How to speak like an American: Part 2

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

Category Reading

Instructor Alex Tran

Learner Number

12312 learners

Updated 15-04-2025

Language

English

What you'll learn

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.

Requirements

Students must be at an intermediate level of English speaking to benefit the most from this course.
Students are strongly encouraged to meet with the teacher in the live sessions for direction and extra practice.
Students will need a quiet place to listen to the videos and practice the exercises.

Additional information

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.