The Center for Confident American English Communication

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 students. This helps them with English rhythm, linking and intonation.

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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

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