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Pronunciation Power

The quickest route to a native-sounding accent

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  • 50+ lessons
  • Beginner - Advanced
  • 7:00 hr total length
  • Articles + audio

Completing this course will help you...

  • Learn the nuts and bolts of a native-sounding accent
  • Discover what you've been doing wrong, and how to correct it
  • Make sure you are understood when you speak

Course Contents

An introduction to phonemes

Vowels

  • Pure vowels
  • Pure vowel 1: /i/
  • Pure vowel 2: /e/
  • Pure vowel 3: /u/
  • Pure vowel 4: /o/
  • Pure vowel 5: /a/
  • Pure vowels recap

 

Vowel combinations

  • Vowel combinations part 1
  • Type 1 diphthongs
  • Type 2 diphthongs
  • Type 2 diphthongs – /w/ + vowel
  • Hiatus

 

Vowels review

Consonants

  • An introduction to Spanish consonants
  • /p/, /b/, /m/
  • /f/, /t/, /d/
  • /s/, /n/, /l/
  • /tʃ/, /ɲ/, /ÊŽ/, /j/, and /w/
  • /k/ and /g/
  • /x/
  • /r/
  • Intonation
  • An introduction to Spanish intonation
  • Introduction to Spanish stress
  • Word stress
  • Sentence stress
  • Spanish rhythm
  • Spanish pitch
  • Pitch patterns

 

Allophones

  • An introduction to allophones
  • /i/ and its allophones
  • /u/ and its allophones
  • /o/ and /a/ allophones
  • /b/ and its allophones
  • /d/ and its allophones
  • /g/ and its allophones
  • /s/ and its allophones
  • /n/ and its allophones
  • Syllabication
  • The rules of syllabication
  • Spanish linking

 

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