Finance & Accounting Professionals need to communicate in English on a daily basis, and if you work with the US or live and work in the US, it’s important that everyone understand you clearly. It can hurt your credibility, confidence, and ability to do your job if people either misunderstand you or misinterpret what you say. In order to be clear in American English, you’ll want to master the key components of the language.

Now that you have completed the first four courses in this series, you are ready to learn more about the endings on words and discover your own patterns so you can create sustainable improvements in your speech.

This course focuses on clearly distinguishing the final sounds in words, making them distinct as voiceless or voiced, as determined by the final sound used. It also focuses on the past tense of regular verbs and the endings on some adjectives and adverbs, as well as the plurals and verb agreements of words in the present tense, and noting clearly in your speech whether they are voiceless or voiced. Depending on your first language, you may struggle with different endings than someone else does, and you’ll need a reliable method to figure this out and create a way to practice on a regular basis so you can enact and sustain real change.

This course also uses finance & accounting vocabulary so that when you learn the concepts of English, you’ll also learn to say the words that come up for you every day at work.

Course Key Concepts: English, pronunciation, pronounce, American, vocabulary, finance words, accounting words, word ending, word endings.