The Center for Confident American English Communication

Oxford University Press has some online pronunciation games that you may like to try. There are pronunciation games for vowels, consonants and syllable stress. The games have British English audio but the consonants with voiced and voiceless sounds and many of the syllable stress patterns are the same as in American English. I just tried

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One great way to improve your American accent is to learn how we use sentence stress in American English through the use of CONTENT, FOCUS and function words. Click on the link above to read my complete article on how Americans use sentence stress. Related posts When O is Pronounced With the /ɑ/ Sound (0) Using Nursery

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American English speakers use linking to join words toegether so that they are easy to say and flow together smoothly. It often sounds like people are saying one long word since they are no spaces between words. Here are 2 common types of linking in American spoken English. Consonant to vowel linking When words that

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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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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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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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The Japanese government has set an ambitious goal of making the Japanese fluent in English, by recommending that all English classes for students aged 16 to 18 are taught mainly in English beginning in 2013.Most Japanese can are unable to speak English, despite taking English classes from the age of 13 and this is a

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