Master your North American Accent in 60 Minutes

Master long vowel sounds to improve your North American accent, using phonetic symbols and examples like say, sleep, cry, coal, and cute, while exploring American and British vowel patterns.

Explore short vowel sounds and how they differ from long vowels with examples like cat and sit. Practice pronouncing top, sun, money, and silent letters, and compare son with sun.

Master your North American accent by learning short and long vowel sounds, and five other vowel sounds with practical examples like put, soon, roar, boy, and down.

Master the schwa /ə/ sound, the most common English vowel, learn to shorten it for words like about and again, and practice with example words to improve pronunciation.

Master how to pronounce r in North American English by placing the tongue against the roof of the mouth, and practice with words like crazy, read, reboot, sorry, and run.

Explore r-controlled vowels—are, er, ear, and your sounds—with examples like car, scar, bizarre, gear, and dear, to improve pronunciation and sound native.

Explore schwa plus r-controlled vowels to pronounce words like center, fiber, offer, burn, century, culture, future, and structure, with guidance on when t-u sequences alter sounds.

Master your north american accent by learning voiced consonants, including silent letters like b and g, gh digraphs, and the tricky y sound with practical examples.

Learn to pronounce voiced consonants and other phonetics, including the g sound, nasal ng, th, w versus v, and there, their, they're distinctions, with practical word examples.

Master the unvoiced s, sh, and ch consonants. Learn silent s in island, and study patterns with double s and ti sequences through examples like commission and action.

Master your North American accent by studying unvoiced consonants f, k, p, and t with examples, phonetic cues, silent letters, and patterns like ph as f and ch as k.

Master the unvoiced th sound by placing the tongue behind and between the teeth, practice words like theme, theory, therapy, Thursday, breath, death, and mathematics; progress with the PDF.

Master English consonants, including silent h in honor, rhythm, when, and white; practice tongue-flicking t sounds in city and witty, plus the Betty butter tongue twister and measure zh sounds.

Explore tricky ough pronunciations and how spellings change sound in American English, with examples like thought, though, through, rough, tough, enough, droughts, plow, trough.

Explore tricky tea pronunciations and the glottal stop in English, with examples like better, partner, fitness, threat, and guidance on tongue position and word placement.

Practice pronunciation daily, embrace feedback, and follow Speak that Canadian on Instagram for ongoing tips; explore the four-hour course north american accents made easy canadian english pronunciation for deeper study.