
The way to improve your English pronunciation is not by practicing individual sounds. To really improve your English accent, you need to practice the MUSIC of English. This course teaches Tiffany's top 10 tips for improving your pronunciation, and they all have to do with English stress, rhythm, and melody.
Start by watching this brief overview of the 10 tips. Then download the PDF workbook that contains all the course assignments.
Learn how to identify important words and syllables to stress.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #1--stress important words and syllables.
Practice emphasizing important words by spending more time on stressed vowels.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #2--spend time on stressed vowels.
Practice reducing unimportant syllables to the short, unclear schwa sound.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #3--reduce unstressed vowels to schwa.
Help your listener understand you better by pausing between every phrase.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #4--pause between phrases.
Link words together to improve your English fluency and sound more natural.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #5--link words within phrases.
Reduce unimportant words and syllables enough to allow the stressed vowels to fall on the beat.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #6--mumble to keep the beat.
English has a wide pitch range, so you will sound more natural if you exaggerate your voice to hit very high and very low pitches.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #7--exaggerate pitch changes.
The most common intonation pattern is for the pitch of the voice to rise and fall. You will learn how to do this with statements in this lesson.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #8--make statements rise-fall.
Practice making questions that could be answered with "yes" or "no" fall and then rise in pitch.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #9--make Yes/No questions fall-rise.
Download the PDF assignment to practice tip #10--make Wh- questions rise-fall.
Take this short course and FINALLY improve your pronunciation and fluency by practicing the most important aspects of English pronunciation. This pronunciation course is not about the specific consonant and vowel sounds of English. You can find great videos about how to produce the sounds on YouTube. But what I have discovered after teaching English for over thirteen years is that knowing how to produce the sounds is not enough. You need to learn the music of English if you want a more natural sounding accent. This course will help you improve your speaking and listening skills by practicing English stress, rhythm, and intonation. I provide my top 10 tips and tricks that have helped my students the most with their pronunciation.
Tiffany is a native speaker of American English. She will be demonstrating the practice activities with a North American accent, but these tips apply to many other English accents too. If you want to speak more clearly or sound more like a native English speaker, this is the right course for you! It's appropriate for intermediate to advanced English learners. Tiffany speaks slightly slower than normal, but this course is not designed for beginners. It includes 10 videos with short explanations and practice activities as well as assignments and quizzes. Because you'll need some time to do your homework assignments after each practice video, Tiffany suggests doing one learning tip per day. Many students complete the course in about 10 days.