The Center for Confident American English Communication

Many Chinese speakers have problems pronouncing the /r/ sound in American English. Some of my Chinese students don’t say the /r/ sound at the end of words at all and that really contributes to their accent! Sometimes they say the /r/ sound too softly when it comes before another consonant as in the words; forward, learn

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One of the teachers at the school where I teach here in Washington, DC just told me about a website with some good American English pronunciation videos. The website is called ugoeigo.com (you go I go) and it features videos that teach you how to make these English sounds: /p/ & /b/, /f/ & /v/,

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