Test your American English accent with a US model voice, American spelling and American speech recognition. All ten sentences are A2 level, with everyday topics and slightly longer phrases.
General American English has a few features that make it distinctive: the R is always pronounced, as in car and water; a T between vowels becomes a soft tap, as in city and better; and the short O in hot sounds more open, close to the A in father. This test is set to American English, so the model voice, the spelling and the scoring all follow a US accent.
At A2 you already know the everyday words, so this is the right moment to fix habits before they become permanent. The sentences talk about shopping, travel and free time and are a little longer, which helps you keep the sound clear inside a phrase.
Dropping the R after vowels, as in British English
Using a hard T in words like city and better
Rolling or tapping the R
Mixing British vowels into American words
Each sentence trains one sound. The orange label above the sentence tells you which one.
We took turns driving every day.
She trains every morning before school.
My thirteenth birthday is next Saturday.
The card is worth thirty pounds.
The referee gave a yellow card.
I decorated it with fresh strawberries.
It was very dirty after our trip.
The trees turn red, orange and yellow.
He starts work very early every morning.
In the afternoon we read under an umbrella.
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Hear each sentence read by a natural British or American voice, at normal speed or slowly.
Tap the microphone and read the sentence. Your words appear on screen as you speak.
See a score out of 100 with every word in green, amber or red, then practise the red words.
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