Accent Reduction: Learning the American English "t" and "d"

Because the "t" and "d" sounds occur frequently in American English, learning how to say them correctly will reduce your accent and improve your spoken English. Practice with Cheryl Posey from Speaking Your Best and see how easy it is to improve your American English pronunciation!

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• American
• English
• pronunciation
• accent
• reduction
• Cheryl
• Posey
• Speaking
• Your
• Best
• reduce

[mcceron3]

I liked very much this video. Congratulations.

[speakingyourbest]

@mcceron3

Yes, I will be posting a video to teach the three different pronunciations of the medial "t" sound. Thank you!

[PeeteyP]

This woman knows how to demonstrate her phonemes! If I were teaching this, I would do the Pakastani/ Russian pronunciations in words.

She's wrong though about repetition of sounds- the way to get them is by listening and practice, with the emphasis on listening.

[speakingyourbest]

When learning a new sound, it is important to be able to form and say that sound correctly before saying it in a word. It can be pretty difficult for many people to just imitate; often times it is necessary to actually show how to form the sound because they don't have it in their native language.

[TShilo12]

@speakingyourbest

This video completely misses the alveolar tap that frequently replaces both /t/ and /d/ in American English. Same goes for the replacement of /t/ in final and sometimes medial position with glottal stop. Your goal is noble, but I don't thing "accent reduction" is a proper characterization of the outcome. Also, on several occasions you aspirate /t/ after /s/, which sounds very unnatural...because it's not in line with English, to say nothing of merely American, pronunciation

[speakingyourbest]

@TShilo12

You are correct; this lesson was to teach how to pronounce the "t" and "d" sounds using the correct tongue placement and voicing. Once a person can say the "t" and "d" sounds correctly, I then teach them the different pronunciations of "t" and how to mark them. Thank you for your comment!

[SM062K8]

i love the american accent.

[n0x23]

I'm American born, Southern California to be exact. I'm helping a Buddhist Monk from Thailand with his accent, so I bought him a book by Dr. Seuss, called Fox in Socks, it's a book of silly and sometimes very difficult "tongue-twisters". It's been quite useful, frustrating and entertaining, well... entertaining for me. It's not as technical as this video, but it might help with your practice, it's helped us.

[shree801]

Now after listening to this video, I got the differenece between 't' and 'd', thanks for the post!

[yvonnealexy]

can you teach to pronounce words like crisps, sauteed, reminiscence?

[luvyaa28]

this is the most important lesson I have ever learned

[MostazalsLord]

Hey!My english teacher tried to teach me how to pronounce these sounds but she missed some details,but fortunately I was able to find them here.Thanks!

[sajjad7972]

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[mwandizi]

Thanx for your video. How do you pronounce words that end with "ter" like water, better, whiter, etc.. with the American accent they replace the T with an R. please help on that.

[ilovesparky13]

@mcceron3 u still need to work on your english grammar. you said "i liked very much this video." it should be "i liked this video very much."