The Center for Confident American English Communication

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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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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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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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

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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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