G'day mate. How're you going? Are you studying English right now? If you think I'm not improving my English, then why don't you refine your pronunciation first? Why? Because, the mastery of English pronunciation is the linchipin of your priorities when it comes to English study per se. Without further ado, let's dive in.
I'm almost 100 per cent sure that knowing and being capable of pronouncing all key phonemes and different patterns are crucially important for us to understand what's been said (Listening skill), what's been written (Reading skill), what/how to write sentences (Writing skill), and how to speak (Spoken skill). Thus, the 4 components of the English language depend upon how good and accurate you could enunciate each phoneme, right? Ok, then, in order to improve and master pronunciation, many learners might reckon that the learning cost is problematic if you are still a student or haven't got sufficent funds to be able to pay for English courses. Don't worry about it.
The easiest way, I suppose, is just google it online. How simple is that? So, what you can do is surf the Internet to find a downloadable file pertaining to IPA phonemic charts, which I believe that there's a bunch of readily available files out there. Once you've downloaded it, you just kickstart having a look at it first. If you can pronounce all of them without having significant problems, then you will try to learn what kinda spelling patterns correspond to phonemic symbols. Well, that's not necessarily straightforward, but nonetheless that's not too many patterns you have to remember, either.
Please keep in mind the fact that it's better to learn pronunciation from professional teachers unless you are quasi-100 per cent certain and confident of saying words correctly. Is it contradictory to what I explained so far? I hope not. Yes, of course, nobody wants to pay extra money for improving such a minor thing, or pronunciation. But nevertheless, this notion is apparently not true, because pronunciation is not such a thing. In fact, whether you are good at it or not heavily affects your future impovement. Finding free materials out there seem to be easy, but reaching a fierce determination of self-investment in English courses is not that easy to be realised. It's all up to you mate. Self-investment is one of most beautiful and the smartest things to do. If you are intelligent enough, then you know what I mean?
Should you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me anytime. Cheers mate.