Final Reflection: If I compare my first recording with the last one, I can definitely see some progress in my speech and pronunciation. I prefered the AmE. pronunciation before this semester, but didn't realize that there are more differences than I thought there would be. Before that I only paid attention to the american and english “R” pronunciation. That is why the assignment 6 was very beneficial to me. It helped me to understand the differences between the british and american pronunciation. I have learned how to not sound stupid. The first recordings were awful. I didn’t connect words. In addition, the speed was not sufficient. I think that the assignment 4 and 5 opened my eyes, because after these two assignments I could see an improvement. I really tried to focus more on connecting words than before the assignment 4 and 5. I also think that I have improved the fluency of my reading since I started reading tongue twisters and imitating random news reports in my individual tasks. In my point of view, it is the best way to improve English skills. Furthermore, it made me move my mouth more, because when I listened to some news reporter, it was really fast and fluent. First tries of my imitating were bad. When I replayed my recording, it did not understand myself. However, after a few recordings, I could see some progress. I also gained a lot of vocabulary, especially form the news reports and the long texts in my individual tasks. So many new words were in the recording 6.5 about Vladimir Putin. For example glistening, masculinity, suave etc. On the other hand, I must say that I still have problems with names of people, like Ian Somerhalder or in the last recording Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice. It was really difficult to read because there were so many “R’s” and “L’s”. Another thing I have to improve is the “TH” sound. I always tried to focus on it, but sometimes I just simply forgot. When I listened to my recordings, I heard a few times “dat”, “dis”, “der.” Lastly, I would mention the description of the picture and the video. It is definitely one of my biggest weaknesses. All in all, I think I have done a solid work.