Is Speed Harming Your Pronunciation?

Follow the journey of Nitish, a real student from India, and learn to reduce the influence of your first language in order to speak English more clearly. In this fifth lesson, I stress the importance of not rushing when we speak. We need to remain in control of our articulation. We slow down and articulate our key words more carefully.

Will we get to vowel and consonant sounds as well as intonation and linking? Yes, attention to word stress, individual sounds, intonation and other aspects is coming up in this series, but I needed to emphasize the importance of clarity over speed. Nitish, like many other advanced students of English, tends to rush, and the fast rate of speech has negatively impacted comprehensibility. However, by slowing down just a bit, he's already improved!