Primarily, I want to start working on a standard American English pronunciation, with a focus on the accent spoken in New York, since I totally love that city and want to spent some time there. Besides, I think the New York accent is quite distinctive to accents spoken in other parts of North America and I like to listen to it. I was pretty glad when I found Rachel's English on the Pronunciation Practice Page Frank and Hendrik put together – it's exactly what I was looking for.
Rachel Smith (I can't help thinking she looks a bit like Piper Halliwell from Charmed) does a good job with the videos she uploads and... she's from New York, yaaay! I already watched some of them and I was speaking along with her trying to imitate her accent and practice pronunciation. I can warmly recommend this page to you. The videos are really good as she explains everything with examples taken from everyday life, like doing a road trip with her friends and being filmed while driving or when she's cooking.
"Fill 'er up!"
She's also quite profound at what she does – have a look at the 'About' section if you are interest in what she's been doing.Apart from doing exercises from Rachel's English I while also watch some Accent Tag videos to hear some other accents. We did that in class two weeks ago and it was hilarious listening to the different accents from the English speaking world. Two other accents I really like are the Scottish and Australian one. They have some very distinctive features I really like listening to. Some words are pronounced so different to the "standard version" you know that they sound like entire new words.
Well, enough for now. I will keep you up-to-date on my process in learning English pronunciation.
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