How do I get rid of my accent and make it sound like native?

There are many different native accents and realistically you're going to have to pick one of them and listen to a large amount of audio in your chosen accent. You still have plenty of room to improve, it's immediately clear that you are not native (sorry 😞) but it's hard for me to recommend any changes without knowing what accent you want to have. You can't just get rid of an accent, you have to replace it with one! Would you like me to record the same text in a Southern English (received pronunciation) accent?

Your accent isn’t that bad. If you really want a rating, I’d say a solid 7, pushing an 8. Accents are hard. I’ve heard people describe that trying to speak English is like having rocks in your mouth. It’s just tough. I feel like maybe there are a few times where you said a few words a little too quickly. I think if you spoke a little slower you’d pronounce them much better and closer to a native speaker. Overall, though, I can understand what you are saying without confusion. You should be proud of that! Sounding like a native, when you are not, really is not that huge of a deal in the big picture :)

by realizing that you're speaking a completely different language, therefore you should refrain from using your own language's vowels and consonants.

It's a pretty thick accent, I wasn't able to understand everything you said. Your "th" and "f" sounds need work. Try speaking a little more slowly, and make sure you hit every sound in the word, particularly the ending consonants.

No you don't sound native, you sound Asian, maybe Japanese. One sound to work on is the 'th' in the word three. Also the Ls in the word little. And the s in musical, you're saying it more like magical. Some of the longer words are a bit rushed, you can speak more slowly! Your vowel sounds are a bit off, words like 'only' are pronounced as 'own-lee' not 'on-lee' But I think you are at a good place, I could understand what you said without reading along

I’d say if we’re rating the accent in terms of how similar it sounds to a standard American accent, I’d say 6-7. The main thing to work on would be the ‘th’ sound and the ‘r’ sound

Just listening to it and transcribing what I hear, this is the words as I heard them: >I've always **stuffed** that the library in my hometown could be improved of **later**. It's a nice space with a good selection of books, but for instance, there's only a few public computers, and they are pretty **odd**. Some newer libraries have **CD** printers, cameras, or **medical** instruments for people to **rout**, but the library doesn't have **as the live goats**. If **for** library have **moral** public funding, maybe they can make more improvements. Text in bold are things that I think I misheard or that make no sense. Some I was able to figure out what they were supposed to be, some I was not, but I wrote what I *heard*. Your accent is very thick (but the recording quality is also not great). I understood the meaning of your sentences but had to infer a number of words from context. Active listeners will have no trouble figuring out what you are trying to say, *which is great*! Passive listeners may not pick up on things you say though, so without improvement you may need to get people's attention before speaking to them if you want to be heard. **I rate this a 5 out of 10.** Don't worry about your accent, especially not at this point. Accent is *never* very important, and there are multiple accents so none of them are "correct", but almost universally English speakers do not judge people for having accented speech. As long as they can understand you, accent is not a barrier. **What I think you should focus on:** Pronunciation of "TH" sounds, hard "L"s, soft "T" sounds, and making sure that "N"s are enunciated. Some of the words that are more difficult to understand are because you let the sound of a word trail off rather than sharply ending it (example: "more" seemed to have an extra sound like "more-a" that I thought sounded more like "moral").

（個人的な意見だけ） まず、この英語がわかりやすく会話できるそうです。引き続き頑張ってください。 英語のイントネーションにたいして、強く言われた部分が大切に当たえられます。 例えば、最初の文章において 人気な意見ではないけど。。。 "**I've** always felt that the public library in my home town could be improved a little." なんか他の図書館の状態はいいけど。。。 "I've always felt that the **public library** in my home town could be improved a little." 今住んでいる街の公共図書館の状態はいいけど。。。 "I've always felt that the public library in my **home town** could be improved a little." それでは、この場合は一般的な形なので、メインの動詞が強調されます。 "I've always felt that the public library in my home town could be **improved** a little." ニュース番組などより、こういうの話しかたと詳しくなるように、自然な会話をシャドウイングするのはいい方法と思います。よく使っているインプット方法は？

Just work on getting better at speaking in general. Don't get hung-up on becoming accent-less. Even among native English speakers and actors, whose professional job it is to be other people, there are very few British and American actors who can play characters from the other country that people don't pick up on. Having an accent isn't a bad thing. The English-speaking world is used to having lots of immigration and people from around the world speaking English with accents.

