Accent Reduction

This page helps you practice individual sounds and learn the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).

This page helps you practice voiced and unvoiced sounds.

This page helps you practice difficult sounds such as ‘v’, ‘f’, ‘w’, ‘p’, and ‘b’.

This page helps you practice difficult individual sounds such as ‘l’, ‘r’, ‘n’, and ‘m’.

This page helps you practice the two sounds of “th.”

This page helps you practice diphthongs (double vowel sounds).

This page quizzes you on how well you can read a paragraph using all the skills in the Accent Diet that you’ve learned so far.

This lesson introduces word endings, an important part of speaking clearly in an American accent.

This page helps you practice difficult word endings.

This page helps you practice word endings while reading a paragraph.

This page helps you practice word endings made of consonant clusters.

This page helps you practice pronouncing difficult word endings.

In this listening exercise, you will practice the different ways to pronounce ‘s’ at the end of words. There are 3 ways to pronounce the ‘s’ sound at the end of words. Click here to learn more.

This page helps you practice ‘ed’ word endings.

This lesson explains the concept of noise. Noise can hurt your speech and pronunciation.

This page helps you reduce the noise in your speech, one of the most important parts of speaking clearly.