
Learn to reduce thick accents and adopt a clear standard North American pronunciation. Train your tongue, master stress and syllables, and practice to become more understandable and versatile.
Explore how English pronunciation varies among speakers, noting that muscle movement and lip shapes differ while producing sounds, and use these videos as a reference without implying anyone is wrong.
Master the E sound by positioning the tongue at the back molars, lifting the middle of the tongue, and practicing in a mirror to distinguish words like peace and pee.
Practice the E sound in various word contexts, focusing on how it changes when followed by different sounds, with examples like fleece, peace, read, beef, meat, sleeve, seizure, and quiche.
Practice the sound up using many examples from the caption—bib, nibbling, stick, sick, cigarette, marriage, bill, simple, similar, admit, situation, and fish.
Master English pronunciation presents sound 3: ɛ, spelled e, ea, u, ue, ie, ai, a, eo, ei, ae. Learn forward tongue placement with bottom teeth touching and mouth pulled back.
Practice sound 3 with words from the caption, including ebb, flow, neck, eggs, edge, hedge, jeopardy, sketch, meth, feather, and leather, emphasizing stressed and unstressed forms.
Master the æ sound, as in cat, by adjusting lip corners and tongue position, with the tongue tip on the back of bottom teeth, and practice words containing the sound.
Practice the sound contrasts shown, with examples like bath, laugh, and catch, comparing American and British pronunciations. Use mirror practice to refine pronunciation and accept corrections.
Learn the æ vowel sound when followed by n, m, or ŋ, focusing on nasal quality and back-tongue placement. Practice with mirror-based, simple words to reinforce the sound.
Practice sound 5 to master tricky English pronunciations, including can, can't, Canada, and the name Anga; learn how an a before n alters pronunciation and practice accordingly.
Master English pronunciation by practicing the schwa sound in unstressed syllables with examples like computer, homophobia, composition, and freedom, and learn to identify vowels that reduce to a schwa.
Practice the ow sound with wood, soot, room, and roof, noting its variation before d and under stress. Explore push, tush, bush, and look to reinforce this pronunciation in practice.
Master English pronunciation with the ʌ sound. Learn to relax the tongue and mouth, and practice tongue and lip positions in the mirror for North American speech.
Practice the target sound using a wide range of example words and phrases, including up, off, o, on, us, and clutch, to improve English pronunciation through guided repetition.
Explore the uː sound and its spellings, including o, oo, ew, ue, and more. Learn lip closure and a subtle end movement, then practice with words.
Practice the o sound through a wide range of examples—from roof and poof to room and broom—exploring related patterns like you, move, snooze, and smooth.
Practice the relaxed ah sound ɑː with a low, relaxed tongue and mouth. Mirror practice helps you master its spellings—o, aw, a, augh, ough, au—through repetition.
Practice the ah sound and related vowel patterns with example words like saw, talk, dog, on, off, and more, and build accurate pronunciation through mirror practice.
Explain how a backward c with two dots signals a more closed mouth articulation, used with the or sound and with some native speakers to refine pronunciation like 'long'.
This video explains the a sound as diphthong with two sounds in one, moving the tongue from position toward a y position, followed by practice with words containing this sound.
Master the owl sound for the aʊ vowel family (spelled ow, ou, ough) by transitioning from an open to a more closed mouth, practicing the sound in words.
Master the i sound as a diphthong with moving tongue and top-teeth contact, and explore its variations, including a change to a different sound when followed by f during practice.
Practice the I sound variations and how following sounds alter pronunciation, distinguishing unvoiced and voiced contexts with examples like ice, rice, license, nice, lies, and right.
Master the oh sound through examples like no, glow, folks, oath, and clothes, practicing context-driven pronunciation. Build recognition and accurate production of this common vowel in varied speech contexts.
Master the oi/oy sound (ɔɪ) by learning its two sounds in one articulation, with the tongue moving from behind the mouth toward the teeth and the lips shaping the sound.
Explore the English vowel chart to locate tongue position, jaw height, and lip rounding, learn about diphthongs, and practice with a downloadable chart to build accurate pronunciation.
Master English pronunciation by exploring r-controlled vowels, a bossy sound that changes how vowels sound. The lesson introduces each r-controlled sound and provides many example words.
Explore how to pronounce the ɝ and ɚ sounds, showing stressed versus unstressed forms and the tongue back, lip puckered mouth position, with practice using 'her' and 'mother'.
Practice the earth sound across stressed and unstressed forms with examples like sir, world, girl, current, murder, and circular, to master pronunciation patterns and word variations.
