This course is designed for those of you in need of improving your overall pronunciation skills and enhancing your understanding of spoken English.

Focus: The program focuses on pronunciation practice and listening strategies.

Topics include: word stress, intonation, rhythm and identifying problem sounds.

This program runs for 12 weeks. It is very popular. Only speaking practice. No reading, no writing, no grammar!

What You Will Study

Proper stress and intonation of English words – two syllable vs three syllable – i.e. – travel vs traveler

Rhythm – what is it (written) vs “wa-tiz-it” (spoken), want to (written) vs wanna (spoken)

Rising and Falling Intonanation and the different meanings – She’s very pretty (rising intonation) vs She isn’t very pretty (falling intonation)

Vowel sounds – “fit, fat, feet or sit, sat, seat”

Sibilants – i.e “Z – buzz”, “ZH – measure”, “ch – watch” SH vs. CH, J vs Y, L vs R, “B vs. V”

Reduction – “hot and cold vs hot n cold” “and” changes to “n”

Numbers – “40 vs 14, 50 vs 15”