Songs and Rhymes

Don't worry about your accent too much. People from different parts of English-speaking world have very different accents. You will have accent too. It is OK.

Don't worry about grammar too much. People will understand you even with bad grammar, and you will learn correct grammar along your reading.

But you need to worry about pronouncing words correctly, avoiding the biggest mistakes.

It is a good idea to research the common mistakes usually made by speakers of your first language - because there is a good chance you are making them too, without knowing.

I collected links for you: common mistakes made by learners of English: Spanish, Russian, Thai.

Songs and rhymes are excellent for training pronunciation because your brain learns better with emotions in songs. You can repeat (or get it stuck in head) the song you like  many times and still have fun. Because you are not focused what you want to say, you can focus on how to say it right. Anytime you are walking or doing something routine, you can repeat songs and rhymes, and improve your pronunciation.

To improve your pronunciation, when learning sounds of English language, you need to exercise muscles in your mouth (for many hours, by repeating songs and rhymes).


Get IPA transcripts of your favorite songs


AZlyrics.com has text of all songs and Lingorado (on "Learn IPA" page) can create for you IPA transcripts of any text: so you can get a transcript of your favorite songs, listen to the music and sing along with correct IPA.

Like I did for you for classic Beatles' song I Saw Her Standing There


Limericks



Excellent source for silly, easy to remember rhymes are limericks, like this classic:


With sound: 1 - 2 - 4 limericks with sound - Silly song in limericks explaining what limerick is.
Book of nonsense - Classic limericks from Project Guttenberg, which has many classic books for free (in many languages), and also audiobooks.

Get the songs and limericks you like, and repeat them when you have time.
Ideas how to improve your pronunciation from other websites:


Ready-made material for you:
Limericks: Lady from Niger; Pelican
Beatles: "I Saw Her Standing There"
more limericks

Let me know about what you found, and if you need more.

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