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Teach: Pronunciation

Systematic pronunciation training across vowels, consonants, stress, and connected speech. Includes minimal-pair drills, IPA references, and recording exercises teachers can review with students.

27 lessons5h 13m3 free previews

How teachers use this

Most teachers run this as a 10-15 min warm-up alongside another course. Mix and match by sound.

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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Notes from a teacher who has done this for a decade

Which sounds to fix first, which to leave alone, and how to teach the schwa to a Spanish or Korean speaker without losing them by lesson three.

Most pronunciation courses fail because they try to teach the whole sound system. You should not. Pick the two or three sounds that block your student's intelligibility and fix those first. Everything else can wait, possibly forever. Native speakers have accents and nobody minds. Your goal is clarity, not a Mid-Atlantic voice.

Diagnose before you teach

In lesson 1, do a ten-minute diagnostic. Have the student read a paragraph aloud, then describe a photo for two minutes. Mark only the sounds that blocked your understanding. Not every imperfect sound. The ones that genuinely made you pause. That is the syllabus, in priority order. Two or three is normal. Anything more and you are overteaching.

The schwa is the best return for your time

Almost no other language has it. It is the most common sound in English. Students who learn to reduce unstressed syllables to schwa go from sounding foreign to sounding clear in two weeks. Teach it first, even before the famous TH. Use "banana" as the anchor word. Three schwas. They will hear it forever after.

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