How to speak like an American: Part 2

Enhance your American English speaking skills with our course on stress and intonation for confident, fluent communication.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about helping you sound super fluent and confident when speaking American English. You'll dive into stress, intonation, and get comfy with contractions and reductions. With video lectures and fun examples, you'll be chatting away like a pro in no time!

Key Points

  • Learn stress and intonation for fluent speaking
  • Focus on American English pronunciation
  • Courses include video lectures and narrated PowerPoints
  • Understand contractions and reductions
  • Master rules of stress and their exceptions

Learning Outcomes

  • Speak more confidently with correct stress and intonation
  • Use American English contractions and reductions effectively
  • Recognize and apply stress rules in sentences
  • Improve listening skills through narrated content
  • Understand major exceptions to stress rules

About This Course

Learn stress and intonation skills to make you sound fluent and confident.

This is a course for high intermediate advanced students of English. The course is given entirely in American English. The focus is on speaking with correct stress, intonation and"melody" in American English. The section focuses on stress and the many ways it is used. Skills are are explicitly taught by example. In the second section, the concentration changes to speaking phrases and sentences. Most of the lectures are provided in video. The last few lectures are given as a narrated PowerPoint. This is to provide practice listening.

Students who take this course will improve dramatically in their American English speaking skills.

  • Student will be able to speak with appropriate contractions and reductions.

  • In this course, students will learn the rules off stress, and major exceptions to the rules.

  • In this course, students will learn what reductions and contractions are and when to use them.

Instructor

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Katherine Katsenis

I have been a teacher my whole adult life, now going on 25 years! My passion is helping students become fluent in English. My other goal is to help others with mental illness, so I have shared my story and my ways of living a positive life. All my classes are reasonably priced so students can get the help they...

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Moreblessing B.
4.5
6 years ago

This is my good match

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Carlos M. Q.
5.0
6 years ago

Very useful and clear. Highly recommended

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Janusz O.
5.0
7 years ago

Short videos with clear instructions that make lessons simple and more understandable. Certainly explain the point of the lesson.

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Kent
3.0
9 years ago

I wish it would also cover the how each word is pronounced, e.g. some slow and some quick. More exercise may be helpful. Also, it seems no 1-1 session as promised.

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Alfonso P. A.
5.0
10 years ago

After I finished the first part of this course I decided to start the second part, and excellent course very clear examples. I´m very happy with my choice. Thank you Katherine for this fantastic course.

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Ft S.
5.0
10 years ago

It was excellent.

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