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
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Learn stress and intonation for fluent speaking
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Focus on American English pronunciation
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Courses include video lectures and narrated PowerPoints
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Understand contractions and reductions
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Master rules of stress and their exceptions
Learning Outcomes
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Speak more confidently with correct stress and intonation
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Use American English contractions and reductions effectively
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Recognize and apply stress rules in sentences
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Improve listening skills through narrated content
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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.
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