Interactive systems, methods and apparatus for teaching the English language can utilize an audio-visual program allowing a user to choose and study particular sounds. The audio-visual program can have a menu-driven program allowing a user to selectively choose the particular sound to be practiced. Once a desired sound is selected, a simulated lower head profile can simultaneously "speak" the desired sound while visually depicting the movement and positioning of facial features such as, for example, the lips, jaws, teeth, tongue and throat. The audio-visual program is controllable by the user so as to allow maneuverability from one sound to the next and to allow sounds to be repeated as many times as desired by the user.