Inspiration

Favorite Quotes!

TEACHING IS NOT A DELIVERY SYSTEM, IT’S AN ART FORM. Sir Ken Robinson

GIVE ME 6 HOURS TO CUT DOWN A TREE, AND I WILL SPEND THE FIRST 4 SHARPENING THE AXE. U.S.President Abraham Lincoln

 

Hi Teachers! Want to teach more efficiently, effectively, an expertly?

Here are some ways.

Hi Students! Here are some ways to work on your sound in English.

We are often our own best teachers. Students of English, if you can read this page, you will be able to understand my Russian, Arabic and Japanese accent guides. Just search my name, Peggy Tharpe, or go here– Amazon Author Page. If you can’t find me on your Amazon, please let me know at peggy@AmericanPronunciationCoach.com  Thanks!

If you are at an advanced level in English and you want to improve your overall sound and neutralize your 1st language accent, check out my online course on Udemy–How to Teach English Vowels–it’s written for TESOL and TEFL teachers, but I’m sure English students be able to follow along (there are captions also). Work independently on strengthening your vowel sounds in English!

  • If you would like to discuss private online pronunciation classes to improve your pronunciation or neutralize your accent, click here.
  • Watch my YouTube videos (I haven’t posted a video in ages…this is an old site with helpful videos.)
  • You can read my answers to pronunciation questions on Quora. Some of them are pretty good! Just search my name.
  • Please look around my website, americanpronunciationcoach.com. There are some free materials on the resources page.

Information about my ebooks on Amazon.com

The ARABIC guide discusses important differences between the Arabic and English sound systems, with lots of ideas and resources.

The JAPANESE guide covers some outside-the-box thinking and activities to help Japanese speakers understand and master the sounds of English. It is laser focused on the most important differences between Japanese and English. This guide comes with a private webpage for use by those who have purchased the e-book; the webpage has recorded word lists and sentences for each chapter, so you can practice that specific English pronunciations and stress patterns.

The RUSSIAN guide takes learners through a powerful set of lessons and strategies to help change Russian intonation to English tones. This guide shares many outside resources and a private page with recordings so you hear models of fluent native English speakers. These recordings are for use exclusively by people who have purchased the e-book.