ESL Tutoring Pro – American English Pronunciation — Volume Two – Story-Based IPA Lessons for Hispanic Speakers (ESL Tutoring Pro Pronunciation Series Book 2)

Most pronunciation courses teach sounds. This one teaches the sounds that actually trip up Spanish speakers — through stories too good to forget.

ESL Tutoring Pro: American English Pronunciation — Volume Two is a complete, ready-to-use pronunciation system targeting the specific interference patterns that most affect Hispanic learners of American English. Twelve story-driven lessons follow Maria Álvarez de la Fuego — a brilliant professor of medieval languages whose academic precision is matched only by her talent for chaos — through professional, academic, and everyday situations engineered to make target sounds impossible to forget.

This is not a generic pronunciation guide. Every sound target in this volume was selected because Spanish phonology creates predictable, persistent errors with it. Your learners will recognize their own mistakes — and finally understand why they happen.

What makes this volume different:

Authentic Hispanic L1 focus — /oʊ/ diphthong reduction, /ɪ/ vs /iː/ confusion, schwa and vowel reduction, /b/ vs /v/ interference, STRUT vowel /ʌ/, R-colored vowels /ɝ/ and /ɚ/, TH sounds /θ/ and /ð/, the English /ɹ/ approximant, and /s/ vs /ʃ/ — all selected for Spanish phonological interference
Story-based memory mechanism — Maria’s misadventures in manuscript authentication, perfume counters, medieval feasts, and faculty lunches saturate each lesson with the target sound in natural, memorable context. When the story sticks, the sounds inside it stick too.
Academic and professional register — unlike Vol One’s domestic scenarios, Maria’s world is the university, the research lab, and the conference table. This volume builds pronunciation confidence in the professional and academic English contexts Hispanic learners actually need.
Complete lesson infrastructure — lesson plans, teaching notes, IPA guides with articulation diagrams, phonetic drills, minimal pairs, listening discrimination sheets, and diagnostic tools in every lesson
Consistent format — same proven structure as Volume One, so teachers already familiar with the series can move immediately to teaching
Free audio support — all lesson audio available at onlinetutoringresources.com/audio-files, no account required

Sounds covered:

/oʊ/ • /ɪ/ vs /iː/ • schwa /ə/ and vowel reduction • /b/ vs /v/ • STRUT vowel /ʌ/ • R-colored vowels /ɝ/ /ɚ/ • /θ/ and /ð/ • English /ɹ/ • /dʒ/ /tʃ/ /j/ /ʒ/ • six sounds of “I” • /s/ vs /ʃ/

Each lesson includes:

Story-led input • structured lesson plan • IPA instruction with articulation diagrams • drills and minimal pairs • listening discrimination • guided speaking tasks • homework options • diagnostic tools

Ideal for: ESL teachers and pronunciation coaches working with Hispanic learners — adult professionals seeking clarity in American English — self-directed learners at A2–B2 — university and workplace English programs — teachers who completed Volume One and are extending to Hispanic learner populations

Part of the ESL Tutoring Pro Pronunciation Series. Volume One targets Slavic, Northern European, and Turkish speakers. Volume Three targets East Asian speakers. A student workbook companion for Volume Two is in production.