The Center for Confident American English Communication

It’s been awhile since I mentioned the Kelly brothers’ fantastic website for learning English called manythings.org. The site contains many audio lessons on English vocabulary, pronunciation, idioms and grammar. There are also some short video lessons here. Here is a link to the online pronunciation activities. These are great and free. Enjoy! Related posts Pronunciation

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Haitian Creole speakers and French speakers have some of the same problems with spoken English. One of these is the tendency to delete the /h/ sound at the beginning of words. Word initial /h/ is almost always pronounced in American English. That means that the /h/ must be articulated clearly in words such as: hat,

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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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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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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 just found a new website called EFL.NET. The site has a great feature that allows you to practice your American English by listening to American songs as you read a transcript with the words. To listen to the songs choose: ComAudio and then choose Songs from the drop down menu. The songs are sung

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When you are speaking American English always remember to stress last names more than first names. For example: Bill Clinton –> CLINton is stressed Barak Obama–> oBAma is stressed Jennifer Lopez–>LOpez is stressed The same goes for place names. Here are are few examples: New York–>York is stressed North Carolina–> caroLIna is stressed Stress the

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