ESL Tutoring Pro – American English Pronunciation — Volume Two Student Workbook – Story-Based Practice for Hispanic and Spanish-Speaking Learners

Practice the pronunciation skills your lessons teach — anywhere, anytime, at your own pace.

ESL Tutoring Pro: American English Pronunciation — Volume Two Student Workbook is the hands-on companion to the Maria pronunciation series, designed for independent practice between lessons and at-home study by Hispanic and Spanish-speaking learners of American English.

Twelve lessons follow María Álvarez de la Fuego — a brilliant but gloriously absent-minded professor of medieval languages — through stories so memorable that the sounds inside them become impossible to forget. Each lesson gives you the story, the sound training, and the practice tools to build real, lasting pronunciation improvement.

What’s inside every lesson:

The Maria story — read aloud to activate the target sound in natural, often hilarious academic context
Sound formation guidance — clear explanation of exactly how to position your mouth, lips, and tongue for each target sound
Student worksheet — focused exercises to build accuracy with the target sound
Listening discrimination worksheet — train your ear to hear the difference before your mouth has to produce it

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/ • /ɪ/ vs /iː/ reinforcement • /s/ vs /ʃ/

Also included:

A self-scoring progress tracker covering listening, sound production, word accuracy, sentence fluency, speaking confidence, and study habits — with lesson links so you always know exactly where to go when a sound needs more work.

An IPA reference table covering all twenty sounds addressed in this volume — a permanent reference tool for practice beyond the workbook.

Free audio support:

All lesson audio including minimal pairs is available free at onlinetutoringresources.com/audio-files — no account required. Pronunciation improves significantly faster when you combine listening and speaking practice daily.

The honest truth about pronunciation improvement:

Spanish and English sound systems are different in ways that create predictable, fixable errors. You didn’t develop these patterns overnight and you won’t fix them overnight. But 5–10 minutes of correct, consistent daily practice — with audio, with self-recording, and with a workbook that tells you exactly what to practice and when — produces real, measurable change.

Ideal for: Hispanic and Spanish-speaking learners at A2–B2 — self-study students who want structure without a teacher present — learners working with a tutor who need independent practice tools — university and workplace English programs — anyone who has been asked to repeat themselves in English and is ready to change that

Companion to ESL Tutoring Pro: American English Pronunciation — Volume Two. Volume One targets Slavic, Northern European, and Turkish learners. Volume Three targets East Asian learners.

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