Accent Reduction


Accent Reduction free resources

There are endless resources on the web that can help you get an American accent. Most of these resources are not free. Nonetheless, there are many accent reduction free resources on the web. The only problem is that with so many books and CD’s for sale out there, the free resources are really hard to find. This page lists many of these lost accent reduction free resources. Pronunciation Help

Here are some information from About.com

How to Improve Your Pronunciation

Vowel Pronunciation Guide

Consonant Pronunciation Guide

More on Pronunciation

Intonation and Stress: Key to Understanding

Phonetics: Introduction

Reference Glossary to Pronunciation Terms and Terminology

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The English Listening Lounge provides free listening activities. You can listen to real people speaking real English and improve your English.

The sound of English pronunciation page provide text, audio, and graphic activities that can help you learn: How to pronounce specific sounds in English, English word stress, English sentence stress and intonation. The page also include Pronunciation exercises and activities.

Okangan University pronunciation page offer 13 lessons in MP3, PDF and video format. Most exercises are for Canadian accent, nonetheless this site can be an important free tool for improving your English.

Elfs.com A fun way to improve your English. This site offer Different listening and pronunciation activities such as mouth workout and idioms page.

esl-lab.com A great free resource with many self study exercises and listening activities.