This course is designed to teach English-speaking students how to read the Myanmar (Burmese) language using a streamlined direct approach.  It provides pronunciation for consonants, vowels and special symbols without requiring the student to learn the names of each.  It explains how to pronounce stacked consonants, weakened vowels and voiced consonants using simple, well-illustrated examples.   It includes a lesson on Myanmar tones described in a way that has made sense to a lot of English speaking students.  It also includes a description of the difference between spoken and literary Myanmar.  The course uses the pronunciation of English words as a basis for explaining Myanmar pronunciation.