American English Speech
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Learn how to communicate with the sounds and music of American English. Improve your pronunciation in Standard American English by dealing with the sounds of the words that you speak. NOTE: This is a course on speaking American English, not learning the English language.
What students will learn
You will learn to:
Articulate sounds and words using the dialect of Standard American English.
Listen and think in terms of symbols for sounds, using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Use the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe from the Roman alphabet into the forty-four sounds of Standard American Dialect and vice versa.
Analyze texts for phrasing, operative words, intonational patterns, degrees of stress.
Achieve a proper use of weak forms for certain parts of speech in the English Language, making your speech clear and efficient.
