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How to read long sentences aloud

2021年11月15日

G'day, how have you been? Today, I'm going to be touching on how to read long sentences aloud on a daily basis. Many learners are struggling to continue to read aloud without hesitation or unnecessary/odd pauses. There are many ways of overcoming them from a pedantic and phonetic point of view. Without further ado, let's get into it.

First up, we need to choose which article we are going to read aloud. The best possible one is to have a look at some of the famous online newspapers such as New York Times, Guardian, TIMES, etc. Whatever you find it interesting would be great. Although it depends on which English level you are at, just be a little bit careful about your selection of articles. It is nonsensical if it's too difficult to read and understand. So, it should be a piece of news article containing at least 80% of your familiar words and interesting field, so that you are not going to be stuck in understanding the content itself.

Next up, we always make sure that we record ourselves and prepare Chrome Browser for checking pronunciation simultaneously. Just reading it aloud is not good enough to be able to boost our English skills and analyse our performance. With those two things being running at the same time, we could speak up more seriously because they make us a bit nervous, right? And, the longer we read aloud, the more chance we will make mistakes, which is a very effective way to pave the way for rectifying our bad habit of hesitating and making odd pauses. It is possible that everyone can overcome this difficulty whereby we read longer sentences aloud. Without recording yourself and using Chrome Browser, it's going to be a waste of time, actually. A bit tedious, but we've got to get it right.

Needless to say, if you haven't mastered basic English pronunciation, then you'd better go back to the basics. Otherwise, you will never fix it, and there won't be any chance of developing your spoken skills. Proper practice makes perfect, or specifically speaking "semi- or quasi-perfect" at best. We have to take into account the longer term benefit rather than immediate or shorter term benefit in terms of English proficiency. I know it's hard to imagine when on earth we are going to speak English fluently almost instantaneously. If you are thinking about this sort of thing, please stop it. Instead, do spend more time on doing more proper practice. Life is finite, so be always sure to stick to your ultimate objective and be consistent with how you want to be. That's precisely what I have done in the course of learning English over the last two decades.

Thanks for reading my blog. Chao!