The Center for Confident American English Communication

In my pronunciation and accent reduction classes I work with many people who speak Spanish and Filipino as their first language. One American English vowel sound that both these groups have trouble pronouncing is the /iy/ sound as in the word “sheep”. They often confuse this sound with the /I/ vowel sound as in the

Read more →

Many people have emailed me during the past two weeks asking for websites that have American English vowel sounds with audio. I found this site, developed by Dr. Emily Chen, that has sound files for both vowel and consonant minimal pair exercises. It’s quite good because it contrasts all the difficult vowel and consonant sounds.

Read more →

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

Read more →