The Center for Confident American English Communication

If you are a Korean speaker who is trying to reduce your accent, here are 2 TIPS for you. These tips have to do with American vowel sounds. American English has 15 different vowel sounds. Some of these vowel sounds are particularly difficult for Koreans to pronounce. Difficult sounds for Koreans include: the /ı/ sound

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If you are a native Italian, Chinese or Japanese speaker , others may have told you that you sound “choppy”. You may be asking yourself what this means…. Well, it means that your spoken English does not sound smooth. One reason for “choppy speech” is this: you probably don’t link words together when you are

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