Master the or sound (ɔːr) with back-of-tongue positioning and gentle lip closure, exploring spellings or, ore, oor, oar, our, ar, and inward pronunciation practice.
Practice the or sound with word pairs and examples like or, wore, war, four, more, warm, bored, board, worn, torn, born, corn, court. Explore the practice for the or sound.
Master the er or ɛr sound, including spellings air, are, ear, ere, eir, ayer, aer, er, ar, by guiding a high-back tongue near top teeth and sliding smoothly along molars.
Practice the er sound in English using pairs like air and pair, tear and paper, and everyday items such as pants and gloves, with name pronunciations for Eric and Sarah.
Master the ɪr sound (ear, eer, ere, ier, ir) by lifting the tongue toward the top teeth and smoothly moving to er, then bracing the top molars while practicing words.
Identify the ear sound across words such as ears, ear, hear, here, tears, steer, volunteer, and pierce, noting their shared pronunciation in this sound 19 practice.
Master the ah sound ɑːr (spelled ar, are) and learn how the back of the tongue shapes this pronunciation. Practice with examples like 'this is our house' to reinforce articulation.
Practice the ah vowel sound and the R sound through examples such as arm, armor, pardon, pardoned, park, part, and particle to strengthen English pronunciation.
Explore how the ʊr sound can be avoided by replacing it with other sounds, using examples like sure and tour, and note that this feature is not covered in depth.
Practice r-controlled vowels with word sets like sturr, store, stare, stear, and star. Note the spellings can vary widely and always check pronunciation for new words learned from a book.
Learn to produce the North American English R with the tongue in the back of the mouth and puckered lips, then practice this r sound in common English words.
Practice all l at the beginning of words with upstairs articulation; at the end of a sound, choose downstairs or upstairs; includes belt, milk, tell, and people.
Practice the w sound with words like wolf, we, word, well, when, with, will, were, war, widow, window. Twist your lips to prepare for the w sound and improve pronunciation.
Master the pronunciation of the m sound in English, including spellings m, mm, mb, mn, lm, and practice with voice, air, and lips in common words.
Practice sound 27 guides learners through pronunciation drills, focusing on m and p positions with example words like may, many, smile, smoke, small, and lamp, plus emphasis on clarifying phrases.
Master English pronunciation with a focus on the phonetic symbol for n, exploring nasal air release, tongue placement, and how its articulation shifts with neighboring letters, followed by guided practice.
Practice sound 29 shows how English endings influence pronunciation, with longer/longest, n and ng before k sounds, and examples like uncle, ink, think, plank, include, incredible, incorporated.
Master English pronunciation by contrasting p and b sounds (spelled p, pp / b, bb), using unvoiced vs voiced production, lip position, air release, and vocal cords.
Learn to articulate the unvoiced f and the voiced v sounds by placing your top teeth on your bottom lip and blowing air, then practice with fire and va.
Explore the standard t and d sounds in North American English, focusing on tongue tip placement behind the teeth on the gums, voiceless versus voiced, and a crisp pronunciation.
Practice the English 't' sound with minimal pairs (late vs laid; lane vs lead) and learn air release versus stopping airflow to master the two main pronunciations.
Learn to produce the unvoiced kay and voiced good by placing the tongue at the roof of the mouth to block air, then release with or without vocal cord vibration.
Practice pronunciation of word pairs and end sounds, focusing on tongue release and light air release to distinguish blog from block, cons from con, and vague ideas.
Learn to articulate the voiceless ʧ and voiced ʤ sounds, using tongue and lip position and air release, with spellings such as ch, tch, and j.
Practice sound 38/39 with repetitive pronunciation drills using words like jump, surge, church, future, niche, pigeon, refrigerator, banjo, and more to improve English pronunciation.
Explore how s and z sounds are produced, with unvoiced and voiced forms—spelled with s, ss, c, sc, ps, ce, se and z variants—using a relaxed tongue near upper gums.
Master the ʃ and ʒ sounds through precise tongue position on the ridge, a back-of-tongue placement, and a voicing release practiced in English words.
Engage in a focused English pronunciation practice, emphasizing breath control and articulation of sounds at the teeth and throat, including words like weather vs whether, this/that/these/those, and they/them.
In this course you will learn all the sounds of English using the international phonetic alphabet. You will also learn the correct pronunciation of over 1000 English words. This course includes a free workbook to keep track of your progress and audio files to help you review the words. This course will help students who have a difficult time pronouncing the English words they learned by reading. This is common because the English spelling system is much more complex than Spanish, Arabic, or Indonesian. Beginners and intermediate students are welcome! As long as you can understand simple instructions in English you can follow this course.