Speak Clearly

Every chapter is one sound, one trick and one check you can feel: where the tongue goes, what the air does, and how to know you have it right without a teacher in the room. There are no phonetic labels to memorise and nothing to unlearn. Inside you will find guides for six first languages, the sounds that matter most for being understood, and a thirty-day practice plan that asks for a few minutes rather than an evening.

Written for adults whose English is already good and who are tired of repeating themselves. The goal is not to sound native. It is that no one has to work to understand you.

Six first-language guides are in the book, and twelve are on the site — all free.See the twelve first-language guides.

You do not have to sound like anyone else. You have to be understood — and that is a much smaller, much more reachable thing.

Evangeline Smith — linguist, communications strategist and Business English instructor.

Miriam Smith — TEFL-certified educator and Preply Super Tutor.