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American Accent — Master the Music of English

Be clearly understood and sound natural — the music of English first.

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Ledoly

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Lessons152

Modules29

LanguageEnglish

ProgressionSequential

100.0+ hours of content

152 interactive lessons

29 structured modules

Works on mobile & desktop

About this course

A self-learning American-accent course for learners who already speak some English. Prosody-first and Vietnamese-aware: rhythm and word stress, then the sounds that carry meaning, then the signature American sounds, connected speech, and spontaneous-speech polish. Built on Ledoly's 60-Second Accent Audit and AI pronunciation feedback.

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AI Conversation Practice

Practice speaking with AI-powered story characters who respond naturally

Pronunciation Feedback

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Immersive Story

Follow 6 international friends building a startup in San Francisco

Professional Voice Acting

Every character has a unique AI voice — hear natural American English conversations

20+ Activity Types

Comics, dialogues, quizzes, flashcards, role-plays, matching games, and more

Progress Tracking

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Course Content

29 modules, 152 lessons

Your Baseline & Your Reason — The 60-Second Accent Audit 18m

How to Shadow — Catch the Music, Don't Wait For It 18m

Record-and-Compare Without Embarrassment — Self-Rate Before the AI 18m

Your Daily 15-Minute Loop — Set the Window, Lock the Habit 18m

What Is a Strong Beat? (one beat per word, why it decides if you're understood) 18m

Two-Syllable Words: Oo vs oO (front beat or back beat) 18m

Three-Syllable Shapes: Oxx, xOx, xxO (find the one that stands out) 18m

Content Words Get the Beat, Function Words Don't 18m

Stress Decides the Word: when the beat changes the meaning 18m

Module Checkpoint: Place the Beat on a New Word + Accent-Audit Milestone 18m

Same Word, Two Beats — Noun vs Verb Stress Shifts (Set 1) 22m

Stress Shifts in the Wild — Set 2 + Spotting Them in Sentences 18m

Loud Endings — Suffixes That Always Steal the Stress 18m

GREENhouse or green HOUSE? — Compound vs Phrase Stress 18m

Module Check — Meaning Rides on the Beat (Mixed Production + Milestone Bridge) 18m

Meet the Schwa — the Lazy King /ə/ 18m

Spelling Lies — Every Letter Can Become /ə/ 18m

Weak Forms 1 — to, a, the, of, and 18m

Weak Forms 2 — can, for, you, them, your 18m

Reduction in the Wild — The Reduction Ladder 18m

Module Check — The Schwa-Hunt Milestone 18m

The Glue Words — Why "to / and / for / can / of" Disappear 18m

to = /tə/ and of = /əv/ — The Two You'll Use Most 18m

and = /en/ — Linking Lists and Pairs Without the Choppy Beat 18m

for = /fər/ and can = /kən/ — Decoding the Two That Trip You Up 18m

All Five in the Stream — Reduce, Link, and Decode Real Speech 18m

The Beat of the Sentence — Content Words Get the Punch 18m

Breathe in Chunks — Thought Groups 18m

The Default Punch — Nuclear Stress on the Last Content Word 18m

Move the Punch, Change the Meaning — Contrastive Focus 18m

Put It Together — Rhythm, Chunks & Focus in Real Talk 18m

Module Check and Prosody Milestone — Hear Your Own Change 18m

The Falling Statement (Down = I'm sure) 18m

The Rising Yes/No Question (Up = 'Your turn') 18m

Listing & Choice (Up, up, up... then DOWN) 18m

Expressive vs Flat (Widen Your Pitch, Lose the Robot) 18m

Contour Mix and Module Milestone (Hear It, Label It, Glide It) 18m

Your Open Doors Are Costing You Words (final-stop awareness + the held /t/) 18m

Hold It, Don't Drop It (the held/unreleased stop — your secret Vietnamese advantage) 20m

/k/ and /p/ — Close the Back, Close the Lips 18m

Turn On Your Voice (final voiced /d g b/ — make the buzz reach the end) 18m

The Long-Vowel Tell (vowel length as the real voicing cue) 18m

Finals in the Wild (module check + connected-speech transfer + milestone re-audit) 32m

