Welcome to online practice. If your native language is Japanese, the table below lists pronunciation issues you are likely to face when speaking American English. You will have your own individual variation, but the sounds listed here encompass the majority of patterns Japanese speakers usually bring to speaking English. You can use your individual assessment and training plan to determine the priority targets for you. Subscribe to the full site for audio and video recordings to practice these and other sounds and patterns to improve your American English pronunication. (Don't have an assessment? You can purchase one in the store or consider 1:1 accent training.)
| sound b t d g v th (as in “think”) th (as in “those”) z j n ng l r consonant clusters (more than one consonant sound together) /ɪ/ "vowel ɪ" as in "it" /e/ "vowel ay" as in "ate" /ɛ/ "vowel eh" as in "get" /æ/ "vowel a" as in "at" /a/ "vowel ah" as in "hot" /ʊ/ "vowel U" as in "wood" /au/ "diphthong ow" as in "now" /ʌ,ə/ "vowel schwa" as in "but" | error pattern can sound like p or v at the ends of words can be left off the ends of words can sound like t or be left off the ends of words can sound like k at the ends of words can sound like b at the start of words can sound like f or b at the ends of words can sound like s at the start of words can sound like s at the ends of words can sound like d or z at the start of words can sound like voiceless th or z at the ends of words can sound like j at the start of words can sound like s at the ends of words can sound like zh at the start of words can sound like ch or zh at the ends of words can sound like ng or be left off the ends of words can have an extra g sound at the ends of words can sound like n at the ends of words can sound like r or d at the start of words can be left off the ends of words can sound like l or be rolled at the start of words can sound like vowel U or vowel schwa in the middle or at the ends of words can have sounds left off or have the same errors listed above at the ends of words can have r/l confusion at the start of words can sound like vowel ee can sound like vowel eh can sound like vowel ay can sound like vowel ah can sound like vowel o can sound like vowel oo can sound like vowel ah or vowel o can be pronounced like the written letter rather than the American “uh” sound | Example robe sounds like rope or rove boat sounds like bow code sounds like coat made sounds like may pig sounds like pick very sounds like berry leave sounds like leaf or leeb thing sounds like sing with sounds like wiss those sounds like dose or zose breathe sounds like breeth or breeze zero sounds like jero buzz sounds like bus just sounds like zhust ridge sounds like rich or rizh thin sounds like thing moon sounds like moo thing sounds like thingg sung sounds like sun life sounds like rife or dife goal sounds like go read sounds like lead bird sounds like bud paper sounds like papuh lived sounds like live, want sounds like wan words sounds like word fresh sounds like flesh bliss sounds like briss it sounds like eat wait sounds like wet get sounds like gate cat sounds like cot not sounds like note look sounds like Luke how sounds like hah or ho banana sounds like “bah-nah-nah” rather than “buh-nah-nuh” |
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