Neutral accent is a way of speaking a language without regionalism. Speaking with an accent affects our communication and sometimes at its worst spoils our image in public. To make ourselves understand better we should speak in neutral accent. Let us learn about how to speak in neutral English.
By speaking in a neutral English, we can make people to understand us better. We can speak well in our Job interviews, public forum and work places. We can interact with the society smoothly. We can avoid frustration, inferiority complex and disappointments from people asking us to repeat what we've said.
Steps to speak in neutral accent.
1. Listen how native speakers speak the language.
2. Try to watch some good movies that can improve your overall communicative skills.
3. Do not speak too fast. Keep your rate of speech under control.
4. Read dictionary to learn the meaning of the word, spelling and pronunciation.
5. Listen to audio clips and videos to boost your confidence while speaking.
6. Record your speech to realize you problems and difficulties and correct them immediately
7. Increase your reading ability by going through newspapers and magazines.
8. Learn sounds of English. Familiarize with vowel and consonant sounds
9. Follow newsreaders and listen them daily to enhance your clarity of speech.
10. Do some jaw exercises to modulate your voice and accent to our requirements.
Language specialist and programmers work jointly to develop software that can recognize voices. To make the machine understand what we speak, we need to speak in a neutral English that the computer can recognize our speech. Hence try to speak neutral accent.
