Ten Tips for Accent Addition

10 useful and practical suggestions and strategies to help you add a more natural sounding English accent to your linguistic identity.

Minimal Pair Distinction and Pronunciation (A)

/I/ as in "hit" and /i/ as in "heat"

This activity will give you practice is identifying and producing minimal pairs in English.  There are two separate activities on this worksheet.  The first deals with words in isolation.  The second deals with words in context.            

Minimal Pair Distinction and Pronunciation (B)

/I/ as in "hit" and /i/ as in "heat"

This activity will give you practice in identifying and producing minimal pairs in English.  There are two separate activities on this worksheet.  The first deals with words in isolation.  The second deals with words in context.

Man / Men Phonemic Distinction Sentences

These are the sample sentences containing the <@> and <e> phonemes used in KNUE's pronunciation class.  Sample sentences include, "I bought the most expensive pen I could find", "The president was sad to be home", and "When I saw him standing there, I left".

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