The Complete Guide to American English Pronunciation

About this course

Is English not your first language? Are people constantly asking you to repeat yourself? Do you want to advance in your career or business, but you feel like your foreign accent is holding you back?Then this course is for you.Hi. We hope you choose the complete guide to American English pronunciation. In it, I’ll take you through all 38 important sounds of American English, one at a time, to help you better pronounce each one. Each sound is produced for you to mimic, alone and in sample words, and illustrated with an animated mouth diagram where applicable. Then learn American English spelling rules for each sound. Also learn the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for each sound. Then, you further practice the sound next to other similar sounds. For this we use minimal pairs--These are pairs of words that have one sound distinct in them, for example: pin / fin, tanks / thanks, bad / bat. In these lessons, we’ll focus on how to make each word in the pair sound distinct and correct. Each lesson ends in a test to make sure that you can hear the difference between each pair of words. All this to help you to learn to pronounce American English more like a native speaker. Give it a go…

Course objectives

• enhance clarity in spoken communication
• reduce the impact of foreign accents
• build confidence in professional interactions