Speaking Your Best Online
  • Welcome to Speaking Your Best Online!
  • Getting Started
  • Contact Us
  • Understanding the Basics of Sounds
  • Understanding Voiced and Unvoiced Sounds
  • Understanding Your Accented Sounds
    • Arabic Pronunciation Guidelines
    • Russian Pronunciation Guidelines
    • Mandarin Pronunciation Guidelines
    • Spanish Pronunciation Guidelines
    • Hindi Pronunciation Guidelines
    • Vietnamese Pronunciation Guidelines
    • Thai Pronunciation Guidelines
    • Filipino Pronunciation Guidelines
    • French Pronunciation Guidelines
  • Stop Sounds
    • the "b" sound
    • the "p" sound
    • the "k" sound
    • the "d" sound
    • the "t" sound
    • the "g" sound
  • Continuant Sounds
    • the "s" sound
    • the "z" sound
    • the "f" sound
    • the "v" sound
    • the "sh" sound
    • the "zh" sound
    • the voiced "th" sound
    • the unvoiced "th" sound
  • Affricate Sounds
    • the "ch" sound
    • the "dg" sound
  • Nasal Sounds
    • the "m" sound
    • the "n" sound
    • the "ng" sound
  • Glide Sounds
    • the "w" sound
    • the "yuh" sound
  • Liquid Sounds
    • the "l" sound
    • the "r" sound
  • Vowel Sounds
    • Front Vowels>
      • Vowel "ae"
      • Vowel "ih"
      • Vowel "ee"
      • Vowel "ay"
      • Vowel "eh"
    • Central Vowels>
      • Unstressed Vowel "er"
      • Stressed Vowel "er"
      • Stressed "uh"
      • Unstressed "uh"
    • Back Vowels>
      • Vowel "aw"
      • Vowel "oh"
      • Vowel "oo"
      • Vowel "u" as in "foot"
  • Diphthongs
    • Diphthong "ow"
    • Diphthong "or"
    • Diphthong "ar"
    • Diphthong "air"
  • Initial consonant blends
    • "thr" initial blend
    • "skr" initial blend
    • "br" initial blend
    • "dr" initial blend
    • "tr" initial blend
    • "kl" initial blend
    • "pl" initial blend
    • "sl" initial blend
    • "sm" initial blend
    • "sn" initial blend
    • "sk" initial blend
  • Final consonant blends
    • "nd" final blend
    • "nt" final consonant blend
    • "ld"/"lt" final blends
    • "dz" final blend
    • "ts" final blend
    • "kt" final blend
    • "rd" final blend
    • "pl" and "bl" final blends
  • Important Words to Master
    • The Most Common Words in American English
    • Pronouncing the Word "to"
    • How to Make the Word "And" Sound More Natural
    • Pronouncing Numbers, Days, Dates, and Months
    • Pronouncing Mult-Syllabic Words
    • How to Pronounce the American English Alphabet
  • Speaking Skills: Speak Clearly and Effectively!
    • Making Your Voice Heard
    • Open Your Mouth and Move Your Lips
    • Speak More Slowly to be Understood
    • Pronounce All Sounds in Words Clearly
    • Prolonging Vowels to Improve Voicing
    • How to Reduce Filler Words
    • The Art of Speaking Concisely in Three Easy Steps
  • Stressing/Intonation Skills
    • Part 1: Intonation Patterns for Sentence Types
    • Part 2: Syllable Stress
    • Part 3: Stressing Important Words When Speaking
    • Part 4: How and When to Pause
  • Grammar Skills To Master
    • Articles
    • Forming Regular and Irregular Plurals
    • Forming and Using Tenses Correctly in English
    • Asking Direct Questions
    • Using Adverbs Correctly
    • Using Apostrophes
    • Controlling Sentence Length and Complexity
    • Verbs That Take Prepositions
    • Using At, In, and On to Indicate Location and Moving
    • Using "Have" and "Have Got"
    • Using "No" and "Not" Correctly
  • Test your grammar skills!
    • The Milkmaid and Her Pail
    • The Boy Who Cried Wolf
    • King Arthur and the Witch
  • How to Connect Words Together
    • Introduction to word connections
    • How to "Mark" Stop Sounds
    • Word Connections With Final "t" and "d"
    • Connecting Same and Different Continuant Sounds
    • Connecting Consonants With Vowels
    • Connecting Two Vowels Together
  • Common American Idioms/Expressions
    • Idioms using the word "up"
    • Idioms with the word "get"
    • Idioms using color words
    • Idioms using animal words
    • Common business idioms
    • Idioms using body parts
    • Idioms using number words
  • Conversational Skills
    • The Importance of Greetings
    • The Art of Small Talk
    • Lightening a Conversation
    • The Importance of Tone of Voice
  • Improve Your Presentation Skills
    • Guidelines for Giving a Good Presentation
    • Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
    • Do's and Don'ts for Making PowerPoint Presentations
    • Transitioning to the Next Slide: Examples
  • For the Business Professional: Communicating Effectively in the Business World
    • Basic Guide to Conducting an Effective Business Meeting
    • Dealing with Argumentative People
    • Responding to Colleagues' Comments/Questions/Remarks
    • Knowing When and How to Listen and Speak
    • Working With the Person Who Thinks They Know Everything
  • Putting It All Together: Practice Stories
    • Practice story 1
    • Practice story 2
    • Practice story 3
                   Welcome to Speaking Your Best Online!                              
            Your Guide to Perfect American English!       

