Rhythm and Intonation of English
15 Rules You Must Know
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 and consonants sounds of American English. You will learn how to move your mouth and tongueand you will practice words and sentences in the videos.
- Professionally recorded (downloadable) audio exercises with dialogues of common English expressions. (Almost 400 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 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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StartUnderstanding Syllable Stress (6:36)
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StartVowel Reduction in Unstressed Syllables (8:56)
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StartStressed and Unstressed Syllables - 60 Common Words (14:44)
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Start60 Common Words PDF Exercise and Answer Key
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StartSyllable Stress and Reduction - Sentences for Practice (7:38)
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StartWords with Two Syllables (4:07)
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StartAdjective and Noun Endings (4:19)
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StartBasic Rules of Word Stress in a Sentence (7:45)
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StartThought Groups (5:48)
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StartStressing Adjectives and Nouns (4:19)
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StartCompound Nouns (8:02)
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StartStressing Phrasal Verbs and Nouns (3:31)
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StartStressing Names (2:02)
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StartStressing Abbreviations and Numbers. (4:00)
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StartWord Stress - Exceptions (3:45)