This
is a self-study American pronunciation course. It is designed to help
English learners with their foreign accents. This is important because
it can greatly increase your confidence while speaking, and solve
pronunciation misunderstandings ("Excuse me, what did you say?").
Levels
This course is suitable for intermediate learners and above.
How does it work?
The course is divided into 15 weeks.
Each week you receive audio and video lessons, as well as assignments.
You get to learn
and practice
each sound of English.
Here
are some example subjects: the "th" sound, the different kinds of "ah"
sounds, the special English "r" sound, and much more.
Here is an
overview video:
In the words of Sheri Summers (the creator of this course):
"You can lose out on jobs and promotions which could easily be worth
thousands of dollars per year.
You can lose clients and customers who feel it's too difficult to do
business with you because they don't understand you well.
You can lose out on new friends, opportunities, and even love interests
because you don't have the confidence you need to grab the good things
in life.
This is totally unfortunate and not fair!! I know it and I
feel for you. Really I do.
If you learned English like most people I know, you got a good
education in grammar and vocabulary, but chances are, your English
teacher didn't teach you about pronunciation. It's very
possible he or she didn't know much about it either.