I could understand most of what you said at the beginning, but towards the end, you became harder to understand. It would definitely be clear that you weren’t a native speaker. If you’re trying to sound like a native speaker, here are my tips (based on American English because I’m American and it wasn’t specified): 1. Tone: Your tone is very flat and rather loud which makes it almost sound like you’re yelling instead of speaking. Tone is difficult to get right in a language that isn’t your native, and this is definitely one aspect that you would need to work on significantly. 2. Rhythm: In a similar vein, your rhythm is off from what a native speaker’s would be. You sound a bit like you’re chopping the sentence up into separate words. In natural native speech, we use linking. There are no clear boundaries between words and syllables in normal speech are broken up differently than in the words on their own. So “I’ve always felt” comes out more like “I valway sfelt”, for example. Getting this rhythm right is extremely important for a native-level accent. The choppiness of the speech also adds to the yelling quality. >Rhythm and tone being transferred directly from a person’s native language and into English often gives English native speakers a sense of offness to the accent, even if the speaker is getting all the sounds right. These are notoriously difficult things to perfect in another language, but getting them at least more similar to native speech will make a huge difference. English also has a long-short syllable distinction based on the vowel and what sound(s) come after it, ringing sibilants, long unvoiced versus short voiced fricatives, and unreleased stops which all play into the rhythm. Stress patterns are also extremely important to rhythm, as well as reductions and contractions. 3. Losing sounds: Some words in your speech lose sounds that natives would not drop. For example, when you say “computers” it sounds more like “compuers” whereas Americans would use a flapped T or soft D (sounds like a D to us, but there is no stop of airflow like with a regular plosive). 4. Changing sounds: You replace sounds with other ones. Your F’s sound a bit off and are difficult to hear. Make sure you’re making gentle contact between your top teeth and bottom lip. You should be able to hold this sound out. Your TH’s are more like S or Z, but these are all distinct phonemes in English. Make sure your tongue tip is gently touching the bottom of your top teeth. It should poke out between your teeth (though it doesn’t have to be far). Blow the air out through your tongue and teeth. Instead of making an M sound when it’s at the end of a syllable, it sounds like you’re changing it to N. Make sure your lips are making full contact for M’s at the ends of syllables. 5. Vowels: Your vowels are off in a lot of places. English has a very complex vowel system, but these are the main vowels I would suggest working on: /eɪ/ and /ʊ/. While there were some other vowel issues, these are the two that stand out to me the most and I think it’s better to not feel overwhelmed by it all at once. It will also be easier to pinpoint the exact concerns with other vowels once other aspect of your speech are better. These are some of the main things I noticed when listening to your speech. I usually recommend Phonetic Fanatic on YouTube for things like pronunciation because, while he’s not a native speaker and does have a mild accent, he has an extremely good grasp on the rhythm of English and how to make the sounds. He is Russian and teaches in Russian, but there are real English subtitles under auto-translate on most of his videos. His target audience is Russian learners so not all of the advice will likely be helpful to you (I would be extremely surprised if you were Russian), but a lot of it still probably will. Also, listening to native speech is essential to perfecting a native-level accent, so be sure to listen to native speakers talk as much as possible. And do not skip over output. You need to practice speaking to get better. Hope this helps!

Your accent is not something to focus on, but getting the rhythm of English more accurately. This will be a challenge. Work on individual word and sentence stress, intonation.. This will help you sound more natural even with an accent that isn't native.

just keeping it real, I find it extremely hard to understand you. I understood about 1/3 of the words you were saying.