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Record your own speech and listen to it.

Find a native speaker you want to sound like and compare your recordings. Tv and radio clips work great. Then try to repeat the same lines of the native speaker in real-time.

Keep practicing until you sound like the native speaker.

You might sound cringe to yourself, and maybe cringe to people who already know you, but plow through.

Sounding like a native works wonders. I did this for several non-English languages and when I travel abroad, the locals treat me like I belonged there.



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