The Center for Confident American English Communication

When I was teaching one of my pronunciation classes this week I found out that my students did not know about the two different intonation patterns for questions in American English. Here they are: 1. Use rising intonation when the question can be answered with a “yes” or a “no”. 2. Use falling intonation when

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Many of you have written and asked me questions about the IPA and how to read phonetic transcriptions of English words. I did some searching on the web and found this page from the Antimoon site. The page shows you how to read and write phonetic transcriptions. Each word and transcription has an audio recording

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The vowel O has many sounds in American English. It can be confusing to know the correct pronunciation of this vowel. I can think of five different pronunciations for the vowel O, but there could be even more. Here are my five examples: 1. In these words the O is pronounced as a schwa sound

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I discovered a website with tons of free American English audio. The website is called Englishspeak.com and it has 100 dialogs, 1000 phrases and the 1500 most common English vocabulary words. You can listen to the audio files using slow or normal speed. This is a great resource that everyone should add to their bookmarks!

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If you are looking for an affordable American English audio course you may want to check out the short course offered by Accent Workshop. The course contains eight mp3 audio lessons with workbooks that you can use to study American English pronunciation at home or on the go. I have not personally used the course

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A couple of you have emailed me to ask my opinion of the Pimsleur American English audio course. The Pimsleur method is based on listening and speaking to help you learn grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in a natural way. I have not used the course to learn English but I just got the Complete Spanish

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This week I found an excellent American English Pronunciation Audio Course on the web. In this audio course instructor Charles Becker teaches you American English vowel & consonant sounds, syllable stress & intonation as well as linking and connected speech. This is a very complete course and I advise you to check it out! You

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I see that there has been a lot of “buzz” on the web lately about an American English pronunciation book and CD set called Pronounce Pro. The book and audio were developed by an American English pronunciation teacher in California. I haven’t used the book in my accent reduction classes but if you are a

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If you are looking for English audio that you can listen to in order to help you learn pronunciation you may want to check out this site called English Language Listening Lab Online. The site has almost 1000 audio and video files you can use. There are also games and activities. I used to use

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The Language Guide website features excellent pictures and audio files that you can use to improve yourAmerican English pronunciation. I use this with the students at the school where I work in Washington, DC and they have found it to be an excellent resource. American English Audio. Related posts Pronunciation of the Vowel Combination ou

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