How to correct my English pronunciation ?

@Chiolo (28)
China
September 13, 2010 1:51am CST
When i was in school, my English teachers are from a mountain area of HeNan province in China. They could not teach me in standard pronunciation but in localism pronuncaiation. Now when i am talking with my friends, even if i speak my words one by one, they are still hardly to understand me :(. They call what i speak is 'Changlish'~ My dear friends, do you know a way that could correct the pronunciation quickly?
2 responses
• India
21 Sep 10
Hello, The best way to learn English pronunciation is to watch movies. If you are interested in American Pronunciation then watch Hollywood movies. Similarly, for British pronunciation, you have to watch British movies only. There was a time when I watched movies all day. I was preparing for an examination on American English. Download TTS Engine, which is a freeware. You can select and load an English text and the reader will read it aloud, with American Pronunciation. Keep listening to it. Improve your grammar which will make your speech more organized. Use a dictionary, preferably, software version. Learn the pronunciation of individual words there. If you don't have a software dictionary, just learn phonetics in Oxford or Cambridge ALD. During the time of your preparation avoid listening to other languages as much as you can. Thanks. God bless you.
@Chiolo (28)
• China
21 Sep 10
Thank you, Sir your good ideas would do much help to me :) Happy Middle-Autumn day!
• Canada
13 Sep 10
When I was in school my English teachers were from the mountain area of the HeNan province in China. They were unable to teach me standard English pronunciation because they spoke in a local tongue. Even if I speak slowly when I talk to my friends, they can hardly understand me. They call what I speak, "Changlish." Above is your post in proper English form. I believe that if you are able to improve your English writing skills, your pronunciation will be somewhat easier to correct. This is based on word flow. Also, I am sure that there are websites that will give you the proper English pronunciation of words. Dictionary.com might help. Listening to native English speakers on YouTube might also help you to improve your linguistics. There are many books and study guides out there, but the Internet is free. ;)
@Chiolo (28)
• China
14 Sep 10
I will try to speak more in future and pay my full attention on every word~~ It is really hard, but i won't give up :) Thanks a lot for you suggestion, i agree that writing skills is very important. Ok, i will spend 1 hour to write something on every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday ~~