American English Pronunciation Podcast
Summary: The American English Pronunciation Podcast offers weekly lessons covering the most common and difficult English pronunciation issues. Learn the General American Accent English speaking techniques and become better understood. Level: Intermediate to Advanced ESL/ELL students
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Podcasts:
Review all the sounds we've studied so far
Continuing learning the basics behind sentence stress and the Rhythm Rule.
This special episode outlines pronunciation issues specific to native Japanese speakers as they are learning English. www.pronuncian.com
Learn the basics behind sentence stress and the Rhythm Rule.
Learn and practice the three different -ed ending pronunciations
Practice comparing the f sound and v sound, discovering common problems with the v sound.
Practice comparing the sh sound and lesser known zh sound.
Learn how and why to reduce the pronouns: he, him, her, and them.
Learn how to link a word that ends with a vowel sound to a word that begins with a vowel sound.
Learn how and why to link words together.
Learn how to understand and why to use informal contractions in English.
Learn how to say and why to use common contractions in English.
Practice comparing the aw sound sound with other similar vowels, and practice the diphthongs oi sound and ow sound.
Learn about the tricky u (as in put) sound and the oo sound.
Learn which sounds are short vowels and how to correctly pronounce them.
