Bye Bye Accent Resources

Key Concepts for students doing homework:

• Don't expect a chain / train (change your mental structure)

• Expand stressed syllables of content words

• Reduce the rest

• Use the schwa

• Modulate your voice

• Watch out for difficult sounds

• Move your mouth (exaggerate the physicality)

• Watch out for difficult sounds

• Try to have clarity in peak vowels and ending consonant sounds

• Pronounced voiced "s"

• Link all words in a continuous flow

• Use standardized linkings and reductions

• Don't separate words

• Exaggerate tone

• Find a new voice

• Imitate

• Be fascinated

• Have fun!

Review Videos of Difficult Sounds:

• D /d/   dog

• T /t/   talk

• S /s/  say

• Z /z/  his

• ey /eɪ/ play

• ε /e/ Kelly

• F /f/  friend

• V /v/  vent

• ay /aɪ/   fry

• ɪ /ɪ/  in

• SH  /ʃ/ ship

• ʒ  beige

• P /p/ pet

• B /b/  bed

• iy /i:/ tea

• æ /æ/ bad

• TH /θ/ think

• TH /ð/ that

• CH /tʃ/choose, crunchy, watch

• J /dʒ/ jump, bridges, change

• uw /uː/ blue, school, few

• ʊ /ʊ/ put, book, woman

• W /w/ watch, away, how

• R /r/ road, around, car

• K /k/ kiss, ankle, back

• G /g/ go, google, pig

• ow /əʊ/ /oʊ/ cone, road, know

•  ʌ /ʌ/ cut, us, love

• ɔ /ɔ/ saw, talk, applause

• Y /j/ yes, onion, bay

• H /h/ home, behind

• ɑ /ɑ/ top, rock, stop

• aw /aʊ/ house, our, cow

• ɔy /ɔɪ/ boy, coin, join

• ɜ /ɜː/ her, purple, sir