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English Pro is your premium online American English training series. It gives you thousands of practice exercises, effective training videos and live English coaching, all at your fingertips.

The "Consonants" course is included as part of your low, monthly subscription to English Pro. In this course, you'll master the pronunciation of every consonant of American English, and you'll learn how to pronounce more advanced areas of consonant production such as:

  •  the flap  /ɾ/ (the "t" in water)
  • glottal stop /ʔ/ (the "t" in button)
  • nasal flap /ɾ̃/ (the "t" in center)
  • nasal plosion (the "den" in sudden)
  • and syllabic consonants (the "n" in condition)


Learn more about what's inside English Pro and the "Consonants" course below!

What's inside Consonants

    1. A message from Julie

    2. Before we begin...

    1. LEARN: How to Pronounce the T /t/ and D /d/ Consonants

    2. VIDEO PRACTICE: The True T /t/ and True D /d/ Consonants

    3. AUDIO PRACTICE: The True T /t/ and True D /d/ Consonants

    4. AUDIO PRACTICE: True T /t/ and D /d/ Looped Practice

    5. VIDEO PRACTICE: The Unreleased T /t/ and Unreleased D /d/ Consonants

    6. AUDIO PRACTICE: The Unreleased T /t/ and Unreleased D /d/ Consonants

    7. AUDIO PRACTICE: Unreleased T /t/ and D /d/ Looped Practice

    8. VIDEO PRACTICE: The Stop T /ʔ/

    9. AUDIO PRACTICE: The Stop T /ʔ/

    10. AUDIO PRACTICE: Stop T /ʔ/ Looped Practice

    11. VIDEO PRACTICE: The Flap T /ɾ/ and Flap D /ɾ/

    12. AUDIO PRACTICE: The Flap T /ɾ/ and Flap D /ɾ/

    13. AUDIO PRACTICE: The Flap /ɾ/ Looped Practice

    1. LEARN: All About the Flap /ɾ/ (aka Flap T or Flap D)

    2. VIDEO PRACTICE: More Flap /ɾ/ Practice

    3. AUDIO PRACTICE: More Flap /ɾ/ Practice

    4. AUDIO PRACTICE: More Flap /ɾ/ Looped Practice

    1. LEARN: How to Pronounce the Stop T /ʔ/

    2. VIDEO PRACTICE: Stop T /ʔ/ + N

    3. AUDIO PRACTICE: Stop T /ʔ/ + N

    4. AUDIO PRACTICE: Stop T /ʔ/ + N Looped Practice

    5. VIDEO PRACTICE: N'T contractions + Final Stop T /ʔ/

    6. AUDIO PRACTICE: N'T Contractions + Final Stop T /ʔ/

    7. AUDIO PRACTICE: N'T Contractions + Final Stop T /ʔ/ Looped Practice

    8. LEARN: How to Link Words Using the Stop T

    9. VIDEO PRACTICE: N'T contractions: Linking Phrases

    10. AUDIO PRACTICE: N'T Contractions: Linking Phrases

    11. AUDIO PRACTICE: N'T Contractions: Linking Phrases Looped Practice

    1. LEARN: How to Pronounce the Nasal Flap /ɾ̃/ (aka The Vanishing T)

    2. VIDEO PRACTICE: Nasal Flap /ɾ̃/

    3. AUDIO PRACTICE: Nasal Flap /ɾ̃/

    4. AUDIO PRACTICE: Nasal Flap /ɾ̃/ Looped Practice

    5. LEARN: How to Pronounce Words with Nasal Plosion

    6. VIDEO PRACTICE: Nasal Plosion

    7. AUDIO PRACTICE: Nasal Plosion

    8. AUDIO PRACTICE: Nasal Plosion Looped Practice

    9. LEARN: How to Pronounce Nasal Plosion and a Final T /t/ Consonant

    10. VIDEO PRACTICE: Nasal Plosion and a Final T /t/

    11. AUDIO PRACTICE: Nasal Plosion and a Final T /t/

    12. AUDIO PRACTICE: Nasal Plosion and Final T /t/ Looped Practice

    13. LEARN: Nasal Plosion and the Glottal Stop /ʔ/

    14. VIDEO PRACTICE: Nasal Plosion, Stop T, and Flap: Minimal Pairs

    15. AUDIO PRACTICE: Nasal Plosion, Stop T, and Flap: Minimal Pairs

    16. AUDIO PRACTICE: Nasal Plosion, Stop T, and Flap: Minimal Pairs Looped

    1. LEARN: Aspiration of Stop Consonants

    2. LEARN: How to Pronounce the P /p/ and B /b/ Consonants

    3. VIDEO PRACTICE: P /p/ and B /b/ Consonants

    4. AUDIO PRACTICE: The P /p/ and B /b/ Consonants

    5. AUDIO PRACTICE: P /p/ and B /b/ Looped Practice

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Hello! My name is Julie Cunningham, and I've trained thousands of people on their American English pronunciation and voice projection skills. Here's how I can help you.

I've been helping people with their American English pronunciation skills since 2007, when I moved to the Czech Republic to teach English. This experience sparked a desire to return to school and earn a graduate degree in speech and language pathology, then pursue specialized certifications in American English pronunciation and American accent training.

Then I founded my company San Diego Voice and Accent, where I work one-on-one with professionals who want to perfect their American English pronunciation skills, project a clear and confident voice, and maximize their speaking potential.

Over the years of working as an American accent coach and professional voice trainer, I've learned a lot about what works and what doesn't work when training your pronunciation skills and voice projection. It's not enough for you to simply "repeat" what you hear; that isn't going to get you the results. You need to practice with the right technique and with the most effective methods, and you need someone there to guide you along the way.

That's why I created the English Pro series: to help professionals from all areas of the world and at all levels of English to speak with clarity and confidence, and to reach their goals of becoming a powerful and effective communicator.

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Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your English transformation journey. I'm excited to work with you!


Julie Cunningham

Founder of San Diego Voice and Accent

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Sady Diallo

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“I am blown away about how you tackle so specifically every single mistakes a native speaker may unconsciously do which create sound distortion. I have not been able to make a proper V and F sound over a decade an now that it is fixed it takes into...”

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“I am blown away about how you tackle so specifically every single mistakes a native speaker may unconsciously do which create sound distortion. I have not been able to make a proper V and F sound over a decade an now that it is fixed it takes into matters other speech issues on its own! You are brilliant!”

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Bivian Montufar

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Elisa Bruna Baronio

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“If you wanna properly achive your goals and if you wanna take the 100% from this English course, you should listen all the videos in this unit. Julie gives you some good advices. She a professional teacher and I trust in her work”

“If you wanna properly achive your goals and if you wanna take the 100% from this English course, you should listen all the videos in this unit. Julie gives you some good advices. She a professional teacher and I trust in her work”

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