and improve your writing skills.
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If you need to develop your
skills in your professional field like
medicine, machinery, oil and gas etc.
a native specialist with teaching experience might be of better use as well
and he or she will be worth it.
Now it’s time to dissipate certain
myths about learning the language
with native speakers.
1. Pronunciation.
It is generally believed that learning a language with a native speaker
automatically improves and corrects
pronunciation. Well, if one has a good
ear for music and picks up sounds
really fast it can really work and significantly influence the way one pronounces sounds. In general, a teacher
can’t seriously affect the way one
articulates sounds unless one is going
to copycat every sound or word the
teacher says. All professional teachers
are familiar with phonetics and sound
system of the language they teach,
every manual contains phonetic practice and additional phonetic exercises
which will just suffice to master basic
pronunciation skills. If the ultimate
goal is to perfect your pronunciation
then you had better hire a professional coach (not necessarily a native
speaker) who will give you a specific
phonetics course.
2. Understanding.
Another popular delusion concerns
the problem of understanding what
native speakers say. The effect of
having speech practice with a native
speaker ca