Record Your Voice to Improve English

Many English learners have pronunciation problems that they don't know about. Others have a strong accent that needs some modification so that others can understand them. Some students speak a lot better than they think they actually do. Tutors will help the student know what they need to practise to improve their pronunciation, but for the student to know for themselves, the best thing to do is for them to record their voice.As an English learner it is very difficult to know what you sound like without recording your voice. Recording your own voice can be used to know what you sound like and for also highlighting what errors you are making. Correcting these errors will help you improve your spoken English.A good place to start is to take an English text. Read it a couple of times in your head and then read it out loud. Record your voice while you are doing the reading. Then play it back and listen for any obvious pronunciation errors. Another good exercise is to take a text that also has an audio track. This can be taken from a website or from your English course book. Listen to the recording and read the text at the same time. Next read the text recording your voice. Play the two tracks, one sentence at a time, and listen for any pronunciation differences while at the same time paying attention to stress and intonation.Doing this will help you improve your speaking and stop any errors that you make.