For Beginners
- HOW READING ALOUD HELPS IN PRONUNCIATION AND FLUENCY
Post Title: “The power of reading aloud : Boost your Korean pronunciation”
Let’s discuss what exactly reading aloud is?
Basically reading aloud is to use voice, facial expressions and body language to convey the message for the enhancement of vocabulary and word recognition.
It’s an activity where knowledge and pronunciation skills are used based on written language. This helps you to learn new words, understand their meanings and observe how they are used in sentences.
With time your vocabulary will expand and will allow you to express yourself more precisely and fluently.
- WHAT WE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO WHILE READING ALOUD?
- First of all you should mentally prepare yourself before reading aloud.
- You should carefully choose the reading material.
- The purpose and approach of reading must be original. Like you should have to truly engage with the content and it should help you in your personal growth.
- Choose the right material for reading aloud. You have to know about your language level and ability to understand the difficulty level of words in your chosen material.
SUGGESTION:
If you have just started reading aloud, go for beginner friendly resources available online. This is not only for beginners but for intermediate and advanced learners. Because when you will be able to understand the concept you will feel comfortable at any level of language.
- TECHNIQUES FOR EFFECTIVE READING ALOUD PRACTICE
Let’s discuss techniques which I have personally used
- Being a language learner specially in Korean you have to understand the nature of Korean alphabets (consonants and Vowels). Like how different final consonants called 받침 sounds. It will help you to read aloud with ease and this understanding is going to improve your Korean pronunciation skills.
You can watch this kind of Korean youtube video.
- When you read something, listen to the word first then try to sound like that one. Your pronunciation should be clear so that you can hear your own voice. This is how you can read words, sentences and then paragraphs aloud.
This youtube channel is helpful in such practices.
- Whenever you read something you have to catch that emotion. Either it’s a happy, sad, frustrated or excited one. Now you have to try to pronounce that word using the exact emotion while reading aloud.
Book Reading ( Korean Stories)
For this purpose you can check these types of youtube resources.
- Interview yourself. Just sit alone and create an environment like you are running a podcast channel and having an interview. Whatever the story you have, try to read aloud and your body language should be exactly according to the same situation.
These techniques are easily achievable and time friendly.
- USEFUL MATERIAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE READING ALOUD
- Easy Korean Reading Book.
This is a beginner friendly book which includes useful expressions for reading aloud practice.
- Voice Customization for reading aloud
Okay so this is an interesting thing and effective for reading aloud. Must check.
- Korean (Reading & Pronunciation)
This is level friendly so that you can follow step by step procedure.
My Suggestion:
All the resources that I have shared are easy to use and beginner friendly. I will suggest you to go step by step and then read accordingly. This blog is important because , as a reader, if you want to follow this blog you have to move from the beginning of the blog.
If you have any questions related to Korean language learning feel free to contact us.
Regards,
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