Though there is no strong evidence for the interrelations between fluency and pronunciation, practicing the latter can be fun and beneficial in the long term. On top of that, clear pronunciation boosts your comprehensibility and confidence while speaking. Here are a few techniques you can use to sound more fluent and native-like:
🔹Say It Right! Spotted new collocation\idiom\phrase? Listen to the native pronouncing it. You can use this website to search for its pronunciation.
🔹Twister For Tongue
Tongue twisters are fun and handy. They can actually help you kill two birds with one stone as they target individual sounds and develop articulation. Here's my personal favorite one: "Really leery, rarely Larry". This one targets [r] and [l] sounds which are often hard to pronounce because they are produced in a similar way. First, try to pronounce it slowly, then pick up speed. If your tongue isn't completely twisted after this one, try a few more.
🔹Broken Record Find a video on YouTube, and choose one sentence a speaker says. Analyze it carefully, try to understand which words are stressed, if the intonation goes up or down, is there anything unusual about how some words are pronounced. Then try reading it out loud and record yourself. You need to try to sound exactly like a speaker in the video, it usually takes a few times. This is a technique I personally swear by! Here's a channel that can help you start practicing it.
