Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
6 Hour(s) 22 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Jolinda Osborne
Rating
Course Overview
A comprehensive American Accent course to help you master American English.
Are you ready to master your spoken English and advance your career?
Sound American is designed for professionals and students who are serious about speaking English with accuracy, clarity and confidence.
After taking this comprehensive course, you will know how to produce all of the sounds of American English, pronounce work-related vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, use accurate pronunciation grammar, and speak with an American intonation.
You will have the confidence to speak up in meetings, present your good ideas, influence your coworkers, win over your customers, and fully participate in conversations with your American friends and colleagues.
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 37 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Getting Started
- Section 2 Plosives (Consonants)
- Section 3 Fricatives (Consonants)
- Section 4 Glides / Laterals (Voiced Consonants)
- Section 5 Nasals (Voiced Consonants)
- Section 6 Consonant Blends
- Section 7 Word Stress
- Section 8 Front Vowels
- Section 9 Back Vowels
- Section 10 Middle Vowels
What You’ll Learn
- Over six hours of video instruction and demonstrations with master teacher Jolinda Osborne
- Lessons that show you how to pronounce each of the 43 sounds of American English
- Drawings to illustrate the correct mouth position for each sound
- Troubleshooting instruction to fix common pronunciation mistakes
- Practice exercises to fine-tune your pronunciation of commonly used words at work
- Sentences, idiomatic phrases and dialogues to master American intonation and rhythm
- Pronunciation rules to ensure that your speech is grammatically correct
- "Speak like an American" tips so that your speech is fluid and natural
- Downloadable PDF booklets of all lessons: Over 200 pages of instructional material for many more hours of practice
- -International Phonetic Alphabet provides a methodology for accurate listening and pronunciation
- The course is optimized for tablets, smart phones and computers. Study anywhere. Anytime!
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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MMueen Ahmed
Excellent course. Absolutely no other course that can match this.
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CChiqbelle
The course is a right mix of theory and practice exercises. The sounds/pronunciations of different words has been explained clearly with loads of examples. Jolinda is a very engaging and enthusiastic trainer. The resources section is very well crafted with visual representation, keeping the user requirements in mind. This course has more than met my expectations. Thanks Jolinda for designing this wonderful course!!
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LLevent Kumyol .
A to the point course, which is very well organized and delivered. Thank you very much. I plan to retake it from time to time
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BBakri Mohamed
very helpful and very specific lessons
