The America Accent Course-------The 50 rules you must know

The Consonsant Sound Rules

Rule One : Full Pronouncing Every Consonants

Rule Two: Voiced and Voiceless Consonants

Voiced Consonants :? Pronouncing with vocal cord vibration

Voiceless Consonants : Pronouncing without? vocal cord vibration

RULE? :?? Vowel is longer before voiced consonant

Rule Three :? The "th" Sound

The pronouncing tip :? 1.the tip is the tongue touches the upper teeth with the air? flow coming out

2.don't touch too hard to let air flowing

The voiced consonant "th" :? /e/???? The voiceless consonant "th" :? θ

Rule Four :? TheAmerican "L" Sound

The American "L" sound is prolong and softer

Tip :? Keeping tongue touch upper palate in the end of phoneme

Rule Five :? The American "R" Sound

RULE :? "R" is never silent? And? just curl tip and pull it back

Tip ： The British English usually simplify the "R" if it's last letter of the words and silenting it while it following with consonsant phoneme

Rule Six :? The American "W" Sound

RULE :? Round your lips and let air flows out????? I.E.?? wait for me——"ROUND LIPS"

PS :? qui——/kw/

Rule Seven :? The "V" and "W" Sound

RULE :? The lower lip touches the upper teeth

PS :? The phoneme of "V" is similar to "W" ,? the only difference is mouth and vibration

Rule Eight :? The "S" and "Z" Sound

Cation :? The "S" is voiceless consonant with "Z" is voiced consonant

RULE :? The "s" in the end of word pronouncing voiced ("Z") when it follows voiced while pronouncing voiceless when follows voiceless("S")

I.E.? Book-------Books????? bag---------bags? laugh---------laughs

Rule Nine :? The Stop and Continuant

The "Stop" :? The consonant? produced when we stop air flow(holding the tongue and the teeth or close lips)

The "Continuant" :? The sound we can continue air flow as long as we want when we pronouncing

I.E.??? JOB----------stop???????????????????????? YES------------continuant

RULE :? 1.Prolong the continuant

2.Don't release the stop before a consonant(just like? close mouth stop replace stop consonant)

3.The stop usually pronounced by"T" or "D" in the end of word

Rule Ten ： "T" between Two Vowels

RULE :? "T" between two vowels is a fast "D"

Rule Eleven :? "T" followed by "N"

RULE :? Hold the "T" followed by "N" , and simplify the other phoneme.

I.E.?? written---------writtn?????? mountain---------mountn

Tip :? The phoneme between "T" and followed "N" would be omitted

Rule Twelve :? The "ING" Sound ———————————————CHECK AGAIN

RULE :? The "ING" Sound is pronounced with back of tongue touch upper palate

Rule Thirteen :? "TR" and "DR" Sounds

RULE ： 1. The "TR" sounds like a short "Chr"??? I.E.? Tree???? Try??? Introduct

2. The "DR" sounds like a short "Zir"(cn) or "Jr"(en)?????? I.E.??? Dry??? Dress???? Dream

Rule Fourteen :? "TU" and "DU" Sounds

RULE :? 1. The "TU" phoneme "t?" [Followed vowel is "t?u" ]sounds like "Ch"(en) or "Qi"(cn)????? I.E.??? Actual?? Statue? Nature

2. The "DU" [Not stressed phoneme] sounds like "J"???????? I.E.? Graduate?????? Educate?????? Schedule

3. The "T" followed by "you" sounds like "t?u"?????????????? I.E.?? want you---------want? you

4.The "D" followed by "you" sounds like "Ju"??????????????? I.E.?? would you----------woulj you

Rule Fifteen :? "ED" Endings

RULE :? 1. If last letter is "T" or "D" , "ED" is a separate syllable?????? I.E.?? Waited------waited ;?? Need--------needed

2. If last letter is voiceless , "ED" become a "T" sound .??????? I.E.??? Stopped-------stopt ;?? Worked-------workt

3. If last letter is voiced , "ED" become a "D" sound .?????????? I.E.??? Robbed--------robd ;??? Used----------used