The American Vowel Sounds in Detail
All the Rules You Need to Know
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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.
- People sometimes hear a different word because you are not pronouncing the vowel sounds correctly.
- 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.
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.
- Learn of the phonetic symbols and confusing spelling patterns of each of the 15 American vowel sounds.
- 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 expressions. 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.
“These courses give you really fast results. It feels so great when you don’t have to repeat yourself. “
Improve several skills at once.
Learn American idiomatic expressions while practicing the vowel sounds and word stress.
Say It Correctly
See the tongue and lip positions for each of the difficult vowel sounds.
learn to hear it correctly
Contains listening tests to help you develop the ability to hear the subtle differneces between sounds.
Learn anywhere, anytime.
Watch the videos from any mobile device or computer. Listen to the audio files and download the PDFs.
The foundation of clear pronunciation of words begin with vowel sounds.
The 28 videos in this course are designed to systematically teach you all the details that you need to know about American vowel sounds. And the accompanying audio files help you to practice these sounds using hundreds of common English expressions and idioms.
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15 Vowel Sounds of American English
Learn all of the spelling patterns for each sound.
Confusing Sounds and Words
Learn to to correctly pronounce all of hte confusing vowel sounds such as “pull” versus “pool”, “ball” versus “bowl”, “sheet’ versus “shit.”
Listening Tests
Test your listening skills to correctly identify confusing and similar sounding American vowels.
Practice New Sounds in Natural Dialogues
Pracitce using the correct vowel sounds in everyday conversational English.
Learn New Idioms
The audio and PDF exercises contain hundreds of very common idiomatic expressions with definitions. The idioms are organized according to the vowel sounds you are practicing.
Idioms Quizzes
Test your knowledge of the meaning of the new idioms you are learning.
Word Stress Rules
Practice saying sentences with the correct word stress while practicing the difficult vowels and idioms.
Phonetic Symbols
Learn the phonetic symbols so that you can use your dictionary more effectively.
American Versus British Accent
Compare how some vowels sound in a British accent.
What our students are saying
Our clients are busy professionals who need results fast. They work in an English speaking environment, and clear speech is a must for them.
“These courses give you really fast results. It feels so great when you don’t have to repeat yourself. “
“My English is completely transformed. I now feel so much more confident giving presentations in English. People finally understand every word I’m saying. “
Your Instructor
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 book is used in schools in the US and internationally. 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.
Her decades of experience have led to a teaching technique that is easy to follow and effective.
She has conducted workshops and group-training for numerous corporations and has taught accent reduction all over the US and internationally. Teaching accurate English communication to advanced learners of English has been her main goal and passion for the last thirty years.
Get Started Today
Be understood every time you pronounce English words.
- 28 video lessons
- Over one hour of professionally recorded audio – downloadable with male and female voices
- Listening tests
- Quizzes after each lesson
- Downloadable PDF exercises
- All the difficult English vowel sounds in detail
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.
Can I watch the videos on my mobile phone?
Yes. You can watch them on any device – smart phone, tablet or computer.
What level of English do I need to have?
Most of our students are advanced learners of English, but the English spoken in the videos is simple enough so that if you are intermediate or a high beginner, you will definitely understand the explanations.