New on YouTube! Shadowing Exercise 04 – Auto Advertising Let’s try shadowing – Here is the next shadowing lesson on YouTube! Shadowing is basically when you try to repeat what you are listening to while you are listening to it. In other words, speak the words you hear as you listen to them. This exercise has two sections. First the …
New on YouTube! Linking Sounds With EE (Liaison) – Natural American English Pronunciation Lesson
New on YouTube! In this lesson, we will look at the natural American English pronunciation of the EE vowel sound, when it is followed by words beginning with other vowels. When we pronounce these word combinations, we generally link the EE sound and the initial vowel sound of the next word using a slight Y sound. This is known as …
New on YouTube! Linking Sounds With YOU (Liaison) – Natural American English Pronunciation Lesson
New on YouTube! In this lesson, we will look at the natural American English pronunciation of the pronoun YOU, when it is followed by words beginning with A or O. When we pronounce these word combinations, we generally link the OO sound of YOU and the A or O vowel sound of the next word using a slight W sound. …
Shadowing For Fluency Practice – Flu Shots- New YouTube Lesson
New on YouTube! Shadowing Exercise 02 – Flu Shots Let’s try shadowing – This is my second shadowing lesson on YouTube! Shadowing is basically when you try to repeat what you are listening to while you are listening to it. In other words, speak the words you hear as you listen to them. This exercise has two sections. First the …
New on YouTube! Words Ending in ECTS – Natural American English Pronunciation Lesson
New on YouTube! In this lesson, we will look at the natural American English pronunciation of words with the ETCS spelling at the end of the word. The words are affects, connects, dialects, directs, effects, ejects, expects, insects, objects, protects, respects, and suspects.Are you ready? Let’s check it out! I hope you like this lesson…if you do, please take a …
YouTube Lesson – Shifting Stress For Different Parts Of Speech – English Pronunciation
New on YouTube! Let’s continue talking about Natural American English Pronunciation. In this lesson, we will look at the pronunciation of words that shift their stress depending on which part of speech they are. The words in this lesson are: address/address, compete/competition, define/definition, estimate/estimation, invite/invitation, present/present, produce/product, rebel/rebel, record/record, signify/significant, specify/specific, and suspect/suspect. Let’s check it out! Click the CC …
Adding The Suffix IC to Nouns Shifts The Stress – English Pronunciation
Adding the suffix IC to nouns, shifts the stress of the word to the syllable just before the suffix IC. This is a good tip to know to help improve your pronunciation of these words. In this lesson, we’ll look at: academy/academic, alcohol/alcoholic, allergy/allergic, atom/atomic, drama/dramatic, economy/economic, gymnast/gymnastic, icon/iconic, magnet/magnetic, melody/melodic, romance/romantic, strategy/strategic, and symbol/symbolic I hope you like this …
New YouTube Lesson: Was Able To – Natural American English Pronunciation
New on YouTube! In this lesson, we will look at the natural American English pronunciation of: BE ABLE TO. English lessons like this one are helpful for both pronunciation and listening, because this is how native speakers really speak in daily conversation. Here are the Key Sentences: I was able to find it→ I wuh-zable-tuh fine-dit I wasn’t able to …
Words Ending In NDS – Natural American English Pronunciation Lesson
New Youtube English Lesson! It’s another American English Pronunciation Lesson. In this lesson, we will look at how the D sound disappears in words that have an NDS at the end of them. Let’s check it out! Click the CC button to see the subtitles and download the transcript of the examples below. Are you ready? Let’s check it out! …
On YouTube – Teens & Tens – How To Hear and Pronounce the Difference
New on YouTube. In this lesson, we will look at the natural American English pronunciation of numbers. A lot of English learners have trouble with the pronunciation of 13 vs. 30…14 vs. 40…15 vs. 50 and so on. Let’s check out how we really pronounce these numbers! Let’s check it out! I hope you like this lesson…if you do, please …