Welcome back! Have you checked out my Accent Reduction classes yet? Using songs is an effective and fun way to improve your spoken English. This is a fun and energizing way to improve both listening and pronunciation.
One thing that I like to do in my American English pronunciation classes is sing popular songs with the [...]
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Improve Your English Pronunciation with Popular Songs
American English Pronunciation-The Past Tense “ed”
Many people don’t realize that the past tense “ed” has three different sounds in spoken American English. These sounds are /d/ as in the word loved, /ed/ as in the word wanted, and /t/ as in the word stopped.
Correct pronunciation of these grammatical endings is extremely important if you want to improve your American English pronunciation. [...]
American English Pronunciation-The Sounds of S
In the previous post I wrote about the three sounds of the past tense “ed” in spoken American English. Like the past tense “ed”, the plural and possessive “s” also has three different sounds.
These sounds are
/ez/ as in the word churches
/s/ as in the word cats
/z/ as in the word loves
In order to [...]
