American Consonant Sounds - Mastering the Difficult Sounds
17 Rules You Need to Know
"This course has been tremendously helpful to me! I avoided going to many auditions because of my accent. Lisa's method gave me the tools I need to sound like a native speaker."
- Yasmine Al Massri, Actress in Hollywood
What You Get in This Course:
- 18 video lessons that show you how to correctly pronounce all of the difficult consonants sounds of American English. You will learn how to move your mouth and tongue and you will practice words and sentences in the videos.
- Professionally recorded (downloadable) audio exercises with dialogues of common English expressions. Each expression contains the most difficult consonants sounds - the "TH", "ED" endings and the American T sound. Practice using everyday expressions and correct word stress while practicing these difficult sounds. Practice all three skills at the same time.
- Downloadable PDF text of the audio exercises containing definitions of the new idiomatic expression. For correct and careful practice, the difficult sounds are in different color letters, and the stressed words are underlined.
- Quizzes to test your knowledge of the new idiomatic expressions.
"The courses give you really fast results. It just feels so great when you don’t have to repeat yourself, when you don’t have to explain yourself, and when you can finally stop apologizing for the way you sound."
- Tania, From Ukraine, working in New York City
This Course Is For You If:
- People ask you to repeat yourself when you speak English.
- Your sentences are broken and choppy and you want to connect them smoothly like native speakers do.
- Your English teachers didn’t teach the correct pronunciation of English sounds.
- People tell you that you mumble and don't move your mouth well.
- You don't want to spend thousands of dollars taking one-on-one lessons with a professional speech therapist or accent reduction coach.
- You speak English well but you still don’t feel confident around native speakers.
- People sometimes hear a different word because you are not pronouncing the consonant sounds correctly
- You want quick results but you have seen no improvement in your speech by watching YouTube videos and studying from books.
Your Instructor
Lisa is a former college instructor of English who left her academic teaching career to found Accurate English over 20 years ago. Her typical clients are foreign-born corporate professionals working in the U.S. and actors in Hollywood for whom clear and accurate communication in English is a must. She speaks five languages and has worked as an interpreter and translator.
Her clients include numerous Hollywood actors and companies such as: Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, Google, Amgen, McKinsey and Company, BCG, Nestle, Univison (Spanish Television), HBO television, UCLA Medical School, UCLA Law School, Johnson and Johnson, AT&T, Ernst and Young and many others.
Lisa believes that accent reduction and correct usage of the English grammar and vocabulary go hand in hand. If you have a weakness in one area you will not feel confident and you will not sound fluent. She believes that the fastest and most efficient way to achieve total fluency is for learners to always work on more than one skill at the same time. All of her courses are designed with that philosophy in mind.
Teaching accurate English communication to advanced learners of English has been her main goal and passion for the last thirty years.
Course Curriculum
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StartIntroduction to Consonant Sounds (5:21)
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StartVideo Lesson - Practicing Voiced and Voiceless Consonants (5:49)
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StartVideo Lesson - Vowel Length with Voiced and Voiceless Consonants (6:00)
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StartVideo Lesson - 2 Rules about Word Endings and Consonant Sounds (2:06)
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StartAudio Lesson- Listening Practice for Vowel Length and Consonants
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StartThe Importance of Stops and Continuants (6:03)
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StartConsonant Endings for a Natural Accent - Learning How Stops Work (7:50)
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StartVideo lesson - the TH sound (6:03)
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StartAudio Lesson - Common Expressions with the TH sound - audio and PDF
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StartQUIZ - the /θ/ and /ð/ sound - "th" sound
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StartVideo lesson - The American T sound (4:51)
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StartAudio Lesson - Common Expressions with the American T sound - audio and PDF
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StartQUIZ - The American T sound - "water"
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StartVideo lesson - "ed" endings - "worked", "loved" "needed" (7:16)
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StartAudio Lesson - Common Expressions with "ed endings - audio and PDF
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StartVideo Lesson - the /ŋ/ sound - "ing" endings (3:50)
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StartThe American R Sound (3:33)
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StartThe American L sound (3:42)
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StartDifficult T + N combination (3:33)
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StartTU and DU Combination (4:17)
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StartDifficult Consonants - TR and DR combination (3:58)
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StartThe W sound (4:12)
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StartThe V Sound (2:40)
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StartComparing V and W Sounds (1:53)