American Vowel Sounds in Detail

Master vowel sounds while learning the most common English expressions

"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

This course is for you if:

  • People ask you to repeat yourself when you speak English.
  • Your English teachers didn’t teach the correct pronunciation of English sounds.
  • 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.
  • You wish you could use common idiomatic expressions naturally, like a native speaker.
  • You want quick results but you have seen no improvement in your speech by watching YouTube videos and studying from books.


"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

What you get in this course:

  • Video lessons of the six basic rules of word stress. Word stress is very important for natural sounding speech.
  • Video lessons that show you how to correctly pronounce all of the difficult vowel 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. (Hundreds of the most common English expressions!) Each expression contains the specific sound you are learning. Practice using every day expressions while focusing on fixing the pronunciation mistakes and the correct word stress. 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.

Your Instructor


Lisa Mojsin
Lisa Mojsin

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


  Introduction
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  Part 1 - Quick Introduction to American Vowel Sounds and Their Spelling Patterns
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  Part 2 - How to Stress Vowels - 6 Basic Rules
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  Part 3 - Difficult English Vowel Sounds
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  Part 4 - Putting It All Together - Sound Like a Native Speaker
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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
How should I practice?
After you watch each video that teaches you to correctly produce the difficult vowel and consonant sound, download the audio and PDF files and practice listening and repeating that lesson for one week. Your speech will sound correct and natural and you will get used to using the common expressions that native speakers use. Each expression contains a word that has the sound you are learning. Then go to the next lesson, doing the same thing.
Will I be learning new expressions?
There are over 400 expressions and idioms. The expressions in the downloadable audio files and texts are a combination of idiomatic expressions that you should learn and common, everyday expressions that many English learners already know. There are definitions of the expressions and a quiz after teach lesson.
Are these lessons available on your YouTube channel?
Most of the lessons are only available on this online course platform.. These are specific and detailed lessons that follow a sequence of topics in the order that you need to learn them.

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