They had recently started my  British English Pronunciation Course  and wanted to make a few observations. With just a few days of training under their belt, they told me that they already felt they had discovered one of the keys to drastically improving their pronunciation -  awareness . If you are not  aware  of common pronunciation mistakes, then how can you possibly  correct  them? Pronunciation training is often neglected in English lessons, with teachers correcting students on a word-by-word basis. In my course, we start by breaking pronunciation down into  individual sounds . How can you master the pronunciation of a word, if you can't correctly produce one of its consonant or vowel sounds? Take a look at the schwa sound, for example: be hind am aze con trol finan cial sup pose All of these words feature the schwa sound. Any of the vowel letters can spell out the schwa sound - a, e, i, o, u and even y. How do we make the schwa sound?...