Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Music of American English Pronunciation by University of California, Irvine

Content is great. The problem with many of the UCI courses: 1- few peers who sometimes do not understand tasks or criteria so well and give you low scores for nothing, or there is nobody so you spend months waiting for someone to review; 2- is that we flag errors and they do not get fixed, so we have to try all answers for a question knowing they are wrong, only to find which one the answer key holds (wrongly) as the correct answer. Here, it was a question where the audio had an "or question" so intonation goes up and then down, but the answer in the quiz is wrongly "up".

The content was great! I learned a lot from the lecture videos and the PDF materials were helpful as well. One thing I didn't like was the peer review system. All the assignments were reviewed by only one peer for each, and I rarely received a useful feedback and sometimes didn't receive a fair review. Since the grade given by a random peer is directly reflected on my grade, it was hard to get 100% for all the assignments. (For example, if the points they gave for an assignment is 90%, your grade is 90%.) I wish they had had a grading system that sets a border for pass or fail, then if you pass, you get 100%. Also, I wish I had been assessed by three peers as many other courses do, but I guess it's difficult since it took more than a week to get a review even by one peer in this course.

I really enjoyed this course and would recommend it to anyone looking to perfect their American English pronunciation. Thank you!

The course I liked the most so far. Undoubtedly, it really needs native speakers involved at least for final assessments.

It's a great course to improve your speaking skill and lever your English language knowledge in an upper step.

I definitely love this course. I learned alot about proper pronunciation and intonation.

excellent

It is a course that I really liked. The teaching technique is very clear about the pronunciation of English. The teachers are very professional, and the shadowings are a lot of fun. I enjoy every class, and I have learned more than all the years I had studied before.

This is a fantastic course for future English improvement!! This course contains a lot of essential foundations for English speaking, which also helps improve your speaking and listening skills. You would rather not miss it.

I like it. It has contributed a lot to my skill development. It has an excellent content. The shadowing technique exercises are a great help. The teachers explanations are good.

Excellent course, in it I found the content I was looking for, it has good planning and concise. The teachers are great. Good job!!!.

The best course. I've felt that my pronunciation and knowledge of this language has improved a lot thanks to this courses.

This course was very useful, now I can understand a lot of sounds of the American English (Contractions, rithm, and more).

This course give you the best tips and advices to be better in your English with good teachers

Excelent! I learned a lot with this course. My English Pronunciation has certainly improved.

Very Nicely taught. But more time is needed for me to perfect.

Thanks a ton.

It was a great experience of learning. Thank you.

Understanding spoken English became easier

Everything is good, teachers are great!!

EXCELENTE, ME ENCANTAN ESTOS CUROS.

This course is excellent!

The course is helpful.

Perfect!!!!!!!

Thank you

Excellent