Color Vowel® Basics
A step-by-step course that equips English language teachers with powerful tools and strategies for teaching spoken English

A step-by-step course that equips English language teachers with powerful tools and strategies for teaching spoken English
The Color Vowel® Chart is the key that has unlocked the English language for millions of people around the world.
Here are just a few of the ways that Color Vowel® Basics will revolutionize your teaching:
Feel truly prepared to answer students' questions about English pronunciation.
Confidently integrate pronunciation into everyday teaching.
Teach pronunciation features that make an immediate a difference in learners’ comprehensibility.
Spend less time talking and explaining.
Provide learners with ways to organize, practice, and reinforce what they’ve learned.
Boost learner engagement, curiosity, and delight in your lessons.
Feel confident knowing that wherever you’re from, your accent is a legitimate model for teaching spoken English.
Be part of a creative and supportive community of English language teachers just like you.
From the desk of Karen Taylor
Tell me if this sounds like you:
As an English language teacher, you strive to create unique and memorable experiences for your students. You plan thoughtful lessons, and you try to meet your learner’s needs.
You feel well-equipped to teach grammar, vocabulary, writing, and even reading, but the topic of English pronunciation has always left you feeling less than confident. Some of your students really need help, and it seems like pronunciation is what students ask about most often!
I’m sure you can relate to this line of questioning from a student:
Meanwhile, your ESL classroom is generally… quieter than you’d like. Your students answer your questions in class, but all of the momentum depends on you, and you wish your students were just a bit more engaged. Invested. Involved.
Imagine if you could...
If you could do these things, ultimately, that would mean you’re creating an engaging environment that your students won’t want to miss. You’d be that teacher that students keep coming back to. (Which would be amazing!)
I get that you may be facing some roadblocks. You may be wondering…
There’s something else I see far too often that may also be true for you…
You feel frustrated by the fact that what you've been doing isn't working, and you’re feeling stuck because you're not sure how to fix it.
You want to bring something fun to the classroom but you’re too busy just trying to figure out what you're going to do in your next lesson!
You’re interested in teaching pronunciation but don't have time for it because there’s already too much to cover in your course (and you don't have enough time as it is!).
And on top of that, you’re likely asking yourself at least one of these questions (if not all of them):
I know exactly how you feel because I've been there myself.
And so have the thousands of people I’ve had the pleasure of working with, training, and teaching over the last twenty-five years who are now teaching students of their own!
My guess is you really, really care about helping your students.
(Of course you do– you’re a teacher!)
At the end of the day, you just want to get your students excited about speaking English, and you want them to experience success in their language development. And you want to finally feel in control of and confident about your classroom and your career. Yes?
If this sounds at all like you and your situation, then I'd like to invite you to check out...
Here’s just a taste of what you get with Color Vowel® Basics:
Now, that’s a tall promise, and at this point you might be asking... Who is Karen and why should you listen to her?
Karen is the co-founder of English Language Training Solutions and the creator of the Color Vowel® Chart, which was established in 1999.
She holds an MA in TESOL from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University, as well as an International Baccalaureate from the United World College (US campus).
A former Fulbright TEFL Specialist, Karen was the Practitioner in Residence at American University for nine years. She received Ed Tech’s 2020 Visionary Leader Award for her work as Head of Education and is now CEO at Blue Canoe Learning Inc.
“I am completely in awe of this teaching tool and the techniques that have been presented so far. I plan to go all the way through Level 3 in the training. I thought the r-controlled vowel explanations were brilliant.”
“I took this course last autumn and it was the best PD I've had in the field over the last 20 years! I was able to implement these ideas and materials the next day in class. When does that ever happen?! I recommend this course to any English language teacher - it's really that good!”
“The Color Vowel approach has transformed my classroom by giving students a fun, engaging, easy to remember way to improve their pronunciation, both in the classroom and their everyday life. I use it every day. I can't imagine teaching without it!”
“I feel good about what this course has to offer. The discussions of moving vowels and R-controlled vowels are invaluable. The Color Vowel® Chart itself is a stroke of genius, or SEVERAL strokes of genius all in one organized template.”
“I was able to introduce the Color Vowel® Chart after viewing just the first two modules of Color Vowel® Basics, and each subsequent module presented more "food for thought" for me in addition to ideas for lesson planning.”
Color Vowel® Basics Video Content ($399 Value)
Blue Canoe® Premium Teacher Access ($299 Value)
Digital copy of our Book: The Color Vowel® Approach: Resources for Connecting Pronunciation to Vocabulary, Reading, and Spelling ($49 Value)
Downloadable Training Material ($48 Value)
We've put a tremendous amount of energy and love into this course in order to make a profound impact on what you do in the classroom day in and day out.
Get access to this course today and let us help make it easy for you to…
Get your students engaged in the classroom
Become a highly valued teacher in your language program
Build your students' confidence to speak English fluently and with ease
Retain students and boost attendance rates with lessons they don't want to miss
See your students make genuine progress with lasting results
Take control of your lesson plans and set yourself free to teach!
Avoid feeling stressed and pressed for time inside the classroom
... and much, MUCH more!
Claim access to the Color Vowel® Basics Course today, and let's get started together.
To your success,
Karen Taylor
P.S. - If you’ve known for some time now that you need to make a change in your classroom but haven’t known where to start, then Color Vowel® Basics is definitely for you.
P.P.S. - It’s that simple: What you need is clear direction, instruction, and encouragement from someone who's ‘been there and done that’ when it comes to teaching pronunciation and unlocking students’ confidence to engage in the classroom. Sign up for my course NOW and you, too, can join thousands of other educators who have already started their Color Vowel® journey to teaching English phenomenally.