E33 – is reading aloud helpful?

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Hello language enthusiasts welcome back

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to my fluent podcast! In this episode I

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want to cover the question is reading

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aloud helpful? let’s get started. I just

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came across one of my very first

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episodes back then I think exactly one

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year ago in which I did not number my

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episode meaning my very first four

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episodes were not numbered I’ve started

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with the very first episode called

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learning through TV series and movies

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which I numbered (by) zero

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don’t ask me why zero.. in any case I

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listened to this old episode called five

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fresh dirty tips to boost your speaking

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skills now! (what a name )and I was kind of

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shocked

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there was no intonation no motivation I

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read out loud the whole script so buckle

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up and have a listen to a short excerpt

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of this terrible episode! in any case

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here comes number three use technology

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wisely be aware of the danger of

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technology in terms of the whole

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materials out there if you don’t be

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careful you’ll get easily overwhelmed by

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all the stuff, pen and paper will do the

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trick too, and that way you won’t be

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distracted that easily you can really

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focus on a subject it’s really all about

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striking a balance between technology

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and more traditional methods

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Whoo! what do you think guys was it good

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was it bad well in my opinion I should

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have spoken a tick louder and in this

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episode the question is “is reading aloud

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Helpful?” well, the answer is yes of course

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it is helpful it can help you train your

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mouth muscles because every language

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needs different parts of your mouth

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Muscles, they have to be trained and also

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the more you read aloud the more

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you will be conscious of the words you

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are not quite sure about the

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pronunciation and that’s a good thing

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because you can you can just look it up

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you can look up for the right

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pronunciation on www.forvo.com calm for example

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and now guys I’m going to show you

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another excerpt of a recording I’ve made

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about three months after the first

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record that I showed you in the

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beginning of the podcast “called the chef

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he was very upset that morning he was

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close to the point of Tears gardener Joe

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Atherton from Mansfield wood house in

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nothing Hampshire has been showing off

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his prize-winning enormous onion The

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Daily Express reports the Choe won first

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prize at the horror gate autumn Flower

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Show for his onion which weighed 15

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pounds..”

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people might argue here that there are

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not that many differences between the

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first recoding and second recording but I

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think in my opinion, you can make out at

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least a little improvement and as far as

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I can tell it could help me a bit with

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vocabulary and also with my confidence

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because it’s a lot easier now to read

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something and actually it doesn’t take

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that much time until you see improvement

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meaning you don’t need to spend two

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hours a day No! I think it’s more

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effective if you spend 15 minutes or so

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and that would do the trick and in my

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case my language journey goes on I’m

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still learning English! Still struggling

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but I feel more comfortable

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recently a listener reached out to me

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and said Daniel you speak too

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Slowly, way too slowly!

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it’s okay I am working on that and

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hopefully in the future I will speak

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faster and by the way what about you? Do

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you read out loud to improve your

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target language you can leave me a

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comment on my website my fluent podcast

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a good one