The Center for Confident American English Communication

One great way to improve your American accent is to watch videos. These days there are thousands of videos about the American accent on YouTube. The problem is….which videos are the best? With thousands of videos to choose from, how do you decide which ones are worth watching? I can help you with that! After

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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

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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

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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/,

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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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Take a look at my 3 strategies for improving your American English Pronunciation. This is short but sweet! ×

I found some interesting American English pronunciation videos developed by Sozo Exchange. These are pronunciation videos of individual English words.  First they model the articulation of the word and then they use the word in a sentence. At this time only a few of the videos that I watched use the IPA to indicate stressed syllables

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One accent reduction technique that I recommend to the students in my accent reduction classes is to listen for the syllable stress, sentence stress and intonation patterns used by American English speakers. You must practice listening to these patterns in order to use them like American English speakers do. Learning to use syllable stress, sentence

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Across Japan students have been using the speeches of President Barack Obama to improve their English communication skills. They are using the speeches to learn the intonation of American English. Watch the short video here.  Students Practice American English Pronunciation ×

I just came across this incredible resource called Rachel’s English. The pronunciation content on this site is very rich because Rachel provides two short videos that describe and model each vowel and consonant sound in American English. This is a great resource for people who want to work on specific American English vowel and consonant

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