Course Description

There are lots of useful and free pronunciation lessons on YouTube. But, you can’t really improve your pronunciation just from watching videos. You need a teacher to tell you if you’re saying things right.

This pronunciation course is unique. You learn from videos but you can also interact with your teacher and send her recordings of your pronunciation.

There are three steps in every lesson:

  1. Watch a video of your teacher.
  2. Do a quiz to test your understanding.
  3. Make a recording and send it to your teacher. (Optional)

Your teacher listens to the recording. If your pronunciation is right, you can go to the next lesson. If not, she tells you how to improve.



Qualified English Teacher .

• CELTA Certificate in teaching English to adults • BA Linguistics & Phonetics - 1st Class Honours - Leeds University • 10 years of experience teaching English and developing language learning materials, including at the BBC. • Previously worked as an English teacher at Cambridge House, Madrid

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Lesson 1

    • Video: Important skills for improving your pronunciation

    • Make your recordings (Optional)
  • 2

    Lesson 2

    • Video: Word stress and the schwa

    • Quiz: Find the stressed syllable

    • Make your recordings (Optional)
  • 3

    Lesson 3

    • Video: More about the schwa

    • Quiz: Find the schwa sounds

    • Make your recording (Optional)

    • Bonus: More words with silent syllables
  • 4

    Lesson 4

    • Video: The rhythm of English

    • Quiz: Which sentence uses English rhythm?

    • Make your recording (Optional)
  • 5

    Lesson 5

    • Video: Sentence stress

    • Quiz: Find the stressed words

    • Make your recording (Optional)
  • 6

    Lesson 6

    • Video: Unstressed words

    • Quiz: How do you pronounce 'to'?

    • Make your recording (Optional)
  • 7

    Lesson 7

    • Verb: How to pronounce unstressed 'for' and 'do you'

    • Quiz: Which is the correct pronunciation?

    • Make your recording (Optional)
  • 8

    Lesson 8

    • Video: How to pronounce 'will' in contractions

    • Make your recording (Optional)

    • Audio: How to pronounce other unstressed words
  • 9

    Lesson 9

    • Video: Speaking freely

    • Make your recording (Optional)

    • Practise on iTalki