• English Accent Coach is an online tool for developing English pronunciation skills - focusing on vowels and consonants. For those who were brought up speaking a language other than English, it can be as difficult to recognize English speech sounds as it is to produce them. In fact, research has shown that pronunciation can improve when learners are coached to better recognize English sounds. More accurate and rapid recognition of sounds can also help learners to more quickly acquire English vocabulary.

  • English Accent Coach allows you to learn English vowels and consonants using an interactive game approach. During play, you will hear syllables or words with English sounds and you must click on the symbol for the sound you hear. The next two pages of the tour will allow you to familiarize yourself with the symbols that are used. These are the same symbols found in many English dictionaries.

  • Click the symbols in the grid below to hear sample sounds.

    Click the symbols in the grid above to hear sample sounds.

    The orientation of vowel symbols on the left reflects how they are perceived. Those that are closest to each other tend to be most confusable with each other.

    Vowels Summary

  • Click the symbols in the grid below to hear sample sounds.

    Click the symbols in the grid above to hear sample sounds.

    Like the vowel grid, the consonant symbols on the left are roughly grouped to reflect how they are perceptually related. However, since people do not perceive consonants using the same processes they use for vowels, consonant patterns cannot be described in exactly the same way.

    Consonants Summary
  • i
    95%
    u
    78%
    ɪ
    85%
    ʊ
    96%
    e
    100%
    o
    23%
    ε
    74%
    ʌ
    82%
    æ
    76%
    ɑ
    100%
    Overall Score:
    81%
    Your Time:
    4:08

    Mastered

    Satisfactory

    Needs More Practice

    See Consonants

    Your Vowel Report Card

    When you have completed a game session, individual vowel scores will be illustrated in the vowel grid, while your overall score and time can be seen to the right. In this example, the learner has mastered vowels in green, is doing satisfactory with vowels shown in yellow, but is advised to continue playing at this level in order to further improve vowels shown in red. If further improvement is not realized after an additional ten or more sessions, we recommend proceeding to the next level.

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