The Secret Cue: Long Before Voiced 18m

bed or bet? The Throat-Touch Test 18m

card or cart? Final Voicing in R-Controlled & Cluster Endings 18m

Voicing Carries Grammar: prove/proof, save/safe & the -s/-ed Bridge 22m

Module Check & Heat-Map Milestone: Make Your Finals Carry 18m

The Endings That Disappear — Why Your Grammar Goes Silent 18m

The -s Ending, Part 1 — /s/ vs /z/ (Hiss or Buzz) 20m

The -s Ending, Part 2 — the /iz/ Extra Syllable 18m

The -ed Ending, Part 1 — /t/ vs /d/ (Silent or Buzzy Past) 18m

The -ed Ending, Part 2 — /ɪd/ + Module Mastery Check 18m

Why Clusters Break — Hear the Inserted Schwa 18m

Three-Consonant Onsets — str-, spl-, spr-, scr- 18m

Coda Clusters That Carry Grammar — -nds, -nts, -sts 18m

The -ed Ending Inside a Cluster — /t/, /d/, /ɪd/ 18m

The Hard Codas — -lfths, -ksths, and Twelfths 18m

Clusters in the Wild — Connected Speech & Module Milestone 18m

Length Is a Clue: Long vs Short Vowels 18m

Sheep or Ship? /iː/ vs /ɪ/ 18m

Fool or Full? /uː/ vs /ʊ/ 18m

Cop or Cup? /ɑ/ vs /ʌ/ 18m

Three Contrasts at Once: The Length Gauntlet 18m

Module Check & Heat-Map Milestone 20m

The Growl: Finding the American R 18m

CAR & CARD: The /ar/ Vowel and Saying Your Finals 18m

DOOR & MORE: The /ɔr/ Vowel 18m

BIRD & WORK: The Stressed /ɝ/ 18m

TEACHER & BETTER: The Unstressed /ɚ/ 18m

From Z to R: Southern Vietnamese R Rebuild (/r/ -> /j z/) 18m

THREE STREETS: R-Clusters & the Module Milestone 18m

Two L's Live in One Letter — Meet Light L and Dark L 18m

The Heavy End — Dark L and the 'fee-uhl' Bridge 18m

Don't Let L Turn Into N — Killing the Nasal Swap 20m

L With No Vowel — The Syllabic L (little, middle, people) 18m

L in the Wild — Clusters, Linking, and Connected Speech 18m

Light vs Dark L — Mixed Mastery & the Heat-Map Milestone 18m

Meet /v/ — The Buzz Your Lip and Teeth Make 18m

Southern Rebuild — From /j/ and /z/ Back to /v/ 18m

/v/ vs /b/ vs /w/ — Three Sounds, Three Mouths 18m

/f/ vs /v/ — The Throat-Touch Buzz Test 18m

Putting It Together — /v b w f/ Under Real-Speech Pressure + Module Check 18m

Tongue Between the Teeth: Meet /ð/ (the, this, that) 18m

Take the Buzz Away: Meet /θ/ (think, three, both) 18m

The Voicing Switch: /theta/ vs /eth/ Side by Side 18m

TH in the Wild: Clusters, Linking, and Fast Function Words 18m

Module Capstone: Both TH Sounds, Live and Spontaneous 18m

Chair or Share? The /tʃ/ vs /ʃ/ Build 18m

Jeep, Not 'Yeep': Mastering /dʒ/ (and /dʒ/ vs /tʃ/) 18m

The Hidden Z: When -s Buzzes (dogs, goes, his) 18m

Singer, Not 'Sing-ger': Clean /ng/ and the Module Wrap-Up 18m

What Linking Really Is — Connection, Not Speed 18m

C->V Linking I — 'Hold On' Becomes 'Hol-don' 18m

C to V Linking II — Holding Stops, Then Releasing Into the Vowel 18m

V->V Glide Linking -- 'Go On' Becomes 'Gow-on' (Use Your Vietnamese Glides) 18m

Linking in the Stream — Same Consonant, /r/-Links, and Multi-Word Chains 18m

Linked-Paragraph Capstone -- Read It Smooth, Beat Your Baseline 18m

The Flap-T: when /t/ becomes a fast /d/ (water, better, city) 18m

Flap-T across word boundaries (got it, what a, a lot of) 18m

The Glottal-T: swallowing /t/ before /n/ (button, kitten, mountain) 18m

Silent-T after /n/ (twenty, internet, interview, wanna) 18m

When T stays a full /t/ — choosing the right T (the decision lesson) 18m

Module check: the linked T-paragraph and Accent-Audit milestone 18m

Reductions Are Normal — gonna / wanna / gotta 18m

I'm, don't, won't — Contractions That Carry Meaning 18m

didja / didya / whaddya — Reduced Questions 18m

The Invisible 'of' — Reduced /əv/ and /ə/ 18m

Stringing It Together — Reductions in the Stream 18m

Module Check & Milestone — Read It Like You Mean It 18m

The -ing Hum: /ɪŋ/ With No Hard G 18m

Weak Forms in the Stream: to / and / for / of / can 18m

Contractions and Silent-T-After-N: gonna, wanna, twenty, didn't 18m

Linking the Whole Sentence: no gaps, no inserted schwa 18m

All Flow Together: read the paragraph like a real American (Module Milestone) 18m

Pitch Has a Range — Stop Flatlining 18m

Contrastive Stress — Hit the Word That Carries the Meaning 18m

Emphatic Stress — Conviction, Intensity, and 'I Really Mean It' 18m

Riding the Whole Sentence — Expressive (Wavering) Intonation in Connected Speech 18m

Sounding Engaged Under Pressure -- Spontaneous Persuasion & the Module Milestone 18m

Same Spelling, Two Lives — Noun/Verb Heteronyms 18m

One Word, Two Sounds — Vowel-Change Heteronyms (lead, tear, read, live) 18m

The Trap Words — comfortable, vegetable, Wednesday & friends 18m

Stress That Holds Under Load — Long Words in Real Sentences 20m

Live Bridge — Heteronyms & Tricky Words in Spontaneous Scenarios 22m

Why Your Accent Breaks When You Think (The 3-3-3 Reset) 18m

Task Repetition: Say It Twice — Meaning First, Then Form 18m

The 30-Second Spontaneous Monologue (Building Stamina) 18m

Real Scenario 1 — The Meeting Intro (Performance Under Pressure) 20m

Real Scenarios 2 & 3 — The Voicemail & Asking for a Deadline 18m

Module Milestone — The Unscripted 60-Second Monologue Under Load 25m

The Meeting Intro — Sound Like You Belong 18m

Leaving a Voicemail — Clear When No One Can Ask 'Sorry?' 18m

Asking for a Deadline — Polite, Direct, and Easy to Say Yes To 18m

Ordering Out Loud — Fast, Noisy, First-Try Right 18m

The Video Call — Heard Clearly Through the Lag 18m

The Unscripted 60 — Your Milestone Monologue 18m

Read Your Own Trend: The 90-Day Audit Story 18m

Break the Wall: Re-Training a Stubborn Contrast 18m

Under Pressure: Prosody That Survives Cognitive Load 18m

The Forever Loop: Your 5-Minute Daily Maintenance Routine 18m

Graduation: The 60-Second Monologue & Your Next Step 25m

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