What is Speaking Your Best Online?
Speaking Your Best Online is a comprehensive online accent reduction program that will quickly help you improve your American English accent and speaking skills.  Everything you need to speak clearly and effectively is included in this three-month program!


Now included is one 30-minute private Skype class with Cheryl!

How do I begin?
Purchase Speaking Your Best Online and complete a speech assessment.  Once your submit your assessment to Speaking Your Best, you will receive a written report of your strengths and weaknesses in spoken English with recommended activities and speaking skills to practice during your course and guidelines regarding how to access the program. 

What will I learn?
At Speaking Your Best, we know that there is much more to accent reduction than just pronunciation!  That's why we provide you with several practice areas.  Here's what Speaking Your Best Online includes:
  • Understanding the basics of sounds:  information to help you understand the different types of sounds in English, how we make sounds, and the phonetic symbols used to represent sounds
  • Understanding the difference between "voiced" and "unvoiced" sounds
  • Pronouncing American English consonant and vowel sounds
  • Establishing and using an appropriate speaking rate
  • Making your voice heard comfortably 
  • Stressing important words in sentences
  • Using the correct intonation patterns for statements, questions, and exclamations
  • How and when to pause:  It's much more than just stopping your voice!
  • How to connect words together so that you speak smoothly
  • How to reduce filler words (such as "um" and "you know") 
  • important speaking techniques to help you speak clearly and effectively
  • Grammar skills that should be mastered
  • Presentation skills
  • Social language skills
  • Practice stories to help you incorporate all of your speaking skills together

How do I use the program? 

Log into the Speaking Your Best members log in area using your unique password provided to you by Speaking Your Best.  From there, connect to Speaking Your Best Online using your access code.  You must agree to not share this information with anyone who has not purchased this program.

Use the program any time of the day or night for as long as you want for a total of three months.

How will I know that my speech is improving?
To check your progress, make a recording of your speech and send it to Speaking Your Best via email as often as you like.  Cheryl will respond via email and/or audio clips with feedback and suggestions on how to further improve your speech. 

The program is easy and fun!  You'll quickly see the improvement and feel confident about speaking American English!
Are monthly subscriptions available?
Yes!  With a monthly subscription, you will have access to the entire Speaking Your Best Online website 24/7 and can send audio files of your speech to Cheryl at any time. She will listen to your recordings and provide you with feedback and suggestions to further improve your spoken English.  

With a monthly subscription, you will not receive a private Skype class with Cheryl or a speech analysis.

We even offer a one-week trial for only $9.99! 
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Speaking Your Best program is simply the best of all American accent learning programs I have seen around. The program is structured excellently to cover all aspects of accent and the online video/audio lessons make it easy to do it at your own pace. All the tips and feedback you have given Cheryl have been valuable in improving my accent dramatically. The details on making different American sounds are very thorough and are better than all the u-tube videos I have seen. I really liked how the lessons are formatted and flow from one section to next building up your skills consistently. Your feedback has helped me a lot in tracking my progress and customizing my learning experience by focussing on areas where I need more work. The program also contains lots of practice sessions and is very interesting! I would totally recommend it to my friends who want to improve their accent. (Vandana)


I really like the way the website is set up. It is very easy to follow.  Your explanations on the videos are great!  (Jia S)


I really learned a lot.  The recordings you sent me really helped correct my mistakes.  Thank you so much!  (Jack X)


Thank you for all your help.  I feel more confident when I speak now.  (Angela W.)