Hi !

I'm Gaby, young student.
I think I'm bad with electronics 'cause I didn't successed to manage to find english people who would like to speak english with me to make me better.
So i will use the english board so.

Then, I will tell you why I'm looking for english speaker to make me speak english (pronunce it) better :
I very like Esperanto, and I'm forced to have a very good level to english to let me go trough studies, otherwise I'm a little bored that others make fun of my bad pronuncing.

So I wanted a way to unish my two desires, and then I looked for esperantist english speakers!

So now, I will tell you a little funny story (not for me) to let you see the work to do :

It was a sunny day, we were in english class with americans correspondants and our teacher tell us to ask questions to them to make presentations, so we did. "What's your name? What do you like? If you were a pet, which would you? ..."
And then I made presentations of one of them : "Her name is Sarah, she likes (...) and she loves cats and bich!" — Laughs from classroom.
And then, I would like to say the place with see and sand, but I pronunced bitch instead of beach (nom I know the difference : bitch it's bi- and beach it's biiiii- ...).

So then, if you want to get your ears tired apart and make lot of laughs by earing me, I think we will be great friends. =)

PS : Cxu vi volas esperantan version? Mi ne bone parolas angle.

Many imported programmes on French TV broadcast the English/American sound track as well as the version dubbed into French.

You can set your TV set up so that you can hear the original sound track in English (when broadcast) and see the subtitles in French (for the hard of hearing).

This may help with improving your English.

Vi povas reguligi vian TV-aparaton tiel ke, je la elsendo de importitaj programoj (ne ĉiuj sed multaj) per la enlanda TV-servo en Francujo, vi povas aŭdi la originalan dialogon en la angla (aŭ usona) kaj samtempe kompreni la sencon de kion diras la aktoroj per la subtitoloj en la franca (servo por surduloj).

Hi Gaby!

Do you have good knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet? Did you train your ear to discriminate the various sounds of English?

I would strongly encourage you to learn these first. You could then proceed with learning the correct pronunciation of the 1000 most common English words.

I also agree with Sudanglo's advice about watching subtitled movies/TV series. Only, experience showed me that English-language subtitles will help you far more than French-language ones. Also, I would suggest to disable them from time to time and try to understand as much as you can, then switch them on again and replay to see how well you did.

Good luck!

PS: ne hezitu peti al mi Esperantan tradukon se io ĉi-mesaĝe estas malklara.

Hi!

Thanks for yours responses!

Although I never managed to set up audio to english with TV. x)
Thanks for IPA! This will be helpful!

But I would like to find a way to unite both english and esperanto practicing, is it very impossible ?

If you have an old TV (analogue), set the selection of the language of the soundtrack via the digi-box connected to the TV, rather than through the TV menu's.

Try it first with American programmes like CSI on TF1. I promise you that if more than one soundtrack is being transmitted you will be able to choose which you hear.

You will also find that DVD's of films often have multiple language soundtracks.