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Systematic pronunciation training across vowels, consonants, stress, and connected speech. Includes minimal-pair drills, IPA references, and recording exercises for reviewing your own speech.

27 lessons5h 13m3 free previews

Study and preparation

Review your own recordings and choose exercises by sound for personal practice.

What you'll learn

Why Pronunciation Matters More Than Grammar
The Sounds That Don't Exist in Your Language
Vowels: The Biggest Source of Confusion
TH Sounds: "Think" vs. "This" (Finally Get It Right)
R vs. L: Why It Matters & How to Fix It
V vs. W, B vs. V: Common Consonant Swaps
The "Dark L". The Sound Nobody Teaches You
Final Consonants: Why You're Swallowing the End of Words

How each lesson works

Every lesson mixes short teaching cards with 8-plus kinds of interactive exercises. No passive reading. You practice as you go.

Teaching cards

Short, no-fluff explanations

Multiple choice

Pick the natural option

Fill in the blank

Type the right word

Word reorder

Build sentences from tiles

Match pairs

Connect phrase to meaning

Dialogues

Read + pick the best reply

True / false

Test what you know

Error correction

Fix the sentence

Listening

Play, then answer

Curriculum

27 lessons · 5h 13m total

Why Pronunciation Matters More Than Grammar

9 min

The Sounds That Don't Exist in Your Language

13 min

Vowels: The Biggest Source of Confusion

15 min

TH Sounds: "Think" vs. "This" (Finally Get It Right)

12 min

R vs. L: Why It Matters & How to Fix It

11 min

V vs. W, B vs. V: Common Consonant Swaps

10 min

The "Dark L". The Sound Nobody Teaches You

9 min

Final Consonants: Why You're Swallowing the End of Words

11 min

Short vs. Long Vowels ("Ship" vs. "Sheep")

12 min

The Schwa: The Most Common Sound in English

10 min

Diphthongs: Sounds That Move

13 min

Minimal Pairs Practice: Hear the Difference, Say the Difference

14 min

Why Word Stress Changes Everything

11 min

Stress Rules for 2-Syllable Words

10 min

Stress in Longer Words: Patterns That Help

12 min

Words That Change Meaning With Stress ("REcord" vs. "reCORD")

9 min

Content Words vs. Function Words

12 min

Sentence Stress: How Meaning Shifts

13 min

Thought Groups & Pausing

11 min

Intonation for Questions, Statements & Lists

14 min

Linking Consonant to Vowel

10 min

Elision: Sounds That Disappear

11 min

Assimilation: Sounds That Change Their Neighbors

12 min

Contractions & Weak Forms in Fast Speech

13 min

American vs. British vs. "International" English

14 min

You Don't Need a Perfect Accent (But You Need to Be Clear)

10 min

Daily Pronunciation Practice Routine

12 min
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Practical notes for planning your lessons

Find pronunciation targets through listener evidence, practise contrasts with reliable audio, and measure clarity in meaningful speech.

The goal is intelligibility in the learner's context. Accent differences are expected. Pronunciation interacts with vocabulary, grammar, context, and listening conditions; no sound or stress pattern guarantees understanding.

Diagnose actual needs

Use a short reading and spontaneous description, with an optional recording if everyone agrees. Ask a listener what they heard. Select one or two recurring features that affect the message, rather than predicting errors from first language.

Model, contrast, and transfer

Use learner-dictionary audio for a named variety. Compare a minimal pair, practise mouth movement comfortably, then place the words in useful sentences. Vowel quality as well as duration can distinguish words. Schwa occurs in some unstressed syllables, not all; banana usually has two schwas in common dictionary models.

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