Hi. My name is Ball...ya3nee ne shoutak wala eh?

Some talk on PRONUNCIATION FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS:
I think kan usdu ye'oul...My name is Paul:)

El 3abara, el fasad, el ghilew, el zahma wa el p wa el b min dimn mashakilna. Bas nekhalee el p wa b shwyia 3ala gamb delwaty 3ashan heya moshkila qawmeya.

When I enter a class and ask students: "Do you speak English?" momken wahid yerod 3aleya wa ye'oul:
"Yes. We have taken lots of lessons before but we don't always have time to study so we sink we need more lessons.

Moken arouh class tanee and ask the same question wa wahid ye rod 3aleya wa ye'oulee: "Yes. We think so.

Which student speaks better English? I think (mish sink) the second student...be raghm awil student idanee gomlah 3areda taweela.

El student el masree faker 3ashan zimeelou fee el class fahmu, wa ana fahma shwyia...yib'a khalas..gab el deeb min dailu! Dayman nasee in almost everyone in the world who speaks English doesn't speak Arabic!
MO3ZAM EL MASHAKEL FE EL NO'T HOWA EL KASAL...KASAL...KASAL.
MET3AWID YE OUL EL KELMA BE TAREEQA WA MISH RADEE Y3MEL EFFORT TO CHANGE IT.

My name is Ball....(tayeb..ana Masreya wa fahma howa usdu Paul. Tayib el agnabee da ha yifham bardu? Wahyatak wala ha yifham haga...hay oul:
Ball? Your name is Ball????(hehehehe)...fa3lan, lazem titshat!)
My name is Paul.


We 'sink'...(sink zay el 3abarah keda..howa ahna ha neghra wala ha na3taqid wala eh bezabt?)
We think.

To improve your pronunciation a bit:
- watch some movies, listen to native speakers of English AND PRONOUNCE THE WAY YOU HEAR IT...NOT THE WAY YOU KNOW IT.

- The ideal way is to listen to an audio - DAILY! Listen to it then memorize as much as you can of it and repeat it to yourself...THE WAY YOU HEAR IT>>>NOT THE WAY YOU KNOW IT.

- read outloud (be sot 3alee). It helps to hear yourself.

- find words that rhyme together. For example:
The word flower rhymes with:
power (qowah)
tower (borg)
sour (mor)
our (haga bita3tna)
hour (sa3a wahda...like 1 hour)

But it doesn't rhyme with 'blower' even though it's almost spelt the same way. Actually, the problem is in English spelling, not pronunciation.

Students wa kol el nas be oulu in el Americans or Brits 'be yaklu el kalam.'
Actually, this is TRUE AND NOT TRUE.
El fikra in English is a 'Stress Language'....ya3nee fee kalimat fehom ta'keed wa kalimat la. Zay eh?

Stressed words: most nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
Non-Stressed words: determiners (a, an, the, this, that), prepositions, (of, to, before, etc...), pronouns (they, he, she, etc...) conjunctions (and, but etc....)

"Read the following sentence aloud:
1.The beautiful mountain appeared brillantly in the distance.

Read the following sentence aloud:
2.He can come on Sundays as long as he doesn't have to do any homework in the evening."

be raghm in el gomlah el tanya atwal...both sentence taqreban take the same amount of time to read.

In sentence 1 el kalimat bi red STRESSED...el pronunciation wadeh. The other words are not stressed.
In sentence 2 el kalimat bi blue STRESSED.... the other words are not stressed.

INAK TINTA'A KOL KILMA SAH...MISH HOWA DA ILI YE SA'LAH EL NO'T. BAS INAK TA3MEL TA'KEED 3AL STRESSED WORDS IN ENGLISH WA 'TIBLA3' SHWYIA EL NON-STRESSED WORDS..HOWA DA ILI YE SA'LAH.



Write down a few sentences, or take a few example sentences from a book or exercise.
First underline the stressed words, then read aloud focusing on stressing the underlined words and gliding over the non-stressed words.
Be surprised at how quickly your pronunciation improves!

Later, I will add you some links because for sure, to improve your accent and pronunciation you need audio.

BY THE WAY.....Egyptian pronunciation in English is not so bad benesba belad tanya. Fe she3oub..walahee ma tifham kilma minhom bil English. Bas ahna kaslaneen.