Name: 3 Reasons WHY Native Speakers DON'T Understand YOU
Uploaded: 2020-01-20T02:19:06.000Z
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but they don't focus on pronunciation and accent

it's in if it's a question or if it's an affirmative based on the intonation

together will make it very difficult for native speakers to understand you

Now, what do you need to do to change that

accent and pronunciation exercises need to be on the top of your priority

list if you are having problems if native speakers are having problems to

actors do accent reduction lessons or improve their accent I am a teacher but

I'm always doing accent and pronunciation exercises

make sure that people understand me so this is a continuous exercise now

imagine if you have never done it okay so make sure to do pronunciation and

accent reduction exercises to help you become a clear English speaker okay

awesome number two the reason why native speakers don't understand you or are

having problems to understand you is because your vocabulary and your grammar

are not on point now when I say that please keep in mind

that making mistakes is alright okay I'm not saying that you have to stop making

mistakes, no you will continue making mistakes I make mistakes everybody makes

mistakes the problem is when those mistakes stop

you okay there are some mistakes that will confuse native speakers and will

stop conversation and what are they the first one that comes to mind is tense

conjugation if you are having a conversation and you're constantly

changing the tenses present past future, present past best present you will

confuse any speaker not just native speakers it'll be difficult to

understand your story if you're not  clear with the tense so this is a past

story is it a present story the speaker may be a little confused this

can and will stop native speakers from understanding you one thing that I also

noticed using the wrong words before and after many students confuse that so if

you confuse this in a conversation using before or using after the native speaker

will have a very difficult time understanding what you have to say so

make sure that you're very careful with the words you choose that you really

know what they mean because they can confuse people that's why I said the

vocabulary and grammar because it's not just grammar that stops conversation but

vocabulary and most of the times it's not

it's not because you don't know a word it's because you think you know the

meaning of that word you think you know how to use that word but you don't so

make sure that you work on that before you're having a conversation because

these things combined can do a terrible damage to your conversation

with a native speaker okay now what do you need to do to improve your grammar

and vocabulary when talking about grammar the first thing you need to have

is a clear understanding of the basic tenses past present future you need to

understand this basic lessons present past future because they stop

conversations all the time so it's a basic lesson okay learning the tenses

it's a very basic lesson but if you haven't mastered yet no problems but you

need to dedicate more time to studying it okay actually for my students I make

it like a routine to study these tenses because they are so important and they

stop conversations so make sure that you study them on a continuous basis okay

now vocabulary same thing but  I would recommend  studying vocabulary

that is connected to things you like to talk about okay because if you just sit

down and study vocabulary me and that's gonna take a long time because

vocabulary is so general so what kind of vocabulary do you want to study or do

you need to study that's a good way to start okay and then number three reason

why native speakers don't understand you especially if you are from

spanish-speaking countries or if your country's language come from Latin okay

false friends what is a false friend a false friend is a word that you believe

has a meaning but it doesn't it means something completely different from what

you think it is this is what we call false friends and this my friend

stop conversations it can make people very confused

I am a non-native speaker and I know a lot about false friends and sometimes

when my students use them with me I get confused I need a minute or two to be

like oh you're trying to say that I'm a teacher now imagine a native speaker

they can have many problems if you're using false friends and if you're using

the wrong words it's very similar to problem or chew up vocabulary but here

it's very specific it's about false friends words that we

believe mean something but they don't they look like something the

spelling is, makes you think they are something now what can you do study it

study fast friends okay there are many lists on the internet

that you can download and and read more about because the truth is that are many

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