Accent Reduction

This lesson introduces pausing, one of the most important parts of the rhythm and pronunciation of English.

This page helps you practice pausing, one of the most important parts of the rhythm and pronunciation of English.

This page helps you practice pausing with numbers, equations, and short sentences.

This page helps you practice pausing when you speak by dividing your speech into separate lines.

This page helps you practice pausing in a short self-introduction.

This page gives you even more practice with pausing in your speech.

Learn how you can pause in various places in the same sentence. Practice pausing in different places to create different feelings in your meaning.

This page gives you more practice with pausing while you read a paragraph about a Silicon Valley.

This lesson introduces sound stretching, one of the most important parts of the rhythm and pronunciation of English.

This page helps you practice stretching, one of the most important parts of the rhythm and pronunciation of English.

This page helps you practice stretching, one of the most important parts of American English pronunciation.

This page helps you practice stretching words that end in “s.”

This page helps you practice stretching vowel sounds.

This page helps you practice stretching while giving a self-introduction.

This page helps you practice stretching while reading a story.

This lesson introduces connecting, one of the most important parts of the rhythm and pronunciation of English.

This page helps you practice connecting words and phrases together.

This page helps you practice connecting the words within thought groups.

This page helps you practice different ways of connecting phrases.

This page helps you review stretching and connecting as you read a paragraph.

This page helps you review stretching and connecting while reading a paragraph.

This lesson introduces word stress, one of the most important parts of the rhythm of English.

This page guides you in placing word stress in a paragraph.

This page helps you practice word stress on compound words.

This page helps you practice changing word stress to change the meaning of a paragraph.

This page helps you practice changing word stress to change the meaning of a sentence.

This page helps you practice word stress through poems.

This page helps you practice word stress while reading a guided paragraph.

Take a quiz to see if you have learned the key concepts of word stress. After finishing this lesson, you can move on to Intonation in Lesson 5.

This lesson introduces intonation. Intonation is the movement of the pitch of your voice.