Get free pronunciation lessons! From 2008 to 2011, Paul created hundreds of video lessons and audioblogs for GlobalEnglish and English Café, formerly part of Pearson English. GlobalEnglish (now part of Learnship) is a worldwide technology company that helps clients realize the potential of diversity in the workforce and improve lives of global workers through the learning and application of Business English.
These Pronunciation with Paul and Communication with Paul tutorials, a small sampling of which are presented to you free here, feature instructional and entertaining guides to everything related to English pronunciation and prosody, from the schwa sound to the use of rhoticity. Though some lessons are geared more toward ESL (English as a Second Language) speakers, all English speakers should gain some knowledge of the language from these tutorials. Paul’s entire library of video and audio lessons is available to corporate members of GlobalEnglish. Whenever you need more than the highly specialized training in British English or American English pronunciation for which Paul is celebrated, he is proud to recommend GlobalEnglish to his clients.
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VIDEO LESSONS
Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats: connecting words fluidly as you speak
Runtime: 9:13
The Cool Bull and the Silly Sheep: two “relaxed” sounds unique to English
Runtime: 6:25
Trippingly on the Tongue: the rhythm of the English language
Runtime: 12:25
Rhoticity, Part 1: how to treat the letter /r/ when speaking English
Runtime: 7:40
Rhoticity, Part 2: how to treat the letter /r/ when speaking English (continued)
Runtime: 10:54
Rhoticity, Part 3: how to treat the letter /r/ when speaking English (continued)
Runtime: 12:47
Rhoticity, Part 4: how to treat the letter /r/ when speaking English (continued)
Runtime: 8:27
The Tower of Babel: the splitting of languages (mythical story of how God divided languages)
Runtime: 10:14
The Laughing Cat: the /a/ vowel
Runtime: 7:12
The Funny Monkey’s Double Lunch: the /u/, /o/, /ou/, and /oo/ sounds
Runtime: 7:59
Waterfalls: the /a/, /au/, /ou/, /aw/, and /oa/ sounds
Runtime: 8:05
Rory and Laura Rock and Roll: /r/, the most difficult consonant
Runtime: 5:00
This Moose Knows His Nose: the letter /s/
Runtime: 14:40
The Lonely Goat Goes Home: the GOAT lexical set
Runtime: 9:51
Viewing Wavy Whales: the letters /w/ and /v/
Runtime: 8:01
The Anaconda, the Rhinoceros, and the Hippopotamus: the schwa sound
Runtime: 11:26
The Singing King: the /ng/ sound
Runtime: 11:00
Sit Tight, Tom!: the treatment of adjacent consonants
Runtime: 13:14
Jeetyet? Skweet!: laziness and dropped consonants in spoken English
Runtime: 13:32
The Voice of Authority: how to command a room and captivate an audience during a business meeting
Runtime: 11:33
The Eyes Have It: developing good eye contact when speaking, especially from a prepared text
Runtime: 16:32
AUDIO LESSONS
An Accent-Reduction Case Study (Hindi)
Runtime: 6:32
An Accent-Reduction Case Study (Arabic)
Runtime: 5:19
Bridging Cultural Divides Through Dialect Coaching for Theatre and Film
Runtime: 5:48
The Values of a Dialect
Runtime: 3:34
Vehicular Dialect
Runtime: 5:09
Vowels vs. Consonants
Runtime: 3:51
Those Pesky “TH” sounds
Runtime: 3:36
That Crazy English “R”
Runtime: 3:48
Unvoiced Plosives
Runtime: 3:56
A Global English Dialect?
Runtime: 4:57
The Peculiarity of English Spelling
Runtime: 4:48
The “L” and “R” Railroad Blues
Runtime: 2:05
The Ubiquitous Schwa
Runtime: 4:32
Voice, Power, and Persuasion
Runtime: 4:00
“Look, Luke! A Sheep Ship!”: An Examination of Difficult Vowels
Runtime: 3:14
Political Rhetoric and Eloquence: A Reflection Upon the First Inaugural Address of President Obama
Runtime: 3:37
Hearing the Boundaries Between Words
Runtime: 4:12
Terribly Tricky Tongue Twisters
Runtime: 3:16
