An American pronunciation workbook for Mandarin speakers

Cantonese, Hokkien, and other Chinese languages carry most of the same patterns into English — as do Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese. The drills work as written.

Your grammar is fine.
The rhythm is what gives you away.

Eleven chapters that start with stress and reduction — the things a listener notices first — and only then work down to individual sounds. Every word, pair, and passage is recorded. Nothing to install, nothing to renew.

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Hear the difference3 clips

Noun — stress falls first PREsent — She got a nice present.

Verb — same spelling, stress moves preSENT — I will present the report.

What Americans actually say “supposed to” → suh-POHS-tuh

Same notation used throughout the book: stressed syllables in red, reduced ones faded. No phonetic alphabet to learn.

Why it's ordered this way

Most accent training starts in the wrong place.

The usual advice is to drill difficult consonants — the "th," the "r," the "v." So people spend months on individual sounds and still get asked to repeat themselves.

The reason is that English is stress-timed. Content words stretch out and get clear; function words compress into a blur. A sentence said with every syllable given equal weight is intelligible but effortful to listen to — and that effort is what a listener hears as an accent, long before they notice a consonant.

So this workbook inverts the usual order. Part 1 is rhythm: which words to lean on, which to swallow. The schwa — the most common vowel in the language and the one most often over-pronounced — comes before any consonant work at all. Individual sounds come later, once there is a rhythm to place them in.

That ordering is also why Part 1 is the free part. It is the section that changes how the rest of it sounds, and the fastest way to tell whether this approach fits how you learn.

Contents

Seven parts, eleven chapters.

Each chapter is drills rather than reading: minimal pairs you flip, words you tap to reveal, listening quizzes that score you, and passages recorded end to end.

212

recorded clips — words, pairs, phrases, and full passages

chapters across 7 parts, in a deliberate order

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Built for you if

You already speak fluent English and get asked to repeat yourself anyway.
Mandarin is your first language — every drill is built around the patterns it carries into English. Cantonese, Hokkien, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese speakers hit most of the same ones.
You present, teach, interview, or take calls where being understood the first time matters.
You want to practice on your own schedule, out loud, without booking anything.
You have tried sound-by-sound drills and found they did not transfer to real speech.

Not the right thing if

You are still building vocabulary and grammar — this assumes fluency and only works on delivery.
You want a teacher listening to you. This is a workbook; it cannot tell you which sound you personally missed.
You are after a British, Australian, or neutral-international accent. This is specifically American.
You want it to happen passively. Every chapter asks you to say things out loud.

About the author

Written by a speech-language pathologist.

Carole Bonhomme, M.S., CCC-SLP 35+ years in practice
Licensed in NY, PA, and GA

I’m Carole Bonhomme, M.S., CCC-SLP, a speech-language pathologist with more than 35 years of experience helping people communicate more clearly, confidently, and easily. I am licensed in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

The idea for The Accent Fix grew out of my work with a Mandarin-speaking client who wanted to improve his American English pronunciation and accent. As I developed lessons specifically to address the pronunciation patterns he was experiencing, I realized that these strategies could help many other English learners facing similar challenges.

So I decided to turn those lessons into an interactive, self-paced workbook with audio practice — a resource that learners can use independently, while still benefiting from the principles and techniques I use as a speech-language pathologist.

My goal is not to erase anyone’s identity or make people sound like someone they’re not. The Accent Fix is about becoming easier to understand while keeping your own voice. With decades of clinical experience behind it, this workbook brings together practical pronunciation instruction, targeted exercises, and extensive audio practice in one convenient resource.

I created The Accent Fix to share what I’ve learned with more people — and to make effective pronunciation practice accessible, practical, and engaging.

The whole workbook, once.

Downloads as a single folder. Open index.html in any browser and it runs — offline, on Mac, Windows, iPad, or Android.

All 7 parts and 11 chapters, every drill interactive
Built around Mandarin from the first page — not a general course with one chapter for Chinese speakers
All 212 recordings included in the download
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Less than half of one session with an accent coach.

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