Valerie Fridland

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All Ears English Podcast · AEE 2590: 3 Tips to Keep Your Accent and Be Understood With Valerie Fridland · 30 Mar 2026 podcast

Absolutely.

And I think the trick is, you know, we do studies and research, and I think that helps people when they understand what that research finds, it helps them feel better.

So, you know, there are certain people that do do better at sort of native-like speech, but they're very, very rare, actually.

You hear about those people, but the reason you hear about them is because they're actually quite rare.

So we need to really give ourselves a break, right?

And there are some ways that pronunciation and intonation can be learned.

And I talk about those in the book, but I will say that the short answer to how you get better at those is practice, but not practice with sort of generic drills.

I think with pronunciation,

What you need to be is tailored to yourself.

So you need to know where you're having problems.

And a lot of times that can be identifying words, specific words that you use in high frequency.

And I'm not talking about words like the or dog that you might mention a lot, but words in your professional life or your personal life that come up a lot that you notice people are having problems with.

Focus on those.

Focus on what are the sounds or is it my intonation, my stress patterns that are giving me problems there?

and work on those over and over again.

And then that will kind of carry over to those sounds in other contexts as well.

And then with intonation patterns, really what we find helps is shadowing.

So you don't even need to have actual native speakers to interact with, although I will say that is the best way to do it.

But either you can record those interactions that you have where they're helping you come up with sort of native-like stress patterns and intonation patterns,

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