Why some people have a good pronunciation in Spanish, and get to connect with natives, while others can't avoid that thick accent?
The mistake (almost) every Spanish learner is making every day they practice...
...that is screwing their pronunciation up,
and what to do instead to sound more native-like.
In 8 minutes 57 seconds.
It isn’t about being born with “the gift”, it isn’t about the time they put into learning Spanish… It’s much more simple than that.
Something about a rare experiment that is related to your speaking skills in Spanish
In 2014, the psychologist Timothy D. Wilson summoned 15 volunteers at the University of Virginia, where he worked. The volunteers had to enter in a room; one by one.
Alone.
Each one must stay there for 3 hours. There was only a chair and a button on the wall. No phones, no newspapers, no TV, nothing to distract themselves. Just the chair, and a button on the wall.
They could sit, lie down, think,, jumo, meditate, get bored…
Or press the button.
Most of them did press it.
– What happened when they pressed the button?
– The button gave them a small electric shock.
Small but painful.
– You know what happened after they received that shock?
50% of the volunteers pressed the button again. Some of them pressed it several times, even if it hurt them.
They preferred electric shocks to boredom
Imagine, when you speak with someone in Spanish:
if the flow of the conversation is slow,
if you need to repeat yourself,
if they need to focus to decode what you are saying…
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they would probably wish to press that electric shock button instead of having a boring conversation.
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This isn’t my opinion, it’s what Timothy’s experiment says.
Then what do I do?
You need to find out why you are stuck.
There is 1 reason for that.
(And 1 solution too).
Now there are 2 options:
- You can google, watch Youtube videos, listen to podcasts, read forums, ask natives…And search for the reason why you don’t get to improve your speaking skills.
- Subscribe to the list to find out what most of Spanish learners are doing wrong (and what to do instead).
+ 3 audios (8 minutes 57 seconds in total).
Subscribers have access to an audio with all the information they need to start improving their pronunciation on their own:
- The only thing people who speak better Spanish do differently, that you could apply from today (although you probably won't).
- Something you can learn from a test of colors for non-color-blinds that is related to your pronunciation. Play a demo of this test, and see what I explain in the audio with your own eyes (literally).
- The trap that is killing the improvement of your speaking skills and why you keep falling into it.
- Why people react differently to one word that starts with the letter M, and how to apply this when you are learning Spanish (and automate the correct pronunciation).
More things you can find in the audio:
- A mistake Spanish students are doing that doesn't let them switch to "Spanish mode".
- Something apparently harmless, that its affecting your pronunciation in Spanish in a negative way. It's the reason that keeps you pronouncing with English accent.
- What does the word HALLUCINATION have to do with your accent. When you listen to this you'll think "why didn't I see this before?".
- Why you brain doesn't want to stop making associations with your mother tongue, and the way to create new associations with the Spanish, to allow automatic (correct) pronunciation.
To find out:
- the one thing most Spanish learners do every day they practice, that it’s only screwing their pronunciation up.
- what they should do instead,
- and how to improve their pronunciation without the need for a Spanish native speaker…
you already know what to do.
Above.
