The Center for Confident American English Communication

In order to improve your American English pronunciation you must learn to use syllable stress correctly. That’s because Americans listen for syllable stress patterns in order to identify words.✔ This is what I mean…. In English words with two or more syllables, one syllable always receives strong stress or emphasis. The vowel in that syllable is

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Perhaps you have heard people say that intonation is the melody or the music ♬ of spoken American English. Spoken English sounds melodic because English speakers use different types of intonation or pitch patterns when saying phrases and sentences. These intonation patterns are extremely important to use because they convey meaning. ✔ If you are

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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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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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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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English Club has some of the best explanations on how to improve your American English pronunciation using word stress and sentence stress. The explanations they provide for these key pronunciation areas are very clear and most of them include some audio. I frequently recommend English Club to my students who like to do extra pronunciation

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I just came across an interesting website site called Wonder How To. The site shows you how to pronounce English words and sounds using short videos. While these videos are not part of a comprehensive accent redcution program, they can be used as useful models when you want to see and hear English words and

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