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French

French vs. English Pronunciation: 5 Tips to Help You Sound Fluent

As a French language learner, one of your top language goals is to sound fluent. Even if you don't know every single French word out there, your accent and how you speak can be the key to sounding fluent sooner than you may think possible. Fluency isn't just about knowing

English

10 Tongue Twisters to Test Your English Pronunciation

If you've ever been a child on a playground, you're probably familiar with the concept of a "tongue twister." In Spanish, they're known as trabalenguas. In French, they're called virelangue. Almost every language has their own tongue twisters but the concept is the same: These phrases are filled

Japanese

Top 5 YouTubers You Should Subscribe to for Learning Japanese

When I want to learn how to do something, I almost always turn to watching YouTube. Did you know that YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, right after Google?　It's free, it doesn't require much effort (watching is easier than reading), and whatever contents you are

Italian

The Ultimate Italian Pronunciation Guide for Language Learners

Italian is known the world over for its charming, melodious sound, and the key to achieving that as a language learner is by understanding the rules of Italian pronunciation.

Language Learning

3 Steps to Master Pronunciation in Any Language

Pronunciation can take its toll on our self-confidence. The awkward silences and the way our tongues just seem to be against us when it's time to actually talk! And all because of a couple of sounds...how frustrating is that? Well, great news! Pronunciation does not have to be your

Russian

Russian Vowels - Do We Really Know Them?

To understand and speak Russian, you have to have a strong knowledge about each letter of the alphabet and its sound. Because as you will notice some of the sounds don't exist in English!

Russian

Top 5 Free Websites and Resources for Learning Russian

It's easier to practice a language when you’re using engaging material that’s relevant to you, rather than just dry textbook material. Here's a short list of five sites with free interesting and entertaining materials for Russian learners.

English

7 English Pronunciation Mistakes Even Natives Make

Practice makes perfect. However, there are some things we find too hard that we just settle. Sounds familiar? Welcome to the English language. There are so many words and expressions in English that we pronounce incorrectly as language learners. However, there is a handful of words that even native speakers

Mandarin

The Best Speech Techniques to Avoid Sounding Like a Foreigner in Chinese

Chinglish. We've all heard it. It's that cross between Chinese and English which just doesn't sound quite right but still tries to be English. Well, it works the other way around as well: it's called Englese. Englese is where Chinese learners will speak in Chinese, but they incorporate elements of

English

The 3 Levels of English Pronunciation Mistakes

Let's address the elephant in the room real quick... Yes, there is always a big possibility you'll make pronunciation mistakes when speaking English, regardless of your proficiency level. The best thing is: you don't have to worry about it! Making pronunciation mistakes is a common part of the language learning

French

Top French Pronunciation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

French is a tricky language when it comes to pronunciation. All kinds of mistakes are possible when not applying the spelling rules. These rules are numerous and difficult to memorize in one shot. This article is not for beginners. If you happen to be one, I wrote this reference guide

French

Top 6 Books To Help You Learn French

Parlez-vous Français? Not really, but would you like and also need to learn how to? What if we told you that you will master this language? Oh, Mon Dieu! As a former French learner, I must say that one of the most efficient methods that helped me break the barriers

French

Best French Words to Practice as Beginner: The Definitive List

As mentioned in a previous article on Speechling How to Speak French - The Ultimate Guide to French Pronunciation, the French language comes from a diversity of its vowels, the right balance between vowels and consonants, and the monotony of its rhythm. In this article, I will focus on the

Spanish

The Pronunciation Mistakes That Make You Sound Like a Gringo

The Spanish language is a beautiful thing. Travel is also a beautiful thing. Unfortunately, too many travelers in both Latin America and Spain find several ways to combine the two in ways that should never be combined. Although you may have taken two or three years of Spanish in high

French

How to Speak French - The Ultimate Guide to French Pronunciation

French is is often thought of as the language of love and romance. I don't know if that is true, but one may say that the beauty of the French language comes from the diversity of its vowels, the right balance between vowels and consonants, and the monotony of its

English

How to Speak English: The Ultimate Guide to English Pronunciation

As an English language teacher, I often find myself amid this conundrum where I have to figure out the most effective lesson plan to make a particular topic at hand as simple as possible for my students to comprehend. Depending on the grade and skill level of students, this more

Spanish

How to Speak Spanish: The Ultimate Guide to Spanish Pronunciation

Speaking a language in the real world is like serving a tennis ball over the net. Sometimes the ball doesn't make it over the other side. For the first two years of my Spanish learning journey, I had already become a vocabulary and vocabulary whiz. But did I stand a