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In this first week, you will practice the consonant sounds of American English. Consonants are the sounds where the air coming up from your lungs meets some obstacles on the way. The first sounds in the words time, sand, and moon are consonants. After a quick quiz to find out which consonant sounds are the most difficult for you, you鈥檒l practice some pairs of sounds that might be confusing and learn some tricks for telling them apart, and you鈥檒l start to understand how your mouth moves when you say these sounds.

This week, you鈥檒l practice some tricky vowel sounds in American English. Vowels are sounds that come out of your mouth very smoothly, like the first sounds in apple, ocean, and out. Vowel sounds are very important for being understood in English. They鈥檙e the 鈥渉eart鈥� of each syllable, and they need to be said clearly to avoid misunderstanding. Our goal is to help you pronounce English in a way that can be easily understood by listeners in real life, and mastering vowel sounds is an important step toward that goal. Now let鈥檚 practice the vowel sounds of American English.

This week, you鈥檒l learn about some things that give English its special rhythm and melody. You鈥檒l learn about syllables鈥攖he small chunks of sound that make up the 鈥渂eats鈥� in words鈥攁nd word stress鈥攖he way some parts of words are emphasized more than others. You鈥檒l also see how some words become shorter and weaker when we talk. Since these words are used very often in ordinary speaking, we can鈥檛 understand spoken English without them. Our goal this week is to help you use the music of English to communicate more effectively and to be understood more easily when you speak. Enjoy learning about the music of American English pronunciation.

In this final week of the course, you'll look at a few more tricky points in American English pronunciation. First, you鈥檒l learn about the different ways to pronounce the 鈥搒 and 鈥揺d word endings, which have important grammatical meanings, and you鈥檒l learn when to use each kind of pronunciation. Next, you鈥檒l practice pronouncing numbers like 14 and 40, 15 and 50, 16 and 60 that can cause misunderstandings. You鈥檒l also learn about the pronunciation of the words 鈥渃an鈥� and 鈥渃an鈥檛鈥� 鈥搕he difference between them might surprise you. Finally, you鈥檒l practice some sound changes that happen when words come together in common spoken expressions like "gonna" for "going to," "wanna" for "want to," and "shoulda" for "should have."