American English Pronunciation Videos

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American English Pronunciation Video Tutorials

One excellent tool that I use with all of my accent reduction clients is the American English pronunciation software developed at the University of Iowa. The Phonetics Software shows you how to pronounce all of the American English vowel and consonant sounds using audio and video samples. The animated diagrams show you how to move

3 Ways to Practice Your Pronunciation

My blog readers are people from all over the world who are working hard to improve their pronunciation and speak English with a more American accent.☝ Many of you have asked me for ideas on how you can practice. Here are three suggestions. 1. Get an American Accent audio course These courses are very affordable.

How Do You Say Burger?

In my experiences teaching American English pronunciation and accent reduction I’ve found that the word BURGER can be a big problem for non native speakers. Why is this word problematic? Usually, it’s because of the stressed /ɚ/sound. When you say the word BURGER, the letter U does not sound like /uw/ as in Blue. Not

American English Syllable Stress Rules

It’s been many months since I’ve written about the importance of syllable stress for a clear, standard American accent. I’ll say it again….in my opinion using syllable stress and sentence level intonation correctly is probably the most effective way to improve your comprehensibility. This is really important if you are an Indian, Japanese, French or

English pronunciation & the IPA

Gabe from towerofbabelfish.com just sent me his video tutorial on the IPA or International Phonetic Alphabet. If you’ve been wondering how the IPA works to describe the sounds of words you’ll be very pleased with the content of this video. This is just the first of a series of videos that he plans to record

Great Website for American English Pronunciation

It’s been awhile since I mentioned the Kelly brothers’ fantastic website for learning English called manythings.org. The site contains many audio lessons on English vocabulary, pronunciation, idioms and grammar. There are also some short video lessons here. Here is a link to the online pronunciation activities. These are great and free. Enjoy! ×

American English Listening Practice

Are you looking for good websites that will help you practice your American English listening? Maybe you’ll be interested in this…. Randall of esl-lab has added some short movie clips to his website. He calls these Video Snapshots and they provide video content that relates to the other listening activities available on his site. As

Accent Reduction Tips for Korean Speakers

Many non-native English speakers, including Koreans, often mispronounce the words woman and women. Both words are stressed on the first syllable as indicated in bold. However, the vowel sounds do not sound how you think they should! The word woman is pronounced wʊ→mən. The word women is pronounced wɪ→mɪn. (The → means lengthen the vowel.)

Pronouncing Numbers in American English (Video)

American English numbers are not always pronounced the way they are written. For example, when Americans say the numbers thirty, forty ,fifty and so on…. the t in those words is pronounced more like a d. This sound is called the flap or the tapped t and the IPA symbol is /ɾ/. When they say

One of the teachers at the school where I teach here in Washington, DC just told me about a website with some good American English pronunciation videos. The website is called ugoeigo.com (you go I go) and it features videos that teach you how to make these English sounds: /p/ & /b/, /f/ & /v/,