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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In order to improve your American English pronunciation you must learn English syllable stress correctly. That’s because Americans listen for syllable stress patterns in order to identify words. Here is a common syllable stress pattern: In English words with two or more syllables, one syllable always receives strong stress or emphasis. Here is a common
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While reading an English teaching blog written by one of my colleagues I came across a wonderful visual English dictionary called shahi. When you type a word into the shahi dictionary you receive a definition of the word including some nice slang and idiomatic uses. PLUS shahi includes images of your word aggregated from flickr, google and yahoo
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Randall Davis, the professor who created the well known ESL-lab website has a new site called EZ Slang. This site features American English audio dialogs that include common idioms and slang phrases. Each dialog is recorded by American English speakers in an everyday conversational style. If you can mimic the dialogs it will really help
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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.
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Dr. Goodword at alphadictionary has published a list comprehensive list of words that are commonly confused by both native and non-native speakers of English. These words are called false cognates and they written and pronounced so similarly that people frequently misuse them when they are writing and speaking English. As I was reading through the
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I am currently teaching a class in spoken English to a group of teachers from overseas. One area of spoken English that they are very interested in are idioms. Last week in class I organized the class into small groups and assigned each group an idiom. Once they had studied and understood the idiom they
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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 Related posts American English Pronunciation Videos (0) Vowel Sounds in American English (0) Use Idioms
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Yoko Matsuka, a veteran English instructor from Japan who specializes in phonics for younger learners says that it’s waste of time to pursue “perfect English pronunciation,” a goal that has long distracted parents in Korea. “There is no such thing as perfect English accent,” she said. Even native English speakers have a wide range of
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