Find a computer dictionary program with verbal word pronunciation and say it along with the computer. Most places where you can buy programs and games should have something that will help.
Hang out with native speakers. Best to choose well-spoken ones, though: English is famous for being badly pronounced by some of its own speakers.
AnswerListen to news broadcasts and commentary on radio and television stations such as National Public Radio (NPR), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Dissenting opinion: Broadcasters speak with increasingly stilted, unnatural diction. The media are not a good source for proper pronunciation of English. Most media speakers have had to take "communications" courses in order to speak at all, and many have had their accents "modified," which results in overcompensation. For example, many media people mispronounce two as "tew" and noon as "nyune" because some teacher of accent modification taught them that saying "styudent" and "nyews" is better than saying "stoodent" and "nooze."
Dissenting opinion of dissenting opinion: as a college linguistics professor and teacher of accent modification, my experience and training is that pronunciation improves by training the ear through extensive exposure to spoken English by a variety of speakers.
Listening to broadcast radio does not limit one to the speech of broadcasters. There are many interview programs that include exposure to common vernacular English reflecting a wide variety of spoken English.
The best way to improve pronunciation is to keep the radio and TV on at all times to train the ear, even when not actively listening and to dictate the English one hears from the radio and TV which can be done on the computer, for example, at the NPR website where there are audio files of programs which can be played, stopped, rewound and replayed for the purpose of dictating. Do this for several months and you will find your perception of English changing.
Then get yourself to a pronunciation/diction coach/teacher who can give you feedback on your production of English sounds/intonation/stress and help train your oral muscles to produce the most intelligible sounds for the native speaker ear.
AnswerA lot of people don't realize that a good dictionary isn't just for definitions, but for pronunciations too.
Firstly, get a good dictionary (e.g. Oxford, Collins, Merriam-Webster, or whatever you feel comfortable with), making SURE it has pronunciation keys, which are those funny symbols which tell you how to pronounce a word. The symbols are part of the International Phonetic Alphabet (see http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipa) which are used in most dictionaries.
Every good dictionary will have a small IPA chart, usually in its first few pages. All you do when looking up a word is check which symbol links to which sound (there will be examples in the chart). After doing this for a time, you will get used to the symbols and be able to easily check and learn the correct pronunciations as well as definitions in the dictionary!
Further pointIf your native language is not English, an important part of the solution is to train yourself to hear the different sounds of English. One of the simplest ways of doing this is to listen carefully to native speakers of English speaking your own language with an English. Listen for their r-sounds, for example. Listen for the way they mispronounce your native o-sound and so on. You can then try to imitate them and later use their sounds when speaking English.
Oh, what a lovely question! Idris Elba is quite talented - he speaks English fluently, as well as being able to speak a bit of French. It's wonderful to see someone embrace different languages, don't you think? Just like how we embrace different colors on our canvas!
English.
English/French
When was it important for a foreigner to learn English. Whatever language you speak is your language. It's like someone who speaks English (because to others, they are foreigners) goes somewhere and HAS to learn the language. If it was important it would probably be because the countries that speak English are quite civilised and foreigners some to get away from say... war, crime, poverty. They are going to want to know how to speak English.
ENGLISH!!!!!!!!! i mean he was president of the U.S.A..... and four score an seven years ago... is in English
Yes, with practice and dedication, you can speak English fluently.
He sings in English fine, but he cannot speak English fluently.
All people living in the United States should speak English fluently.
philippines,they used to speak english always
Agam Rodberg can fluently speak Hebrew and English.
Fluently, she can speak English, French and German
Jacklin Wilson can speak English and Spanish fluently.
Prince Joseph can speak English and French fluently.
Approximately 90% of the Dutch population can speak English fluently. English is widely taught in schools from an early age in the Netherlands, contributing to high proficiency levels in the language.
English and French
Jascha Heifetz was known to speak English and Russian fluently.
she can speak three languages spanish, english and french.