The Center for Confident American English Communication

Here are two common idioms that you will hear when you are listening to people speak American English. Bring Home the Bacon In American English a person who brings home the bacon is the person who earns the money for the family to live on. For example, if my father works hard to support my

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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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Perhaps you have heard people say that intonation is the melody or the music of spoken American English. That’s because English speakers use different types of intonation or pitch patterns in phrases and sentences. These intonation patterns are extremely important because they convey meaning. If you are not aware of how Americans use these pitch

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English is not always pronounced the same way that it’s written and that is the cause of many pronunciation problems. One sound that American English speakers frequently drop is the /t/ sound. The /t/ sound is often dropped after the /n/ sound in spoken American English. This is very natural and it helps speakers to pronounce

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When Americans talk they stress the CONTENT and FOCUS words in a sentence. That’s because these words are the most important for sentence meaning. English speakers will reduce the function words in a sentence because these words are not key to meaning. In spoken American English each sentence or phrase contains: A Focus word-the most

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I have been publishing a nice series of American English pronunciation articles at EzineAritcles. These articles explain some of the most common problems that people have with spoken English and they have been very popular with Ezine readers! You can read all of my fourteen articles on American English pronunciation or subscribe to receive them

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Spoken English can be mysterious. Since English is not a phonetic language there is not always a one-on-one relationship between the letters in the English alphabet and spoken sounds. The written and spoken language don’t always seem to work together very well! This can cause problems when you want to pronounce English words from a text!

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Everyone knows that going to the doctor can be stressful and it’s even more so when you and your doctor don’t speak the same language! Alta ESL has a nice lesson that you can use to read and listen to phrases that will help you communciate with the doctor in this lesson called American Pronunciation-A

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Project Care is a website for high-intermediate to advanced English language learners who want to learn medical English. The site provides lessons that help English learners improve their communication with medical personnel and patients. The website provides audio and video for listening practice, vocabulary development and more. I have recommended this resource to several of

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I finally took a closer look at the American English pronunciation videos created by the people at Fun Easy English. I had come across these on the web many times but I never took the time to check out the site. I was really quite impressed with the number of video lessons they provide for

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