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American English Pronunciation: The Best Pronunciation Dictionary

Each week I receive lots of questions from people asking about the best online dictionary for American English pronunciation. I usually use Merriam Webster, but I don’t love it.☹ The dictionary’s audio voice articulates the sounds at the ends of words too strongly. There are also LOTS of advertisements….but it’s free so we can’t complain.

How to make “small talk”

Many of my accent reduction coaching clients ask me to teach them strategies for making “small talk” with ease and fluency. Small talk such as greetings, talking about the weather, sports…these are all critical skills for socializing and getting to know people. I teach my clients these skills using special intonation dialogs. These are fun

Medical English Pronunciation Lesson-Visiting the Doctor

The doctors who I work in my Skype accent reduction coaching program need to communicate clearly both with their colleagues and with their patients.☆ When I teach them to communicate more clearly with their patients, we work on two areas~ The first is the correct pronunciation of medical terms.☝ However,… we also work on speaking

4 Rules for Pronouncing Numbers Clearly

I work with international professionals from multinational companies in my Skype accent reduction coaching program. Several of my clients are in finance. This means that they MUST pronounce numbers correctly when dealing with Americans. Here are 4 rules that I teach them for pronouncing numbers clearly. 1. Tens numbers have major stress on the first

American English Pronunciation Audio

I was visiting the Best of the Web today and found a nice website with American English pronunciation audio files for consonant and vowel sounds. The site is called TalkEnglish.com and it has short listening and practice activities for hard to pronounce consonants such as the /r/ sound, the /th/ sound and the /b/ &

My American English Pronunciation Tips

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Merriam-Webster’s Perfect Pronunciation

The Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary online has a great interactive component titled Perfect Pronunciation. This section has lots of American English pronunciation exercises that you can use to learn and practice your spoken American English. There are exercises on contrasting vowel sounds, syllable stress, homophones and sentence stress. There’s even a short exercise on the syllabic

American English Everyday Sentences

Many people have emailed me this week to ask about websites with some free American English conversations & dialogs. ☛ For free listening I recommend EnglishSpeak.com. EnglishSpeak features thousands of American English words and phrases. The site also has many dialogs that you can listen to. The speakers speak rather slowly though. Don’t expect American

American English Spelling & Vocabulary Practice

Here is a wonderful website that you can use to practice your American English spelling. The site allows you to type in words that you need to practice and creates activities and quizzes. The audio is very clear. It you are serious about improving your vocabulary you may want to check out Rocet Vocabulary. This

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! ×