . 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4037 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 13 of 13 10 August 2014 at 1:48pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks to everyone!
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